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 show the working instead of a percentage: every Hilingo score is broken down per criterion, per word and per sound, so you can see exactly where marks are lost and track them as they come back.

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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.

Written by the Hilingo team. Every claim about APEUni below comes from their own public pages, checked on 8 September 2026 — and where their site does not say, this page says “not stated” rather than “no”. Check APEUni yourself and tell us if anything here is out of date.

Feature	Hilingo	APEUni
Exams covered	PTE Academic, PTE Core, IELTS Academic and General Training, CELPIP, the Duolingo English Test and TCF Canada. OET, TEF Canada and LanguageCert are 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.not stated
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.not stated
For coaching institutes	White-label platform: enquiries, admissions, batches, branches, staff roles and results across branches.	Not stated on their site.not stated

APEUni claims verified 8 September 2026. Feature lists change; check their site before deciding.

Choose APEUni if…

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.

Choose Hilingo if…

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.

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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 show the working instead of a percentage: every Hilingo score is broken down per criterion, per word and per sound, so you can see exactly where marks are lost and track them as they come back.