Reach120 vs PrepEx: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is the closest like-for-like on paper: its pricing page names all six of the task types the January 2026 format introduced, which almost no other public page does. Anyone shopping for 2026-format practice ends up holding these two side by side. This page separates them on the axes you can actually check, and says where its own evidence runs out.
Who wrote this, and how to read it
Read on 2026-08-06, without an account, buying nothing and accessing no paywalled surface. Free allowances and prices change faster than pages like this one do, so treat every figure as dated evidence rather than a current quote.
- There is no score, no rating and no verdict. There are no star ratings in this page or in its structured data — Reach120 has no published review corpus, so a rating would be a number we made up.
- What PrepEx does better is stated plainly, because a comparison that finds nothing good in the other product is an advertisement.
- Reach120 prices are not typed on this page. The pricing page is the only place they are stated, so there is one thing to keep correct rather than fourteen.
Reach120 and PrepEx, side by side
The spine of this table is the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, because coverage is the one axis with checkable evidence: either a public page names the task or it does not. Everything else — free access, metering, price, scoring transparency — is quoted.
| 2026 task type | Reach120 | PrepEx |
|---|---|---|
| Build a SentenceWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Write an EmailWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Academic DiscussionWriting | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Listen & RepeatSpeaking | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Take an InterviewSpeaking | Runs it here | Named on their page |
| Complete the WordsReading | Runs it here | Named on their page |
How the PrepEx column was filled: The pricing page itemises task families by section, naming Complete the Words, Listen & Repeat, Take an Interview, Build a Sentence, Write an Email and Academic Discussion. That is the page naming them; we did not create an account to watch them run.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | PrepEx |
|---|---|---|
| Free access | Reading and Listening practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion and Take an Interview share 1 AI-scored credit a day; Listen & Repeat has its own allowance of 3 a day. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account. | The homepage states free accounts get "3 daily practice submissions (shared across Writing, Speaking, Reading, and Listening)" with "Full AI grading and feedback on every submission". |
| How AI use is metered | The free tier is metered by measured cost — the three tasks that spend a model on your own words share one daily credit. A paid pass carries a stated fair-use ceiling rather than an open-ended promise. | Pro is stated as "6,000 Petra credits/month" for the speaking coach; free accounts "get 360 credits monthly". |
| Price, as their page stated it | Exam passes are one-time and do not auto-renew; the current prices are on the pricing page, which this page reads rather than restates. | Pro is listed at "$39.99/month", marked "20% off", and at "$89.99 every 3 months", framed as "25% off, just $30/month". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name the currency. A bundle adds a prepaid ETS TOEFL Practice Online code: the page states the code "is added for $40 on top of your selected PrepEx Pro plan". |
| Scoring transparency | How a score is produced, and what the language model is and is not allowed to do with it, is published at /methodology. No scorer-versus-human agreement figure is published: the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim. | The pricing page describes AI grading and a credit meter for its speaking coach. We found no published statement of how a score is produced or checked, which is not a criticism — few providers publish one — but it is the axis Reach120 documents at /methodology. |
Every PrepEx cell above is a sentence their own public page stated, read on 2026-08-06. Prices and free allowances move; check the source before you buy. Reach120's own prices are not typed here — the pricing page is the only place they are stated.
What PrepEx does better
Its stated free allowance is more generous than ours on the axis most people care about: three AI-graded submissions a day across all four sections, against Reach120’s one shared daily credit. It also bundles a prepaid official practice-test code and advertises a test-registration discount — an economics angle Reach120 does not have and will not manufacture.
Where Reach120 is different
Reach120 publishes the practice questions, answers, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself, with no account and no widget — you can read a Reach120 question bank in view-source. PrepEx serves its exercises inside the signed-in app, so what you can evaluate before creating an account is the description rather than the material.
Different is not better in the abstract. The difference matters only if it matches what you are short of — time, money, feedback, or lessons.
Where Reach120 is weaker, in its own words: This page makes no case for its own product over the others. Where Reach120 is weaker: there are no taught video lessons, no human tutor review of a response, no coverage of any exam other than the TOEFL test, fewer free AI-scored submissions a day than PrepEx states, and no published scorer-versus-human agreement figure — the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim, so it is not published.
Which one to choose
- Choose PrepEx if what it does better is what you are short of. That sentence is above, unedited, and it is the whole reason this section can be brief.
- Choose Reach120 if you want to read the practice material and its answers before creating anything, and you want the four sections in one place with the method published.
- Choose both if the budget allows. They are not mutually exclusive, and nobody preparing for an exam owes one vendor loyalty.
Before either: The pricing page does not state whether plans renew automatically; check the terms at checkout. The credit meter is on the speaking coach, so read what a credit buys before comparing monthly prices.
Sources, and what we could not read
- PrepEx pricing page — https://prepex.ai/pricing, read 2026-08-06.
- PrepEx homepage — https://prepex.ai/, read 2026-08-06.
PrepEx states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "PrepEx is the first platform with complete practice for all new TOEFL 2026 question types."
- "Ready for TOEFL 2026 with all new task types."
Reach120 vs PrepEx: common questions
- Is PrepEx better than Reach120?
- This page does not answer that, and no page published by one of the two products honestly could. What it gives you instead is the evidence to answer it yourself: what each states about free access, price and 2026 task coverage, quoted from the page it was read from on 2026-08-06, plus a plain statement of what PrepEx does better — Its stated free allowance is more generous than ours on the axis most people care about: three AI-graded submissions a day across all four sections, against Reach120’s one shared daily credit. It also bundles a prepaid official practice-test code and advertises a test-registration discount — an economics angle Reach120 does not have and will not manufacture.
- What does PrepEx cost?
- On 2026-08-06, their own page stated: Pro is listed at "$39.99/month", marked "20% off", and at "$89.99 every 3 months", framed as "25% off, just $30/month". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name the currency. A bundle adds a prepaid ETS TOEFL Practice Online code: the page states the code "is added for $40 on top of your selected PrepEx Pro plan". Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for PrepEx?
- You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading and Listening practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion and Take an Interview share 1 AI-scored credit a day; Listen & Repeat has its own allowance of 3 a day. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.
- Does PrepEx cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: The pricing page itemises task families by section, naming Complete the Words, Listen & Repeat, Take an Interview, Build a Sentence, Write an Email and Academic Discussion. That is the page naming them; we did not create an account to watch them run. A blank cell in the table on this page means we found no public statement, not that the feature is missing.
- Who publishes this comparison?
- Reach120 does, and Reach120 is one of the two products in it. That is disclosed at the top rather than buried, every competitor fact carries the URL and date it came from, and the section stating what PrepEx does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and PrepEx did not review it. If you believe a fact on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-read the source.