Head to head
Cred Farmer vs PrepMyCert: which should you use?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, and PrepMyCert 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 PrepMyCert's own page and carries the date we read it. The verdict is computed from published weightings, not written by us.
Worth knowing before you buy.
- Site-wide social proof is contradicted by the site's own course pages. The homepage advertises "5,000+ Happy Students" and "4.8" as its "Average Rating", and /about repeats "5,000+ Students Trained", while every one of the 14 course cards displays "(4.5) • 0 reviews" and both Claude course pages read "4.5 (0 reviews) • 0+ students" above the line "No reviews yet. Be the first to review this course!". The footer on every page adds a third population figure, "Join 10,000+ IT professionals preparing for their certifications". None of the aggregate figures is supported by review data the site itself exposes.
- /about claims "20+" beside "Certifications Covered" while /courses and sitemap.xml both list 14 courses.
- The advertised catalogue does not match the actual one. The FAQ states "We cover major cloud certifications including Microsoft Azure (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AI-102, etc.)," and the homepage promises "the latest Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and AI certs", but no AZ-900, AZ-204, AI-102 or Google Cloud course is sold - and the homepage product mockup showcases "AZ-900 Progress" for a course that does not exist in the catalogue.
- The FAQ says "Each course includes multiple full-length practice tests (typically 4–6 tests depending on the" certification, while the CCAO-F course ships 12 and the DP-700 course ships 24.
- The refund deadline differs between the two places it is published: the Terms require the request within 30 days of taking the official exam, while both Claude course pages instruct you to "Submit your official exam results within 7 days of taking the exam". A buyer following the course page and one following the Terms are working to different windows.
- COUNTERVAILING, and it matters: no dump or leaked-question marketing appears anywhere. The opposite - their blog states "Nobody legitimate sells real exam questions", warns that anything advertising actual exam dumps is offering a credential that can be revoked, and applies that test to prep sites "ours included". Their questions are consistently described as original and modelled on published objectives.
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 | PrepMyCert | Better fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced overall | 90 | 54 | Cred Farmer |
| I want one system for all four exams | 92 | 55 | Cred Farmer |
| I only need one exam | 92 | 61 | Cred Farmer |
| I want the best free option | 89 | 67 | Cred Farmer |
| I learn from video or an instructor | 52 | 35 | Cred Farmer |
| My exam is in two weeks | 96 | 60 | Cred Farmer |
| I am preparing a team | 82 | 42 | Cred Farmer |
What each one is better at
Where PrepMyCert is stronger
- Question volume per exam is high for the price: 680 CCAO-F questions across 12 practice tests and 360 CCAR-F questions across 6, each package a one-time $19.99 with lifetime access, unlimited retakes and free updates for existing customers - no subscription.
- The CCAO-F course page lists all seven published domains with their weights (Output Evaluation and Validation 21%, Workflow Integration 16%, Governance 15%, Prompting 14%, Product and Model Selection 12%, Configuration 12%, Troubleshooting 10%) and states the question mix is weighted to match.
- Explanations are written for every answer option, not only the correct one - stated in the FAQ and on /about, and demonstrable without paying, since all ten free CCAO-F blog samples carry a "Why the others are wrong" block.
- The free editorial is unusually candid: the certification guide opens with the access prerequisite for sitting the exam rather than the fee, states that "720 out of 1,000 is not 72%", warns that anyone publishing a required raw question count is guessing, and disavows exam dumps - applying that filter to prep sites "ours included".
- Their published counts hold up to arithmetic: the CCAO-F per-test breakdown reconciles exactly to the advertised 680 (11 x 60 + 20), and the CCAR-F list to 360, so the headline number is checkable before you buy.
- A conditional money-back offer is published with its terms in full rather than buried - a 70% average across all practice tests, sitting the official exam, and submitting an official transcript as proof of failure.
Where Cred Farmer is stronger
- Retention system: we score 5/5 against their 0/5.
- Structured learning: we score 5/5 against their 2/5.
- Diagnostics and personalisation: we score 5/5 against their 2/5.
- Team and operational readiness: we score 3/5 against their 0/5.
- Certification coverage: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Evidence and transparency: we score 4/5 against their 2/5.
- Mock-exam realism: 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 | PrepMyCert | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.” | Two of the four Claude certifications, both live as paid courses: CCAR-F (Claude Certified Architect Foundations) and CCAO-F (Claude Certified Associate Foundations), both tagged "AI / Anthropic" on /courses. No CCDV-F and no CCAR-P course exists in the catalogue or the sitemap, although their blog documents all four exams. The full catalogue is 14 courses spanning AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, CompTIA and ITIL, so Claude prep is one corner of a general IT-certification catalogue rather than the focus of the business.Evidence“Practice tests for the Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCAR-F) exam. 360 questions on Claude API, Claude Code, Agent SDK, MCP, and tool use.” |
| 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.” | CCAO-F: 680 questions across 12 practice tests. CCAR-F: 360 questions across 6 tests. Both figures are stated consistently on /courses, on the course cards and in each course's Course Stats block, and the CCAO-F total reconciles exactly against the published per-test list (11 tests x 60 questions + 1 test x 20 questions = 680); CCAR-F likewise (6 x 60 = 360). The question mix is stated as weighted to the published domain split, and the FAQ and /about both say every answer option carries reasoning, not only the correct one.Evidence“Practice tests for the Claude Certified Associate - Foundations (CCAO-F) exam. 680 questions across 12 practice tests, weighted to Anthropic's published domain split.” |
| 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.” | A question-bank product. The FAQ and /about advertise practice questions with an explanation for every answer option, and neither Claude course's "What's Included" panel lists written lessons - the entries are questions, explanations, analytics, mobile access and lifetime access. Written study material exists, but as free blog articles outside the purchase: a CCAR-F study guide, a 30-day CCAR-F study plan, a four-exam certification guide, an Agent SDK primer and two sample-question sets. The Terms of Service describe the service as "Access to certification practice questions and study materials" and separately document a second mode, "AI Interview Practice (Beta)", an OpenAI-backed interview simulator with voice recording and automated feedback, which appears on no marketing page and is carved out of the refund policy. The paid course interior sits behind a login we did not enter, so what the package contains beyond what it advertises is not verified either way.Evidence“detailed explanations for all answer options - not just the correct answer” |
| 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).” | Yes - timed papers are the core product. CCAR-F ships 6 tests, each 60 questions / 90 minutes, each with a stated domain focus (Test 4 covers Claude Code CI/CD, multi-agent research and developer productivity scenarios). CCAO-F ships 12 tests, of which 11 are full-length at 60 questions / 90 minutes; Practice Test 12 is 20 questions / 30 minutes. Unlimited retakes on every test. Note that the full-length papers run 90 minutes while the same course page gives the exam as "60 items, 120 minutes", so the simulated clock is shorter than the exam clock the page itself publishes.Evidence“CCAO-F practice test 12 - 20 questions.” |
| 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.” | Post-test analytics only. Both Claude course pages carry a Performance Tracking tile reading "Monitor your progress and identify weak areas", and progress tracking and analytics appear in every course's What's Included list. There is no standalone diagnostic or placement instrument - the practice-test list begins at Practice Test 1 with no pre-test - so weak areas surface only after you have sat a full-length 60-question paper.Evidence“Monitor your progress and identify weak areas” |
| 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, no adaptive difficulty and no adaptive study path is published; the words "readiness" and "adaptive" appear nowhere across the pages and scripts checked. What each course advertises is retrospective "Progress tracking and analytics" after you take tests. Sequencing what to practise next is left to the learner, and the site's own advice on rationing study time by domain weight lives in a free blog article rather than inside the product.Evidence“Progress tracking and analytics” |
| 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.” | Yes, by two routes. Each course offers 20 free practice questions behind a free account - the course page shows a "Try 20 Free Questions" button beneath the line "Login to access 20 FREE practice questions". Separately, the blog publishes 10 CCAO-F sample questions covering all seven domains and 10 CCAR-F sample questions, each with reasoning for the correct answer and for every distractor, readable with no account at all. The footer newsletter also offers 20 free questions by email.Evidence“Login to access 20 FREE practice questions” |
| 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.” | $19.99 USD one-time per course, dual-priced at INR 1,999, with lifetime access and no subscription - the same list price across all 14 courses. The bundle widget on each course page shows a single-course promo price of $11.99 (40% off) as its default state and switches to 50% off, about $9.99 per course, once a second course is added, matching the FAQ's offer to "save 50% when you buy 2 or more courses"; the widget's "Buy This Bundle" button ships disabled until at least two courses are selected. Payment is via Razorpay for INR and PayPal for international cards.Evidence“One-time payment • Lifetime access” |
| 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).” | Yes for anything interactive on the platform: both the 20 free questions and the purchase are login-gated, the purchase CTA reading "Login to Purchase Full Access". No question can be answered anonymously on the platform itself. The account step is low-friction, though - login is passwordless, with /dashboard offering a one-time password sent by email rather than a password. Blog content, including both sample-question sets and every study guide, is fully readable with no account.Evidence“Login to Purchase Full Access” |
| 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.” | Partial, and scoped to the blog. The Claude certification guide ends with an article-scoped disclaimer stating it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. No equivalent notice appears in the site footer, on the homepage, on /courses, on either Claude course page, on /about, on /faq, or anywhere in the Terms of Service, where a search for "Anthropic", "affiliat" and "trademark" returns nothing. A buyer who lands directly on a Claude course page and checks out sees no statement of independence.Evidence“This article is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.” |
Which to choose
Choose PrepMyCert if…
- You are sitting CCAO-F and want maximum distinct question exposure: 680 questions across 12 papers is more than double the ~300 per exam Cred Farmer publishes, for a one-off $19.99.
- You want to read real sample questions with full per-option reasoning before creating an account anywhere - PrepMyCert publishes 10 CCAO-F and 10 CCAR-F samples with explanations on its open blog, whereas Cred Farmer makes you sign in before you can practise at all.
- You are also preparing for a non-Claude certification - AWS SAA-C03, Microsoft Fabric DP-700, ITIL 4 - and would rather have one account and one checkout covering both, which Cred Farmer cannot do because it only covers the four Claude exams.
- You want volume specifically on CCAR-F architecture scenarios: six full-length papers, each with a distinct stated domain focus, for $19.99 with lifetime access and unlimited retakes.
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 PrepMyCert does not offer
- Publishes no flashcards and no spaced repetition of any kind; neither term appears anywhere on the site and /flashcards returns 404.
- Publishes no readiness score, no adaptive difficulty and no adaptive study path - the analytics are retrospective progress tracking.
- Publishes no standalone diagnostic or placement test; the practice-test list starts at Test 1, so weak domains surface only after a full-length 60-question paper.
- Covers two of the four Claude certifications. There is no CCDV-F and no CCAR-P course, although the blog covers all four exams.
- Neither Claude course's "What's Included" panel lists written lessons; the written guides that exist are free blog articles outside the purchase.
- The full-length CCAO-F practice papers are set to 90 minutes while the same course page states the exam is 60 items in 120 minutes, so the timed simulation is shorter than the clock the page publishes.
- Publishes no team or organisation offering: no seats, no manager or cohort reporting, no team pricing, and /teams returns 404.
- Nothing on the platform can be answered without an account - both the 20 free questions and the purchase are login-gated; only the blog is open.
- No statement of independence from Anthropic appears on any page a buyer transacts on; the disclaimer exists only at the foot of a blog article.
- The AI Interview Practice beta is documented only in the Terms and Privacy Policy - it appears on no marketing page, and /interview, /ai-interview and /interview-practice all return 404 to a logged-out visitor, so a buyer cannot see what it is before purchase.
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://www.prepmycert.com/courses Full 14-course catalogue; the two Anthropic-track courses with their 680 and 360 question counts and "AI / Anthropic" tags; the "(4.5) • 0 reviews" card state.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/ccao-f-claude-certified-associate-foundations/ CCAO-F Course Stats (680 total questions), the 12-test list with per-test item counts and 90-minute clocks, the seven domain weights, the free-question and purchase login gates, price and bundle widget, Performance Tracking tile.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/ccaf-claude-certified-architect-foundations/ CCAR-F course page (the slug is ccaf, not ccar-f): 360 questions, six 60-question / 90-minute tests with stated domain focus, "Progress tracking and analytics" in What's Included, purchase login gate.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/faq Per-option explanations claim, the 50%-off-two-courses offer, the "typically 4–6 tests" statement, and the claimed Azure and Google Cloud coverage.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/terms-of-service Section 4 Services Provided, including 4.1 practice questions and study materials and 4.2 AI Interview Practice (Beta); section 6 refund conditions and their 30-day window; payment processors.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/about "20+ Certifications Covered", the 5,000+ students and 4.8 rating figures, and the "Detailed reasoning for every answer option" claim.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/blog/claude-certification-guide-2026 The independence disclaimer, coverage of all four exams, the scaled-score warning, and the explicit disavowal of exam dumps.
- https://www.prepmycert.com/blog/ccao-f-sample-questions Ten no-login CCAO-F sample questions, each with a "Why the others are wrong" block, demonstrating the per-option explanation format.
All read on 3 September 2026. Found something wrong? Email hello@credfarmer.com and it will be corrected.
Common questions
Is PrepMyCert better than Cred Farmer?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, and PrepMyCert scores higher on none of the 10 rubric criteria, though it has strengths of its own. Under the balanced weighting, PrepMyCert scores 54 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 PrepMyCert'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 PrepMyCert 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 PrepMyCert'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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