Head to head
Cred Farmer vs ClaudeMockExams: which should you use?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, and ClaudeMockExams scores higher on none of the 10 rubric criteria, though it has strengths of its own.
Cred Farmer publishes this comparison and is one of the two platforms in it. Every figure below links to ClaudeMockExams's own page and carries the date we read it. The verdict is computed from published weightings, not written by us.
- The site publishes three mutually exclusive sizes for the same CCAR-F bank. /about says "2,710 practice questions across 4 certifications", a total computed from a CCAR-F figure of 1,207, while three more recently updated pages say the bank is 1,042 (for example "Our platform at claudemockexams.com mirrors the real CCAR-F blueprint with 1,042 scenario-based questions across all five domains"), and the study guide says "1000+". If 1,042 is the current figure, the published 2,710 total is stale as well; either way a buyer cannot tell which number they are paying for.
- The free-account allowance is published two different ways. /register says "Start with 15 free practice questions" and the CCAR-F comparison page says "/register unlocks 15 free practice questions, three per domain", while /pricing says "Practice mode, unlimited, 20 questions a sitting, on a free account." The two cannot both be true, and you cannot find out which is without creating an account.
Who wins, by what you need
Each row is that profile's published weighting applied to both platforms' criterion scores. Nothing here is hand-assigned: change the weights and the winners change.
| If you say… | Cred Farmer | ClaudeMockExams | Better fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced overall | 90 | 64 | Cred Farmer |
| I want one system for all four exams | 92 | 67 | Cred Farmer |
| I only need one exam | 92 | 60 | Cred Farmer |
| I want the best free option | 89 | 68 | Cred Farmer |
| I learn from video or an instructor | 52 | 38 | Cred Farmer |
| My exam is in two weeks | 96 | 58 | Cred Farmer |
| I am preparing a team | 82 | 62 | Cred Farmer |
What each one is better at
Where ClaudeMockExams is stronger
- 106 complete practice questions, spread across all four certifications, are readable with no account, no card and no paywall, each with the correct answer and a written explanation: one of the largest ungated samples of any platform on this page.
- A single $24.99 payment covers all four certification banks for life, with no subscription, no renewal and no expiry, and adding another bank later costs nothing extra.
- The team offer is real infrastructure rather than a contact form: a published five-band seat table down to $9 a seat, a live quote calculator, purchase-order invoicing and bank transfer, transferable named seats, and five free seats as a pilot before anyone pays.
- Every blueprint domain of every certification has its own free explainer page (27 in total), and each certification landing page publishes the full exam-facts table (item count, time limit, scoring scale, pass mark, fee, validity, attempt limits and retake waits) outside the paywall.
- The site refuses the leaked-content pitch in its own words: asked whether it sells questions taken from the live exam, it answers "No, and anyone selling those is selling something stolen." There are no testimonials, star ratings or review counts anywhere on it.
Where Cred Farmer is stronger
- Retention system: we score 5/5 against their 0/5.
- Structured learning: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Mock-exam realism: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Diagnostics and personalisation: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Practice depth: we score 5/5 against their 4/5.
- Team and operational readiness: we score 3/5 against their 2/5.
Feature by feature
Expand any cell to see the words we read and where we read them. If a link no longer says what we quote, the figure is out of date and we want to know.
| Cred Farmer | ClaudeMockExams | |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications covered | All four: CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-F and CCAR-P, in one account, each with five timed forms, drills by objective, a readiness score, a study guide mapped to the published domains and a flashcard deck.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, spaced-repetition flashcards, and five timed forms per exam built to its published blueprint are available across all four tracks, and every timed form contributes blueprint-based practice evidence.” | All four Claude certifications under a single payment: CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-P and CCAR-F. Each has its own landing page with a domain-weighting table, its own free sample-question page, its own question bank and its own timed simulation.Evidence“A single payment for all 4 certification banks: CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-P, CCAR-F.” |
| Practice questions | 1,180, every option explained. 300 CCAO-F, 265 CCDV-F, 300 CCAR-F and 315 CCAR-P across the four gated banks, every item tagged to a published domain and objective and practised in the timed forms, in drills by objective or by domain, and in drills built from your own misses. A separate public set feeds the no-account practice papers and samples.Evidence“1,180 questions written to the published exam blueprints, five timed forms per exam at the real exam's length and time limit, and a reason for every option, right or wrong, so you learn from each mistake.” | Published, but the site contradicts itself. /about gives a headline total of 2,710 with a per-certification breakdown of 500 (CCAO-F), 503 (CCDV-F), 500 (CCAR-P) and 1,207 (CCAR-F). Three more recently updated pages instead say the CCAR-F bank is 1,042, and the CCAR-F study guide says "1000+". The 2,710 total is computed from the 1,207 figure, so the total moves with whichever CCAR-F number is current. Read the roughly-500-per-certification figures as published; treat the CCAR-F bank size and the total as unresolved.Evidence“2,710 practice questions across 4 certifications.” |
| Study material | Exam-focused study guides. One per certification, organised by the published domains and objectives, with written hands-on labs, a glossary and per-domain cheat sheets, and a public study guide per certification that reads with no account. Written material only: no video and no instructor.Evidence“Focused Study Guides Structured chapters mapped directly to the exam objectives.” | Substantial free written material outside the paywall. One explainer page for every blueprint domain of every certification: 27 in total (CCAO-F 7, CCDV-F 8, CCAR-P 7, CCAR-F 5), counted from the sitemap, plus 8 concept explainers (agents vs workflows, MCP vs tool use, RAG vs long context, prompt caching vs batch, and similar). Each of the four certification landing pages also publishes a complete exam-facts table outside the paywall: item count, time limit, scoring scale, pass mark, exam fee, 12-month validity, attempts per rolling year and retake waits, with the full domain weightings. CCAR-F additionally has a study guide, an exam-format page, a how-to-pass page and a six-week study plan; the other three certifications have none of those. No video, no course, no instructor.Evidence“This guide covers all 5 domains with their official exam weights.” |
| Full-length timed mocks | 20 full-length timed forms: five per certification at the real item count and 120-minute clock (60 / 53 / 60 / 63 items), each built to its published domain weights, four as mock exams and the fifth an objective-mastery form. The CCAR-F forms each present four of the six published scenarios with their items grouped under them. Flag items as you go, then review the reason for every option by domain and by objective.Evidence“In length, they match: every timed form in your account has the real exam's question count and time limit (CCAO-F 60 questions in 120 minutes, CCAR-F 60 questions in 120 minutes, CCAR-P 63 questions in 120 minutes and CCDV-F 53 questions in 120 minutes).” | "Official mode" is described as a full timed simulation at each certification's real item count and time limit (CCAO-F 60 questions in 120 minutes, CCDV-F 53/120, CCAR-P 63/120, CCAR-F 60/120), available for all four certifications behind the $24.99 payment. The scaled 100-1000 score and the 720 pass mark are published on the four certification landing pages and on the CCAR-F exam-format page, not on the pricing page. How many distinct papers exist per certification is not published, and the mode itself sits behind the paywall, so its behaviour is the vendor's description rather than something observable from outside.Evidence“Official mode: the full timed simulation at each exam's real question count and time limit, scored the way the exam scores it.” |
| Flashcards | Yes: a rapid-recall deck per certification inside the account, served through a spaced-repetition drill, plus a 40-card open deck per certification with no account.Evidence“Flashcard drills resurface each concept right before you'd forget it.” | No flashcard feature is offered. Flashcards appear in neither the free nor the paid feature list, and no flashcard tool exists anywhere on the site. The word appears only in prose arguing against flashcard-style prep as a contrast to the site's own scenario questions.Evidence“You will not develop it in untimed flashcard mode.” |
| Spaced repetition | Yes: an SM-2 scheduler, scheduling each card individually from a four-way rating, with lapses requeued inside the same session.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, spaced-repetition flashcards, and five timed forms per exam built to its published blueprint are available across all four tracks, and every timed form contributes blueprint-based practice evidence.” | No spaced-repetition, review-scheduling or mistakes-deck feature is offered in either tier. The phrase appears once on the entire site, as study-sequencing advice inside the static six-week study plan article, not as a product capability.Evidence“means that domain has the longest spaced-repetition window before exam day” |
| Diagnostics | Objective-level: every timed form is scored by domain and by objective, the weakest domains are ranked from measured results and linked to the chapter that covers them, and each objective you got wrong routes you to a drill on it. Drills can also be built by domain or from your own misses.Evidence“Beside the score, each objective you got wrong routes you to a drill on that objective.” | No named diagnostic, placement test or readiness assessment. The paid tier includes "Domain mode", a 15-question drill from a single blueprint domain, which is the routing mechanism from a weak area to targeted practice. Per-domain reporting appears as a "Domain Mastery" panel and a "Score Trajectory" panel inside the product mockup on the homepage; both labels appear only there and are described in prose nowhere on the site. The only thing the site itself calls a diagnostic is study advice: sit the free samples cold in week one.Evidence“Domain mode: 15 questions drawn from one blueprint domain, for the section you keep losing marks in.” |
| Readiness / adaptive path | A per-certification readiness score gated on measured answers: 60% performance, 40% preparation (study path, objective coverage and streak). The first sitting of each form, guided or timed, sets the band and preparation moves the score only within it: below the pass mark it stays under 60, and Exam-ready (90) needs a first-sitting average of 800. Drills, re-sits and the diagnostic never count as evidence, and a study section counts only when its checkpoint questions are answered correctly. Set an exam date and the hours you can give, and a dated plan lays the work out day by day: sections to read, drills on objectives measured weak, and full-length mocks spread across the days before the exam. It says when the work does not fit, and it makes no pass prediction.Evidence“Study path progress, objective coverage and your streak move the score within that band, never past it.” | No readiness score, pass-probability estimate or generated study plan is published; the six-week plan is a static article, identical for every reader. "Adaptive difficulty" is claimed exactly once site-wide, on the CCAR-F study-guide page, and appears in neither the pricing feature list nor /about, so it is not corroborated as a product feature anywhere else on the site.Evidence“1000+ practice questions with adaptive difficulty and detailed explanations.” |
| Free tier | All free during open beta: all four certifications, every study guide, every timed form and every drill. With no account: a timed practice paper, six sample items, a 40-card deck and a study guide per certification; the rest needs a free account.Evidence“Right now, Cred Farmer is completely free while we are in open beta.” | One of the largest ungated free tiers in this segment. 106 complete practice questions are readable with no account and no card (CCAO-F 28, CCDV-F 30, CCAR-P 28, CCAR-F 20), each with the correct answer and a written explanation, alongside the free written material (a page per blueprint domain for all four certifications, 8 concept explainers, and a full exam-facts table on each certification landing page). A free account adds practice mode, but the site publishes two different allowances for it: /pricing says unlimited 20-question sittings while /register says 15 free practice questions, and that cannot be resolved from outside an account. Everything else (the timed simulation, domain mode and the larger practice sittings up to 100 questions) is behind the one-off payment.Evidence“The sample questions for every certification, readable without an account.” |
| Price | $0 while in open beta. No paid tier is published and no pricing is announced for after the beta.Evidence“Individual preparation is free while in open beta.” | $24.99 one-time in USD for lifetime access to all four certification banks. No subscription, no renewal and no expiry, and adding another bank later costs nothing extra. All sales are final: no refunds.Evidence“$24.99 one-time, USD” |
| Account required | Yes for the full study guides, the five timed forms per exam, the drills, the readiness score and the dated plan: a free account via Google or GitHub sign-in. The practice paper at /practice/<code>, the sample items, the open flashcard decks, the public study guide on each certification page, the blog and this comparison need no account.Evidence“To maximize security, we only use OAuth (Google and GitHub).” | Three tiers. Sample questions for all four certifications need no account and no card. A free email-and-password account unlocks practice mode: the allowance for it is published inconsistently, as unlimited 20-question sittings on /pricing and as 15 free practice questions on /register. The timed simulation and domain mode require the $24.99 payment. No OAuth options are offered on /register; email and password only.Evidence“Practice mode, unlimited, 20 questions a sitting, on a free account.” |
| Team support | An organisation layer, in pilot and set up on request: a cohort dashboard showing each consenting member's readiness score, gate state and mock count, member and invitation management, and recorded exam-fee sponsorship offers against a readiness bar the organisation sets. No published seat pricing, no self-serve creation and no procurement route yet.Evidence“Set the readiness score you are willing to fund at, see who has crossed it, and record an offer against a certification.” | A developed team offer. The /teams page publishes a five-band seat table (1-4 seats $24.99, 5-14 $19, 15-49 $15, 50-199 $11, 200+ from $9) with a live quote calculator on the form; the sentence quoted here is the shorter statement of it on /pricing. One seat covers all four banks, and seats are named but transferable. Purchase-order invoicing and bank transfer are accepted with no sales call, and a five-seat pilot is offered free before any purchase. No cohort dashboard, manager view or group progress reporting is published anywhere on the site.Evidence“From 5 seats the rate drops to $19 per person, and larger bands go lower. We invoice against a purchase order and accept bank transfer, so nobody has to expense a team purchase personally.” |
| States independence from Anthropic | Yes: stated in the footer of every page and repeated on the certification pages.Evidence“Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic or Pearson VUE.” | Disclosed site-wide, though in three different wordings rather than one. Every page footer carries "Not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.", the homepage hero says "Independent practice platform, not affiliated with Anthropic.", and /about states it most fully, as quoted. /about also names the operator (6soft) and publishes a support address, and the CCAR-F comparison article discloses upfront that it is published by one of the products being compared.Evidence“Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Anthropic.” |
Which to choose
Choose ClaudeMockExams if…
- You are buying for a team. They publish a five-band seat table down to $9 a seat, invoice against a purchase order, accept bank transfer and give you five free seats as a pilot first. Cred Farmer has no team purchasing of any kind: its organisation layer is a pilot set up on request, with no seat pricing or invoicing.
- You want to read real practice questions before you hand over an email address. 106 of them, with explanations, plus a page per blueprint domain, are readable with no account at all. Cred Farmer opens a timed paper and six samples per code, and puts the rest behind a login.
- You are sitting CCAR-F. It is the certification they have built out furthest: the largest bank on the site plus a study guide, an exam-format breakdown, a how-to-pass page and a six-week study plan that the other three certifications do not get.
- You want more practice per certification than Cred Farmer publishes. Their banks run around 500 questions for each of CCAO-F, CCDV-F and CCAR-P, against roughly 300 per exam here, and one $24.99 payment covers all four with no subscription to renew or cancel.
Choose Cred Farmer if…
- You want to practise the way the exam is sat: five full-length timed forms per exam at the real item count and clock, with a reason for every option when you review.
- You want each study session chosen by what you got wrong: every missed objective routes you to a drill on it, and you can drill by domain or from your own misses.
- You have booked an exam and want an honest read of your practice results, from a score capped by your first sitting of each form rather than by activity, and a dated plan that lays out each day until the exam.
- You want to sit a free timed practice paper for your exam right now, with no account, and see a raw score by domain.
- You expect to sit more than one Claude certification and want one setup for all four.
- You are preparing other people and want to see who is measurably ready, with each person opting in, before you fund an exam.
What ClaudeMockExams does not offer
- No flashcards, no spaced repetition and no scheduled review. None of them appears in the free or the paid feature list.
- No recorded video, no live instructor, no cohort and no classroom delivery; the site states this about itself.
- No published readiness score or pass-probability estimate, and the six-week study plan is a static article rather than a plan generated from your results.
- The timed simulation, domain mode and the larger practice sittings are all behind the one-time payment, and all sales are final. There are no refunds.
- No cohort dashboard, manager view or group progress reporting is published: the team offer is seat purchasing, not visibility into how a group is doing.
- The study guide, exam-format page, how-to-pass page and six-week plan exist for CCAR-F only; the other three certifications get their question bank, timed simulation, ungated samples, domain explainers and exam-facts table, but none of those written extras.
- No OAuth sign-in: the free account is email and password only.
Observable gaps in what the site publishes, not judgements about quality. We have run no blind review of anyone's questions, including our own, so nothing here compares how good the content is, only what each platform offers.
Sources
- https://claudemockexams.com/pricing Price ($24.99 one-time, all four banks), what each tier includes, Official mode and Domain mode, the free-account practice allowance, and the team seat bands with PO invoicing
- https://claudemockexams.com/about Published question totals and the per-certification breakdown, the authoring methodology, the fullest non-affiliation statement and the named operator
- https://claudemockexams.com/teams The five-band seat table (1-4 $24.99 through 200+ from $9), quote calculator, transferable named seats and the free five-seat pilot
- https://claudemockexams.com/associate-foundations Certification landing page: exam-facts table with item count, time limit, scoring scale, pass mark, fee, validity, attempts and retake waits, plus domain weightings (three sibling pages carry the same for the other certifications)
- https://claudemockexams.com/architect-foundations/sample-questions Ungated sample questions with explanations: 20 here, with 28, 30 and 28 on the three sibling sample pages
- https://claudemockexams.com/architect-foundations/study-guide CCAR-F study guide covering all five domains with their published weights; also the site's only claim of adaptive difficulty and the "1000+" bank figure
- https://claudemockexams.com/architect-foundations/best-cca-f-practice-exams The statement that there is no video, instructor, cohort or classroom delivery, the 1,042 CCAR-F bank figure, and the 15-free-question claim
- https://claudemockexams.com/architect-foundations/claude-certified-architect-study-plan The static six-week study plan, the sole site-wide use of spaced repetition as study advice, and a second 1,042 bank figure
- https://claudemockexams.com/architect-foundations/how-to-pass-claude-certified-architect The third page carrying the 1,042 CCAR-F bank figure, quoted in the integrity flags
- https://claudemockexams.com/register Free account signup: email and password only, no OAuth, and the conflicting "15 free practice questions" allowance
- https://claudemockexams.com/sitemap.xml 64 URLs, used to count the 27 per-domain explainer pages and the 8 concept explainers, and to read each page's last-modified date
All read on 3 September 2026. Found something wrong? Email hello@credfarmer.com and it will be corrected.
Common questions
Is ClaudeMockExams better than Cred Farmer?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, and ClaudeMockExams scores higher on none of the 10 rubric criteria, though it has strengths of its own. Under the balanced weighting, ClaudeMockExams scores 64 and Cred Farmer scores 90 out of 100. The weightings are published and adjustable, so the honest answer depends on which exam you are sitting and what you can spend.
Is this comparison independent?
No. Cred Farmer publishes it and is one of the two platforms in it. That is why the rubric is published, every figure links to ClaudeMockExams's own pages with the date it was checked, and the verdict above is computed from those published weightings rather than written by us.
Is ClaudeMockExams an official Anthropic product?
No. Neither is Cred Farmer. Anthropic publishes the exam guides and Pearson VUE delivers the exams; every platform in this comparison is independent of both.
How current are these figures?
Everything here was read on ClaudeMockExams's own site on 3 September 2026. Prices, question counts and free tiers change without notice, so follow the source links before you rely on a figure, and email hello@credfarmer.com if you find one out of date.
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