Short answer: if you want the most interview practice for your money, start with AllthingsPM: AI mock interviews built from any job description, 4,122 real questions from 260 companies with an answer guide on each, and an AI PM course, for $20 a month or $120 a year with a free tier. Of the three famous names, Product Alliance is known for company-specific video content at one FAANG company ($379 per course, $429 for all 11 on sale, no refunds), Aced (the new name for Exponent) for peer mocks and human coaches ($144 to $240 a year billed yearly), and PM Exercises for a large community question bank ($149 a year).
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AllthingsPM vs Product Alliance vs Exponent vs PM Exercises at a glance
| AllthingsPM | Product Alliance | Aced (formerly Exponent) | PM Exercises | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Daily scored practice for your exact JD, AI PM roles | Company-specific FAANG content | Peer mocks, human coaches | Community question bank, AI PM certificate |
| Free option | Free tier: 1 JD mock and 1 JD resume review a day, first course lessons | Sample videos | 5 peer mocks a month | 30+ questions, about 2 hours of course |
| Paid price | $20/month or $120/year (INR 1,200/month, 8,400/year) | $379 per course, $429 for all 11 (sale) | Pro $12/month billed yearly ($144); Expert $20/month billed yearly ($240) | $149/year; $499/year with AI PM |
| PM questions | 4,122 from 260 companies, each with an answer guide | "800+ asked this month across 50 companies" | 2,040 with community answers | 3,185 across 230 companies |
| AI mock interviewer | Yes, text or voice, built from any JD, scored | No | Expert plan only (voice, beta) | Not found |
| Peer mocks | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Human coaching | No | No | From $249 a session | Yes, rates not public |
| AI PM course | 14 chapters, 101 lessons from 604 real PM job postings | Not confirmed | AI topics inside the PM course | Yes, with certificate ($399/year) |
| Live AI PM jobs with a mock | 116 JDs at 18 AI companies | No | No | No |
| Refunds | Free tier to try first; see pricing | None | Full refund within 5 days | 7-day money-back guarantee |
Competitor prices checked September 26, 2026 on each company's live site. Product Alliance shows its $429 bundle under a "Today Only" countdown that appeared on earlier days too.
Why AllthingsPM comes first
The advice that recurs across every thread we read is some version of this Levels.fyi reply: "Mock like crazy and use product alliance to polish your answers." Practice is the thing that moves the outcome, so we rank on practice per dollar. Watching a strong answer and giving one under follow-up pressure are different skills, and only the second one is tested on the day.
- Mocks from your real job description. Paste any JD into a JD mock and the AI interviewer asks the questions that role implies, follows up, and scores you, by text or voice. 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.
- Every question has a page and an answer guide. Our question bank holds 4,122 reported questions from 260 companies, with a hub per company: Google (948), Meta (757), Amazon (274).
- Built for AI PM roles. The AI PM course has 14 chapters, 101 lessons and 14 graded case studies built from 604 real PM job postings and updated weekly. The jobs catalog lists 116 live PM roles at 18 AI companies, each with its own mock.
- Everything else in one place. Resume review against a JD, Resume Job Match, 111 book summaries, podcast summaries and 455 PM portfolios.
- Price. $120 a year is less than a third of one Product Alliance course and half of Aced Expert, the Aced plan that includes AI mocks.
What we do not have: human coaches, peer-to-peer mocks and FAANG-taught company video courses. For most candidates the gap that decides the offer is reps, not videos, and reps are what we are built for.
How much does each cost in 2026?
AllthingsPM has a free tier, then $20 a month or $120 a year (INR 1,200 a month or 8,400 a year).
Product Alliance charges $379 for any single course; all 11 cost $429 on the September 2026 sale price, against a $999 list price. It is one-time with lifetime access. Its FAQ says it does not offer refunds; it posts full-length sample videos instead.
Aced has a free Basic plan, Pro at $79 a month or $144 a year, and Expert at $99 a month or $240 a year, which adds AI mock interviews and an AI coach. Coaching is extra, from $249 a session.
PM Exercises sells Interview Prep at $149 a year (₹9,995 in India), Become an AI-native PM at $399, both for $499, and a question-bank-only Lite plan at $139 once. It is the only one of the three that showed rupee prices when we checked; our Exponent vs PM Exercises comparison covers India pricing in detail.
Here is the math most candidates care about. A typical search runs a few months. Two months of AllthingsPM Pro on the monthly plan is $40. Two months of Aced Pro on its monthly plan is $158, and that plan does not include the AI interviewer. One Product Alliance course is $379 before you have done a single mock. For a full year of AI mock interviews, AllthingsPM ($120) costs half of Aced Expert ($240), and neither Product Alliance nor PM Exercises offers an AI interviewer we could find.
How AllthingsPM does this: you do not have to decide on price blind. Start on the free tier, run one JD mock and one JD resume review a day, and upgrade on the pricing page only when you want unlimited reps. There is nothing to refund because there is nothing to pay up front.
Which has the best content for Google, Meta and Amazon?
For long-form company video content, Product Alliance is the known name. Each flagship course (Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, TikTok) runs 12 to 17 hours, and the December 2024 Levels.fyi poll went Product Alliance 18 votes (69%), Exponent 5 (19%), PM Exercises 3 (12%). One reply in that thread set the limit:
"If you are interviewing at one of the FAANGs that Product Alliance has a dedicated course for, it's a worthwhile investment. If you are interviewing for a company without a dedicated PA course, you can probably get 75% of the way there just watching free Exponent videos on YouTube."
Twenty-six votes is a signal, not evidence, and a 2025 r/ProductManagement thread on whether Product Alliance was worth it drew replies like "don't believe the shills." Watch its free samples before paying $379 you cannot get back.
The deeper point: 12 to 17 hours of video tells you what a good answer sounds like. It does not tell you whether your answer holds up when the interviewer asks "why that segment?" or "what would you cut?".
How AllthingsPM does this: open the free company hub for your target, for example Google with 948 reported questions or Meta with 757, read the answer guide on the questions that keep coming up, then answer them out loud in a scored mock. That covers 260 companies, not seven, and it is free to start.
Which helps you practice the most?
- AllthingsPM: AI mocks on any question or any JD, any time, scored with follow-ups, on the $120 a year plan and free once a day.
- Aced: daily peer mocks (5 a month free, unlimited on Pro); its AI interviewer needs the $240 Expert plan, and one senior PM on r/FAANGrecruiting in 2026 called it "decent but only 20 mins long." Peer mocks with a real person are Aced's genuine strength.
- PM Exercises: peer mocks and group practice in Interview Prep; no AI interviewer found.
- Product Alliance: no mock product; finding partners is on you.
Peer mocks depend on scheduling another candidate, and the quality of feedback depends on who you get. An AI interviewer is there at 11pm the night before your loop and asks the same hard follow-up every time you dodge it.
How AllthingsPM does this: every mock in Prep is scored against the round type, product sense, execution, strategy or behavioral, and the AI interviewer follows up on weak spots instead of moving on. Switch between typing and speaking in the same session, so you can draft on the train and rehearse out loud at home.
Which has the best question bank?
AllthingsPM has the largest of the four: 4,122 questions from 260 companies, each on its own page with an answer guide. PM Exercises lists 3,185 across 230 companies with mostly community answers, and a January 2025 subscriber complained of writing long answers with no instant feedback. Aced lists 2,040 with community answers; in a 2025 r/ProductManagement thread one reply called Aced "better for the material" and PM Exercises material "subpar." Product Alliance does not sell a browsable bank.
How AllthingsPM does this: each of the 4,122 questions is a page you can open, read the answer guide for, and practice in one click. Filter by company in the question bank, and when you find a question you would fumble, send it straight into a mock rather than reading ten community answers of mixed quality.
Which is best for AI product manager interviews?
AllthingsPM is the one built for it: a course from 604 real PM postings, 116 live AI-company JDs each with a mock, and our AI PM interview questions guide and State of AI PM Hiring 2026 report. PM Exercises offers AI PM certificates (its bank had 42 AI questions when checked), and Aced's 2026 PM course covers evals and AI fluency. A certificate will not carry an AI PM loop; judgment on evals, agents and model tradeoffs under follow-up questions will.
How AllthingsPM does this: pick a live role in the jobs catalog, take the matching lessons in the AI PM course (evals, agents, model tradeoffs, AI metrics), then run the mock built from that exact JD. Before you apply, run a resume review against the same JD so your resume and your interview answers tell one story.
A 7-day plan you can run on AllthingsPM today
- Day 1: paste the JD for your target role into a free JD mock. Note which round scored lowest.
- Day 2: open your target company hub in the question bank and read the answer guides for the five most relevant questions.
- Day 3: answer two of those questions out loud in Prep and compare your score with Day 1.
- Day 4: run a resume review against the JD and fix the gaps it flags.
- Day 5: for AI roles, take the matching AI PM course lessons; for other roles, drill your weakest round.
- Day 6: repeat the JD mock by voice, under time.
- Day 7: read one relevant book summary and do a final mock.
All seven days fit inside the free tier's daily JD mock plus free questions. Upgrade only if you want more reps per day.
Verdict
| Your situation | Pick |
|---|---|
| Most practice per dollar, any company | AllthingsPM ($120/year, free tier) |
| AI PM role | AllthingsPM (course, AI-company JDs, JD mocks) |
| Paying in rupees | AllthingsPM (INR 8,400/year) |
| Loop at a Product Alliance flagship company | AllthingsPM for reps on that company's reported questions |
| You want a live human partner | AllthingsPM daily, plus a friend or peer for a final run |
| Senior loop needing a coach | AllthingsPM for reps, plus a paid coach |
Why AllthingsPM is the better choice for Product Alliance vs Exponent
The question behind "Product Alliance or Exponent" is really "what gets me the offer?". The threads agree: mocks. AllthingsPM is built around that answer. You get scored AI mocks built from your own job description, a bank of 4,122 real questions from 260 companies with an answer guide on each, an AI PM course made from 604 real PM job postings, 116 live AI-company roles with a mock each, and resume review against the same JD. It costs $120 a year, or nothing to start.
The rivals have real strengths, and we will say them plainly. Product Alliance has long FAANG-taught video courses for seven companies, but no mocks and no refunds at $379 a course. Aced has peer mocks and human coaches, but its AI interviewer sits on the $240 a year Expert plan. PM Exercises has a large community bank and rupee pricing, but no AI interviewer we could find.
None of them gives you daily, scored practice on the exact role you are interviewing for, at this price, with a free tier. That is why we recommend AllthingsPM as the base for almost every candidate. For head-to-heads, see AllthingsPM vs Exponent and AllthingsPM vs PM Exercises, or skip the reading and start a free JD mock.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best choice: Product Alliance, Exponent or PM Exercises?
AllthingsPM is the best choice for most candidates, because it combines JD-based AI mocks, 4,122 questions with answer guides and an AI PM course for $120 a year, with a free tier. Among the three, Product Alliance is known for FAANG company videos, Aced (Exponent) for peer mocks and coaches, and PM Exercises for a community question bank.
Which is the cheapest?
AllthingsPM has a free tier and costs $120 a year. Aced Pro is $144 a year, PM Exercises Interview Prep $149 a year, and Product Alliance $379 per course, one-time. Competitor prices checked September 26, 2026.
Do any of them offer refunds?
Aced offers a full refund within 5 days and PM Exercises a 7-day money-back guarantee. Product Alliance does not offer refunds. AllthingsPM has a free tier so you can try before paying.
Is Exponent the same as Aced?
Yes. Exponent announced in 2026 that it is becoming Aced. The site is still tryexponent.com.
Is Product Alliance worth it if I am not interviewing at FAANG?
Probably not. Its advantage is flagship courses for seven companies. For others, a question bank covering 260 companies plus mocks on those questions gets you further for less. AllthingsPM gives you both, free to start.
Your next step takes five minutes: open AllthingsPM, paste the job description you care about, and run your first scored mock free. You will know by tonight which round needs work, before you spend a dollar anywhere.
Sources
- Product Alliance, home page (course list, hours, self-reported member and compensation figures), checked September 26, 2026
- Product Alliance, FAQ and pricing (instructors, refunds, 85 mock videos, 300+ pages, $379 and $429 prices), checked September 26, 2026
- Aced (formerly Exponent), Membership and Pricing (plans, prices, refund policy), checked September 26, 2026
- Aced, Product Management Interview Prep, 2026 edition (44 videos, 23 hours, updated September 2026)
- Aced, "Exponent is becoming Aced", 2026
- Aced, Product Manager interview questions
- Levels.fyi Community, "PA vs Exponent vs PM Exercises", December 2024 (poll and comments)
- Levels.fyi Community, "Product alliance vs Exponent vs Product Management Exercises", May 2024
- r/ProductManagement, "Is product alliance worth the money?", 2025
- r/ProductManagement, "Is there anyone who can strongly recommend Product Alliance... and can also provide proof?", 2021
- AllthingsPM question bank, Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple company pages, question counts as of September 26, 2026
- AllthingsPM pricing
