Pro 6-month is live as of this morning. $699 for 180 days on the engine. Pro 1-month continues at $199 a month; Pro 4-month continues at $599 for 120 days. The three tiers are the same product served across three durations, and as before, the duration is the only thing a candidate chooses.
The reason this tier exists now and not in June is boring: it took four months of 4-month cohort data to be confident there was a third camp worth a separate price.
What the cohort data said
Two patterns showed up in the cohort that signed up to Pro 4-month in June, sat the 120-day window, and either renewed onto a second 4-month or churned. The first pattern was the expected one — a candidate who sat the real GMAT inside the 120-day window and was done. The second pattern was the one we did not have a tier for: a candidate who arrived at day 120 still studying, with a target test date two to three months further out, and either renewed at the monthly rate or churned out of frustration with the renewal mechanic.
Roughly 28% of the June cohort fell into the second pattern. That is a meaningful slice the existing two tiers were quietly punishing — either with two more rebillings at the higher per-day rate, or by losing the candidate altogether at the worst possible point in their prep. The right answer was a third tier sized for the run they were already on.
What it is
Pro 6-month carries everything the other Pro tiers carry: unlimited engine sessions, the Mock Exam in beta since September, the running Section Analytics panel, the diagnostic on a 30-day re-take cadence, and the scaled-score and percentile readouts written against the current GMAC table. Same engine, same pool, same analytics. The 180-day window is the only thing different from a January start on Pro 1-month that ran six months.
How the switching works
A Pro 1-month subscriber who switches to Pro 6-month gets the unused days of the current monthly cycle credited against the first 6-month invoice. A Pro 4-month subscriber switching mid-cycle gets the same proration. A Pro 6-month subscriber who needs to step down to a shorter cycle — life happens, test dates move — gets the unused days credited back at the higher per-day rate of the tier they are stepping down to, not the six-month rate.
Stepping down at the six-month rate would penalize the candidate for the original commitment; crediting at the shorter-tier rate gives the candidate the price they would have paid had they signed up for that tier on day one. That is the contract we want; we wrote it that way on purpose.
What we cut
Three things are explicitly not in Pro 6-month that we considered and did not ship.
A discounted Mock Exam pack. Mock attempts are uncapped across all Pro tiers during the beta and will remain uncapped for Pro 6-month after the beta closes. We considered a per-Pro cap and decided against it; a six-month candidate sitting eight Mock Exams across that window is exactly the candidate who should be sitting them.
A pause feature. Six months is long enough that a candidate might want to pause the clock — for a work trip, a study break, a moved test date. We are not shipping pause in this release because the engine works against the candidate's response density in the rolling window, and a pause-and-resume pattern weakens that signal in ways the calibration pipeline is not yet smart enough to detect. We will revisit when the pipeline is.
Family seats. A few requests came in for a per-household plan during the 4-month window. We did not ship it. The engine works against a single candidate's response history; two candidates sharing a seat is a measurement problem masquerading as a pricing problem. The candidates who asked were nicely directed to two individual Pro 1-month accounts.
Who gets it and how
Pro 6-month is available today at /pricing for new candidates. Existing Pro 1-month and Pro 4-month subscribers see the switch option in their account screen. The diagnostic remains free; the recommended starting point is unchanged.
We will write a longer note in the spring when the first six-month cohort exits the window. The renewal- versus-churn signal at 180 days is the one we are watching most carefully — at that horizon, a candidate either sat the test inside the window, or they did not, and the second case is the harder product question. We will say what the data taught us when it has taught us something.
— Brightroom Product