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How much does LSAT prep cost once you count everything: about $642 in mandatory LSAC charges before a dollar of instruction, plus $69 a month for the cheapest complete curriculum. The research finds no relationship between hours bought and outcomes. Prices recorded July 26, 2026.
Prep is the visible part of a bill that is mostly invisible. LSAC's own mandatory charges come to more than most courses (LSAC LSAT and CAS fees (https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-fees)).
ItemCostSourceLSAT registration$253https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-feesCredential Assembly Service$219https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-feesLaw school report, each school$45https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-feesLawHub Advantage, per year$124https://www.lsac.org/lawhubScore Preview, before test day$46https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-scoring/lsat-score-previewScore Preview, after testing$87https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-scoring/lsat-score-previewCourse, cheapest complete curriculum$69 per monthhttps://7sage.com/self-study/pricingCourse, most expensive we track$2,099https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online
Work it as three separate budgets, because they behave differently. The LSAC charges are fixed and non-negotiable, the prep spend is elastic, and the retake budget is the one people forget.
A worked minimum: registration at $253, CAS at $219, LawHub at $124 and Score Preview bought early at $46 comes to $642 before a single school report at $45 each or a dollar of prep, all from LSAC's own pages (LSAC LSAT and CAS fees (https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/lsat-cas-fees)).
Add six months of 7Sage Core at $69 a month and the working total is around $1,056 plus LSAC school reports. Add a second LSAC registration at $253 and it is around $1,309.
Starting positionSensible prep budgetWhyYou hold an LSAC fee waiverclose to zeroBoth waiver tiers cover registrations, CAS, reports and LawHub, and 7Sage charges waiver holders $1 a monthFirst diagnostic well below targetsix months of a $69 subscriptionTime and method, not spend, are the constraint at this distanceWithin a few points of targeta course you already own, plus targeted tutoring hoursThe remaining gap is usually specific rather than generalPlateaued after months of studyspend nothing new until diagnosedSwitching products is the most common response to a plateau and among the least effectiveFour weeks outnothing newStarting a curriculum inside a month is the wrong shape of intervention
On the published evidence, no, and this is the clearest research finding in the whole prep market. Across 28 studies and more than 16,000 participants, test prep overall produced g = .26, and neither contact hours at p = .489 nor program duration at p = .314 predicted outcomes, per Hao and colleagues (2025), Review of Educational Research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543251360775).
What registered in Hao and colleagues was the kind of work rather than the amount: workbooks at g = .40, teaching test-taking skills at g = .35, and sample items at g = .23, against practice tests alone at g = .19 which was not statistically significant.
The market prices roughly the opposite way. Kaplan's 170+ course at $2,099 and Blueprint's at $1,999 cost about thirty times a month of 7Sage Core at $69, from each provider's own pages on July 26, 2026, and nothing in the published research supports a thirtyfold difference in outcome.
ProviderSubscription pricingCourse pricingSource7SageCore $69/mo, Live $129/mo, Coach $299/mo$1/mo for LSAC fee-waiver holdershttps://7sage.com/self-study/pricingLSAT DemonEssential $99/mo, Live $179/mo, Pro $499/moFree account includes 3 official LSATshttps://lsatdemon.com/plans/lsatBlueprintSelf-Paced Starter $99/mo, Pro $149/moLive Course $1,299, 170+ Course $1,999https://blueprintprep.com/lsat/online-anytimePowerScoreOn Demand $99/moLive Online $995https://powerscore.com/lsat/coursesLSATMaxSolomon Core $99/mo, Solomon Plus+ $199/mo170+ Course $1,595https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/solomon-plansKaplanOn Demand $799In Person from $1,445, 170+ $2,099https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlinePrinceton Reviewno price published, any tierno price published, any tierhttps://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep
Spacing your practice costs nothing and produced 47.3 percent correct against 36.7 percent for massed practice, with 259 of 271 comparisons favoring spacing, per Cepeda and colleagues (2006), Psychological Bulletin (https://www.yorku.ca/ncepeda/publications/CPVWR2006.pdf).
Reviewing a day later rather than the same day costs nothing and moves the testing effect from g = 0.41 to g = 0.69, per Rowland (2014), Psychological Bulletin (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25150680/).
Mixing question types rather than drilling them in blocks costs nothing and produced 61 percent correct against 38 percent at a 33-day delay, per Rohrer, Dedrick and Hartwig (2019), Journal of Educational Psychology (https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/spaced-repetition/2019-rohrer.pdf). Three free changes with larger measured effects than any product on this page.
Two of the seven, and it is worth naming plainly. Princeton Review publishes no tuition price anywhere on its site for any tier (Princeton Review LSAT (https://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep)).
Kaplan publishes some and not others: On Demand at $799, In Person from $1,445 and its 170+ course at $2,099 are listed, while Live Online and every tutoring rate are not (Kaplan LSAT courses (https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online)). LSATMax publishes its course prices but not its subscription prices for some tiers (LSATMax plans (https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/solomon-plans)).
Pricing behind a signup form is a choice, and the usual reason for it is that the price varies by who is asking. That is not automatically bad and it does mean you cannot compare without handing over contact details, which is worth knowing before you start.
We should declare the interest: Lovare is ours. A page about what prep costs should say what we charge, so: the diagnostic is free and anything beyond it is priced at the consult.
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.
Budget the fixed LSAC charges first: $253 registration, $219 CAS, $124 LawHub and $46 early Score Preview is $642 before any prep. Six months of the cheapest complete curriculum adds about $414.
The published research says no. In Hao and colleagues, neither contact hours at p = .489 nor program duration at p = .314 predicted outcomes across 28 studies, while structured review work reached g = .40.
A realistic working total is around $1,056 plus school reports at $45 each, covering LSAC's mandatory charges and six months of a $69 monthly curriculum. A retake adds $253.
7Sage Core at $69 a month, or $1 a month for LSAC fee-waiver holders, from 7Sage's own pricing page on July 26, 2026.
Partly. LSAT Demon's free account includes three official LSATs, and the three highest-value study changes, spacing, delayed review and interleaving, cost nothing at all.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026