Comparison
Exampractice vs Boson
One certification at a time, $99 a year each, auto-renewing. Here is what each one covers, what each one costs, and why Exampractice is the better buy — with every Boson price taken from their own published pricing in September 2026.
| Exampractice | Boson | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue | 10,000+ exams from 1,000+ awarding bodies, 150,000,000+ questions | IT certifications, no all-access tier |
| Industries | IT, healthcare and nursing, aviation, finance, fire safety, the trades and academic admissions | IT certifications, no all-access tier |
| Free sample | Ten questions on every exam, no card and no account required | A free demo of each ExSim-Max product. |
| One exam | $19.99 for 30 days or $49.99 for a year — one-time, nothing renews | $99 a year, auto-renewing |
| Every exam | $39.99 a month or $199.99 a year, cancel anytime | Not offered — every certification is bought separately |
Why choose Exampractice
10,000+ exams under one plan
Boson covers IT certifications, no all-access tier. Exampractice spans 1,000+ awarding bodies — Cisco and AWS next to NCLEX, the FAA knowledge tests, FINRA series exams, NFPA fire-safety credentials and ASE trade tests. One account covers a career, not one certification.
Ten free questions on every exam
No card, no account, no trial to remember to cancel. Open any of the 10,000+ exams and read real questions before you decide.
Answers checked, not crowd-voted
Every answer is verified by our team and corrected weekly. Where a question is genuinely contested we say so, rather than leaving you to work it out from an argument in the comments.
One exam without a subscription
$19.99 for 30 days or $49.99 for a year, paid once. Access ends by itself — there is nothing to cancel and nothing renews behind your back.
Switch exams whenever you like
Full access is $39.99 a month or $199.99 a year and opens the whole catalogue. Pass one certification, start the next the same afternoon at no extra cost.
Your progress is kept
Scores and study plans survive a lapse. Come back months later and pick up exactly where you stopped rather than starting the exam again.
Pricing side by side
Exampractice
- One exam · 30 daysone-time payment$19.99
- One exam · 1 yearone-time payment$49.99
- Every exam · monthlysubscription, cancel anytime$39.99
- Every exam · yearlysubscription, cancel anytime$199.99
Boson
- ExSim-Max, one certification1-year subscription, auto-renewing$99
- Coursewareper year$129
- NetSim network simulatorper year; $59 for 3 months$179
- All-accessevery product is bought per certificationNot offered
What Boson leaves out
Boson sells practice exams for individual IT certifications at $99 a year each, renewing automatically until you stop it. There is no all-access option, so a second certification is another $99 and a third is another $99 after that.
- No all-access tier exists. Every certification is bought separately at $99 a year.
- Those $99 subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.
- IT certifications only.
Exampractice instead
10,000+ exams across 1,000+ awarding bodies, ten free questions on every one of them, and the whole catalogue for $39.99 a month. One plan, every industry, nothing to cancel on the single-exam option.
Common questions
- Is Exampractice cheaper than Boson?
- Considerably, and it scales. Boson charges $99 a year for one certification and has no all-access tier, so three certifications cost $297 a year. Exampractice opens all 10,000+ exams for $199.99 a year — a third of the price for thousands of times the catalogue.
- Does Boson renew automatically?
- Yes. ExSim-Max is an auto-renewing yearly subscription per certification, so it keeps charging until you stop it. Exampractice single-exam plans are a one-time payment — $19.99 for 30 days or $49.99 for a year — that end on their own with nothing to cancel.
- Can I try Boson and Exampractice before paying?
- Boson offers a limited demo of each product. Exampractice opens every exam in the catalogue with ten free questions, so you can read real content from any of the 10,000+ exams without a card or an account.
Read ten questions from any exam, free
No card and no account. Open any of the 10,000+ exams and judge the questions yourself before you decide between us.
Thinking of leaving Boson?
If you have already made up your mind and just want to know what to move to, the Boson alternative page is the shorter version of this one.