We make allthingspm.app, so read this with that in mind. Here is the short answer anyway. Pick Aced (formerly Exponent) if you want live practice with other humans (peer mocks and paid coaches), a large Slack community, or prep for several tech roles at once. Pick allthingspm.app if you are aiming at AI product roles, want mock interviews generated from the exact job description you are applying to, or need to pay month to month or in rupees. Many candidates will get the most out of using both, and we show the cheapest way to do that below.
allthingspm.app is an AI product management course and PM interview prep platform, with AI mock interviews that can be built from any job description. Aced is the new name of Exponent, the interview prep company behind tryexponent.com, which also owns Pramp and InterviewCake.
How we compared them (and what we did not do)
Everything about Aced here comes from its public pages, rendered in a browser on 25 September 2026: the pricing page, the PM course page, the AI mock interview page, the peer practice page, the PM question list and coach profiles [1][3][4][5][6][7]. We also read two independent 2026 reviews [8][9] and what candidates say on Reddit [10][11][12][13].
We did not buy an Aced membership for this post, so we are not describing what it feels like inside the paid product. Where Aced's public pages are silent on something, we say so rather than guess. For the wider field of mock interview platforms, see our ranked guide to PM mock interview platforms, and for options grouped by what you wanted from Exponent, see Exponent alternatives.
Is Aced the same company as Exponent?
Yes. Exponent announced in August 2026 that it is becoming Aced [2][8]. The site is still tryexponent.com and carries "formerly Exponent" in its header. The company says it has served over 1 million candidates, partners with 40 universities, and has been running for eight years. The same announcement launched "Ace", an AI coach for study plans and question research, plus an AI-first PM course, new Anthropic and OpenAI interview guides, and an Aced Jobs platform [2].
So if you searched for an "Exponent alternative", you are comparing against a product that just got a significant refresh, not the Exponent of the 2021 Reddit threads.
Feature comparison: Aced vs allthingspm.app
| Aced (formerly Exponent) | allthingspm.app | |
|---|---|---|
| Roles covered | PM plus software engineering, system design, data science, ML, EM, TPM, design, investment banking and more | Product management only, with an AI PM focus |
| PM course | PM Interview Prep, 2026 Edition: 7 courses, 44 videos, 23 hours, rated 4.8/5 by 58,100+ students [3] | AI PM course: 14 chapters, 101 lessons, 1,859 minutes of video, 14 graded case studies, updated weekly |
| What the course is for | Passing the PM interview loop, now including AI product sense, evals and vibe coding rounds | Doing the AI PM job, built from 604 real job postings, with a chapter on the interview loop |
| PM question bank | 2,040 PM questions, many with dozens of community answers and some with video answers [6] | 4,122 questions tagged to 260 companies, each with its own page and an answer guide |
| AI mock interviews | Expert plan only. Audio, 10 to 20 minutes, question assigned automatically, PM and behavioral only, scored rubric, labelled beta [4] | Type or speak. Follows up like an interviewer and scores the answer. One JD mock a day free, unlimited on Pro |
| Mock from your own job description | Not described on Aced's AI mock page | Yes: paste any JD at /jd-mock |
| Live job listings | Job referrals from 400+ referrers; Aced Jobs announced [1][2] | 116 live PM roles from 18 AI companies, each with a mock |
| Peer mock interviews | Yes: 5 a month free, unlimited on Pro [1] | No |
| Human coaches | 100+ coaches, $249 per hour session [7] | No |
| Community | Private Slack of "tens of thousands" of members [1] | No |
| Resume help | Review by a senior recruiter, sold as coaching [7] | AI review of your resume against a specific JD |
| Certificate | Course page lists a certificate [3] | No certificate employers recognise |
| Track record | Eight years, over 1 million candidates [2] | New, no public reviews yet |
Features checked on each product's public pages, 25 September 2026.
How much does Aced cost compared with allthingspm.app?
Aced has three plans. Basic is free. Pro unlocks courses, video and written solutions, company guides, unlimited peer mocks, the full question database, priority referrals and Slack. Expert adds the AI suite: AI mock interviews, AI interview feedback and the AI coach [1]. Coaching is sold separately.
| Plan | Aced (formerly Exponent) | allthingspm.app |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Basic, $0: sample lessons, 5 peer mocks a month, sample questions, basic job referrals | Free, $0: first course lessons, 1 JD mock and 1 JD resume review a day, Resume Job Match, full question bank |
| Monthly, content and practice | Pro, $79 a month | Pro, $20 a month |
| Monthly, with AI mock interviews | Expert, $99 a month | Pro, $20 a month (AI mocks included) |
| Annual, content and practice | Pro, $12 a month on the annual plan ($144 a year) | Pro, $120 a year |
| Annual, with AI mock interviews | Expert, $20 a month on the annual plan ($240 a year) | Pro, $120 a year |
| India | Same USD prices shown when we loaded the page from India | ₹1,200 a month or ₹8,400 a year |
| One-to-one coaching | $249 for a 1-hour session, $675 for 3, $999 for 5 | Not offered |
Prices checked September 2026 (25 September), on the live pricing pages. List prices, before any promotions. Annual totals are the monthly figure times 12.
Three honest readings of that table:
- On an annual plan, the base prices are close. Aced Pro at $144 a year against our $120 a year is a $24 difference, and Aced Pro includes peer mocks, Slack and video solutions that we do not have. If you do not care about AI mocks, Aced Pro annual is fair value.
- If you want AI mock interviews, we are cheaper. Aced puts them in Expert, which is $240 a year or $99 a month. Ours are in the $120 a year or $20 a month plan.
- Month to month, the gap is large. Most people prepare in a burst of four to eight weeks before a loop. Aced even labels its monthly Pro plan "crunch time" at $79 [1]. One independent review put it bluntly: "the pricing asymmetry pushes short-timeline users into the expensive monthly plan" [8]. Two months of our Pro costs $40; two months of Aced Pro costs $158.
Aced offers full refunds within 5 days of purchase [1], which lowers the risk of trying it.
Where Aced is clearly better
Credit where it is due. These are real advantages, and we do not match them.
Practice with real people. Aced runs scheduled peer mocks: when we checked, its practice page listed 28 upcoming PM sessions that week, plus separate behavioral, system design and SQL sessions [5]. Basic members get 5 a month free; Pro members get unlimited. Peer mocks are how you practice being interrupted by a real human, reading a face, and handling someone who does not follow your framework. An AI cannot fully replace that, including ours.
Human coaches. Aced lists 100+ vetted coaches, with profiles showing PM and product leadership roles at companies such as Meta and Microsoft. A 1-hour session costs $249, with packs of 3 for $675 and 5 for $999 [7]. If you have a final round in ten days and want an experienced PM to tell you exactly where you lose the room, that is worth paying for. We do not offer it.
Breadth across roles. If you are a PM who might also interview for TPM, a data PM role, or an engineering manager, Aced covers all of them under one membership. We only cover product management.
Community answers and original video. Aced's PM question list shows 2,040 questions, and popular ones carry dozens of member answers (one YouTube recommendation question had 70) [6]. Aced says it has 350+ hours of expert-led video answers across roles [1]. Seeing how 70 different candidates attacked the same prompt is a different kind of learning from reading one answer guide.
The Slack community and referrals. Aced describes its Slack as "tens of thousands" of members sharing fresh interview reports, and its referral network as 400+ referrers [1]. Reddit users repeatedly mention the Slack as a place to find mock partners; one wrote that it is "pretty active and people are often open to practicing mocks" [11].
Brand and track record. Eight years, a million candidates, a course taught by named PMs from Meta, LinkedIn, Shopify, Coinbase and Google, and a long wall of public testimonials from PMs at Google, Meta and Amazon [1][2][3]. We are new, and we have none of that yet.
A current AI PM interview course. This is worth saying because it is easy to assume otherwise: Aced's 2026 PM course now covers AI product sense rounds, evals, latency and cost tradeoffs, AI technical fluency and vibe-coding a prototype in an interview [3]. If you only need to pass an AI PM interview loop, their course covers it.
Where allthingspm.app is better
Mock interviews built from the job you are actually applying to. Paste any PM job description into the JD mock and the AI interviewer builds the interview around that role's responsibilities, product area and seniority, then scores you on the competencies that role weighs. Aced's AI mock page describes a popular question assigned automatically at the start of a 10 to 20 minute audio session [4]; it does not describe building an interview from your own JD. If you are interviewing for a Safeguards PM role at Anthropic, practicing "Design Facebook Movies" is not the best use of your evening.
Live AI company roles, each with its own mock. Our jobs catalog holds 116 live PM job descriptions from 18 AI companies, and every one opens a mock for that exact role. For example: Product Manager, Growth at Anthropic or Product Manager, Voice at Sierra. If you do not know which roles fit you yet, Resume Job Match finds them from your resume.
AI mocks that talk back, on the cheaper plan. You can type or speak. The interviewer asks follow-up questions the way a real one does, pushing on the weak part of your answer, and scores it at the end. Aced's page does not say whether its AI asks follow-ups, so we cannot compare that point directly. What we can compare is access: ours is in the $20 plan, with one JD mock a day on the free tier; Aced's AI mocks are in the Expert plan [1].
A full AI PM course, not only interview prep. The AI PM course has 14 chapters and 101 lessons, each built around a real source video (1,859 minutes in total), plus 14 graded case studies and 212 AI PM concepts in a knowledge graph. We built it backwards from 604 real PM job postings, read in full, across 95 companies and 137 careers boards, and it is updated every week from live AI PM postings with a public changelog. Chapters like Evals and Agents and agentic architecture teach the work itself; the last chapter, Get the job, covers the interview loop. The first lessons are free. The trade-off: Aced's course videos are original mock walkthroughs by practicing PMs, while ours pair sourced videos with written lessons and graded work.
An answer guide on every question, and a page per company. The question bank holds 4,122 real PM interview questions tagged to 260 companies, and every question has its own page and answer guide. Company pages collect them: Anthropic has 105 questions and OpenAI has 98, alongside Google (948) and Meta (757). Aced has fewer PM questions (2,040) but many more human answers per question, so this one depends on how you like to learn.
Resume review against a specific JD. JD resume review reads your resume against the posting you are applying to and tells you what is missing. One a day is free.
Pricing that works month to month and in India. $20 a month, or ₹1,200 a month and ₹8,400 a year in India. A 2026 thread on r/ProductManagement_IN opens with "I checked Exponent, but it is expensive from India" [10], and a 2025 thread put Exponent at about ₹12K a year when comparing it with a cheaper rival [13]. When we loaded Aced's pricing from an Indian connection, it showed USD prices.
What do PMs on Reddit say about Exponent?
The sentiment is split, and it has been for years. Supporters point to the mocks, the Slack and up-to-date loop guides. One 2024 commenter called it "one of the most up to date and useful PM resource out there" and credited it for their Google APM rounds [11]. Another said they met senior PMs through mocks who later referred them [12].
Critics mostly argue that the paywalled content is not much better than free material. A 2023 commenter wrote: "The youtube channel is helpful. The content behind paywall, not so much" [12]. The independent Interview Drills review repeats that criticism and adds that Aced's AI mocks do not cover coding or system design [8]. The Brand Hopper's review notes that the AI feedback "is still labelled beta, and score consistency may vary" [9], which matches Aced's own page [4].
The most useful pattern across these threads: nobody credits a subscription alone. Practice volume, with honest feedback, is what people say moved the needle. That applies to us too.
Who should choose Aced (Exponent)?
- You want to practice with humans. Peer mocks and coaches are the core of Aced, and we have neither.
- You are interviewing for more than one kind of role, such as PM and TPM, or PM and data science.
- You are aiming at classic big tech loops (Google, Meta, Amazon) and want many human answers per question and video walkthroughs from PMs who ran those loops.
- You value a community and referrals as much as the prep itself.
- You will commit for a year and do not need AI mocks, where Aced Pro at $144 a year is good value.
Who should choose allthingspm.app?
- You are targeting AI product roles at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Scale AI or Glean, and want prep built from their real job descriptions.
- You have a specific interview coming up and want to rehearse that exact role, not a generic question list.
- You want to learn the AI PM job itself (evals, agents, AI PRDs, AI economics), not only the interview.
- You are preparing for a few weeks, not a year, or paying in rupees.
- You want to start free and use one JD mock and one JD resume review a day before paying anything.
When should you use both?
For many candidates, the best setup is a mix, because the two products are strong in different places.
- The budget combo. Aced Basic is free and includes 5 peer mocks a month. Pair it with our free tier (one JD mock a day) or our $20 Pro. You get human practice and role-specific AI practice for $0 to $20 a month.
- The AI lab loop. Use our Anthropic and OpenAI question pages and the matching JD mocks for reps, then book one Aced coach session ($249) in the final week to get a human read on your delivery. Our Anthropic PM interview guide covers that loop in detail.
- The career switcher. Take the AI PM course to build real understanding of the work, and use Aced Pro's peer mocks and Slack to practice with people who are also in the market.
Whichever you choose, the habit that matters is the same: answer out loud, get scored, fix one thing, repeat. For more on the AI side of the loop, see AI PM interview questions, and for the classic case approach, the Decode and Conquer summary is a good refresher.
Frequently asked questions
Is allthingspm.app a good Exponent alternative?
It is a good alternative if you are preparing for AI PM roles, want mocks built from a specific job description, or want to pay month to month. It is not a replacement if you need peer mocks, human coaches or a community, which Aced has and allthingspm.app does not. We make allthingspm.app, so weigh that when you read this.
Is Aced the same as Exponent?
Yes. Exponent announced in August 2026 that it is rebranding to Aced. The website is still tryexponent.com, and the product includes the same courses, question bank, peer mocks and coaching, plus a new AI coach called Ace.
Does Aced have AI mock interviews?
Yes. Aced's AI mock interviews are audio sessions of 10 to 20 minutes on PM and behavioral questions, with a scored rubric afterwards. They are in the Expert plan ($99 a month, or $20 a month on the annual plan), and Aced labels the AI feedback as beta.
Which is cheaper, Aced or allthingspm.app?
On annual plans they are close: Aced Pro is $144 a year and allthingspm.app Pro is $120 a year, though Aced's AI mocks need the $240 a year Expert plan. Month to month, allthingspm.app is much cheaper at $20 against Aced's $79 or $99. Both have free tiers.
Does allthingspm.app have peer mock interviews or human coaches?
No. All mock interviews on allthingspm.app are with an AI interviewer that follows up and scores your answer. If you want to practice with other candidates or pay an experienced PM for feedback, Aced offers both.
Is Exponent (Aced) worth it for PM candidates in India?
It can be, especially the annual Pro plan if you will use the peer mocks and Slack. But Aced showed USD prices when we checked from India, and Indian candidates on Reddit often call it expensive. allthingspm.app charges ₹1,200 a month or ₹8,400 a year in India.
Can I use Aced and allthingspm.app together?
Yes, and many candidates should. A low-cost setup is Aced's free Basic plan for 5 peer mocks a month plus allthingspm.app for AI mocks built from your target job descriptions.
Sources
- Aced (formerly Exponent), "Membership and Pricing", checked 25 September 2026: https://www.tryexponent.com/upgrade
- Aced, "Exponent is becoming Aced": https://www.tryexponent.com/blog/exponent-is-becoming-aced
- Aced, "Product Management Interview Prep, 2026 Edition" course page: https://www.tryexponent.com/courses/pm
- Aced, "AI Mock Interviews" page and FAQ: https://www.tryexponent.com/practice/ai-mock-interviews
- Aced, "Practice mock interviews with peers and AI": https://www.tryexponent.com/practice
- Aced, "Product Manager Interview Questions": https://www.tryexponent.com/questions?role=pm
- Aced, PM coaching page and a coach profile with session prices: https://www.tryexponent.com/coaching?role=pm and https://www.tryexponent.com/coach/Lauren-Ward
- Interview Drills, "The Best AI Mock Interview Tools in 2026" (20 August 2026): https://interviewdrills.com/blog/best-ai-mock-interview-tools
- The Brand Hopper, "Best AI for Product Manager Interviews" (21 September 2026): https://thebrandhopper.com/learning-resources/best-ai-for-product-manager-interviews-which-ones-give-structure-not-a-script/
- r/ProductManagement_IN, "Is Exponent worth it for PM interview prep?" (June 2026): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement_IN/comments/1u9z4b2/is_exponent_worth_it_for_pm_interview_prep/
- r/ProductManagement, "Exponent Membership" (May 2024): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/1cou5ht/exponent_membership/
- r/ProductManagement, "Is Exponent any good?" (January 2023): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/108dkt7/is_exponent_any_good/
- r/ProductMgmt, "Choosing PM Interview Prep: tryexponent vs. productmanagementexercises.com?" (March 2025): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductMgmt/comments/1jlq9v7/need_advice_choosing_pm_interview_prep/
- allthingspm.app pricing, course, question bank and jobs catalog, checked 25 September 2026: https://www.allthingspm.app/pricing
