LeetCode Alternatives Ranked by Teaching, Not Problem Count
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You are on LeetCode, the counter says 4,055 problems, and you have solved enough of them to know that solving is not the same as understanding. Premium is $35 /mo billed monthly, or $159 billed yearly, which the page presents as $13.25 /mo. Before you leave, price what leaving costs: not one rival on this page publishes a problem count within an order of magnitude of 4,055, and LeetCode’s own terms state that all fees are non-refundable and never prorated, so cancelling today still leaves you paid up to the end of the period with nothing back.
So this page ranks ten alternatives by what you would be buying instead of volume: explanation, structure and mock interviews. The short answer is interviewing.io, because the one thing LeetCode does not sell at any price is a human interviewer — its mock interviews are automated simulations — while interviewing.io starts at $179 per interview and gives away an AI interviewer, 200+ problems and ungated written solutions underneath. AlgoExpert is the runner-up for anyone whose problem is comprehension rather than nerves, and Tech Interview Handbook costs $0. Every price below is the vendor’s own, read on 2026-09-17, and where a per-month figure is really an annually billed rate, this page says so.
What this ranking measures
This page measures one thing: how much a platform teaches per problem, weighed against how few problems it has. LeetCode’s public problem set counter shows 4,055 problems browsable without an account, so volume is already settled — a rival earns a place here only by beating LeetCode on explanation (worked solutions, written or video), on structure (a stated order of study) or on mock interviews, especially ones with a human on the other side. What this ranking deliberately does not measure: whose editor or UI is nicer, whose company-tagged questions are freshest, community size, hiring outcomes, or whether any particular person got an offer. Nobody here subscribed to, installed or sat an interview on any of these platforms; every figure below was read from the vendor’s own public pages on 2026-09-17 and is reproduced as the vendor states it. Where a vendor does not publish something the criterion needs — a refund window, a renewal price, a problem count, a session length — that absence is recorded and it costs the product position rather than being quietly skipped.
The short answer
It is the only product here that puts a human interviewer in front of a candidate at a published starting price — $179 per interview, bought one at a time rather than by subscription — while LeetCode publishes no human-interviewer product at any price and sells automated Interview Simulations instead. Its free side covers the teaching axis before any money changes hands: a free AI Interviewer for coding and system design, 200+ problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, ungated written solutions with complexity analysis, and full mock-interview transcripts. It loses badly on volume, with roughly 102 questions listed against LeetCode’s 4,055, which is precisely the trade this ranking asks you to make.
Every one of its 200 questions carries a two-part video explanation, over 100 hours of video in total, with written code in nine languages alongside. That is a per-problem teaching guarantee LeetCode never makes: its pricing page says only “premium solutions” and never states whether any carry video. The cost is 200 questions in place of 4,055, no free tier or sample question at all, and a $119 price the page presented as a flash sale against a struck-through $693 with no everyday price published.
$0, no account, no paywall and no usage limit published: 18 priority-labelled algorithm cheatsheets plus the Grind 75 tool, which defaults to 75 questions across 8 weeks at 8 hours a week, 64 hours in total. It hosts no solutions and links every question out to LeetCode, so it fixes structure rather than explanation — which is exactly why nobody should pay for a study plan before trying it alongside a free LeetCode account.
All 10 compared
| # | Product | Best for | Price from | What decides its place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting a human engineer to interview you | Free AI Interviewer; interviews start at $179 | Human mocks from $179; free AI interviewer and 200+ problems | Visit | |
| 2 | Every solution explained on video | $119 (struck-through $693), labelled “1 YEAR ACCESS” | 200 questions, each with a two-part video explanation | Visit | |
| 3 | System design prep bought once, not rented | $47 (1 Month Access), struck-through $59; 1 Year Access $79; Lifetime Access $279 | $279 Lifetime, one-time; tiers print “Does not auto-renew” | Visit | |
| 4 | The largest published question bank with answers | $12 / month under the Annually toggle (Pro), $79 / month under the Monthly toggle; Basic $0 / month | 5,305 questions, 350+ hours of video, no renewal price shown | Visit | |
| 5 | A written, step-by-step algorithms course | $249 (Crunch Time, 3 weeks access); $349 (Full Course, 12 months access); $999 (Lifetime Access) | 45+ questions; $249 buys 3 weeks access, $349 buys 12 months | Visit | |
| 6 | Free live mock interviews with a peer | Basic $0 / month (5 peer mocks per month); Pro $12 / month under the Annually toggle | Basic gives 5 peer mocks per month at $0, no credit card | Visit | |
| 7 | A free study plan for LeetCode’s 4,055 problems | Free — no paid plan is offered to readers anywhere on the site | 75 questions, 64 hours over 8 weeks, $0 and no account | Visit | |
| 8 | Booking a coach from a specific company | $49 (AI interview pack); 1:1 mock interview with a human coach $50 - $300 (with an average price of $150) | 1:1 human mocks $50-$300, average $150; length not published | Visit | |
| 9 | Free practice with no published price | No price published for the candidate product; hiring plans from $79 /mo — $948 billed annually (Starter) | No price published for the candidate practice product | Visit | |
| 10 | Behavioral and delivery prep, not algorithms | $39/mo (Interview BootCamp, labelled “30-day subscription”); $99 (Interview Accelerator, 3-month subscription); $299 (Interview Pro, “ONE FEE. LIFETIME ACCESS”) | 170 video lessons; no coding problem count published | Visit |
1. interviewing.io
Why it sits at 1 Human mocks from $179; free AI interviewer and 200+ problems
The paid product is a one-off purchase, not a subscription: a one-on-one live mock interview with an engineer from a FAANG or adjacent company, voice only and anonymous to the interviewer, starting at $179. The free side is unusually wide for a vendor that sells interviews. The AI Interviewer runs FAANG-style coding and system design interviews with detailed feedback and carries 200+ problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview; the public question database is ungated (Two Sum shows brute-force and hash-table solutions with full code in Python, JavaScript and Java plus complexity analysis); and the mock interview replay library renders complete transcripts, feedback segment included, with no login wall.
On the criterion this is the clearest win available. LeetCode’s Interview product is a hiring tool sold to employers, and no human-interviewer product is published for candidates at any price, so the entire mock-interview axis is uncontested. Volume is the price you pay: the vendor publishes no platform problem total and the questions database lists roughly 102 questions against LeetCode’s 4,055. The gaps that keep it honest are pricing gaps — interviewing.io/pricing returns 404, the upper end of the “varies by subject matter” range is nowhere published, and the 3, 5 and 10-session Amazon/Google/Meta coaching program has no price at all.
- The free tier alone covers the teaching axis: AI interviews, 200+ problems, written solutions with complexity analysis and full interview replays, none of it behind a login.
- There is no published price ceiling. The vendor says only that interviews start at $179 and vary by topic and by requesting an interviewer from a specific company, and no pricing page exists to check against.
2. AlgoExpert
Why it sits at 2 200 questions, each with a two-part video explanation
One plan card, no monthly option, no per-product option: All Access at $119 for one year, bundling AlgoExpert with SystemsExpert, FrontendExpert, MLExpert, InfraExpert, iOSExpert and BlockchainExpert. The coding product is 200 hand-picked questions spanning 15 categories and 4 difficulty levels. Every question carries a two-part video explanation, over 100 hours of video in total, with written code in nine languages alongside, so explanations come in both formats. Also included: 4 timed coding assessments, a data-structures crash course, an in-browser IDE, an unlockable certificate, and peer-to-peer mock interviews with other users at no extra charge.
This is the trade the criterion asks about, made explicit: 200 questions instead of 4,055, in exchange for a guarantee that every single one is taught on video. LeetCode makes no equivalent promise — its pricing page says “premium solutions” and never states whether any carry video, and the Editorial tab sits behind a sign-in wall so the format cannot be checked from outside. What costs AlgoExpert the top spot is everything it does not publish: no free tier, no free sample question, no refund window on the purchase page or homepage, and no statement of what happens when the twelve months elapse.
- Every one of the 200 questions has a two-part video explanation plus written code in nine languages — the only per-problem teaching guarantee on this page.
- The $119 is a flash-sale figure shown against a struck-through $693 with a countdown on the page; the everyday purchasable price is not published, and no refund window is readable anywhere.
3. Hello Interview
Why it sits at 3 $279 Lifetime, one-time; tiers print “Does not auto-renew”
The written courses — System Design, Low-Level Design, Concurrency, Behavioral — are free to read in full, and the vendor states the premium add-ons are “in no way required for this course”. What is locked, marked by a lock icon, is premium breakdowns, patterns, deep dives, key technologies, advanced topics and premium videos. The premium catalogue is quantified as 65 articles, 25 videos, 66 guided practices and 5.3k reported interview questions, with a Guided Practice library of 34 System Design problems, 8 Low-Level Design and 12 AI-Enabled Coding. None of the three tiers is a subscription: 1 Month and 1 Year Access both print “Does not auto-renew”, and Lifetime includes all future content.
It ranks above larger libraries because it publishes what each premium item contains — many breakdowns carry an article, a video and a quiz — and because the money question is settled on the card rather than in a FAQ. Against the criterion its limit is scope: a reader grinding arrays and dynamic programming gets 12 AI-Enabled Coding problems, not an algorithms bank. Two other things cost it: mock-interview feedback is delivered by an AI interviewer scoring against rubrics, and the vendor’s own pages disagree on library size, with pricing saying 5,000+ questions and the practice page saying 13,000+.
- Nothing auto-renews, the full written courses are free, and $279 Lifetime is a single payment that also covers everything released later.
- No refund policy is published: the FAQ heading exists on three pages but the answer is absent from the rendered text, and /terms-and-conditions returns 404.
4. Aced (formerly Exponent)
Why it sits at 4 5,305 questions, 350+ hours of video, no renewal price shown
The free Basic tier is $0 / month with no credit card: sample lessons, sample questions, 5 peer mocks per month and basic job referrals. Paid Pro adds all courses, video and written solutions, company-specific guides, real interview experiences, unlimited peer mocks, the full question database, priority job referrals and a Slack community. The vendor claims a database of 5,305 interview questions with answers verified by hiring managers and candidates, plus over 350 hours of expert-led video answers. Human coaching is not included in membership and is bought per coach: one 1-hour session at $249, three at $675, five at $999, with an Ace the Interview Program at $1499.
On raw numbers it out-scores LeetCode on both axes — more questions with answers than LeetCode’s 4,055 counter, and both video and written solutions where LeetCode will not say. It sits fourth because of what is missing around the numbers. No coding-problem count is broken out of the 5,305, no lesson or course total is published, the annual plan is displayed only as a per-month figure with the actual amount billed up front never shown, and the FAQ confirms automatic renewal while naming no renewal amount against struck-through list prices of $79 and $99 per month.
- 5,305 questions with video and written solutions, 350+ hours of video and unlimited peer mocks is the broadest paid coverage here.
- The $12 / month is the annually billed rate: the page never states the annual total charged up front, and the FAQ confirms auto-renewal without naming the renewal price.
5. Interview Cake
Why it sits at 5 45+ questions; $249 buys 3 weeks access, $349 buys 12 months
Every purchase is one-time — “No annoying subscription to remember to cancel” — and the FAQ confirms that buying more time later stacks with existing access at the same list prices. The free layer is broader than it looks: all readings, concept and glossary articles and the table of contents are open, one sample question is published fully worked, and verified GitHub Student Developer Pack holders get the entire paid course free for one week. The vendor claims over 45 coding interview practice questions and sizes the course at 50+ hours of questions plus readings, with solutions as written, structured walkthroughs broken down per question.
The teaching structure is real, but the arithmetic against the criterion is harsh: 45+ questions against LeetCode’s 4,055, and $349 for twelve months against LeetCode’s $159 billed yearly. You are paying roughly twice as much for about one percent of the problems, and buying the breakdown rather than the bank. No video solutions are advertised anywhere on the site, and no human mock interview exists — the Coaching link sends you off-site to Exponent, so Interview Cake publishes no price for one. The refund promise also depends on which page you land on.
- All readings are free, the purchase never recurs, and a verified GitHub Student Developer Pack unlocks the full course free for one week.
- The vendor publishes two contradictory refund windows that are both live: 5 days on the pricing page, 30 days no-questions-asked on the homepage.
6. Pramp (now Exponent Practice)
Why it sits at 6 Basic gives 5 peer mocks per month at $0, no credit card
Pramp is presented as free peer-to-peer mock interviewing with no price shown anywhere on pramp.com — the site states it aims to provide the tech interview practice you need, for free. Sessions are live with another person, 30-45 minutes, and both participants interview each other, so you practise being questioned and questioning. On the parent platform the free Basic tier states the cap plainly: $0 / month, 5 peer mocks per month, sample lessons, sample questions, basic job referrals, no credit card required. The paid Pro tier removes the peer-mock cap entirely and folds in the wider Aced library.
It beats LeetCode outright on the mock-interview axis and charges nothing to do it, which is why it outranks paid products with bigger libraries. What holds it at six is that it teaches nothing by itself: no course of its own, no solution library on pramp.com, and no problem count on the Pramp site at all, since the 5,305 figure belongs to the parent platform. Your interviewer is another candidate rather than an expert, an expert coach is a separate purchase, and pramp.com publishes no pricing page — www.pramp.com/courses returns HTTP 404.
- Five live 30-45 minute mock interviews a month with a real person, for $0 and no credit card.
- Removing the 5-per-month cap means buying the parent subscription, whose renewal amount the vendor does not publish despite confirming automatic renewal.
7. Tech Interview Handbook
Why it sits at 7 75 questions, 64 hours over 8 weeks, $0 and no account
Everything is free with no account, no signup, no paywall and no published usage limit; the vendor states the handbook has been and always will be free for readers, and monetises through week-long sponsorships and affiliate links instead. The content covers resume preparation, a coding interview study plan, 18 data-structure and algorithm cheatsheets each labelled High, Mid or Low priority, system design, behavioural questions, offer negotiation and choosing between companies. The headline asset is Blind 75 refined into Grind 75, with a customisable study-plan tool that defaults to 8 weeks at 8 hours per week — 64 hours, 75 questions — and needs no login to track progress.
This is the cheapest fix for the specific complaint that sends people looking for alternatives: 4,055 problems and no idea which ones matter. It ranks seventh rather than higher because it wins on exactly one of the criterion’s three axes. The site hosts no solutions of its own — every question links out to LeetCode — publishes no video and never states a lesson count. That makes it a companion to a free LeetCode account rather than a replacement for a paid one, and it is the reason nobody should pay for a curriculum before trying this.
- A named 75-question, 64-hour plan with no account, no payment and no usage cap published.
- It hosts no solutions at all and links each question out to LeetCode, so it organises the grind rather than teaching it.
8. Prepfully
Why it sits at 8 1:1 human mocks $50-$300, average $150; length not published
Two products sit side by side. The AI side gives free mock interviews — every catalogue card renders “FREE” against a struck-through $25 with “No signup needed” and “Instant start”, across 8 role tracks and several companies and formats — with a paid pack at $49 for five 15-minute simulations, 30-day validity, “No auto-renewals”, a written feedback report and the full transcript of each interview. The human side is a marketplace of roughly 1,939 verified coaches and 19,000 completed sessions, priced per coach in a vendor-stated $50 - $300 range averaging $150; the cheapest coach on the first directory page listed $169.00.
It shares interviewing.io’s advantage — real humans, which LeetCode does not sell — but loses the comparison on disclosure, and the criterion penalises that. No session length is published, so a per-hour cost cannot be derived from the $50 - $300 range. Two of the three AI tiers, labelled Basic, Standard and Premium, do not render a price at all. There is no consolidated pricing page. And the question bank’s roughly 955,000 results come with no stated answer format, so it cannot be compared with course-based rivals on explanation.
- Free AI mock interviews with no signup and no published cap, spanning 8 role tracks and several company-specific formats.
- Refunds close 24 hours after the session and are judged case by case, and cancelling or rescheduling a booked session incurs a fee starting from 25 USD.
9. HackerRank
Why it sits at 9 No price published for the candidate practice product
This is the other name every LeetCode user knows, and the candidate-facing side is substantial: practice domains, 3 role certifications and 21 skill certifications on the Certify page, and seven AI mock-interview tracks — Technical Screen, Coding, System Design, AI Fluency, Behavioral, Frontend React and Backend Node — listed with durations. Written explanations exist as editorial solutions for challenges. The published prices belong to a different product entirely: hiring plans at Starter $79 /mo — $948 billed annually with 60 candidate attempts a year, Pro $419 /mo — $5,028 billed annually, and Enterprise on request, with additional candidate attempts at $20 each.
It finishes ninth because almost nothing the criterion needs is published for a learner. There is no practice-problem count for developers — the 2,000+, 4,000+ and 7,500+ library figures are employer-side. There is no stated free tier for learners and no hard limits on free problems, mock interviews or certifications. The mock-interview page carries “Have a voucher code? Click here to redeem”, implying a paid route it never prices. Mock interviews are AI-driven, the follow-up conversation is with a virtual interviewer, and the words renew and refund appear nowhere on the pricing page.
- A large practice, certification and AI mock-interview side that a candidate can open without encountering a price.
- Not one number a candidate needs is published: no practice-problem count, no free-tier limits, and no price for certifications or mock interviews despite a voucher-redemption link.
10. Big Interview
Why it sits at 10 170 video lessons; no coding problem count published
The vendor claims 170 video lessons organised into 12 categories covering every career stage, delivered in video and written form, plus curated question sets and sample answers covering 1,000+ jobs across 200+ fields. Mock interviews are AI-driven with automated feedback, and the vendor positions the product as a substitute for hiring a human coach. Pricing is plain: $39/mo for the 30-day BootCamp, with the checkout confirming “You will be billed $39 today”; $99 for the 3-month Accelerator; $299 for Interview Pro as a one-time payment with no expiration. The refund statement is the clearest here — a 100% refund within 30 days, no questions asked.
It ranks last for the reader this page is written for, because it does not compete on the axis that matters: no coding-problem total is published anywhere, and the library is organised by job title and field rather than by data structure or algorithm. If the round you are worried about is behavioral rather than algorithmic, it is the most structured video curriculum on this sheet. Two costs stand out. There is no free tier of the product at all — the only free item is a downloadable course behind an email form — and the vendor confirms the recurring plans renew without ever stating the renewing amount.
- A 30-day, no-questions-asked full refund, stated on both the pricing page and the FAQ — the clearest money-back statement here.
- No coding problem count exists anywhere on the site, there is no free tier of the product, and the $39/mo plan’s renewal amount is never stated.
Which one fits your situation
interviewing.io. One interview starts at $179, the vendor promises a full refund if you are unhappy (no window or conditions stated), and the free AI Interviewer plus 200+ problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview costs nothing while you wait for the slot. Budget for the unknown: the vendor says price varies by subject matter and by requesting an interviewer from a specific company, and never publishes the upper end.
Do not buy anything yet. Pramp’s Basic tier is $0 / month with 5 peer mocks per month and no credit card, and each session runs 30-45 minutes with both people interviewing each other. Five sessions a month is enough to find out whether the freeze is a knowledge gap or a nerves gap before you pay to fix the wrong one.
AlgoExpert. $119 buys 1 YEAR ACCESS and every one of the 200 questions carries a two-part video explanation, 100+ hours in total, with code in nine languages. You are accepting 200 questions in place of 4,055 and there is no free tier, no sample question and no published refund window, so decide before you log in to buy.
Hello Interview. The written System Design, Low-Level Design, Concurrency and Behavioral courses are free to read in full, so start there for $0. If you want the 34 System Design guided practices, Lifetime Access is $279 as a one-time purchase including all future content, and the shorter tiers print “Does not auto-renew” on the card.
The free tier is enough. Pair your existing account with Tech Interview Handbook: Grind 75 defaults to 75 questions over 8 weeks at 8 hours a week, 64 hours in total, with no login needed to track progress. If you hold a verified GitHub Student Developer Pack, Interview Cake gives its full course free for one week as well.
Prepfully or interviewing.io, and budget for an unpublished number. Prepfully’s range is $50 - $300 with an average price of $150, the cheapest of the ten coaches on the first directory page was $169.00, and no session length is published, so a per-hour cost cannot be worked out. interviewing.io charges a premium for a company-specific interviewer but publishes no price list at all.
What this market gets people for
- Reading a “$12 / month” card as a monthly charge On Aced’s pricing page that figure sits under the Annually toggle; clicking Monthly re-renders the same Pro plan as a plain $79 / month. The page never publishes the annual total, so the amount actually billed up front is undisclosed, and the FAQ confirms the membership auto-renews without naming a renewal amount. HackerRank at least spells it out — Starter is $79 /mo — $948 billed annually — and LeetCode shows $159 billed yearly next to its $13.25 /mo framing.
- Assuming a money-back window exists if it does not work out LeetCode’s terms state all fees are non-refundable and never prorated. AlgoExpert’s purchase page states no refund terms and its Help Center answer panels would not expand. Hello Interview lists “What is your refund policy for Premium?” as an FAQ heading whose answer is absent from the page, and its /terms-and-conditions returns 404. Interview Cake publishes 5 days on the pricing page and 30 days on the homepage, both live at once. Prepfully’s closes 24 hours after the session and is judged case by case.
- Paying for “mock interviews” and receiving software LeetCode’s mock interviews are automated simulations against a timed question. Hello Interview’s mock is an AI interviewer scoring against rubrics — humans only tuned the rubric. Big Interview’s are AI-driven, HackerRank’s follow-up is with a virtual interviewer, and Aced’s top tier mocks are AI too. A person on the other side costs extra everywhere: $179 at interviewing.io, $50 - $300 at Prepfully, $249 for one Aced coaching session, or free but capped at 5 per month through Pramp’s peer matching.
- Buying the smallest number on the pricing page Interview Cake’s $249 Crunch Time buys 3 weeks access; 12 months access is $349, and the vendor never says whether the tiers differ in content or only in length. Hello Interview’s $47 buys 1 Month Access while $279 buys Lifetime with all future content included. Prepfully’s $49 AI pack is five 15-minute simulations with 30-day validity. If your interview is eight weeks out, the cheapest sticker is routinely the most expensive per week of access.
Questions buyers ask
What does LeetCode Premium actually cost, and does the price change at renewal?
The subscribe page shows Monthly at $35 /mo billed monthly, and Yearly at $159 billed yearly, displayed as $13.25 /mo. Both render against struck-through figures ($39 and $24.91), but the page never labels the shown prices as promotional and never states a renewal price. The terms mention only a “renewal date” with no amount, and the Help Center billing articles carry no renewal price either. So the renewal figure is unpublished, and all fees are non-refundable and never prorated.
If I buy an alternative, should I keep paying for Premium?
The problem set is publicly browsable without an account and the counter showed 4,055 problems, though LeetCode says that total includes premium-locked problems and never publishes the free/premium split. Premium’s stated additions are unlimited Playgrounds, priority judging “up to 10x faster during peak hours”, 500 extra monthly credits plus up to 30 solution analyses per day, and walled premium questions, Explore cards and solutions. If none of those are your bottleneck, the free account plus a free study plan covers the problem-grinding half.
Which of these include a live mock interview with an actual person?
Four routes. interviewing.io sells one-on-one interviews with engineers from FAANG and adjacent companies starting at $179. Prepfully’s coach marketplace lists 1:1 human mocks at $50 - $300 with an average price of $150. Aced sells coaching separately from membership at $249 for one session, $675 for three, $999 for five. Pramp gives peer-to-peer mocks of 30-45 minutes, free, capped at 5 per month on the Basic tier. LeetCode, Hello Interview, Big Interview and HackerRank all describe AI or automated interviewers only.
Is anything free enough to replace Premium outright?
Partly. Tech Interview Handbook is entirely free with no account and no paywall, covering 18 algorithm cheatsheets plus Grind 75 (75 questions, 64 hours over a default 8 weeks). interviewing.io’s AI Interviewer is free and includes 200+ problems from Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, with ungated written solutions and full mock transcripts. Hello Interview’s written courses are free to read in full. Pramp/Aced Basic is $0 with 5 peer mocks per month and no credit card. None of them publishes a problem count approaching 4,055.
Which ones give video explanations rather than text?
AlgoExpert states a two-part video explanation for every one of its 200 questions, 100+ hours in total, with written code in nine languages alongside. Aced claims over 350 hours of expert-led video answers and lists “Video and written solutions” on paid tiers. Hello Interview quantifies its premium catalogue as 65 articles and 25 videos. Big Interview claims 170 video lessons across 12 categories. Interview Cake advertises no video anywhere, and LeetCode’s pricing page never states whether its premium solutions carry video at all.
Which purchases are one-time rather than subscriptions I have to cancel?
Interview Cake is one-time at $249 (3 weeks access), $349 (12 months access) or $999 (Lifetime). Hello Interview’s three tiers are all one-off, with “Does not auto-renew” printed under 1 Month and 1 Year Access. AlgoExpert sells a fixed “1 YEAR ACCESS” term at $119 with no auto-renewal stated. Prepfully’s $49 AI pack has 30-day validity and “No auto-renewals”. Big Interview Pro at $299 is “ONE FEE. LIFETIME ACCESS”. LeetCode, Aced, HackerRank and Big Interview’s two cheaper plans are recurring.
What none of them publish
These are the questions a buyer would want settled that no vendor on this page answers in public. If one of them decides your purchase, ask the vendor and hold them to the answer.
- LeetCode’s renewal price. Both plans display against struck-through figures ($39 /mo and $24.91 /mo) but the page never labels the shown prices as promotional and never states what is charged at renewal; the terms mention a “renewal date” with no amount.
- How many of LeetCode’s 4,055 problems are premium-only. The total is published, the free/premium split is not, so the real size of the free tier cannot be worked out.
- Whether LeetCode’s premium solutions include video. The pricing page says only “premium solutions” and the Editorial tab sits behind a sign-in wall, so the format is not publicly stated.
- AlgoExpert’s everyday price and refund window. $693 appears only as a struck-through comparison figure during a flash sale, no refund terms appear on the purchase page, and the Help Center answer panels would not expand.
- What happens when AlgoExpert’s twelve months elapse. The page sells a fixed “1 YEAR ACCESS” term and states no auto-renewal, no renewal price and no wording about expiry.
- Hello Interview’s refund policy and free-trial terms. Both exist as FAQ headings on three pages, but neither answer is present in the rendered text, and /terms-and-conditions returns 404.
- Aced’s annual total and renewal amount. Only per-month equivalents ($12 and $20) are displayed, the amount billed up front for a year is never shown, and the FAQ confirms auto-renewal without a figure.
- Any price for HackerRank’s candidate-facing product. Prepare, Certify and Mock Interviews publish no subscription, no one-time fee and no usage limits, while a voucher-redemption link implies a paid route that is never priced.
- The length of a Prepfully human mock interview, and two of its three AI tier prices. Without a session length the $50 - $300 range cannot be converted to a per-hour cost, and the Basic/Standard/Premium tabs render only one price.
- Interview Cake’s actual refund window, and whether its three tiers differ in content. The pricing page says 5 days, the homepage says 30 days, and the vendor never says whether Crunch Time, Full Course and Lifetime differ in anything but duration.
- A site-wide rate for human coaching at Aced and Pramp. Coaching prices appear only on individual coach profile pages; neither /coaching nor /upgrade displays a rate.
- Big Interview’s renewal amounts. The FAQ confirms the $39/mo and $99 plans renew but never states the renewing figure, and no total practice-question count is published in the page body.
Reading this from the other direction? Coding Interview Prep in Two Weeks: What Actually Fits the Window covers the same market against a different rule.