Exponent vs PM Exercises (2026): Pricing, Features, and Who Each Is For

Short answer: if you are choosing between Exponent (now called Aced) and Product Management Exercises, the better buy for most PM candidates in 2026 is AllthingsPM: an AI PM course built from 604 real PM job postings, AI mock interviews built from any job description, and 4,122 real questions from 260 companies with an answer guide on every one, for $108 a year with a free tier. Between the two you asked about, Aced wins on human peer mocks and PM Exercises on AI PM certificates, but neither gives you scored AI practice at our price.

Every competitor price and feature below was checked on their live pages in September 2026 and is sourced; Aced's annual prices were updated in November 2026 from a third-party pricing guide [22], and tryexponent.com now redirects to aced.io.

AllthingsPM vs Exponent vs PM Exercises at a glance

Competitor prices checked September 2026 on each company's live pricing page; Aced annual prices updated November 2026 [22].

How much do they cost in 2026?

AllthingsPM has one paid plan: $12 a month or $108 a year (₹1,200 a month or ₹8,400 a year in India), plus a free tier with 1 JD mock a day. Everything, including the AI mock interviewer, the course and every answer guide, is in that one plan, so there is no second tier to unlock the feature that matters most.

Aced has a free Basic plan, Pro at $79 a month or $149 a year (courses, solutions, company guides, unlimited peer mocks, Slack, referrals), and Expert at $99 a month or $249 a year, which adds AI mock interviews, AI feedback and its AI coach. Full refund within 5 days.

PM Exercises sells Interview Prep at $149 a year (question bank, course, recorded expert mocks, peer practice, 150+ company practice plans, Slack), Become an AI-native PM at $399 a year, a bundle of both at $499 a year, and Lite at $139 once for the questions only. 7-day money-back guarantee.

The comparison that matters is price per AI mock. To get an AI mock interviewer on Aced you need Expert ($249 a year); PM Exercises does not list one. On AllthingsPM it is in the $108 plan, less than half Aced's Expert price, and you can try it free before paying anything.

How AllthingsPM does this: one plan, no tiers, a free JD mock every day. Compare it line by line on our pricing page; if you only need a few weeks of prep, a single $12 month covers the full product.

What do they cost in India?

Indian buyers drive most Reddit threads on this; a 2025 r/ProductMgmt post put Exponent at about ₹12K a year and PM Exercises at ₹9K, adding that "even ₹9K is a stretch." In September 2026:

• AllthingsPM: ₹8,400 a year or ₹1,200 a month, priced in rupees. The lowest of the three.
• PM Exercises: Interview Prep ₹9,995 a year, AI-native PM ₹36,995, bundle ₹49,000 (more than the two bought separately, ₹46,990), Lite ₹8,995 one-time.
• Aced: showed US dollar prices when we loaded it from India, so your bank may add a foreign-exchange fee.

For Indian candidates the math is simple: AllthingsPM costs less than PM Exercises Lite, which is only the question bank, and it includes AI mocks, the course and every answer guide.

Which has the better question bank?

AllthingsPM has the largest bank of the three and the only one with a written answer guide on every question. Our question bank has 4,122 real questions from 260 companies, each on its own page, with a hub per company such as the Google PM questions and Meta PM questions.

PM Exercises listed 3,185 PM questions across 230 companies (September 22, 2026), led by Google (955) and Meta (753), with mostly community answers plus 100+ expert answers. Aced listed 2,040 PM questions with community answers and says members get 350+ hours of expert video answers.

On quality, a January 2025 PM Exercises subscriber complained of writing long answers with no instant feedback, and a 2025 r/ProductManagement reply called its material "subpar" next to Exponent's. Instant scored feedback on your own answer is exactly what our AI mock gives you, on every question.

How AllthingsPM does this: open any question, read its answer guide to see what a strong answer covers, then turn it into a scored AI mock in one click from Prep. You get the reference answer and feedback on your own answer, which is the loop that community answers alone cannot close.

A worked example

Say you have a Google loop in two weeks. On AllthingsPM:

1. Open the Google PM questions hub and filter to product sense and strategy.
2. Pick five questions. Read each answer guide once, noting the structure, not the words.
3. Answer each one in a voice mock. The interviewer pushes back with follow-ups, then scores you.
4. Redo your two lowest-scoring questions the next day and compare scores.

That is roughly an hour a day of the practice real candidates say actually moves the needle.

Which course is better?

For AI PM roles, AllthingsPM's course. Our AI PM course was built from 604 real PM job postings: 14 chapters, 103 lessons and 14 graded case studies, updated weekly, with the first lessons free and a full chapter on evals. It teaches what AI companies are hiring for right now, not a generic PM loop.

Aced's 2026 PM course (44 videos, 23 hours, rated 4.8/5 by 58,100+ students per its page) is well produced and now includes lessons on evals and AI technical fluency. PM Exercises' course, taught by founder Bijan Shahrokhi, is described as 100+ hours of frameworks by question type.

The recurring criticism of both is that much of the value is free on YouTube: one levels.fyi PM said free Exponent videos get you "75% of the way there," and a Blind buyer said most PM Exercises paid videos were already on its free channel. Watching more video is not what gets offers; practicing is.

How AllthingsPM does this: every chapter ends in a graded case study, so the course itself makes you produce answers, not just watch. Start with the free lessons, then move straight into mocks on the same topics.

Where can you actually practice?

Nearly every thread ends with the same advice: practice out loud, a lot. This is where AllthingsPM pulls furthest ahead.

AllthingsPM gives you an AI interviewer any time, by text or voice, that asks follow-ups and scores your answer. Our JD mock turns any pasted job description into a mock for that exact role. Only 4 tools we found do JD-based mocks, and we are the only one that also has a course, a question bank and live JDs. Our jobs catalog has 116 live PM roles at 18 AI companies, each with a mock built from it, such as Product Manager, Growth at Anthropic, and you can review your resume against a JD before you apply.

Aced has the strongest human practice: daily scheduled peer mocks (5 a month free, unlimited on Pro), an AI mock interviewer on Expert (a 2026 r/FAANGrecruiting user called it "decent but only 20 mins long"), and coaching from $249 a session. If you want a human across the table, that is its edge; for daily scored reps at less than half the price of Expert, AllthingsPM is the better tool.

PM Exercises includes peer mock practice, group practice and a weekly live Q&A, plus private coaches whose rates are not public. We found no AI mock interviewer on the site.

How AllthingsPM does this: no scheduling, no waiting for a partner, no second plan. Paste a JD at midnight and you are in a mock tailored to that role in under a minute. For more options, see the best PM mock interview platforms and AI mock interview tools for product managers.

Which is better for AI product manager roles?

AllthingsPM, because everything in it is built for AI PM loops: the course comes from real AI PM postings, the jobs are at AI companies, and each has a mock built from its own JD.

PM Exercises runs a 5-week live AI PM cohort and self-paced AI courses with LinkedIn-shareable certificates on its $399 plan; reviews range from positive on Product Hunt to a 2023 Reddit reply calling an earlier version "a bad time investment." Aced has no AI PM certificate but covers AI rounds in its course and has Anthropic and OpenAI company guides.

A certificate will not get you through an AI PM loop. What AI companies test is judgment on evals, agent failure modes and model tradeoffs, covered in our AI PM interview questions guide.

How AllthingsPM does this: read the evals chapter, then pick a live role in the jobs catalog and run its mock. You practice the exact tradeoffs that team will ask about, for $108 a year instead of $399.

A 7-day plan you can run on AllthingsPM today

• Day 1: Create a free account. Paste the JD of your top target role into the JD mock and take a baseline score.
• Day 2: Run the same JD through resume review and fix the gaps it flags.
• Day 3: Do the free course lessons, then the Designing Evals for AI Products chapter if the role is AI-facing.
• Days 4 to 6: Five questions a day from your target company's hub in the question bank, each followed by a mock.
• Day 7: Rerun the Day 1 JD mock and compare your score.

If the score moved, you have your answer on which tool to pay for.

Verdict

Why AllthingsPM is the better choice for Exponent vs PM Exercises shoppers

If you came here deciding between Aced and PM Exercises, you are really deciding how to spend roughly $150 a year on getting an offer. AllthingsPM spends $108 of it better.

Also new this month: the PM Case Studies library, 536 cases from companies like Notion, Netflix and Intercom. Read any brief free, then get your answer graded with quotes from your own writing and rewrites of your weakest lines.

You get the largest question bank of the three (4,122 vs 3,185 and 2,040), with an answer guide on every question rather than community answers. You get an AI mock interviewer in the base plan, which Aced charges $249 a year for and PM Exercises does not list. You get mocks built from the exact job description you are applying to, plus 116 live AI-company roles with mocks ready to go, resume review against a JD, and an AI PM course derived from 604 real postings. Around it sit our book summaries, podcast summaries and PM portfolios, all in the same account.

To be fair to both: Aced has the best human peer-mock community, and PM Exercises sells a certificate if that matters to your employer. But peer mocks depend on someone else's schedule, and certificates do not get tested in loops. Scored, role-specific practice does, and that is the thing AllthingsPM gives you most of per dollar.

Verdict: for most PM candidates, and especially anyone aiming at AI PM roles, AllthingsPM is the better choice. See our plans or read the one-on-one AllthingsPM vs Exponent comparison and more Exponent alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

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You do not need to pick a $150 subscription on faith. Open AllthingsPM, paste the job description you care about most, and take a free JD mock right now. In ten minutes you will have a score, specific feedback and a clear next step, and you will know whether $12 a month is the best money you spend on your search.

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