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The best LSAT tutoring is the least of it you can get away with. Published rates run $175 to $1,200 an hour among providers that publish at all, while Kaplan and Princeton Review publish nothing, and the research finds no dose response for contact hours.
Buy hours against a diagnosis rather than a package. Prices recorded July 26, 2026.
Between PowerScore at $175 and LSAT Demon at $1,200 an hour among providers that publish a rate, all recorded from each provider's own pages on July 26, 2026. Kaplan and Princeton Review publish nothing at all.
That spread is not a quality gradient. It reflects who is teaching, how the hours are packaged, and in one case a tiering system that runs from an ordinary rate to an extraordinary one.
ProviderPublished hourly rateSourcePowerScore$175 per hourhttps://powerscore.com/lsat/coursesLSATMax$199 per hourhttps://testmaxprep.com/lsat/solomon-plansLSAT Demon$200 to $1,200 per hour by tierhttps://lsatdemon.com/plans/lsat7Sageroughly $198 to $240 per hour in packageshttps://7sage.com/self-study/pricingKaplanno rate publishedhttps://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlinePrinceton Reviewno rate publishedhttps://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep
It depends entirely on what you buy it for, and most people buy it for the wrong thing. Tutoring bought to cover content is expensive relative to a $69 a month 7Sage subscription that covers the same content.
Tutoring bought to fix a specific, diagnosed failure is different. A pacing collapse, a persistent blind spot on one question family, or a test-day performance gap are problems a curriculum genuinely cannot see and a person can.
The evidence supports the narrow use and not the broad one. Explicitly teaching test-taking skills reached g = .35 and workbook-style structured practice g = .40, while contact hours showed no dose response at p = .489, per Hao and colleagues (2025), Review of Educational Research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543251360775). Buying more hours is not the mechanism; buying better-targeted hours might be.
Fewer than any provider will sell you, and the right number follows from the diagnosis rather than from a package.
For a single diagnosed failure, three to five hours is usually the whole intervention: one to establish what is actually happening, two or three to install a different method, and one to check that it held under timing.
For open-ended coaching with no diagnosis, there is no right number, which is exactly why packages are sold that way. If a provider quotes hours before asking what your error pattern looks like, that is worth noticing.
At published rates, five hours runs $875 at PowerScore's $175 and $995 at LSATMax's $199, from their own pages on July 26, 2026. Compare that against 7Sage Core at $69 a month for a full curriculum before deciding which problem you are solving.
Kaplan and Princeton Review publish no tutoring rates at all (Kaplan LSAT courses (https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online) and Princeton Review LSAT (https://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep)). Princeton Review publishes no tuition price for any tier, tutoring or course.
We are not going to speculate about their rates. What we will say is that a market where the specialists publish and the largest generalists do not tells you something about who expects to compete on price.
If you are considering either, ask for the rate in writing before the sales conversation develops any momentum.
We should declare the interest: Lovare is ours. Tutoring is the category we actually compete in, so this is the page where our interest is most direct.
What Lovare is: a free diagnostic that identifies which sections are actually costing you points, a free archetype quiz that names your study failure mode, and one-to-one coaching built around the review method rather than around content delivery. We do not sell a question bank and we do not sell hours of video.
Who it is not for, stated plainly. If you want a large self-serve library to work through alone, a subscription platform is the better buy and costs less.
If you have not yet taken a timed test, coaching is premature and the free diagnostic is the whole of what we would sell you today. And if your problem is that you have not started, no coach fixes that.
We do not publish a coaching price on these pages, because our verified fact set covers competitors' published prices and not our own rate card. The diagnostic is free and the price of anything beyond it is set at the consult.
Each provider below is named somewhere in the text above. The link is its own pricing page, which is where each figure was recorded and where you should check it before buying.
7Sage: https://7sage.com/self-study/pricing. LSAT Demon: https://lsatdemon.com/plans/lsat. Blueprint: https://blueprintprep.com/lsat/online-anytime.
PowerScore: https://powerscore.com/lsat/courses. LSATMax: https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/solomon-plans.
Kaplan: https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online. Princeton Review: https://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep.
LSAC's own charges are at LSAC LSAT and CAS fees (https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-fees) and LSAC LawHub (https://www.lsac.org/lawhub). PowerScore's book prices are at PowerScore publications (https://powerscore.com/lsat/publications).
Every figure on this page was taken from the provider's own pricing page and recorded on July 26, 2026. Prep pricing moves more often than anything else we publish, and providers run promotions that are not reflected on their list-price pages.
So treat the numbers here as a snapshot with a date on it, and open the source link beside each one before you buy. We would rather print a dated figure you can check than an undated figure you cannot.
One structural cost sits outside every table on this page. LawHub Advantage costs $124 a year from LSAC and nearly every course requires it as a separate purchase (LSAC LawHub (https://www.lsac.org/lawhub)). Providers quote it inconsistently at $115, $120 and $124; LSAC's own price is the one that governs.
Every LSAC figure on this page was taken from LSAC's own pages and last checked on July 26, 2026. Prices, dates and policies move without notice, so the source link sits next to each number rather than in a bibliography at the bottom.
Where LSAC has not published something, this page says so in those words rather than filling the hole with a plausible number. That is the difference between a gap and a guess, and only one of them is safe to plan around.
Between $175 and $1,200 an hour among providers publishing a rate: PowerScore $175, LSATMax $199, 7Sage roughly $198 to $240 in packages, and LSAT Demon $200 to $1,200 by tier, all recorded July 26, 2026.
For a diagnosed, specific failure, yes. For general content coverage, no, because a $69 a month 7Sage subscription covers the same ground and Hao and colleagues found no dose response for contact hours.
Usually three to five for a single diagnosed problem: one to diagnose, two or three to install a different method, one to confirm it held under timing. Open-ended packages have no natural stopping point.
Kaplan and Princeton Review publish no tutoring rates at all, and Princeton Review publishes no tuition price for any tier. Ask for a written rate before engaging.
It is a different instrument. Courses deliver content efficiently and cheaply; tutoring diagnoses and corrects individual failure patterns that a course cannot see.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026