Affordable PMP Practice Exam Question Banks: What They Cost in 2026
Full disclosure before anything else: I run WayExam, one of the products in the comparison below. So read this the way you would read any comparison written by a seller — check the numbers yourself, and pay attention to the parts where I tell you a competitor is the better choice, because those are the parts I have no reason to make up.
All prices below were checked directly on each vendor's own order page on 19 September 2026. That date matters more than usual this time, because two of the vendors are running discounts that are clearly time-limited.
The Prices
| Product | Price today | List price | Access | Questions | Cost per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrepCast Simulator - Essential | $49.50 | $99.00 | 30 days* | 960 | ~$49.50 |
| PrepCast Simulator - Advanced | $59.50 | $119.00 | 60 days* | 1,340 | ~$29.75 |
| PrepCast Simulator - Deluxe | $74.50 | $149.00 | 90 days* | 1,920 | ~$24.83 |
| Brain Sensei Exam Simulator | $99.99 | $119.99 | 6 months | 2,200+ | ~$16.67 |
| WayExam - 3 months | $19 | $19 | 3 months | 2,250+ | ~$6.33 |
| WayExam - 6 months | $29 | $29 | 6 months | 2,250+ | ~$4.83 |
| WayExam - 12 months | $49 | $49 | 12 months | 2,250+ | ~$4.08 |
\* Read this asterisk before you buy anything from that row. All three PrepCast simulator tiers currently carry the same hard stop: access ends "no later than December 4, 2026," regardless of which duration you paid for. Their order pages state it plainly, to their credit. But it means the durations in that column are a ceiling, not a promise. If you buy the 90-day Deluxe tier in late September, you do not get 90 days — you get until December 4. Buy it in November and you get a few weeks.
That asterisk is the single most useful thing in this table, and it is a live illustration of the point I was going to make anyway.
Access Duration Is the Variable People Underprice
The instinct is to compare sticker prices. The instinct is wrong, and the December 4 cutoff shows why.
Exam dates slip. They slip because of work, because the application went to audit, because of a family emergency, because the test centre had no seats in the week you wanted. Ask around any PMP study group how many people sat the exam in the month they originally planned, and the answer is: not most of them.
A question bank whose access expires on a fixed calendar date is fine if your exam is comfortably before that date. If your exam slips past it, you are re-buying. So the honest way to read the table above is not "which is cheapest" but "what does it cost me to still have access on the day I actually sit the exam, including the slip I have not planned for yet."
On that basis the ranking changes quite a bit from the raw prices, and it is also the basis on which I think our product genuinely wins — not because the questions are better, but because twelve months of access for $49 makes the slip irrelevant.
Why the Cheap Option Can Be Cheap
I get asked this often enough that it deserves a straight answer rather than marketing language.
WayExam is $19 for three months because it is one product, built and run by one person, with no video course, no instructor, no live sessions, no contact-hour certificate, and no sales team. The marginal cost of another subscriber is close to zero, and there is no organization to fund. That is the whole explanation. It is not a trial price that jumps at renewal, and it is not a discount that expires — the prices in the table are the prices.
The flip side is real and you should weigh it: a one-person product has no phone support, no course completion certificate, and no guarantee it will still exist in five years. If those things matter to you, buy from a company.
When a More Expensive Product Is the Right Buy
This is the section that makes the comparison worth reading.
Buy the PrepCast simulator if you also need the 35 contact hours. PMI requires 35 hours of project management education to sit for the PMP, and the PrepCast ecosystem bundles the course that provides them with the simulator. If you have not satisfied that requirement yet, buying a course-plus-simulator bundle is cheaper and simpler than buying a course from one vendor and a question bank from another. WayExam does not provide contact hours at all — we are a question bank, not a registered education provider. And at the current discounted prices, if your exam is in October or November, the Deluxe tier at $74.50 is a perfectly reasonable purchase.
Buy Brain Sensei if you learn better from narrative than from drills. Their course is built around a story-based format with a consistent scenario running through it, and for people who bounce off dry process descriptions that structure genuinely helps retention. Six months of access with no fixed end date is also the most straightforward offer of the established vendors.
Buy whatever your employer will reimburse. If your company has a preferred vendor or a training budget tied to a specific provider, the price difference is somebody else's money and the administrative friction is yours. Take the reimbursement.
What Actually Determines Whether a Question Bank Helps You
Price is the easy variable to compare, which is why comparison articles fixate on it. It is not the variable that determines your score.
What matters more:
- Does it explain why the wrong answers are wrong? An answer key that says "C is correct because the PM should consult the risk register" teaches you nothing about why you picked D. Explanations that address the distractors are the entire educational value of a question bank.
- Are the questions situational rather than definitional? The current PMP exam rarely asks what a term means. It describes a messy situation and asks what you do next, usually with two defensible options. A bank full of "which of these is an output of Develop Project Charter" questions is preparing you for an exam that no longer exists.
- Can you retake and filter? Being able to re-drill only the questions you missed, by domain, is worth more than a larger total pool.
- Is the volume enough to avoid memorizing the bank? Somewhere above about 1,500 questions you stop recognizing items by sight, which is when your practice scores start meaning something. All the products above clear that bar.
Notice that "has the most questions" is not on that list. A 2,250-question bank is not meaningfully better than a 1,920-question bank. Both are more than you will finish.
The Free Way to Test Any of These
Every vendor above, including us, wants you to buy before you know whether their questions suit you. Do not.
- WayExam: 50 questions free, no card required, plus a 150-question PDF.
- Brain Sensei: free trial available on their site.
- PrepCast: sample questions published publicly.
- PMI itself publishes practice questions, and the PMP Examination Content Outline is a free download that tells you exactly what is tested.
Work through the free questions from two vendors before spending anything. You will notice within twenty questions whether a bank's explanations teach you something or just assert the answer. That twenty-minute test is a better purchase signal than any comparison table, including the one above.
The Honest Summary
If you need contact hours, buy a bundle. If your exam is booked and it is before December 4, the discounted PrepCast tiers are priced sensibly right now and the duration limit will not bite you. If your exam date is uncertain, or in 2027, pay attention to when access ends rather than to the headline price.
And if the budget is a constraint — for a lot of candidates, particularly outside North America and Europe, $75 to $150 for a few weeks of access is a real financial decision rather than a study expense — then a $19 question bank that lasts three months is not a compromise on the thing that matters. Practicing 1,500 situational questions with good explanations is the work. What you paid to access them does not show up on the score report.
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