--- title: "Pack Ayoub or Français Prep: AI correction, or a real person" description: "Pack Ayoub is an AI-powered TCF Canada preparation platform built around simulators and instant feedback." canonical: https://francaisprep.com/alternatives/pack-ayoub last-updated: 2026-10-24 --- [Alternatives](/alternatives) # Pack Ayoub or Français Prep? Pack Ayoub is a TCF Canada preparation platform built around exam simulators and automated correction. It is popular for a good reason: it gives you volume and it answers immediately, at any hour, without waiting for anyone. The real difference is not price or polish. It is who reads your writing and listens to your speaking. Pack Ayoub answers instantly and never gets tired. A person catches the thing you did not know to ask about. Those are different products, and a lot of candidates should use both. Updated 24 October 2026 ![Adèle, the native French teacher who runs Français Prep](/_next/image?url=%2Fadele.png&w=3840&q=75) Not sure which of this you actually need? A 15-minute video call works out which of your four abilities is furthest from the level your application needs. It is free, and some candidates leave with a plan and no purchase. Adèle Sason · Native French teacher - every class, every correction [Book the free call](/book) Side by side ## Pack Ayoub and Français Prep, compared honestly | What you are comparing | Pack Ayoub | Français Prep | | --- | --- | --- | | What it is built around | Exam simulators and a large bank of practice items, with automated correction. | One exam, one target NCLC level, and the date you have booked. | | Who marks your writing and speakingThis is the whole distinction. Everything else follows from it. | Automated feedback, returned immediately. | Adèle, by hand, in both live tiers. | | TurnaroundTheirs genuinely wins here. | Instant, at any hour, as many times as you want. | Days, not seconds, and a finite number of tasks. | | Volume of practice | Large. Volume is the point of the format. | Deliberately smaller. Ten texts marked properly beat forty written into a void. | | What it catches | Errors it was built to detect, consistently, every time. | Register drift, a missing plan, an argument that does not land: the faults you cannot see because the text reads as you intended it. | | Language of the material | Check the seller's current description. | Classes run in French. Adèle switches to English when a grammar point genuinely needs it, and anything administrative works in either language. | | Covers the TEF Canada as well | Presented as TCF Canada preparation. Check the seller's current description for TEF Canada material. | Yes. Both exams assess the same four abilities, and your plan is built around whichever one you sit. | | Success-rate claims | Advertised. We cannot verify anyone's pass rate, including our own, and neither can you. | We publish none, for the same reason. | Français Prep is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any organisation named on these pages. We describe them only in general terms that are publicly documented, and we do not quote their prices, because those are set independently and change. Verify anything that matters to your decision with the provider directly. ## Choose Pack Ayoub if - →You want a lot of reps under exam conditions and you want them now. - →You are early in preparation, where the fastest gain is simply doing more items. - →Your comprehension sections are the problem, which is where automated marking is most reliable. - →You study at hours when no human is going to answer you. ## Choose Français Prep if - →Your writing or speaking is the section holding your file below the line. - →You have done a lot of practice already and stopped improving, which usually means you are repeating a fault nobody has named for you. - →You need someone to tell you your date is unrealistic, which no simulator will. - →You want the correction to explain why the other options were wrong, not just which one was right. If that points to us ## What preparation here costs Prices are in Canadian dollars and the same wherever you are sitting the exam. - ### Weekly plan The whole practice platform: every TCF and TEF Canada series, unlimited AI corrections, timed mock tests and the course lessons. CA$9.99per week Canadian dollars (CAD) Billed weekly, cancel any time. Access runs to the end of the week you paid for. [Start the weekly plan](/dashboard/premium) - Every practice series in all four exam sections - Unlimited AI writing and speaking corrections - Timed mock tests in the real exam format - Course lessons and a weekly study plan - ### Small-group live Weekly live classes with Adèle, in groups small enough that everyone speaks, plus marked writing and speaking. CA$449per 8-week block Canadian dollars (CAD) Eight weekly classes of 60 minutes: 8 hours of live teaching, CA$56 an hour, with your writing and speaking marked every week. [Join a small group](https://buy.stripe.com/fZu4gyfXZ9uK5Aj1P46Vq01) Full refund within 14 days of purchase if you have not taken a session. - Everything in the weekly plan - One 60-minute live class with Adèle every week - Marked writing submissions every week - Marked speaking recordings every week - Most popular ### One-to-one tutoring Private sessions scheduled around your test date, with a study plan built from your diagnostic results. CA$800per 10 sessions Canadian dollars (CAD) CA$80 an hour, booked around your test date: ten 60-minute sessions. [Book one-to-one](https://buy.stripe.com/dRm8wOfXZdL07IralA6Vq0a) Full refund within 14 days of purchase if you have not taken a session. - Everything in small-group live - Private 60-minute sessions scheduled around your test date - Study plan built from your diagnostic test - Unlimited marked writing and speaking during your block Not ready to commit to a block? Try a trial class. One 40-minute class with Adèle, one to one. The CA$30 comes off any block you book within 30 days. [Try one class for CA$30](https://buy.stripe.com/6oU4gy3bd9uK4wf0L06Vq0c) Not sure which tier fits? [Book a free 15-minute video call.](/book) Prices are in Canadian dollars and include any tax that applies. Exam registration fees are paid directly to your test centre and are not included in any tier. Questions ## About Pack Ayoub ### Is Pack Ayoub any good? By the shape of it, yes, for what it does. Simulators and a large item bank under a clock are a real way to prepare, and instant feedback at 2am is something no human service can offer. We are not going to pretend otherwise to sell you something. ### Can AI mark writing and speaking properly? It can catch a great deal, consistently, and it does not get tired on your fortieth text. What it is weaker at is the thing that actually caps most scripts: register drift, an argument arriving in the order it occurred to you rather than an order chosen to convince, a plan that was never made. Those are visible to a reader and hard to reduce to a rule. ### Should I use both? Plenty of candidates should, and we would rather say so. Use volume tools for comprehension and for reps under a clock, and spend human marking on the two sections where you cannot see your own faults. That is a better use of money than buying either one twice. ### Which is cheaper? We do not quote other providers' prices, because they change and they are not ours to publish. Ours are on this site. Compare against what you actually need rather than against a headline number: a cheap subscription you use for comprehension you were already fine at is not cheap. ### Are you affiliated with Pack Ayoub? No. We have no relationship with them, we are not a reseller, and nothing on this page is endorsed by them. We describe them from what they publish about themselves. From the blog ## More on Pack Ayoub and the alternatives - [GuidePack Ayoub for the TCF Canada: what it is, and alternativesPack Ayoub for the TCF Canada: what it is, who it suits, whether a free or PDF version exists, and the one thing no self-study pack can do for you.](/blog/pack-ayoub-tcf-canada) - [GuideThe best free TCF and TEF Canada resources, rankedFree material takes listening and reading a long way. 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[Book an assessment](/book)[See the course tiers](#tiers) --- For agents: site index https://francaisprep.com/llms.txt, developer access https://francaisprep.com/developers, and TCF or TEF to NCLC conversion over a plain GET at https://api.francaisprep.com/v1/score/convert?exam=tcf_canada&listening=512&reading=470&writing=12&speaking=11 (exam is tcf_canada or tef_canada).