AllthingsPM vs Aced (Exponent): Which PM Interview Prep Fits You in 2026

The short answer: for most PM candidates in 2026, and especially anyone targeting AI product roles, AllthingsPM is the better choice. It builds mock interviews from the exact job description you are applying to, pairs them with a 103-lesson AI PM course and 4,122 real questions, and costs $12 a month against $79 or $99 a month at Aced (formerly Exponent). Aced is the pick only if human coaches or peer mocks are what you need most.

Aced is the new name of Exponent, the company behind tryexponent.com, announced in August 2026 [2]. tryexponent.com now redirects to aced.io.

Feature comparison: AllthingsPM vs Aced

Features checked on each product's public pages, 25 September 2026.

How AllthingsPM does this. We built the product around one idea: rehearse the role you are actually interviewing for. Paste the posting into our JD mock, practise the matching questions in the question bank, and learn the AI product skills that role expects in the AI PM course, all in one $12 plan.

How much does Aced cost compared with AllthingsPM?

Prices checked 25 September 2026 on the live pricing pages [1][7][14]. List prices before promotions.

What that means in practice:

1. AllthingsPM is cheaper on every paid plan. Even Aced's cheapest paid option, Pro annual at $149, costs more than our $108 a year, and it has no AI mocks.
2. AI mocks cost half as much or less. Aced puts them in Expert ($249 a year or $99 a month). Ours are in the $108 a year or $12 a month plan.
3. Short prep windows favour us heavily. Most people prepare in a four to eight week burst. Aced labels its $79 monthly Pro plan "crunch time" [1], and one independent review noted that "the pricing asymmetry pushes short-timeline users into the expensive monthly plan" [8]. Two months with us costs $24.

How AllthingsPM does this. Our free tier is a real starting point, not a trial: one JD mock and one JD resume review a day, Resume Job Match and the full question bank. When you want unlimited mocks and the whole course, Pro is $12 a month, comes with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel after your loop.

What AllthingsPM gives you that Aced does not

Mocks 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, asks follow-ups on the weak parts of your answer, and scores you on the competencies that role weighs. Only four tools we found do JD-based mocks at all, and AllthingsPM is the only one that also has a course, a question bank and live JDs. If you are interviewing for a Safeguards PM role at Anthropic, rehearsing that role beats a generic question list.

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. Not sure which roles fit? Resume Job Match finds them from your resume.

A course for the AI PM job, not only the interview. The AI PM course has 14 chapters, 103 lessons and 14 graded case studies, built backwards from 604 real PM job postings and updated every week. Chapters like Designing Evals for AI Products and Designing AI Agents and Tooling teach the work itself, and Interviewing for AI PM Roles covers the interview loop. Aced's 2026 course does now cover AI product sense and evals rounds [3]; ours goes further by teaching the job you will do after the offer. Chapter 1 is free, including its graded assignment.

Twice the questions, each with an answer guide. The question bank holds 4,122 real PM interview questions from 260 companies, every one with its own page and answer guide, and a page per company: Anthropic has 105 questions and OpenAI has 98. Aced lists 2,040 PM questions [6]; its strength is community answers, while ours is a guide on every single question.

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.

Everything in one place. The same $12 plan includes 111 book summaries, podcast summaries and 3,176 PM portfolios, so you are not paying for three separate tools.

Pricing that works month to month and in India. ₹1,200 a month or ₹8,400 a year. 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 [13].

Where Aced is stronger

To be fair, Aced has real strengths we do not match. It runs scheduled peer mocks (28 upcoming PM sessions in the week we checked) and lists 100+ human coaches at $249 an hour [5][7]. It covers engineering, data and design roles as well as PM, has a Slack community of "tens of thousands" of members [1], and has eight years of track record and over 1 million candidates [2]. We are new and have no public reviews yet.

None of that has to be either or: Aced Basic is free with 5 peer mocks a month [1]. Pair it with AllthingsPM for daily, role-specific AI practice, and you get human reps plus JD mocks for $0 to $12 a month, which is still less than a single month of Aced Pro.

How AllthingsPM does this. Human reps are only useful if you walk in prepared. We give you the daily volume in between: a scored JD mock every morning, the matching company question page at lunch, and one course lesson at night.

A worked example: two weeks to an AI PM onsite on AllthingsPM

Say you have an onsite for a Product Manager, Growth role at Anthropic in 14 days. Here is how the prep looks on AllthingsPM, using only features in the $12 plan (much of it on the free tier).

1. Day 1: read the role, then rehearse it. Open the role in the jobs catalog or paste the posting into the JD mock. Run one full mock cold. The score breakdown tells you which competencies the role weighs and where you are weakest.
2. Day 1: fix the resume against the JD. Run JD resume review on the same posting. It lists what the role asks for that your resume does not show, so your stories and your resume line up before the recruiter screen.
3. Days 2 to 5: close the knowledge gaps. If the mock exposed thin answers on evals or agents, take the matching chapters of the AI PM course, for example Designing Evals for AI Products. Each chapter has a graded case study, so you practise the reasoning, not only read about it.
4. Days 6 to 10: volume on real questions. Work through the Anthropic company page in the question bank (105 questions), reading the answer guide after you draft your own answer. Mix in one JD mock a day.
5. Days 11 to 13: full loops. Run a JD mock every day in voice mode, the closest thing to the real room, and compare scores against day 1.
6. Day 14: rest and review. Reread your weakest two answer guides and your notes from the mocks.

Cost of that fortnight: $12, or $0 if one JD mock and one resume review a day is enough for you. The same plan on Aced with AI mocks means the $99 Expert month, and the mocks would run on an automatically assigned question rather than the Anthropic role [4].

A quick checklist before you pick either tool

• Do you have a specific job description? If yes, a JD mock is worth more than a generic question.
• Are you targeting AI product roles? Then you need evals, agents and AI product sense, which the AI PM course teaches.
• Is your prep window under three months? Then monthly price matters more than annual price.
• Do you pay in rupees? Our India pricing is ₹1,200 a month.
• Do you specifically need a human to interview you? That is the one case to add Aced's free peer mocks or a paid coach.

What do PMs on Reddit say about Exponent?

Supporters point to the mocks, the Slack and up-to-date loop guides; one 2024 commenter credited it for their Google APM rounds [11]. Critics mostly say 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 Brand Hopper's review notes Aced's AI feedback "is still labelled beta, and score consistency may vary" [9], which matches Aced's own page [4].

The common thread: nobody credits a subscription alone. Practice volume with honest feedback is what moves the needle, which is exactly what unlimited, scored JD mocks at $12 a month are built for.

How AllthingsPM does this. Every question in our bank has an answer guide, so nothing useful sits behind a vague paywall, and every mock gives you a competency score you can track day to day. Start with a free mock today and judge the feedback yourself.

Verdict

Choose AllthingsPM if you are targeting AI product roles, have a specific interview coming up, are preparing for weeks rather than a year, or pay in rupees. You get JD-based mocks, a full AI PM course, 4,122 questions with answer guides, live AI roles and JD resume review for $12 a month or $108 a year, less than any paid Aced plan. Add Aced's free Basic plan or a single coach session only if you want human practice on top.

For more on the AI side of the loop, see AI PM interview questions and our Anthropic PM interview guide. For the wider field, see our ranked guide to PM mock interview platforms and Exponent alternatives.

Next step: you do not need a card to find out whether this works for you. Start a free JD mock with the job description you are applying to today, see your score by competency, and decide from there. If you like it, the full course, unlimited mocks and every answer guide are $12 a month.

Why AllthingsPM is the better choice for PM interview prep

The decision comes down to what actually gets you the offer: repeated, honest practice on the role you are interviewing for, plus the knowledge to answer AI product questions well. AllthingsPM is built around exactly that.

• Role-specific practice. Every mock can be built from the job description you paste, and all 116 live AI company roles in our catalog come with a mock of their own. Aced's AI mock page describes an automatically assigned question [4].
• AI mocks at about an eighth of the monthly price. $12 a month with us, $99 a month for Aced Expert [1].
• A course for the job after the offer. 14 chapters, 103 lessons and 14 graded case studies built from 604 real postings, updated weekly.
• An answer guide on every question. 4,122 questions from 260 companies, each with its own page.
• One subscription instead of several. Resume review against a JD, Resume Job Match, 111 book summaries, podcast summaries and 3,176 PM portfolios are included.
• New: 530+ PM case studies to solve. PM Case Studies has 536 cases set at real companies such as Stripe, Duolingo and OpenAI. Every brief is free to read, and Pro grades your answer line by line against a weighted rubric.

Aced's genuine strength is people: 100+ human coaches and scheduled peer mocks [1][7]. If that matters to you, use its free Basic plan for peer reps. For everything else, and for the daily volume that actually moves scores, AllthingsPM gives you more for less.

Verdict: start with AllthingsPM. Run a free JD mock now with the posting you care about most.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. Aced (formerly Exponent), "Membership and Pricing": https://www.aced.io/upgrade (tryexponent.com/upgrade redirects here); annual prices per PracHub's Exponent pricing summary, checked October 2026: https://prachub.com/resources/exponent-pricing
2. Aced, "Exponent is becoming Aced": https://www.tryexponent.com/blog/exponent-is-becoming-aced
3. Aced, "Product Management Interview Prep, 2026 Edition" course page: https://www.tryexponent.com/courses/pm
4. Aced, "AI Mock Interviews" page and FAQ: https://www.tryexponent.com/practice/ai-mock-interviews
5. Aced, "Practice mock interviews with peers and AI": https://www.tryexponent.com/practice
6. Aced, "Product Manager Interview Questions": https://www.tryexponent.com/questions?role=pm
7. Aced, PM coaching page and a coach profile with session prices: https://www.aced.io/coaching?role=pm and https://www.tryexponent.com/coach/Lauren-Ward
8. Interview Drills, "The Best AI Mock Interview Tools in 2026" (20 August 2026): https://interviewdrills.com/blog/best-ai-mock-interview-tools
9. 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/
10. 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/
11. r/ProductManagement, "Exponent Membership" (May 2024): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/1cou5ht/exponent_membership/
12. r/ProductManagement, "Is Exponent any good?" (January 2023): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/comments/108dkt7/is_exponent_any_good/
13. 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/
14. AllthingsPM pricing, course, question bank and jobs catalog, checked 25 September 2026: https://www.allthingspm.app/pricing