ExamTopics vs Examice | The Ultimate Comparison Guide

ExamTopics and Examice solve the same problem, practice questions for IT certification exams, in different ways and at very different prices. This comparison goes through everything a candidate actually cares about: what each costs, what is free, how big the banks are, how answers are verified, whether there are explanations, how the communities compare, how often the banks are updated, what the study experience is like, and what happens if you fail or need help. It ends with a clear recommendation for who should use which. Every figure below was checked against both live sites on 9 September 2026.

Quick verdict

ExamTopics shows a few more questions before the paywall, and its comment threads on the most popular exams go back further. Examice is far cheaper once you have to pay, gives its questions a verified answer and a written explanation, updates weekly, includes the PDF with its Premium plan and refunds Premium if you do not pass. If you can pass with the free ExamTopics tier, use it, though we doubt anyone can: it stops after three or four pages per exam. If you are going to pay, Examice is the better product at a third of the price. Find your exam on Examice to check coverage and try the first five questions free.

Pricing

Both sites sell access per exam as a single payment rather than a subscription. The similarity ends there.

Both sites display a "list" price next to the real one: ExamTopics shows $88.88 struck through to $79.99 with a "10% off" label, and Examice shows $60 struck through to $35 on Premium. In both cases the lower figure is simply what everyone pays. Neither site offers coupon codes that we could find.

The practical difference is that ExamTopics' cheapest way to study for one exam for three months with a PDF is $229.98, and Examice's is $35.

Free access

ExamTopics lets you browse the first three or four pages of each exam's bank without paying, and read the discussions on those questions. That is a small fraction of any bank and nowhere near enough to study from; it is a preview, and the "you've reached your free exam questions limit" page is where most candidates meet the price. Anonymous users also face captchas on nearly every page (fewer if you log in).

Examice's free access is the first five questions of every exam, shown with their explanations. It is designed as a quality check rather than a study resource. You can see the writing quality, the difficulty and whether the bank matches your exam version before spending anything.

Neither free tier will get you through an exam; both sites expect you to pay for the full bank. ExamTopics shows a few more questions, Examice shows fewer but explains each one.

Question banks and coverage

Both platforms cover the mainstream vendors: Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, Cisco, CompTIA, ISACA, VMware, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Databricks, PMI, Salesforce and many more. Examice lists more than 2,000 exam codes across 180+ vendors. ExamTopics does not publish a total, but its catalogue is similarly broad. For any specific exam, check both sites; a handful of niche exams will be on one and not the other.

Both sites build their banks the same way, from what recent test takers report, so on an exam both carry you should expect heavy overlap rather than two different sets of questions. What differs is what sits under each one. Sizes vary by exam, and with how recently each site collected reports: when we checked, the Examice bank for Azure Administrator (AZ-104) held 606 questions and the one for AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) held 1,019. Every Examice exam page prints its own count, so check the exam you are sitting rather than an average.

Answer quality and explanations

This is the largest difference between the two, and the one most likely to affect whether you pass.

ExamTopics shows a suggested answer for each question and a community vote distribution. On active exams the two frequently disagree, and the top comment is often more reliable than the suggested answer. There are no written explanations. Whatever reasoning exists is in the comments, which range from a detailed walkthrough with documentation links to a single word. On niche exams with no comments, you are left with an answer key that is sometimes wrong and no way to tell.

Examice gives its questions a verified answer together with a written explanation of why it is correct and, where relevant, why the distractors are wrong. Community discussion and votes sit alongside, so if the community disagrees you see it immediately, and the bank is corrected as evidence comes in.

The effect on study time is significant. A missed question on ExamTopics is a research task: read the thread, weigh the votes, open the documentation, decide. A missed question on Examice is a lesson that takes two minutes. Over a bank of 600 questions, that difference is measured in hours, and it is what makes Examice a study tool rather than a question list. It also protects against the memorisation trap: understanding why an answer is right is what survives a reworded question on exam day.

Community discussions

Both platforms have community discussion with voting, and on most exams the threads look alike: candidates arguing over the contentious questions and citing documentation. ExamTopics' threads on the most popular exams go back further, and a few carry hundreds of comments spanning several years.

On Examice the discussion is a second opinion rather than the only source of truth, because questions already come with a verified answer and an explanation. You use it when you disagree with the explanation, not to find out what the answer is.

If you want to read the argument, both have it. If you want the conclusion, Examice gives it.

Updates and freshness

Certification objectives change every year or two, and a bank that is not maintained fills up with questions about retired services. ExamTopics' Contributor Access "includes new updates", but the site does not state a cadence, and reviewers describe questions a year or more old tagged to superseded exam versions.

Examice states that banks are refreshed weekly and shows the date of the last update on every exam page. When we checked, the AZ-104 bank had been updated three days earlier and SAA-C03 eight days earlier. Whichever platform you use, check the date before you buy; a bank's accuracy for your exam this month depends on it.

Study experience and tools

ExamTopics is a paginated list of questions with a discussion under each. Free users face captchas and the question limit; Contributor Access removes both. There is no progress tracking, no way to filter or resume by topic, and the PDF is a separate purchase.

Examice removes captchas and limits on any plan. Premium adds study tools: choose how many questions appear per page, resume where you left off, and track which topics you have mastered. Premium also includes a printable PDF for offline study. These are modest features, but they turn a bank into a study plan.

Refunds, guarantees and support

ExamTopics advertises no pass guarantee and no refund policy on its exam pages. Reviewers report that refund requests go unanswered or are refused, that support is slow or silent, and that device limits were disclosed only after payment. There are no visible company replies to negative reviews.

Examice refunds its Premium plan if you do not pass: you send your score report and the purchase is returned. Bundles are not refundable. Support is a published email address (hello@examice.com) with replies typically within 24 hours on business days, and payment is processed through Stripe. Everything a plan includes is listed on the exam page before checkout.

Transparency and marketing claims

Neither site is shy about marketing. ExamTopics' home page claims that 94% of users found the real exam "almost the same" and 97% passed; its header says "expert verified" and "free", and every exam page we opened showed the same "27 students signed up in the last 24H". Examice says most candidates pass within 21 days and that it is trusted by thousands of certified professionals. None of these figures is independently verifiable, on either side. Judge each platform on what you can check: the free questions, the date of the last update, the price, what is included, and the refund terms.

Who should choose ExamTopics

• You want to spend nothing and can make do with the three or four free pages.
• Your exam is on ExamTopics and not on Examice.
• You want the older comment history on a very popular exam, and you are willing to read it.

Who should choose Examice

• You have hit the ExamTopics paywall and are deciding whether to pay $79.99.
• You want written explanations, not comment threads.
• You want a PDF without paying $99.99 for it.
• You are sitting more than one exam this year; the Standard bundle brings the price under $20 per exam.
• You want a refund guarantee, visible update dates and support that replies.

Using both

Nothing prevents you from combining them: use the free ExamTopics pages to get a feel for the exam, then use Examice as your primary bank for the explanations and timed volume, dipping back into the free ExamTopics discussion for any question you find contentious. Total cost: $25 to $35.

Bottom line

ExamTopics shows a few more questions free; Examice is the better paid one, and both expect you to pay. On price, explanations, update transparency, study tools, PDFs, guarantees and support, Examice wins clearly, at $25 to $35 per exam against $79.99 to $229.98. ExamTopics' free preview is slightly larger, though not enough to study from, and its comment history on the biggest exams is older. If you never need to pay, stay on ExamTopics. If you do, the better alternative is the one that costs a third as much and explains its answers.