Exponent alternatives for PM interview prep (2026)
What Exponent, now called Aced, includes and costs, and the other ways to prepare for PM interviews, by situation. Written by Soreno, one of the options.
Exponent is now called Aced (aced.io, formerly Exponent). It sells courses, a question database, peer mocks and coaching, with a free plan and Pro at $79 a month. Common alternatives are StellarPeers and free peer mocks for live practice, RocketBlocks or Product Alliance for courses, IGotAnOffer for coaches and Soreno for AI mock interviews.
Soreno is a voice AI interviewer for PM questions: it asks the question out loud, follows up on your answer and scores it out of 100 with the lines to change. See Soreno for PM interviews.
Facts and prices checked on each provider's own page, October 24, 2026.
What is Exponenttoday?
Everything here comes from Aced's own pages.
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Courses, peer mocks and coaching
Aced (formerly Exponent)
Name
Aced, formerly Exponent. tryexponent.com redirects to aced.io. Pramp, the peer mock site, is now part of Aced as well.
What it sells
Interview courses for product management and many other tech roles, a question database with video and written answers, company guides, real interview experiences, peer mocks and 1:1 coaching.
Free plan
Basic: sample lessons, sample questions and 5 peer mocks a month.
Pro
$79 a month, or $12 a month billed annually. All courses, unlimited peer mocks, the full question database and its Discord community.
Expert
$99 a month, or $20 a month billed annually. Everything in Pro plus AI mock interviews, AI interview feedback and an AI coach chat.
Peer mocks
Live one-on-one video sessions where you take turns as interviewer and candidate. PM sessions run about four times a day.
Coaching
60-minute sessions with vetted coaches, bought separately from the membership. Unused sessions can be refunded within six months.
Facts come from each provider's own page. Where a page did not say something, we say so.
AI interviewer, voice
Soreno
Voice AI mock interviews for PM questions, scored out of 100
What Soreno does
You answer PM questions out loud. The AI interviewer asks follow-ups on your users, trade-offs and metrics, the way a PM interviewer would.
160+ PM questions across product sense, product design, AI product, metrics, execution, strategy, estimation and behavioral, plus Google-, Meta- and Amazon-style sets, each with a model answer.
Every mock gets a score out of 100 for structure, content and communication, with your own words quoted and what to say instead.
Recorded sessions get filler-word and eye-contact notes, and every session is saved with its recording, transcript and feedback.
A real-time voice interview in your browser, any time, day or night, with no one to schedule. Mocks are unlimited on every paid plan, and the free week includes 3.
The free week needs a card and costs $0 today. The plan you pick starts after 7 days unless you cancel.
Good for
You know the frameworks and want to say answers out loud every day, with follow-ups and a score that shows what to fix next.
Price
Free week, then $579 a year (about $48 a month), $299 a month or $149 a week, with unlimited mocks
Live mocks with another PM candidate, taking turns
What its own page says
Aced gives free users peer mock credits every month. Its practice page runs PM peer sessions about four times a day, and you swap roles as interviewer and candidate.
StellarPeers' free plan includes peer mock interviews through its practice calendar. It asks for a valid LinkedIn profile before you join.
Friends, classmates and PM clubs are the other free source of live mocks.
Good for
You want a live person across the table and can fit sessions into a schedule.
Good to know
Sessions run at set times, and feedback comes from your partner.
Prep organized by company, question type and subtype, with frameworks for generic, Amazon, Meta and Google PM questions.
Its pricing page lists 60+ solved questions, 140+ coaching videos on questions asked by Meta and Google, and 1,200+ interview questions shared by its community.
Free peer mock interviews on its practice calendar (LinkedIn profile required). It also sells paid plans. Its FAQ says it does not offer refunds.
Individual and group interview coaching, plus a small-cohort product sense program. Coaching prices are not on the pricing page.
Good for
You are targeting Meta, Google or Amazon and want company-specific frameworks and free peer mocks.
PM drills, concept reviews, a free video miniseries and coaches
What its own page says
Skill drills on product sense and strategy, analytical questions and technical fluency, with expert answers to review. Its tech plan lists 350+ drills, 16 full tech cases and 129 concept reviews.
Concept reviews on topics like APIs, tech stacks and UI design.
A free PM interview video miniseries with 19 mock interviews and answers from PMs at large tech companies.
Tech case prep is $35 a month and Mega case prep, which adds consulting cases, is $55 a month, each with a 7-day free trial. An annual pass is a one-time payment, listed as saving 63%. 1:1 coaching starts at $110 an hour.
Good for
You want short daily drills to build PM skills, especially analytics and technical fluency.
Good to know
Drills are self-paced. Live mocks come through its coaches.
Price
$35 a month, $55 with consulting cases, or a one-time annual pass. 7-day free trial. Coaching from $110 an hour
Company-specific PM video courses, lifetime access
What its own page says
Hacking the Product Management Interview: 18 hours of video lessons and 62 pages of interview strategy guides.
Flagship courses for Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber and TikTok PM interviews, 12 to 17 hours of video each, with lists of questions it says were recently asked at each company.
Lifetime access, no subscription. On October 30 its home page listed single courses at $529 and lifetime access to all 11 courses (39 hours of video, 300+ pages) at $579, marked down from $999 as a today-only offer.
Company deep dives list 800+ PM interview questions it says were asked across 50 companies, and a free 32-minute masterclass.
Good for
You have an interview at one specific company and want hours of video on that company's loop.
Good to know
Built around video lessons, with lifetime access.
Price
$529 a course, or $579 for all 11 courses (a today-only offer on October 30)
Decode and Conquer (5th edition) and other PM interview books
What its own page says
Decode and Conquer, 5th edition: 528 pages, rewritten for AI-era PM interviews, with the CIRCLES Method for product design and the AARM Method for metrics, plus six playbooks.
Other titles include The Product Manager Interview, Interview Math and Secrets of the Product Manager Interview.
One-hour 1:1 coaching sessions with Lewis, recorded, with a written summary afterward. The session price is not published on the page.
Good for
You want a named framework for product design and metrics questions and a book to study it from.
Good to know
Built around named frameworks you can study at your own pace.
Covers how the PM role differs by company, the experience you need, PM resumes and cover letters, and the main question types: estimation, behavioral, product and technical questions, plus your pitch.
Written by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, author of Cracking the Coding Interview, and Jackie Bavaro.
Good for
You are new to product management and want one book on the whole path, from resume to interview.
Good to know
Covers the whole path, from the PM role and resume to the interview.
Everything you need to know about Soreno, answered in one place.
Yes. Exponent is now called Aced. tryexponent.com redirects to aced.io, and the site describes itself as Aced (formerly Exponent). Its footer still lists Exponent Labs, LLC.
It depends on what you need. Aced (formerly Exponent) is a large library: courses, a question database with video answers, peer mocks and coaching. If you want that breadth, Pro at $79 a month, or $12 a month billed annually, covers it. If you mostly need speaking practice, peer mocks or an AI interviewer may be all you need.
Yes. Aced's Basic plan is $0 with sample lessons, sample questions and 5 peer mocks a month, no credit card required.
Pick by what you use it for. For peer mocks, StellarPeers has a free plan. For courses, RocketBlocks, PM Exercises or Product Alliance. For a human expert, IGotAnOffer. For spoken practice any time with follow-ups and a score, Soreno.
Yes. Aced's Expert plan lists AI mock interviews, AI interview feedback and an AI coach chat, at $99 a month or $20 a month billed annually. Soreno is a voice AI interviewer built for interview practice, with 160+ PM questions and a score out of 100 on every answer.
Yes. Aced's practice page says Pramp is now Aced (formerly Exponent), and Pramp users link their account to an Aced account to keep scheduling peer mocks.
Each price was read from the provider's own page in October 2026 and is linked next to it. Prices and offers change, so check before you buy.
Practice the PM interview out loud
Answer product sense, metrics and behavioral questions to an AI interviewer that follows up, then see your score and the lines to change.
