AlgoExpert vs LeetCode vs NeetCode: what all three actually cost on 20 August 2026

On 20 August 2026 I opened three purchase pages back to back: algoexpert.io/purchase, leetcode.com/subscribe and neetcode.io/pro. Somebody had asked me which one was worth paying for, I went to check what they cost now, and the AlgoExpert vs LeetCode vs NeetCode comparisons I found were quoting figures that no longer appear on the vendors’ own pages.

So here are the numbers, with the date I read them and the page I read each one from. Two of the things that changed since those posts were written are load-bearing for the advice they give.

AlgoExpert vs LeetCode vs NeetCode: two claims these comparisons still get wrong

The first turns on LeetCode Premium company tags, and it is the argument almost every post in this cluster leans on. Pay for Premium, the thinking goes, because it is the only place with company-tagged problems. NeetCode’s videos are free, so what your money actually buys at LeetCode is the list of questions asked at Amazon in the last six months.

NeetCode Pro now lists company-tagged problems across 100+ companies as an included feature, described on its own page as filtering by company tag so you can focus on questions asked at your target employer. That is the same pitch from the cheaper vendor. I don’t know how NeetCode’s tag data compares to LeetCode’s on depth or freshness, which is a genuine hole in this post and one I come back to near the end, but “only LeetCode has the company data” is no longer a sentence anyone should write without checking first.

The second one is stranger. AlgoExpert doesn’t sell a standalone AlgoExpert subscription on its public purchase page any more. There is exactly one thing to buy: All Access, $119 for one year, covering AlgoExpert, SystemsExpert, FrontendExpert, MLExpert, InfraExpert, iOSExpert and BlockchainExpert, against a $693 list price.

Set that against those posts. Guru’s Coach, published 15 December 2023, says “Algoexpert is billed at $49 for yearly access only”. Code Intuition, published 19 March 2026 and the freshest price-bearing comparison I found, quotes AlgoExpert at $99/year and NeetCode Pro at $149/year. Neither AlgoExpert figure appears anywhere on the purchase page today, and the NeetCode one is $30 over the current price. I want to be careful with this, because it is an absence rather than an announcement: a cheaper single-product tier could still exist behind a login or on some legacy URL I didn’t find. What I can say is that somebody arriving at the public purchase page today is shown one option, at $119.

NeetCode Pro pricing, LeetCode Premium cost and AlgoExpert All Access, checked 20 August 2026

All USD, read from a US-resolved fetch, and LeetCode states on its page that prices are marked in USD. I didn’t check INR pricing, student rates or tax, which matters, because a large share of the people running this search are in India.

One caveat the table can’t hold. AlgoExpert’s $119 sits under a banner advertising seven products at over 80% off, with a live countdown attached. When I loaded it the clock read roughly 18 hours remaining, and it was ticking down between two fetches about 37 seconds apart. Whether that countdown resets every day is the thing I would most like to tell you and can’t, on one day’s observation. Read $119 as the sale price on the date I checked it, and $693 as the list.

The curation argument has mostly collapsed

Every DSA subscription comparison I read frames this as curation against volume. AlgoExpert handed you 200 hand-picked questions with two-part video explanations, complexity analysis and written solutions in nine languages. NeetCode gave you a route through the Blind 75 and the NeetCode 150, while LeetCode gave you all of it at once and left you to sort it out.

All of it at once is bigger than those posts admit. I queried LeetCode’s public GraphQL endpoint on 20 August and got 4,029 problems: 960 Easy, 2,103 Medium, 966 Hard. Guru’s Coach still describes that library as “nearly 3,000 and counting”, which was accurate enough for December 2023 and is now about a thousand problems short. The 4,029 total includes Premium-locked problems, and I couldn’t split free from paid without an authenticated account, so please don’t read it as the free count.

A correction worth making while we’re here. AlgoExpert’s own page says 200 coding interview questions. Tech Interview, updated 16 July 2026, argues that “160 problems is not enough volume”; Code Intuition puts it at 100. The rest of what All Access lists is a data structures crash course, an in-browser IDE, four timed coding assessments, a certificate of completion and some bonus behavioral material. Those timed assessments are underrated. Sitting a round you can’t pause is closer to the real thing than any amount of untimed practice.

Curation still helps if you’ve got six weeks and no plan. It helps a lot less than it did in 2021, because the good lists cost nothing now. NeetCode’s free tier carries the Blind 75 and NeetCode 150 with video explanations, which is most of what people were buying AlgoExpert for four years ago. There’s a longer breakdown of how the two lists differ in NeetCode 150 vs Blind 75.

The AI split is the real 2026 difference

LeetCode Premium now bundles something called Ask Leet. LeetCode describes it as a coding agent for brainstorming, optimizing, generating test cases and debugging, and says Premium members get 500 extra monthly credits for the most advanced models plus up to 30 solution analyses per day. I have not used it. Everything above is LeetCode’s own copy.

NeetCode Pro carries two AI features. NeetBot is an in-editor chat that answers questions and does visual walkthroughs. AI Hints & Debug gives graduated hints, then analyzes your code and shows a side-by-side diff against a suggested fix. The diff is the half I find interesting, because graduated hints are a rough approximation of what a decent interviewer does when you stall out on a problem.

AlgoExpert’s All Access feature list names no AI feature at all. No chat, no hint system, nothing. Something may exist behind the login, but it is not on the page they sell from.

That matters more than it would have in 2023. Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey found 84% of respondents using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% the year before, across 33,662 responses to that question. If most people buying a DSA subscription already write code with an assistant open, then a practice environment without one is drilling a motion they won’t repeat at work.

You can argue the reverse, and the reverse argument is decent: interviews are still mostly assistant-free, so practicing without help is closer to the actual test. I lean the other way, and I’d move off that position quickly if somebody showed me offer-rate data either way.

Hints while you study are one thing. A live round with an interviewer watching your cursor sit still is another, and that second half is what the LastRound AI copilot was built for. The free tier gives you 15 credits a month that reset each month, which is enough to work out whether the format suits you before spending anything on it.

The rest of each feature list is worth a skim before you decide, because the two paid tiers are not buying you the same kind of thing. LeetCode Premium adds Lightning Judge, an interactive breakpoint debugger, timed interview simulations, cloud storage and unlimited playgrounds on top of the company filters. NeetCode Pro counts 200+ videos, 300+ practice problems in a browser editor, written guides and solutions in eight languages.

What the free tiers actually cover

LeetCode free gives you the problem set minus a Premium-locked subset, without the company filters and without Ask Leet. NeetCode free gives you the roadmaps and their video explanations. AlgoExpert has no free tier that I could find on the purchase page.

If you’re starting from nothing this month, work the free path first. Do the Blind 75 in the browser, pay nobody, and see whether you’re still at it three weeks from now. Most people aren’t. A pattern-level cheat sheet will move you further in the first two weeks than any of these three subscriptions will.

What I could not verify

These are the gaps I’d rather list than paper over.

• Whether AlgoExpert’s countdown resets. One reading of about 18 hours proves nothing on its own. The Wayback Machine’s CDX API returns 21 captures of that page across 20 distinct dates between January 2025 and June 2026, and every capture is roughly 3KB, because the page renders client-side (query: web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=www.algoexpert.io/purchase&from=20250101&to=20260630, re-run today). So the archive can’t settle it either.
• How NeetCode’s company-tag data stacks up against LeetCode’s. Both vendors claim the feature. Neither publishes a methodology, a refresh cadence, or where the data comes from.
• Whether Ask Leet is worth having. All I have is LeetCode’s description of it.
• NeetCode’s own pages disagree with each other. The pricing page says 1,000+ practice problems and video explanations; the Pro page says 300+ problems. I’ve quoted both figures instead of picking whichever flatters the argument.
• How many of LeetCode’s 4,029 problems sit outside the paywall.

All three sites also fought off plain automated fetching. LeetCode’s subscribe page returned a 403 to curl. AlgoExpert and NeetCode are single-page apps whose prices don’t appear in the served HTML or the JS bundles. The figures above came through a rendering proxy pointed at the vendors’ own URLs, so the content is theirs, but it is one step removed from a browser and worth saying out loud.

If you’re paying this week

Here is how I would split AlgoExpert vs LeetCode vs NeetCode with today’s prices in front of me. NeetCode Pro at $119, or the $297 lifetime if you’re the sort who’ll still be grinding this in three years. The videos are there, the company tags are on the feature list, the hint system does roughly what a study tool should, and its free tier is good enough that you can test the teaching style before paying. LeetCode Premium at $159 is the right call in one specific case, which is that you’re two weeks out from an onsite at a named company and you want that company’s questions sorted by frequency. AlgoExpert is the hardest to place, and that isn’t a shot at the content, which people who bought it in 2021 still speak well of. It’s that $119 now buys six products you probably don’t want stapled to one you might, from a vendor whose feature list hasn’t shifted shape while the other two rebuilt around AI.

If that flash-sale clock still reads about 18 hours the next time you open the page, you’ll know as much about AlgoExpert’s real price as I do.