BestMyTest vs Magoosh for TOEFL Prep: Which Should You Choose for the New Adaptive Format?

The Short Version

• Choose BestMyTest if you want to improve your English, not only rehearse questions. Its 6,500+ questions are modeled on official ETS TOEFL questions, so they feel like the real exam in style, pattern, and difficulty, and it is the only course of the two with AI Tutor skill exercises built from your own mistakes, instant AI scores on every Speaking and Writing answer, and reviews by TOEFL certified teachers.
• Choose Magoosh if you mainly want to work through retired ETS questions with video explanations, and you are comfortable with a capped number of ETS-graded essays.
• Question bank: BestMyTest has over 6,500 TOEFL questions, each modeled on an official ETS TOEFL question and true to the real test in style, pattern, and difficulty. Magoosh lists 1,300+ licensed ETS questions.
• Full-length tests: BestMyTest includes 50 adaptive practice tests. Magoosh offers up to 10, generated from the same question pool, and recommends building only two or three so you keep questions for practice.
• Try before you pay: BestMyTest's free trial is unlimited. You can use the course free for as long as you want, with no credit card and no time limit. Magoosh's trial lasts seven days.
• Both courses cover the new adaptive TOEFL that launched on January 21, 2026, including Build a Sentence, Write an Email, Listen and Repeat, and the Interview task.

What Magoosh Does Well, and Where It Stops

Magoosh is a self-paced video course. You watch lessons, answer questions from its licensed ETS bank, and read or watch an explanation for each one. It is a tidy product, and it is clear about what it is. Here is what you get, according to its own pricing page in October 2026:

• 1,300+ licensed ETS questions. These are real retired TOEFL items, which is Magoosh's strongest selling point.
• 100+ video lessons that cover Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing, and grammar.
• Up to 10 full-length practice tests. The tests are assembled from your pool of unanswered questions, so every test you build uses questions from your practice bank. Magoosh itself recommends creating no more than two or three.
• ETS grading on a capped set of essays: one graded Writing assessment on the one-month plan and four on the six-month plan, plus instant AI feedback on your other practice.
• An AI tutor that explains questions when you get stuck, and a score predictor.
• A 7-day free trial, a 7-day refund window, and a +4 point score guarantee on the 0 to 120 scale. The guarantee applies if you already have an official TOEFL score that is less than two years old.

Where Magoosh stops is the part of TOEFL prep that moves scores most: diagnosing why you lose points and training that skill. Its explanations tell you why an answer is right. They do not give you a grammar, pronunciation, or paraphrasing exercise built from the pattern of your own errors, and human grading is limited to a set number of essays, with no teacher review of your Speaking.

What You Get with BestMyTest

BestMyTest was built around one loop: practice, review, fix the skill, practice again. Every part of the course feeds that loop.

• 6,500+ TOEFL questions modeled on official ETS TOEFL questions, so every item carries the style, pattern, and difficulty of the real exam, across every task type on the new adaptive format.
• 50 full-length adaptive practice tests that follow the new 90-minute adaptive format, including the multistage adaptive Reading and Listening sections, with a diagnostic score report after each one.
• A free instant AI score on every Speaking and Writing answer, scored on each criterion instantly, with feedback and AI Tutor skill exercises built from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• A detailed AI review of any Speaking or Writing answer you choose. For Speaking it scores every criterion and your pronunciation word by word. For Writing it scores every criterion, corrects and explains every grammar mistake, and gives you a high-scoring rewrite. Every review also builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• A TOEFL certified teacher review of any Speaking or Writing answer you choose, within three business days. For Speaking you get a score on every criterion with audio feedback. For Writing you get a score on every criterion and your essay corrected by the teacher. Every review also builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance on that answer. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• AI Tutor skill exercises that target the specific weakness behind a mistake: inference in Reading, relative clauses in Writing, a vowel sound you keep mispronouncing in Speaking.
• 200+ TOEFL and English lessons and vocabulary training with 5,000+ words, with flashcards and exercises.
• Ask an Instructor when you need a human to explain something, plus a score forecast that tracks how your practice scores are trending.
• An unlimited free trial with no credit card, plans from a 7-day pass up to two years, a score improvement guarantee, and IELTS prep plus BestMyLingo included with your TOEFL subscription.

The practical difference is simple. On Magoosh, a wrong answer ends with an explanation. On BestMyTest, a wrong answer ends with an exercise on the skill you missed, and a way to check whether the fix worked on your next answer.

BestMyTest and Magoosh Side by Side

The table uses the figures each company publishes about its own TOEFL course.

What the Learner Data Shows

Most prep companies ask you to trust testimonials. We publish our numbers. The BestMyTest TOEFL learner performance data is updated from our own records and explains how every figure is measured. Magoosh publishes a score guarantee, which is a refund policy rather than an outcome; it does not publish how many of its students improved or by how much.

Among BestMyTest learners who received three or more reviews of their answers from our AI and teachers, 93% raised their Writing band score, by an average of 2,6 bands, and 91% raised their Speaking band score, by an average of 2,2 bands.

The numbers come from real volume. 78.777 learners have completed at least one full practice test section on BestMyTest, for a total of 223.191 completed test sections, and our AI and teachers have reviewed 386.759 Speaking and Writing answers.

We cannot draw the same chart for Magoosh, because Magoosh has not published comparable figures. If it does, we will add them here.

Speaking and Writing Feedback: The Biggest Difference

Reading and Listening are self-correcting. You pick an answer, you learn whether it was right. Speaking and Writing are not. You need someone or something to tell you what a 3 sounds like compared to a 4, and what to change. This is where the two courses are furthest apart.

On Magoosh

You get instant AI feedback on your Speaking and Writing practice, and ETS grades a set number of essays: one on the one-month plan, four on the six-month plan. Speaking is scored by AI only.

On BestMyTest

Every Speaking and Writing answer you submit gets a free instant AI score on each criterion, with feedback. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics. On any answer you choose, you can add a detailed AI review or a TOEFL certified teacher review.

• The detailed AI review scores each criterion. For Speaking it colour-codes every word of your transcript by how accurately you pronounced it, scores each sound and syllable, and gives you a pronunciation exercise for every mispronounced word. For Writing it corrects and explains every grammar mistake and gives you a high-scoring rewrite. It then builds AI Tutor skill exercises from your performance. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.
• The teacher review gives you a score on each criterion and AI Tutor skill exercises built from your performance. For Speaking you get audio feedback on what to change. For Writing the teacher corrects your essay. The scoring aligns with official ETS TOEFL rubrics.

Then the review hands you off to the AI Tutor. If the teacher marks your Interview answer low on support and development, you get exercises on developing an answer. If the AI finds you drop final consonants, you get exercises on those sounds. You can read more on our TOEFL speaking review and TOEFL writing review pages.

Price, Trials, and Guarantees

Magoosh charges $109 for one month or $129 for six months, with the six-month plan also available as four payments of $32.25. Discount codes are common. You can try it free for seven days and request a full refund within seven days of purchase. The +4 point guarantee applies to the 0 to 120 score and requires an official score less than two years old, so first-time test-takers are not eligible.

BestMyTest starts with an unlimited free trial: you can use the course free for as long as you want, with no credit card and no time limit. Paid plans run from a 7-day pass for a test next week, through one to six month plans, to one and two year plans. Prices are shown in your local currency on the TOEFL plans page. Every plan carries a score improvement guarantee: at least a 1 band improvement on a Custom plan and at least 2 bands on a Premium plan, with a refund if you complete the course and your official score does not improve by that much. You do not need a previous TOEFL score. Your first practice test in the first seven days sets your baseline.

Two things to weigh beyond the sticker price. A BestMyTest TOEFL subscription also includes IELTS prep and BestMyLingo. And a single TOEFL retake costs more than either course, so the course that fixes your weaknesses before test day is the better value.

Who Each Course Is Right For

Pick Magoosh if

• Your priority is drilling retired official ETS questions.
• You learn best from slide-based video lessons and self-schedule your study.
• You already score well in Speaking and Writing and do not need a teacher's ear.

Pick BestMyTest if

• You want to know why you lose points and fix that skill, not only see the right answer.
• Speaking or Writing is holding your score back and you want a teacher's review as well as AI scores.
• You want realistic full-length adaptive tests in volume, with a diagnostic report after each one.
• You want practice that feels like the real exam: every question is modeled on an official ETS TOEFL question, with the same style, patterns, and difficulty.
• You want to try the full course free for as long as you like before paying, then pick a plan length that matches your test date.

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How We Compared the Two Courses

Magoosh figures were read from toefl.magoosh.com/plans and toefl.magoosh.com/score-guarantee in October 2026. BestMyTest figures are the course contents at the same date, and the learner figures on this page are generated from our published dataset each time it is refreshed. We sell one of the two courses, and both offer free trials you can use to check the comparison yourself; BestMyTest's has no time limit.

TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS. BestMyTest is not affiliated with ETS or with Magoosh.