Reach120 vs SmartPrep: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is the cheapest published monthly figure in this set and it is written for a reader Reach120 does not serve in their own language, so the comparison is really two questions at once: what a low monthly price buys, and what it is worth preparing in Spanish versus in the language you will sit the exam in. Both have honest answers and they do not point the same way. 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 2026-08-24, 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 SmartPrep 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 SmartPrep, 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 | SmartPrep |
|---|---|---|
| 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 SmartPrep column was filled: No cell can be filled: neither page names any of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, in Spanish or in English. Nor do the pre-2026 words appear — "independiente" and "integrado" are both absent — so this is a site that describes its product by outcome rather than by task, and no coverage claim of any kind can be read off it in either direction.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | SmartPrep |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Stated on the homepage as "Practica sin límites gratis • Prueba Pro de 7 días disponible" — free practice with no stated cap, plus a seven-day trial of the paid tier. What the free tier withholds is not stated, so the boundary between free and paid is the one thing the page leaves undescribed. |
| 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 in anything we read. The paid plan is sold on "Exámenes ilimitados" — unlimited exams — with no published fair-use ceiling, no credit system and no per-action cost attached to it anywhere on the page. |
| 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. | One paid plan, "SmartPrep Plus", listed at "$10" per month. Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name it, and no struck or sale price was shown on the page we read. No annual term and no one-time option appears beside it. No refund policy is stated anywhere on the pricing page we read — not a window, not a condition. That is an absence rather than a denial, and it is the kind a reader should settle at checkout rather than assume either way. |
| 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 claim is unusually specific and that is what makes it worth reading closely rather than skipping: "Nuestra IA fue entrenada con las rúbricas oficiales del TOEFL y miles de respuestas reales de examen. Sus resultados se alinean estrechamente con los de evaluadores humanos." Two separate assertions sit in those two sentences. The first says the model saw thousands of real exam responses, and the page explains nowhere how responses to a live secure exam were lawfully obtained or whose they were — a question about provenance rather than about quality, and one a reader is entitled to ask before submitting their own writing. The second asserts closeness to human raters with no sample, no comparison set and no date behind it. This page restates neither as fact. Reach120 publishes no agreement figure at all, for a reason it states plainly — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — and publishes how a score is produced, at /methodology. |
Every SmartPrep 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 SmartPrep does better
Two things, and the first is not a feature Reach120 can answer with a translation. It is written and sold in Spanish as its first language — the navigation, the plan, the feedback promise and the support line — rather than being an English product with a language switcher, and for a candidate preparing in Spanish that is a materially different experience from reading about a rubric in a second language. It is also the lowest published monthly figure in this whole set, on a plan sold with no stated cap.
Where Reach120 is different
Language and evidence, and each side owns one. SmartPrep is built and sold in Spanish end to end, which Reach120 does not do — Reach120 publishes in several languages but its product and its support are not a Spanish-first experience. On the other side, everything Reach120 claims is inspectable before payment: the questions, the answer keys, the transcripts and the sample responses sit in the page itself, the six task types the January 2026 format introduced are named and run, and the method is published at /methodology. Their pages name no task type in either language, and name no company, entity or country either.
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 SmartPrep 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: Three things, and the middle one is the serious one. First, "Exámenes ilimitados" carries no published fair-use ceiling, so establish what happens at volume before planning a month of daily practice around it. Second, the site states its model was trained on "miles de respuestas reales de examen" — thousands of real exam responses — and explains nowhere how responses to a live secure exam were lawfully obtained, whose they were, or whether consent was given; that is a question worth asking before handing over your own. And third, no company name, registered entity or country appears on either page we read, and no statement of affiliation or non-affiliation with the test maker appears either, so there is nobody named to hold to the terms.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the SmartPrep homepage, published in Spanish — https://smartprep.me/, read 2026-08-24.
- its pricing page — https://smartprep.me/pricing, read 2026-08-24.
SmartPrep states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "Domina el TOEFL con SmartPrep. Practica con exámenes personalizados, recibe retroalimentación instantánea y monitorea tu avance."
- "Nuestra IA fue entrenada con las rúbricas oficiales del TOEFL y miles de respuestas reales de examen. Sus resultados se alinean estrechamente con los de evaluadores humanos."
- "Exámenes ilimitados", "Tutoría personalizada con IA", "Analíticas de progreso", "Soporte por correo" — the four lines the paid plan is sold on.
Reach120 vs SmartPrep: common questions
- Is SmartPrep 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 SmartPrep does better — Two things, and the first is not a feature Reach120 can answer with a translation. It is written and sold in Spanish as its first language — the navigation, the plan, the feedback promise and the support line — rather than being an English product with a language switcher, and for a candidate preparing in Spanish that is a materially different experience from reading about a rubric in a second language. It is also the lowest published monthly figure in this whole set, on a plan sold with no stated cap.
- What does SmartPrep cost?
- On 2026-08-24, their own page stated: One paid plan, "SmartPrep Plus", listed at "$10" per month. Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name it, and no struck or sale price was shown on the page we read. No annual term and no one-time option appears beside it. No refund policy is stated anywhere on the pricing page we read — not a window, not a condition. That is an absence rather than a denial, and it is the kind a reader should settle at checkout rather than assume either way. Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for SmartPrep?
- 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 SmartPrep cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: No cell can be filled: neither page names any of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, in Spanish or in English. Nor do the pre-2026 words appear — "independiente" and "integrado" are both absent — so this is a site that describes its product by outcome rather than by task, and no coverage claim of any kind can be read off it in either direction. 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 SmartPrep does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and SmartPrep 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.