APEUni advertises PTE Academic and PTE Core practice with AI scoring for free on its homepage. Check their site for the current terms — this page was last verified on 8 September 2026.

Does Hilingo have a free option?

Yes. Your first full-length scored mock is free and does not need a card.

Which is more accurate?

We will not claim a number we cannot show you. No third-party engine, ours included, is Pearson's — the honest use of any of them is to find weaknesses and track movement, not to predict your exact score.

Comparison

Hilingo vs APEUni

APEUni is one of the best-known free PTE practice platforms and a genuinely good place to drill question types. The difference is what happens after the score appears.

Everything in the APEUni column is taken from their own public pages or from a test we ran ourselves, and was last checked on 8 September 2026. Products change — if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

Side by side

	Hilingo	APEUni
Exams covered	PTE Academic, PTE Core, CELPIP and the Duolingo English Test. IELTS is in development.	PTE Academic and PTE Core.
Free tier	First full scored mock free, no card required.	Practice with AI scoring advertised as free.
AI scoring on speaking	Own engine. Pronunciation compared at the phoneme level against IPA, plus stress, pitch, pace and pauses.	AI scoring on Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Re-tell Lecture and Answer Short Question, covering pronunciation and fluency.
AI scoring on writing	Scored per criterion, with grammar and spelling mistakes counted and shown.	AI scoring on Summarize Written Text and Write Essay, covering grammar and spelling.
Why an answer was wrong	Every objective question shows the correct answer, a plain-English reason, and the exact sentence in the passage or transcript that proves it.	Not stated on their site.
Full-length mock tests	Full mocks in the real interface, with the exam's own timers and question order.	Their homepage points to Pearson's official mocks rather than describing their own.
For coaching institutes	White-label platform: enquiries, admissions, batches, branches, staff roles and results across branches.	Not stated on their site.

“Not stated” means their published pages do not say either way. It does not mean the feature is absent.

When APEUni is the better choice

You want to drill individual PTE question types for free, at volume, and you are comfortable working out your own mistakes.
You only sit PTE and have no interest in the other exams.
You want the largest community of PTE test-takers around a tool.

When Hilingo is the better choice

You want to know WHY an answer was wrong, not just that it was — with the evidence quoted from the passage.
You are deciding between exams, or may sit more than one: PTE, CELPIP and DET run on the same engine here.
You run a coaching institute and need admissions, batches and branch reporting, not only a practice tool.

Questions people ask

Is APEUni free?: APEUni advertises PTE Academic and PTE Core practice with AI scoring for free on its homepage. Check their site for the current terms — this page was last verified on 8 September 2026.
Does Hilingo have a free option?: Yes. Your first full-length scored mock is free and does not need a card.
Which is more accurate?: We will not claim a number we cannot show you. No third-party engine, ours included, is Pearson's — the honest use of any of them is to find weaknesses and track movement, not to predict your exact score.

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