Head to head
Cred Farmer vs ClaudeTestPrep: which should you use?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, but ClaudeTestPrep still wins on specific criteria listed below.
Cred Farmer publishes this comparison and is one of the two platforms in it. Every figure below links to ClaudeTestPrep's own page and carries the date we read it. The verdict is computed from published weightings, not written by us.
- The site's own donation page states "Every practice question, mock, and explanation is free — no account paywall, no locked bank", but its gate endpoint returns limits of anonPractice 25 and registeredPractice 150 out of a 1,439-question bank, and the practice bundle renders a modal reading "You've reached the free practice limit." instrumented as an event named paywall_shown.
- /faq and /pricing say "You can start with 365 questions and a full-length mock with no signup", while every /<exam>/mock page tells a logged-out visitor "Create a free account to take a mock" and the enforced anonymous practice cap is 25 answered questions, not 365.
- /faq says "the full 1439-question bank and unlimited mocks are free either way"; the same gate endpoint returns limits.mock = 1 and carries a mockSittings counter, so mock sittings are metered.
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 | ClaudeTestPrep | Better fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced overall | 82 | 67 | Cred Farmer |
| I want one system for all four exams | 84 | 69 | Cred Farmer |
| I only need one exam | 83 | 66 | Cred Farmer |
| I want the best free option | 83 | 67 | Cred Farmer |
| I learn from video or an instructor | 48 | 39 | Cred Farmer |
| My exam is in two weeks | 91 | 69 | Cred Farmer |
| I am preparing a team | 64 | 64 | Too close to call |
One profile is a dead heat. A one- or two-point gap is inside the noise of a 0–5 rating and should not decide anything.
What each one is better at
Where ClaudeTestPrep is stronger
- All four Claude certifications sit in one product, and the per-exam counts published on each hub — CCAO-F 300, CCDV-F 260, CCAR-F 609, CCAR-P 270 — sum to exactly the 1,439 advertised on the homepage; an independent re-fetch of all four hubs confirmed both the totals and the domain sub-splits.
- The published domain weights match Anthropic's own exam guides on every exam: CCAO-F's seven domains at 14/21/12/16/12/15/10, CCAR-F's five at 27/18/20/20/15 with matching domain names, CCAR-P's seven with Integration heaviest, alongside the $99/$125/$125/$175 fees and the 60/53/60/63 item counts.
- A question permalink renders in full to a logged-out visitor — the stem, the correct answer, the cited explanation, and a 'Why the others fail' section giving a specific reason each wrong option is wrong — confirmed by an anonymous fetch of a CCAR-P item.
- The FAQ refuses real exam content in its own words: "Are these the actual exam questions? No. Every question is original. Reusing real exam content would violate Anthropic's exam policies — we don't, and you shouldn't either."
- It publishes how the bank is produced rather than leaving it implicit — written to the blueprint at real weights, drafted with Claude, then automated checks for scenario grounding, style, de-duplication and a multi-model answer-consensus check before a final approval gate — and each question carries a 'Report an issue' control.
- The timed mock varies its item count per exam to match the real paper — 60, 53, 60 and 63 — rather than serving one generic length, and reports a per-domain gain and loss breakdown afterwards.
- The editorial argues against its own conversion in places: /is-it-worth-it publishes a 'Who should skip it' section, and /how-to-pass points readers to Anthropic's free courses before its own bank.
- No testimonials, star ratings, pass-rate statistics or student-count claims appear anywhere on the two dozen pages fetched, and the non-affiliation line is on every page footer.
- Team and operational readiness: scores 2/5 against our 0/5.
- Practice depth: scores 5/5 against our 4/5.
Where Cred Farmer is stronger
- Retention system: we score 5/5 against their 1/5.
- Structured learning: we score 4/5 against their 2/5.
- Diagnostics and personalisation: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Mock-exam realism: we score 5/5 against their 4/5.
- Value and access: we score 4/5 against their 3/5.
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 | ClaudeTestPrep | |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications covered | All four: CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-F and CCAR-P, in one account, with a study guide, question bank, mocks and flashcards for each.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | All four Anthropic Claude certifications — CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-F and CCAR-P — each with its own hub, blueprint/topics page, cost and registration page, and timed mock. Per-exam bank sizes are 300, 260, 609 and 270.Evidence“All four Claude certifications — 1439 questions spanning every domain and scenario in each exam's blueprint. Practice by domain, or take full timed mock exams.” |
| Practice questions | 1,180 across the four banks — 300 CCAO-F, 265 CCDV-F, 300 CCAR-F, 315 CCAR-P. Roughly 300 per exam, which is mid-table here rather than the deepest bank.Evidence“1,180 Practice questions” | 1,439 questions. The four exam hubs independently publish 300 (CCAO-F), 260 (CCDV-F), 609 (CCAR-F) and 270 (CCAR-P), which sums to exactly 1,439; a second, independent re-fetch of all four hubs confirmed the arithmetic, and the domain sub-splits sum correctly too. How many of those you may answer without an account is metered — see free tier.Evidence“1,439 questions · four blueprints · independent of Anthropic” |
| Study material | 119 study sections mapped to the published exam objectives, plus ten written hands-on labs and a 120-card rapid-recall deck per certification. Written material only — no video and no instructor.Evidence“119 Study sections” | No lessons, modules or curriculum. What is published is a cited explanation on every question that also rebuts each wrong option, an editorial set (/how-to-pass, /is-it-worth-it, /certifications and a cost and registration page per exam), and blueprint pages carrying prose domain overviews with a question count per objective. The site positions itself as a question bank and routes learners to Anthropic Academy and the Partner Academy to be taught.Evidence“We're an independent practice-question bank, not a substitute for the source. Before you pay for anything, read the official exam guide for your certification and work through the free courses.” |
| Full-length timed mocks | 20 full-length timed papers — five per certification, each at the real exam's item count and 120-minute clock (60 / 53 / 60 / 63 items). Four are scenario mock exams and the fifth is an objective mastery challenge at the same length. Note our own pages count these differently: /certifications says "four full mock exams per certification", which counts the mocks and not the mastery paper.Evidence“20 Timed mock exams” | One full-length timed mock per exam, at the real item count (60 / 53 / 60 / 63 across the four papers) and a 120-minute clock, scored out of 1000 with a pass at 720 and followed by a per-domain breakdown of where marks were gained and lost. It requires a free account: every /<exam>/mock page shows a logged-out visitor "Create a free account to take a mock". Sittings are metered — the site's own gate endpoint returns limits.mock = 1 — so the "unlimited mocks" in the site's copy is not what is enforced.Evidence“Create a free account to take a mock The timed mock mirrors the real sitting — 60 questions, 120 minutes, scored out of 1000 (pass at 720). It's free with an account, which also saves your result and the full analysis.” |
| Flashcards | Yes — a 120-card rapid-recall deck per certification, served through a spaced-repetition drill rather than as a static list.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, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | Not published |
| Diagnostics | Objective-level mastery tracking with weak-domain routing: a missed question feeds a targeted drill by objective, by domain, or from your own misses, ordered confidently-wrong first.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | Per-domain coverage, accuracy and weak-area tracking; a post-mock breakdown of where marks were gained and lost; a dashboard of what you have covered and what is left; plus bookmarks and cross-device progress sync. All of it sits behind a free account — the dashboard renders empty to a logged-out visitor.Evidence“Per-domain coverage, accuracy, and weak-area tracking free” |
| Readiness / adaptive path | A per-certification readiness score. Performance is 60% and preparation 40%, but an evidence gate caps the total: if your mock scores sit below the pass mark, preparation cannot lift you past "almost ready" however much you read. Only the first sitting of each distinct paper counts, drills and self-rated confidence are excluded, and a study section is only marked complete when you answer its checkpoint questions correctly — there is no "mark as complete" button.Evidence“Our readiness engine calculates a precise, real-time score based on your study history and mock test performance.” | Not published |
| Free tier | Everything is free during open beta — all four certifications, every study section, every mock and every drill. An account is required.Evidence“Right now, Cred Farmer is completely free while we are in open beta.” | Measured rather than quoted: the site's own gate endpoint, fetched anonymously from three fresh cookie jars, caps practice at 25 answered questions for an anonymous visitor and 150 for a registered free account, out of a 1,439-question bank, with one mock sitting. Past the cap the practice bundle renders a tip wall; the site says a $0 tip unlocks everything, and the unlock endpoint (POST /api/tip/grant) returns 401 "Not signed in" when signed out, so even the $0 route needs an account. No money is required at any point. The site's own claim, quoted and not adopted: "You can start with 365 questions and a full-length mock with no signup, and everything beyond that is unlocked by a pay-what-you-want tip where $0 always works".Evidence“{"tier":"anonymous","practiceAnswered":0,"mockTaken":false,"mockSittings":0,"limits":{"anonPractice":25,"registeredPractice":150,"mock":1},"allowPractice":true,"allowMock":true}” |
| Price | $0 while in open beta. No paid tier is published, and no pricing is announced for after the beta.Evidence“Free while in open beta.” | $0, pay what you want. An optional tip jar with a suggested $9 and preset amounts of $3 / $9 / $19 / $29 / $39 (the presets are on /support), presented as changing nothing about access. Team and enterprise pricing is quote-based and not published. The $99–$175 figures elsewhere on the site are Anthropic's exam fees at Pearson VUE, not a ClaudeTestPrep charge.Evidence“Free. Pay what you want. Everything's unlocked for $0. If it helps you pass, tip what it was worth.” |
| Account required | Yes for study, practice and mocks — a free account via Google or GitHub sign-in. The blog, the certification guides and this comparison are open with no account.Evidence“To maximize security, we only use OAuth (Google and GitHub).” | Partial. No account is needed to READ a question permalink — an anonymous fetch returns the full stem, the correct answer, the cited explanation and the per-option rebuttals. Answering is metered without one: the gate endpoint allows 25 answered questions anonymously and 150 with a registered free account. An account (Clerk-hosted) is additionally required for the timed mock, saved results and analysis, cross-device progress and bookmark sync, and for tipping.Evidence“{"tier":"anonymous","practiceAnswered":0,"mockTaken":false,"mockSittings":0,"limits":{"anonPractice":25,"registeredPractice":150,"mock":1},"allowPractice":true,"allowMock":true}” |
| Team support | Not published | An enterprise tier from 5+ seats with two licensing models: unlock everyone on a verified company email domain, or supply an explicit roster (any domain, contractors included). Seats can be capped or unlimited and freed as people roll off, on a single PO-friendly invoice. Access is by lead-capture quote form rather than self-serve checkout, no price is published, and no cohort or manager reporting is described.Evidence“The same 1439-question bank, every full-length mock, and every explanation — unlocked for everyone you cover. Set it up by domain or by roster, invoiced once.” |
| 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 non-affiliation line appears in every page footer, the homepage strapline reads "independent of Anthropic", and /support states the site is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the certification vendor and that the exam fee goes to Anthropic via Pearson VUE rather than to them. /faq additionally refuses real exam content on exam-policy grounds and discloses how the bank is written.Evidence“Independent practice for the Anthropic Claude certifications. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the certification vendor. The exam fee goes to Anthropic via Pearson VUE — it isn't part of your practice here.” |
Which to choose
Choose ClaudeTestPrep if…
- You are sitting CCAR-F. Their Architect Foundations bank is 609 questions against Cred Farmer's roughly 300 per exam, mapped across the same five published domain weights — more than twice the item pool for that one paper.
- You want to read real questions and their full explanations before handing over an email address. Their permalinks serve the stem, the answer and a per-option rebuttal to a logged-out visitor; Cred Farmer requires an account before you see anything.
- You are buying for a group. They publish working enterprise mechanics — domain-verified unlock or an explicit roster including contractors, capped or unlimited reassignable seats, one invoice — and Cred Farmer has no team features whatsoever.
- You have already worked through one provider's bank and want an independently written second set to cross-check yourself against. 1,439 items across the four blueprints, at no cost, make that a cheap second opinion.
Choose Cred Farmer if…
- You expect to sit more than one Claude certification and would rather not rebuild your study setup for each.
- You have booked an exam and want an honest read on whether you would pass, from a score that will not flatter you for reading more.
- You want spaced repetition and objective-level weak-area routing without paying for them.
- You want the full preparation loop — study, timed mocks, retention and diagnosis — in one place rather than assembled from three free sites.
What ClaudeTestPrep does not offer
- No flashcards: /flashcards, /cards and /decks return HTTP 404, the word appears on none of the pages fetched, and the sitemap lists no flashcard route.
- No spaced repetition or interval-based review scheduling is published; /review returns HTTP 404.
- No readiness score, pass-probability estimate or adaptive difficulty. Targeting is manual — you pick a domain or an objective and drill it.
- No lessons, modules or curriculum: the product is a question bank plus editorial guides, and it routes learners to Anthropic Academy and the Partner Academy for instruction.
- One timed mock per exam, gated behind a free account on every /<exam>/mock page shown to a logged-out visitor, and metered at a single sitting (limits.mock = 1) rather than the 'unlimited mocks' the copy advertises.
- Answering is capped without an account: 25 questions anonymously and 150 with a registered free account, out of 1,439, per the site's own gate endpoint. The $0 unlock path returns 401 'Not signed in' when signed out.
- The bank is 2.3x deeper for one exam than another — CCAR-F 609 questions against CCDV-F 260 — for real papers of 60 and 53 items respectively.
- Domain-level topic detail pages exist only for CCAR-F; the other three exams' topics pages link straight to /practice.
- Team pricing is not published at all — enterprise access is a lead-capture quote form — and no cohort or manager reporting is described on the enterprise page.
- Diagnostics, saved mock results and progress sync are all account-gated; the dashboard renders empty to a logged-out visitor.
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://claudetestprep.com/ — Homepage strapline carrying the 1,439-question headline count and the independence line.
- https://claudetestprep.com/faq — Four-certification coverage, the bank total, the refusal of real exam content, and the 365-questions / unlimited-mocks free-tier claim.
- https://claudetestprep.com/api/gate/status — The site's live enforcement layer, fetched anonymously three times: anonPractice 25, registeredPractice 150, mock 1. The measured free tier.
- https://claudetestprep.com/pricing — $0 pay-what-you-want pricing and the 5+ seat enterprise tier.
- https://claudetestprep.com/support — Independence and non-endorsement disclosure, the per-domain diagnostics list, the free daily emailed question, and the tip presets.
- https://claudetestprep.com/certifications — The site's own positioning as a question bank rather than a substitute for the exam guide.
- https://claudetestprep.com/architect-foundations/mock — Mock format — item count, 120-minute clock, scoring out of 1000 with a pass at 720 — and the create-an-account gate.
- https://claudetestprep.com/enterprise — Team licensing mechanics: domain verification or roster, seat handling, single invoice, quote form.
- https://claudetestprep.com/practice/q/ccar-p-d6-discovery-medium-001 — Anonymous permalink rendering a full question, verdict, cited explanation and 'Why the others fail' rebuttals.
- https://claudetestprep.com/sitemap.xml — Route inventory used to confirm the absence of any flashcard surface.
All read on 3 September 2026. Found something wrong? Email hello@credfarmer.com and it will be corrected.
Common questions
Is ClaudeTestPrep better than Cred Farmer?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, but ClaudeTestPrep still wins on specific criteria listed below. Under the balanced weighting, ClaudeTestPrep scores 67 and Cred Farmer scores 82 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 ClaudeTestPrep'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 ClaudeTestPrep 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 ClaudeTestPrep's own site on 3 September 2026. Prices, question counts and free tiers change without notice — 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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