What does Preply cost?

On 2026-08-24, their own page stated: The tutors page states two figures and they are not the same kind of number: "Sessions with a one-to-one TOEFL tutor can start at just $3 per hour" and, further down, "classes with English tutors start at $3 per hour, and the average price is $17 per hour". The first is a floor — the cheapest hour anyone on the platform offers — and the second is what a typical hour costs, so this row prints both rather than the headline alone. The same page publishes a country breakdown for English classes: "United States of America $28 / hr", "Canada $25 / hr", "United Kingdom $30 / hr", "South Africa $20 / hr". Currency is shown as a dollar sign there; the course page shows a different currency entirely — read on 2026-08-24 it stated "Course price Starting at ₺240 per lesson", beside a switcher offering TRY, BRL, GBP, EUR, PLN, UAH and USD. What figure a reader sees depends on where they load the page from, which is worth knowing before comparing it with anyone’s fixed rate. A first-lesson discount is stated on the course page: "Apply your 20% discount on the first lesson with a qualified Preply tutor using the code “TOEFL20” at checkout." Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.

Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for Preply?

You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.

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 Preply does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and Preply 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 If you believe a fact on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-read the source.

Reach120 vs Preply: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached

Name: Reach120
Author: Reach120

The searches pair them, but they are not the same purchase and the page says so before it says anything else: one sells hours with a person, the other sells scored attempts. What makes the comparison worth writing anyway is that most candidates have a fixed budget and have to split it — and the split is knowable in advance, because the two products are short of completely different things. This page separates them on the axes you can actually check, and says where its own evidence runs out.

Written by the Reach120 research teamReviewed August 24, 2026

Score a response free, no account

Who wrote this, and how to read it

Read on 2026-08-24, 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 Preply 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 Preply, 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.

Reach120 and Preply on the six task types the January 2026 TOEFL format introduced
2026 task type	Reach120	Preply
Build a SentenceWriting	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read
Write an EmailWriting	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read
Academic DiscussionWriting	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read
Listen & RepeatSpeaking	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read
Take an InterviewSpeaking	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read
Complete the WordsReading	Runs it here	Not stated on the page we read

How the Preply column was filled: No cell can be filled, and the reason is structural rather than a lapse. Neither page names any of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced. What the course page publishes instead is a skills list — "Improve your reading comprehension for academic texts", "Enhance your listening skills for lectures and conversations", "Develop effective speaking strategies for the exam", "Master writing essays with clarity and coherence" — which describes the shape of the exam before the redesign, since the current Writing section sets no essay of that kind. Underneath that sits a syllabus card stating "Course duration 13 hours (Estimated 7 weeks, 2 lessons/week)". None of this is evidence about what an individual tutor teaches in a lesson: on a marketplace the syllabus page and the person you book are different things, and one tutor’s own profile on the page we read advertised "Today’s and the 2026 TOEFL" in their own words.

Free access, metering, price and scoring transparency: Reach120 and Preply
What you are comparing	Reach120	Preply
Free access	Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.	None, and the page does not pretend otherwise: the entry point is a paid trial lesson at the tutor’s own rate. What it offers instead of a free allowance is a switching guarantee — "If the first tutor isn’t a match, try 2 more for free" — and the course page states you can "switch to a different tutor for free, or claim a full refund" after the trial.
How AI use is metered	The free tier is metered by measured cost — the three tasks that spend a model on your own words carry daily allowances, Writing and Speaking counted separately because an Interview costs multiples of an essay. A paid pass carries a stated fair-use ceiling rather than an open-ended promise.	Nothing is metered because nothing is scored by a machine. You buy hours: the course page states the TOEFL iBT course is "Subscription based", that you "decide how many lessons you’d like to schedule per week or month", and that you can "cancel your subscription at any time".
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.	The tutors page states two figures and they are not the same kind of number: "Sessions with a one-to-one TOEFL tutor can start at just $3 per hour" and, further down, "classes with English tutors start at $3 per hour, and the average price is $17 per hour". The first is a floor — the cheapest hour anyone on the platform offers — and the second is what a typical hour costs, so this row prints both rather than the headline alone. The same page publishes a country breakdown for English classes: "United States of America $28 / hr", "Canada $25 / hr", "United Kingdom $30 / hr", "South Africa $20 / hr". Currency is shown as a dollar sign there; the course page shows a different currency entirely — read on 2026-08-24 it stated "Course price Starting at ₺240 per lesson", beside a switcher offering TRY, BRL, GBP, EUR, PLN, UAH and USD. What figure a reader sees depends on where they load the page from, which is worth knowing before comparing it with anyone’s fixed rate. A first-lesson discount is stated on the course page: "Apply your 20% discount on the first lesson with a qualified Preply tutor using the code “TOEFL20” at checkout."
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.	There is no automated scoring to be transparent about — feedback comes from whoever you booked, in whatever form they give it, and nothing on either page states a rubric, a scale or a turnaround. Their pages do state that "Preply tutors have received the official teaching certificates from ETS", which is a statement about credentials rather than about how a response is judged. Reach120 scores with a model, publishes no scorer-versus-human agreement figure — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — and publishes how a score is produced, at /methodology.

Every Preply cell above is a sentence their own public page stated, read on 2026-08-24. 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 Preply does better

Two things, and the first is not something Reach120 can answer with a feature. It sells an hour with a person who answers back, adapts mid-sentence and can be asked why — which is the thing every model in this set is a substitute for rather than an equal of. The second is checkable and it belongs to them outright: ETS’s own TOEFL preparation page, read on 2026-08-24, links Preply by name under "More practice", stating "Connect with independent tutors at Preply® who have been trained to teach the kind of academic English that appears on the TOEFL iBT test." No independent practice tool in this set carries anything comparable, Reach120 included. It also lets you change teacher without changing product, and prices in seven currencies where Reach120 bills in one.

Where Reach120 is different

A tutor answers back and Reach120 does not; Reach120 publishes and a tutor cannot. Reach120 puts its questions, answer keys, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself, readable with no account, practices the six task types the January 2026 format introduced and scores what you write or say against the rubric within seconds, at a price that does not move with who you book. Preply’s value is on the other side of a booking: you pay for a person’s hour, and what happens in it depends entirely on which of a hundred thousand tutors you chose. Neither of those is a version of the other.

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 Preply 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: Four things, and the first is the one the headline hides. "$3 per hour" is the platform’s floor and their own page states the average is nearly six times it, so budget from the average, not the advertisement. The price you see is localised, so a figure quoted in a review written elsewhere may not be the figure you are charged. The course syllabus names none of the six 2026 task types and describes writing an essay, which the current Writing section does not set — so ask the individual tutor, before booking, what they teach for Build a Sentence, Write an Email and Academic Discussion. And what you are buying is one person, not a platform: the certificates, the counts and the ratings are the marketplace’s, while the lesson is theirs.

Sources, and what we could not read

Preply’s TOEFL tutors page — https://preply.com/en/online/tutors-toefl, read 2026-08-24.
Preply’s TOEFL iBT preparation course page, which carries the course’s own syllabus card — https://preply.com/en/classes/english/toefl-ibt, read 2026-08-24.

Preply states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:

"Preply tutors have received the official teaching certificates from ETS."
"Course duration 13 hours (Estimated 7 weeks, 2 lessons/week)" for the TOEFL iBT preparation course.
"100,000+ Experienced tutors", "300,000+ 5-star tutor reviews" and "4.8 on the App Store", all self-reported on the course page.

Reach120 vs Preply: common questions

Is Preply 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 2026-08-24, plus a plain statement of what Preply does better — Two things, and the first is not something Reach120 can answer with a feature. It sells an hour with a person who answers back, adapts mid-sentence and can be asked why — which is the thing every model in this set is a substitute for rather than an equal of. The second is checkable and it belongs to them outright: ETS’s own TOEFL preparation page, read on 2026-08-24, links Preply by name under "More practice", stating "Connect with independent tutors at Preply® who have been trained to teach the kind of academic English that appears on the TOEFL iBT test." No independent practice tool in this set carries anything comparable, Reach120 included. It also lets you change teacher without changing product, and prices in seven currencies where Reach120 bills in one.
What does Preply cost?: On 2026-08-24, their own page stated: The tutors page states two figures and they are not the same kind of number: "Sessions with a one-to-one TOEFL tutor can start at just $3 per hour" and, further down, "classes with English tutors start at $3 per hour, and the average price is $17 per hour". The first is a floor — the cheapest hour anyone on the platform offers — and the second is what a typical hour costs, so this row prints both rather than the headline alone. The same page publishes a country breakdown for English classes: "United States of America $28 / hr", "Canada $25 / hr", "United Kingdom $30 / hr", "South Africa $20 / hr". Currency is shown as a dollar sign there; the course page shows a different currency entirely — read on 2026-08-24 it stated "Course price Starting at ₺240 per lesson", beside a switcher offering TRY, BRL, GBP, EUR, PLN, UAH and USD. What figure a reader sees depends on where they load the page from, which is worth knowing before comparing it with anyone’s fixed rate. A first-lesson discount is stated on the course page: "Apply your 20% discount on the first lesson with a qualified Preply tutor using the code “TOEFL20” at checkout." Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for Preply?: You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading, Listening and Build a Sentence practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email and Write for an Academic Discussion give a free account 3 AI-scored writing responses to start, then one more each day, up to 10 in total; Take an Interview has 3 AI-scored Take an Interview responses in total, for the life of the account; Listen & Repeat has 8 on the account, for life. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.
Does Preply cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?: Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: No cell can be filled, and the reason is structural rather than a lapse. Neither page names any of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced. What the course page publishes instead is a skills list — "Improve your reading comprehension for academic texts", "Enhance your listening skills for lectures and conversations", "Develop effective speaking strategies for the exam", "Master writing essays with clarity and coherence" — which describes the shape of the exam before the redesign, since the current Writing section sets no essay of that kind. Underneath that sits a syllabus card stating "Course duration 13 hours (Estimated 7 weeks, 2 lessons/week)". None of this is evidence about what an individual tutor teaches in a lesson: on a marketplace the syllabus page and the person you book are different things, and one tutor’s own profile on the page we read advertised "Today’s and the 2026 TOEFL" in their own words. 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 Preply does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and Preply 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.