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The best bar prep course depends on you, but the prices do not: they run from free for Helix's MPRE course to $7,499.99 for JD Advising's top tier, with incumbents between $1,895 and $3,099. Every figure here came from the provider's own page on July 27, 2026.
There is no single answer, and any page that gives you one without disclosing its pricing method is selling something.
What we can give you is every published price, taken from the company's own page, plus which providers have actually shipped NextGen content.
The structural read: incumbents sit between $1,895 and $3,099 street, Helix is a nonprofit at $1,199, and JD Advising holds the high-touch tier from $1,799.99 to $7,499.99.
Two questions matter more than the brand. Does the product make you review what you got wrong, and will you actually use it four days a week. Neither is answered by a price.
From free, for Helix's MPRE course, to $7,499.99 for JD Advising Premium Plus.
Every figure below came from the provider's own pricing or product page on July 27, 2026.
ProviderPublished priceNextGen productBARBRI Premium$2,999 list, $2,099 on the retrieval dateEmbedded, no separate SKUBARBRI Elite$3,999 list, $3,099 on the retrieval dateEmbedded, no separate SKUThemis Bar Review$2,995 list, promoted at $1,895Yes, priced identicallyThemis International and LLM$3,695 list, $3,195 for 2027 and $2,595 for 2028YesKaplan Bar Review$2,850Yes, priced identically at $2,850Helix Bar Review (AccessLex, nonprofit)$1,199 plus shipping; LLM $1,799; MPRE freeYes, same priceJD Advising On Demand$1,799.99Yes, priced identicallyJD Advising Premium live$4,499.99YesJD Advising Premium Plus$7,499.99YesQuimbee SideBar Videos$550 for 12 monthsYes, not priced separatelyQuimbee Study Aids$276 billed yearly, or $33 monthlyYesUWorld MBE QBank$449 to $549 depending on windowRoutes to Themis, no price publishedCrushendo UBE Suite$690; MBE Suite $590; outlines $330No NextGen productSmartBarPrep$149 to $499 by tierNot shipped, Coming Soon for February 2027Studicata$0, $29 per month, or $99 per monthNo NextGen coverage foundAdaptiBarNot published, entire site is JavaScript gatedMarketed by BARBRI
Each price from the provider's own page, linked in the method section below. Verified July 27, 2026. Where a price is not published, the row says so rather than carrying a figure from a review site.
Seven have shipped NextGen content: Themis, Kaplan, Helix, JD Advising, Quimbee, UWorld, BARBRI (embedded).
Four have not: SmartBarPrep, Crushendo, Studicata, Lean Sheets.
SmartBarPrep is the furthest behind. Its NextGen page reads Coming Soon for the February 2027 exam with only an email signup, a full exam cycle late, even though its homepage markets the NextGen jurisdictions by name (https://smartbarprep.com/nextgen-ube-study-guides/).
The finding that matters more than any of the individual products: no provider charges more for NextGen than for its legacy course. Themis, Kaplan, Helix and JD Advising price them identically and BARBRI has no separate NextGen SKU at all (https://www.themisbar.com/nextgen/, https://www.kaptest.com/bar-exam/courses/nextgen-bar-exam).
Helix Bar Review is a programme of AccessLex Institute run on an explicit offer-it-at-cost model (https://www.helixbarreview.org/pricing).
Helix NextGen, Helix UBE, Helix California and Helix Florida are each $1,199 plus shipping. The LL.M. course is $1,799. Helix MPRE is free.
It also runs a Switch and Save voucher of up to $275 for students who have already put a deposit down with a competing provider, which is the most aggressive structural price pressure in the market.
Helix publishes no pass guarantee. Instead it claims a 90 percent July 2025 UBE first-time pass rate among students completing 75 percent of the course and 94 percent among those completing 100 percent, which is a self-reported figure conditioned on course completion and should be read as such.
Almost always a retake, not a refund, and every one of them excludes something.
BARBRI's guarantee gives one free Premium retake in the same jurisdiction at the next offering, and excludes all supplements including the AdaptiBar MCQ Simulator, the AdaptiBar NextGen MCQ Simulator, the Writing Guide, CriticalPass and Quimbee SideBar (https://www.barbri.com/bar-review-course/guarantee).
Themis gives one free repeat throughout enrollment with Themis, which is not the same as one per jurisdiction (https://www.themisbar.com/enrollment-policies).
JD Advising runs a separate Guarantee Program promising a full refund of programme costs plus payment of next-jurisdiction bar exam fees on failure, gated on completing 100 percent of requirements. Its price is not published (https://jdadvising.com/bar-exam-guarantee/).
Every figure came from the provider's own pricing or product page on July 27, 2026. No review site, no affiliate roundup, no coupon site and no best-of listicle was used as a price source, because those are where stale and invented figures propagate.
Where a company gates its price behind JavaScript or a form, we record that as the finding rather than substituting a number from elsewhere. AdaptiBar's entire site is JavaScript-gated and returns no price on any page including its own pricing and buy pages (https://www.adaptibar.com/pricing).
Where a company's own two pages disagree, we print both and say so. Themis advertises $1,776 on its homepage against $1,895 on its bar review page, and Crushendo prices its UBE Suite at $690 in one place and Bar Exam Prep at $970 in another. Both were live on the companies' own sites.
Prices move. Check the inline links against what you find, and treat any figure quoted without a link to the company's own page as unverified.
One framing point that governs this whole page. The first NextGen administration was July 28 and 29, 2026 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen), so at the time of writing no NextGen exam had been sat anywhere in the world and no results existed. There is no NextGen pass rate, no score distribution, no repeater data and no retrospective on how it went, and anyone offering you one is inventing it.
And note what that means for prep marketing specifically. No provider can honestly claim a NextGen pass rate, a NextGen score improvement, or that its NextGen materials are proven. Any such claim you encounter is about the legacy exam or about nothing.
NCBE has not published a NextGen mean or standard deviation either. The figures are absent from the Guidance Brief, the Examinees' Guide, the Blueprint and every scoring page (https://www.ncbex.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/FOR%20RELEASE%20NCBE%20NextGen%20Guidance%20Brief-Recommended%20Passing%20Score%20Range-2.pdf), which is worth knowing before you read anyone's confident claim about difficulty.
This page is one spoke of a cluster. The hub is our NextGen bar exam pillar, which carries the whole transition in one place and links every spoke including this one.
The two most closely related pages here are nextgen bar prep courses and how much does bar prep cost beyond the sticker price.
Everything across the cluster is drawn from the same verified fact set and carries the same verified-as-of date, so the numbers agree with each other by construction rather than by coincidence.
It cannot tell you what your own board will do. Jurisdictions set their own dates, fees, cut scores, deadlines and admission rules, and NCBE compiles those decisions rather than making them.
It cannot substitute for reading your jurisdiction's rule text. Compilation charts are an index into the rules, not the rules, and every material decision should be checked against the authority itself.
The first is adoption. Supreme courts issue orders on their own schedule and NCBE's compilation pages lag them, which is exactly what happened with California in July 2026.
The second is the calendar. Most jurisdictions had not posted 2027 dates or 2027 fees at verification, and several were serving prior-cycle pages without saying so.
The third is cut scores. NCBE states on its own page that jurisdictions are currently evaluating its recommended NextGen range (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/minimum-passing-scores), so that list grows month by month.
None of those three settles before autumn. Treat September as the re-check point for anything on this page that carries a date or a number.
Start at NCBE's jurisdiction index (https://www.ncbex.org/jurisdictions) to find the name of your admitting authority, which is often not the state bar association and is sometimes a board sitting under the supreme court.
Then go to that authority's own site and look for a dated page. A page with no cycle label is the warning sign, not the exception; several boards serve prior-cycle information with no year on it anywhere.
Cross-check the deadlines page against the program page, because they disagree more often than they should. We found boards contradicting themselves on dates in the same week.
If the two disagree and you cannot tell which is current, email the board and keep the reply. A dated email from the board is better evidence than any table, including this one.
Open your own jurisdiction's board page and confirm every date and number on this page against it.
Where this page says not yet published, check again in September, which is when most boards refresh.
If your plan turns on a figure here, get it from the board in writing rather than from any table.
Everything on this page about bar prep pricing was read on the source pages listed inline on July 27, 2026, and the date is on the page rather than buried in a footer because this material moves faster than anything else we publish.
Three separate clocks are running against it. Supreme courts issue adoption orders and NCBE's own pages lag them.
Most jurisdictions had not posted 2027 dates or fees. NextGen passing scores are being set jurisdiction by jurisdiction right now, and NCBE says so on its own page (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/minimum-passing-scores).
Re-check your own jurisdiction's board before you rely on any date or number here, including ours. A figure quoted anywhere without a cycle label and a date attached is unverified by definition.
No page can answer that honestly for you. What is verifiable is price and NextGen coverage. Ask instead whether the product makes you review your errors and whether you will use it four days a week.
From free for Helix's MPRE course to $7,499.99 for JD Advising Premium Plus. Incumbents run $1,895 to $3,099 street; Helix is $1,199 as a nonprofit selling at cost.
Themis, Kaplan, Helix, JD Advising, Quimbee, UWorld and BARBRI, though BARBRI embeds it with no separate SKU. SmartBarPrep, Crushendo, Studicata and Lean Sheets have not shipped it.
No. Every provider that has shipped NextGen prices it identically to its legacy course, and BARBRI has no separate NextGen SKU at all.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026