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This Kaplan LSAT review, and the Princeton Review verdict beside it, comes down to one observation: the specialists publish their prices and the generalists mostly do not. Kaplan runs $799 to $2,099 where it publishes at all; Princeton Review publishes nothing. Prices recorded July 26, 2026.
Competent and expensive, which is the standard verdict on big-box test prep and holds here. On Demand is $799, In Person starts at $1,445 and the 170+ course is $2,099, recorded from Kaplan's own page on July 26, 2026 (Kaplan LSAT courses (https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online)).
Set that against $69 a month for a complete curriculum from 7Sage (7Sage pricing (https://7sage.com/self-study/pricing)). Kaplan's 170+ course costs roughly thirty months of it.
The published research does not support that gradient. Neither contact hours at p = .489 nor program duration at p = .314 predicted test prep outcomes across 28 studies, per Hao and colleagues (2025), Review of Educational Research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543251360775).
On the evidence available, Kaplan, for one reason that has nothing to do with teaching: Kaplan publishes some prices and Princeton Review publishes none for any tier (Princeton Review LSAT (https://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep)).
Kaplan's own transparency is partial. Live Online and every tutoring rate are unpublished (Kaplan LSAT courses (https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-online)), so a full comparison still requires contacting sales.
We are not going to rank two products on teaching quality when one of them will not tell us what it costs. That is the honest limit of a price-transparency review.
The LSAT is two sections. It is not a broad curriculum, and the advantage a large generalist has in coverage does not apply to a test that covers Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension only, per LSAC test specifications (https://www.lsac.org/lsat/register-lsat/accommodations/specifications-lsat-and-lsat-argumentative-writing).
What matters instead is depth of explanation on argument structure, and that is where the LSAT-only providers have spent fifteen years. The specialists are also the ones publishing their prices, which is not a coincidence.
The case for big-box is availability of in-person classes in more places and, for some people, an institutional guarantee. Both are real, and Kaplan prices them between $799 and $2,099 against 7Sage Core at $69 a month.
TierPriceSourceKaplan On Demand$799https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlineKaplan In Personfrom $1,445https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlineKaplan 170+$2,099https://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlineKaplan Live Onlinenot publishedhttps://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlineKaplan tutoringnot publishedhttps://www.kaptest.com/lsat/courses/lsat-prep-diy-onlinePrinceton Review, every tiernot publishedhttps://www.princetonreview.com/law/lsat-test-prep
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.
Price is a poor predictor of outcome, and the intervention literature is unusually blunt about it. Across 28 studies and more than 16,000 participants, test prep as a category produced an overall effect of g = .26, and practice tests on their own produced g = .19 at p = .233, which is not statistically significant, per Hao and colleagues (2025), Review of Educational Research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00346543251360775).
More striking for a page about a paid course: in that same Hao and colleagues analysis, neither contact hours at p = .489 nor program duration in weeks at p = .314 predicted outcomes. Buying more hours is not the mechanism.
What did register in Hao and colleagues was structured practice on the reasoning, with workbooks at g = .40 and explicitly teaching test-taking skills at g = .35. So the question to ask of any product is not how much material it contains but whether it changes how you review.
And review timing is free. Testing yourself beats restudying at g = 0.50 across 61 studies, rising to g = 0.69 when review comes a day or more after the attempt against g = 0.41 under a day, per Rowland (2014), Psychological Bulletin (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25150680/).
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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.
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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.
Competent and expensive. Kaplan On Demand is $799, In Person starts at $1,445 and 170+ is $2,099, against 7Sage Core at $69 a month, and Hao and colleagues found no dose response for hours.
Kaplan, on price transparency alone: Kaplan publishes several course prices while Princeton Review publishes none for any tier. We will not rank teaching quality against an unpublished price.
On Demand $799, In Person from $1,445, and the 170+ course $2,099, recorded from Kaplan's own page on July 26, 2026. Live Online and tutoring rates are not published.
Not published, for any tier, anywhere on its site as of July 26, 2026. You have to contact sales to find out.
The published research does not support it. In Hao and colleagues, neither contact hours nor program duration predicted outcomes across 28 studies, while structured review work reached g = .40.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026