GMAT Prep Pricing Dataset 2026: 11 products from 5 providers, every price source-linked

Every published US GMAT preparation price we could find, with the source URL for each number and the date it was read. 11 products from 5 providers, collected August 2026. Price range in this record: across the 9 products with a published one-time list price, the cheapest is $124, the median is $799 and the most expensive is $1,999 — a 16× spread between the cheapest and dearest way to prepare for the same exam. GMAT prep pricing is unusually opaque: list prices change without notice, “sale” prices are frequently permanent, and a meaningful share of the tutoring market publishes no price at all. This dataset exists to make that market auditable. Every row carries the exact URL the price was read from and the date it was checked, so any figure here can be independently re-verified. Nothing is estimated or modelled. Providers covered: Economist Education (formerly Economist GMAT Tutor), Magoosh, Target Test Prep, The Princeton Review, e-GMAT. Formats covered: live-online, self-paced. Columns: provider, exam, product_name, format, price_usd, billing (one-time / monthly / hourly), includes, score_guarantee, source_url, date_checked. Prices checked 2026-08-09. Browse this data as a free interactive tool — filter by format, sort by price, and follow a one-click “verify” link to the original source page for every single row: https://smeltworks.com/testprep-pricing/gmat-prep-course-prices.html Method: prices were read directly from each provider’s own public pricing page. No aggregator, reseller or affiliate page was used as a source. Figures reflect the list price visible on the date in the date_checked column and will drift over time; the source_url column exists so that drift can be measured rather than guessed at. Part of a larger dataset. This record is the GMAT subset of the full US Test-Prep Pricing Dataset 2026 (80 products, 23 providers, SAT/ACT + GRE + GMAT + LSAT + MCAT), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21896316. The combined dataset, the formatted XLSX and the written analysis are at https://smeltworks.com/testprep-pricing/. Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 — free to use, cite and redistribute for research, journalism and personal use with attribution. Commercial use (client deliverables, pricing decks, investor materials, competitive-intelligence products) requires a commercial licence, available at https://smeltworks.com/testprep-pricing/.