Securities Training Corporation alternatives: the free path, and when to pay anyway
The institutional FINRA training provider. Sold mainly to broker-dealers for their new-hire classes, which is why you rarely see a retail price.
We publish 2,158 free practice questions across 14 exams STC also sells prep for. Below: what STC costs today, what it genuinely does better than us, who should still buy it, and where the free route is enough.
Pricing on this page was read from STC’s own site on . Prices change — check before you buy.
What STC costs
STC quotes its programmes to broker-dealers rather than publishing retail prices; its site carries no consumer figure at all. Rather than estimate, we link out: check current pricing at stcusa.com.
What STC does better
- Coverage of the principal-level exams — Series 4, 14, 16, 24, 26, 27, 51, 53 — far past where our catalogue stops.
- Firm-managed programmes with progress reporting to your manager, which is the format most sponsored candidates actually study under.
- Decades of question-bank iteration against exams whose content outlines change slowly.
Buy STC if
- Your firm enrolled you. Use what you were given.
- You are sitting a principal or supervisory exam, where free material effectively does not exist.
- You want live classroom delivery rather than self-study.
Use the free route if
- You are pre-hire and studying for the SIE on your own before applying anywhere.
- You want extra reps alongside the firm-provided course.
- You want the fee, question count and passing score for a Series exam without a sales conversation.
Exams we both cover — free here
2,158 questions across 14 examsEvery link below is a live free practice test with written explanations, no signup and no card. Question counts are read from the database at build time, so they are what the page actually renders.
| Exam | Free questions | Free practice test |
|---|---|---|
| SIE | 709 | Free SIE practice test |
| Series 9/10 | 214 | Free Series 9/10 practice test |
| Series 7 | 200 | Free Series 7 practice test |
| Series 24 | 157 | Free Series 24 practice test |
| Series 65 | 137 | Free Series 65 practice test |
| Series 3 | 125 | Free Series 3 practice test |
| Series 66 | 104 | Free Series 66 practice test |
| Series 50 | 104 | Free Series 50 practice test |
| Series 79 | 77 | Free Series 79 practice test |
| Series 31 | 70 | Free Series 31 practice test |
| Series 57 | 68 | Free Series 57 practice test |
| Series 6 | 67 | Free Series 6 practice test |
| Series 63 | 66 | Free Series 63 practice test |
| Series 99 | 60 | Free Series 99 practice test |
Decided STC is the right buy? Go straight to stcusa.com. We earn nothing from that link.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no STC price on this page?
STC does not publish retail prices publicly; its programmes are quoted to firms. We do not estimate competitor pricing, so if you are self-funding, ask them directly and compare against providers that do publish a figure.
What is free here for FINRA exams?
Practice questions, a study guide, a printable cheat sheet and an exam guide for fourteen Series exams including the SIE, Series 7, 63, 65 and 66 — all written against the published FINRA content outlines, with the source documents cited on each page.
Where these figures come from
Every price on this page was read from a page Securities Training Corporation publishes itself, on the date shown. We do not estimate competitor pricing.
Securities Training Corporation is a trademark of its owner. This is an independent 2026 comparison published by Every Exam Prep under our editorial policy; we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a reseller of Securities Training Corporation.