Head to head
Cred Farmer vs ClaudePrep (Termidy): which should you use?
ClaudePrep (Termidy) is the better fit for readers who say “I learn from video or an instructor”. Cred Farmer scores higher for the other 6 profiles.
Cred Farmer publishes this comparison and is one of the two platforms in it. Every figure below links to ClaudePrep (Termidy)'s own page and carries the date we read it. The verdict is computed from published weightings, not written by us.
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 | ClaudePrep (Termidy) | Better fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced overall | 90 | 61 | Cred Farmer |
| I want one system for all four exams | 92 | 63 | Cred Farmer |
| I only need one exam | 92 | 66 | Cred Farmer |
| I want the best free option | 89 | 72 | Cred Farmer |
| I learn from video or an instructor | 52 | 57 | ClaudePrep (Termidy) |
| My exam is in two weeks | 96 | 58 | Cred Farmer |
| I am preparing a team | 82 | 48 | Cred Farmer |
What each one is better at
Where ClaudePrep (Termidy) is stronger
- The platform is free the whole way through, with no paid tier anywhere: all 1,068 questions, every simulator and every reference page cost nothing.
- Twenty-seven sample questions across the four tracks (5 for CCAR-F, 7 for CCAO-F, 7 for CCAR-P, 8 for CCDV-F) run entirely in the browser with no account and store nothing, so you can judge the questions before signing up for anything.
- Every answer option carries its own written explanation, distractors included - in the free CCAR-F sample, all 20 option explanations run 27 to 40 words each.
- The bank's weighting is published and auditable rather than asserted: each certification page prints the official domain weights next to the number of questions it holds for that domain, and all four tracks reconcile exactly to the 1,068 headline.
- Full-length timed simulators exist for every one of the four tracks at the correct item count and clock (60, 60, 63 and 53 questions, 120 minutes each), and free iOS and Android apps carry the same bank.
- The exam-guide reference material is unusually complete and free: the blueprint with weights, the technology appendix, the ruled-out-topics list, and the registration, retake, discount, cancellation, appeal and renewal rules, each page stamped with the guide version.
- Independence is disclosed prominently and repeatedly - footer disclaimer on every page, a banner on each certification page, a named maintainer with three linked Credly credentials, and an explicit statement that no question comes from a real exam.
- Each of the four courses carries its own discussion forum, so questions can be raised against a specific exam.
- Taught delivery: scores 2/5 against our 0/5.
Where Cred Farmer is stronger
- Retention system: we score 5/5 against their 0/5.
- Diagnostics and personalisation: we score 5/5 against their 2/5.
- Team and operational readiness: we score 3/5 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.
- Certification coverage: we score 5/5 against their 4/5.
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 | ClaudePrep (Termidy) | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 certification tracks, each with its own certification page and its own question bank: CCAR-F (Architect Foundations), CCAR-P (Architect Professional), CCAO-F (Associate Foundations) and CCDV-F (Developer Foundations). A program bar reading "All four tracks open" appears on the homepage, the four certification pages and the About page; it does not appear on the underlying Moodle course pages. Depth is uneven between tracks (see question_count).Evidence“Claude Certification Prep - All 4 Exams, 1,068 Free Practice Questions” |
| 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.” | 1,068 questions in total, published per track: CCAO-F 360, CCAR-F 360, CCAR-P 189, CCDV-F 159. Each certification page prints its per-domain counts next to the official domain weights, and all four reconcile (CCAR-F 96+72+72+66+54 = 360; the four track totals sum exactly to the 1,068 headline). Every answer option carries its own written explanation, distractors included: in the free CCAR-F sample all 20 option explanations run between 27 and 40 words, averaging about 34.Evidence“360 practice questions across 5 domains, plus a 60-question exam simulator.” |
| 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.” | Written reference material per track rather than authored lessons. Each certification page carries an exam-at-a-glance table, the official blueprint with domain weights, the technology appendix, the ruled-out-topics list, a preparation checklist, registration, retake, discount, cancellation, appeal and renewal rules, and a references list, stamped with the exam guide version at top and foot. Each Moodle course adds an Exam Guide wiki, a checklist activity and a discussion forum. A recorded video course for Architect Foundations only is offered as a free coupon in exchange for an email subscription.Evidence“The appendix of the guide lists the technology that can appear. This is the closest thing to a” |
| 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).” | One full-length timed simulator per track, at the real exam length: CCAR-F 60 questions/120 minutes, CCAO-F 60/120, CCAR-P 63/120, CCDV-F 53/120. Each course also carries four shorter practice sets. Per-domain practice quizzes exist only in the Architect Foundations and Associate courses (5 and 7 respectively); the Architect Professional and Developer courses carry the practice sets and the simulator only. Course outlines are readable as a guest; sitting anything requires a free account.Evidence“Full Exam Simulator (60 questions/120 min) Quiz” |
| 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.” | Not published |
| 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.” | Not published |
| 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.” | Scored quizzes report which domains are weak, and the mobile apps list per-domain scoring among their features. There is no standalone diagnostic exam; the free in-page sample is instead built as one question per domain so that it touches the whole blueprint. Neither route produces a readiness figure.Evidence“answers to score them and show which domains are weak. The 5-question sample needs nothing.” |
| 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.” | Not published |
| 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.” | The whole platform is free and there is no paid tier: all 1,068 questions, every simulator and every reference page. A free account unlocks the banks; separately, 27 in-page sample questions (5 CCAR-F, 7 CCAO-F, 7 CCAR-P, 8 CCDV-F) run entirely in the browser with no account and store nothing. The "no advertising, no upsell" wording is the site's own; an email-capture form on the homepage, the About page and every certification page does offer a free coupon for its Architect Foundations video course.Evidence“There is no paid tier, no advertising, no upsell and nothing to buy. The hosting costs very little,” |
| 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.” | Free. No price is published because nothing is sold, and no currency figure appears anywhere on the site. The exam fees and partner-tier discounts discussed on the certification pages are Anthropic's exam charges, not this platform's.Evidence“There is no paid tier, no advertising, no upsell and nothing to buy. The hosting costs very little,” |
| 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).” | Split. A free account is required for the full question banks and every simulator, offered as username/password, "Continue with Google" or "Continue with Apple"; requesting a quiz activity as a guest redirects to the login page. Course outlines are readable as a guest, and the 5-8 question in-page sample per certification runs with no account at all.Evidence“The question bank is free. It asks for an account only because the quiz engine has to store” |
| 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.” | Not published |
| 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.” | Prominent and repeated. A disclaimer sits in the footer of every page and again as a banner at the top of each certification page, alongside a named maintainer (Anton Pavelko) with three linked Credly credentials. The site also states that its practice questions are written from scratch and that none of them come from a real exam, and it points registration at the official routes rather than presenting itself as one.Evidence“An independent community resource. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic.” |
Which to choose
Choose ClaudePrep (Termidy) if…
- You want to answer real practice questions before you hand over an email address at all - ClaudePrep runs 5 to 8 sample questions per track in the browser with no account, where Cred Farmer's no-account practice is one timed paper and six samples per code.
- You study on a phone away from a desk: ClaudePrep publishes free iOS and Android apps carrying the same 1,068 questions, and Cred Farmer is a web app with no native app.
- You want a second, independently written bank to cross-check the one you are already using - it costs nothing, and the per-domain counts are published against the official weights so you can see exactly what you are getting before you start.
- You want to ask other candidates about a specific question or domain: each of ClaudePrep's four courses has its own discussion forum, and Cred Farmer has no community feature at all.
- You want the exam logistics - registration, retake, partner discounts, cancellation, appeals and renewal - alongside the blueprint on one free page per track, without an account.
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 ClaudePrep (Termidy) does not offer
- No flashcards: the URL /flashcards returns 404, and the course activity types are wiki, checklist, forum and quiz only.
- No spaced repetition and no scheduled review - nothing on the site brings a missed item back on a schedule.
- No readiness score and no adaptive practice; scoring stops at per-quiz results and a per-domain weak-areas report.
- One full-length simulator per track. There is no second distinct full-length paper to sit under the clock.
- Per-domain practice quizzes exist only in the Architect Foundations and Associate courses; the Architect Professional and Developer courses carry the four practice sets and the simulator only.
- Bank depth is uneven across tracks: 360 questions each for CCAR-F and CCAO-F against 189 for CCAR-P and 159 for CCDV-F, roughly three times exam length rather than six.
- The full bank and every simulator sit behind a login wall. It costs nothing, but only the 5-8 question in-page samples can be tried without creating an account.
- No team or organisation features: no seats, admin console, cohort assignment or manager reporting.
- The written material transcribes and organises the exam guide rather than teaching the domain content; there are no written labs or exercises, and the one video course covers Architect Foundations only and requires an email subscription to unlock.
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://claude.termidy.com/ccar-f/ CCAR-F certification page: blueprint with domain weights, the per-domain question counts, the login-wall explanation, the per-domain weak-areas wording, and the free five-question sample whose per-option explanations were measured in the page source.
- https://claude.termidy.com/about/ Statement of independence from Anthropic, the named maintainer with three linked Credly credentials, and the statement that there is no paid tier and nothing to buy.
- https://claude.termidy.com/ Homepage: the 1,068-question, four-exam headline, the program bar, and the FAQ scoping per-domain quizzes to the Architect Foundations and Associate tracks.
- https://claude.termidy.com/course/index.php Course catalogue: per-track question counts, domain counts and simulator lengths for all four tracks.
- https://claude.termidy.com/course/view.php?id=10 Associate Foundations course outline as a guest: the four practice sets, the seven per-domain quizzes and the full 60-question/120-minute exam simulator.
- https://claude.termidy.com/app.php Mobile app feature list: 1,068 practice questions, every answer option explained, full-length timed simulators, per-domain scoring - and no flashcards or review scheduling.
All read on 3 September 2026. Found something wrong? Email hello@credfarmer.com and it will be corrected.
Common questions
Is ClaudePrep (Termidy) better than Cred Farmer?
ClaudePrep (Termidy) is the better fit for readers who say “I learn from video or an instructor”. Cred Farmer scores higher for the other 6 profiles. Under the balanced weighting, ClaudePrep (Termidy) scores 61 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 ClaudePrep (Termidy)'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 ClaudePrep (Termidy) 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 ClaudePrep (Termidy)'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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