Reach120 vs TestDEN: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached
It is the oldest product in this set by two decades and it sells the plainest commercial shape in it: one figure, one term, one refund window, nothing to cancel. Anyone tired of subscriptions ends up holding it against everything else — and the question underneath a purchase made once is whether what is inside was rebuilt for the exam you are sitting. 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 TestDEN 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 TestDEN, 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 | TestDEN |
|---|---|---|
| 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 TestDEN column was filled: No cell can be filled: none of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced is named on any page we read. What the course page publishes instead is an inventory by count — "4 TOEFL practice tests", "320" questions, "Yes, teacher graded"; a "Speaking and Writing Training" module at "60 speaking" and "20 writing" with model answers; and a "TOEFL Skills Trainer" of "2,400" items for reading and listening. Its own preparation page dates its description of the exam explicitly, warning against material "that’s too old" and then stating that the second Writing task "has changed to (as of July 26, 2023) writing a response to an online" discussion. That is the previous revision, and January 2026 is not mentioned anywhere on the pages we read. Unlike two other rows in this set, it does not sell the retired Integrated and Independent labels — it is dated rather than mislabelled, and those are different faults.
| What you are comparing | Reach120 | TestDEN |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | A free practice test rather than a free account, and it asks for something: the page states "TestDEN’s online TOEFL Practice exam takes about 30 minutes and contains reading, listening, and writing questions", behind a form requesting a name, an email address and a country. It is one sitting, not an allowance, and it does not include the Speaking section. |
| 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. One purchase buys 180 days of access to the whole course, and the term ends on its own rather than renewing — there is no subscription here to cancel. |
| 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 price, no tiers and no subscription: "Your price: $129" for the TOEFL Practice Course, stated on the same card as "180 day access" and "30 day money back guarantee". 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. |
| 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. | Scoring is stated as human — "Yes, teacher graded" against all four practice tests, with "correct answer review, explanation, and model answers" — and that is the whole of what is published: no rubric, no scale and no turnaround appears on the pages we read. One thing they do state that most of this set does not is what they are not: "This web site is not endorsed or approved by ETS", in their own footer, unprompted. Reach120 scores with a model, publishes no agreement figure — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — and publishes how a score is produced, at /methodology. |
Every TestDEN 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 TestDEN does better
Three things, plainly. All four of its full practice tests are stated to be teacher graded, with "correct answer review, explanation, and model answers" — a person reading your work is not a worse product than a model reading it, it is a different one, and Reach120 offers no human review at any price. The commercial shape is the plainest in this set: one figure, one term, no renewal to remember, and a thirty-day money-back guarantee. And its drill bank is bigger than anything Reach120 hands you in a single purchase, at a stated 2,400 items for reading and listening on top of the tests. It has also traded under the same name since 1997, which is not a quality claim but is a different risk profile from a six-month-old application.
Where Reach120 is different
Human grading against instant grading, and current material against a large old one. TestDEN’s tests are read by a person and its drill bank is bigger than anything Reach120 hands over in a single purchase. Reach120 publishes its questions, answer keys, transcripts and sample responses in the page itself with no account, runs the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, and returns a scored report the moment you submit. Their own preparation page dates its account of the exam to the previous revision and does not mention January 2026 anywhere we read — which is a statement about that page, not about the graded tests behind the purchase.
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 TestDEN 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 format is the first. Their own preparation page dates its account of the test to the July 2023 revision and never mentions the January 2026 change, so ask what inside the course was rebuilt for the current format and what was not — the drill bank for reading and listening may well travel better than the writing material. The 180 days is a clock rather than an asset, so buy it when you are ready to use it. And the value here is the human grading and the model answers, so confirm the turnaround on a graded test before paying: the pages we read state that the tests are teacher graded and do not state how long grading takes.
Sources, and what we could not read
- the TestDEN TOEFL Practice Course page — https://www.testden.com/toefl/index2.htm, read 2026-08-24.
- TestDEN’s own TOEFL preparation advice page, which dates its description of the format — https://www.testden.com/toefl/preparation.htm, read 2026-08-24.
- TestDEN’s free TOEFL practice test — https://www.testden.com/challenge/free-toefl.asp, read 2026-08-24.
TestDEN states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:
- "TestDEN TOEFL Practice Course is the oldest and most reputable online training program available on the Internet."
- "Helping students since 1997." and "ACT360 Media Ltd, the owner of TestDEN.com is a pioneer in the industry, having launched the site in 1997."
- "*TOEFL is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). This web site is not endorsed or approved by ETS."
Reach120 vs TestDEN: common questions
- Is TestDEN 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 TestDEN does better — Three things, plainly. All four of its full practice tests are stated to be teacher graded, with "correct answer review, explanation, and model answers" — a person reading your work is not a worse product than a model reading it, it is a different one, and Reach120 offers no human review at any price. The commercial shape is the plainest in this set: one figure, one term, no renewal to remember, and a thirty-day money-back guarantee. And its drill bank is bigger than anything Reach120 hands you in a single purchase, at a stated 2,400 items for reading and listening on top of the tests. It has also traded under the same name since 1997, which is not a quality claim but is a different risk profile from a six-month-old application.
- What does TestDEN cost?
- On 2026-08-24, their own page stated: One price, no tiers and no subscription: "Your price: $129" for the TOEFL Practice Course, stated on the same card as "180 day access" and "30 day money back guarantee". 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. Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
- Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for TestDEN?
- 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 TestDEN cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
- Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: No cell can be filled: none of the six task types the January 2026 format introduced is named on any page we read. What the course page publishes instead is an inventory by count — "4 TOEFL practice tests", "320" questions, "Yes, teacher graded"; a "Speaking and Writing Training" module at "60 speaking" and "20 writing" with model answers; and a "TOEFL Skills Trainer" of "2,400" items for reading and listening. Its own preparation page dates its description of the exam explicitly, warning against material "that’s too old" and then stating that the second Writing task "has changed to (as of July 26, 2023) writing a response to an online" discussion. That is the previous revision, and January 2026 is not mentioned anywhere on the pages we read. Unlike two other rows in this set, it does not sell the retired Integrated and Independent labels — it is dated rather than mislabelled, and those are different faults. 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 TestDEN does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and TestDEN 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.