Project Management Professional (exam PMP) is a certification awarded on passing its exam AND meeting the vendor's eligibility requirements. A paid prep course is optional and separate from the exam, but the vendor's own education or training requirement is not — below is what providers publish to prepare you for it. No provider paid for placement or ordering here and none can; if you later ask us to introduce you to one, that introduction may earn us a fee, and it still cannot change a price, an ordering, or a word on this page.
Before you buy training, check you can actually be certified. PMI lists four paths: secondary diploma plus 60 months/5 years; associate degree or vocational trade school diploma plus 48 months/4 years; bachelor degree or higher plus 36 months/3 years; or a PMI GAC-accredited bachelor or postgraduate degree plus 24 months/2 years. Project-management experience must be non-overlapping and within the prior 10 years. Active CAPM fulfills the PMP training requirement, not the project-management experience requirement. Read from the vendor's own eligibility page, 2026-10-01.
These provider-price rows retain their original observation dates. They are historical evidence, not current quotes or confirmed seats; verify the exact source and final total before purchase. Updated eligibility does not refresh a provider price.
Before you price this: Not a withdrawal. PMI launched an updated PMP exam on 2026-07-09; the PMP credential itself is unchanged and still offered. PMI's page continues to present the PMP as the offered credential and describes the July 2026 change as an exam update; we therefore record no successor. Read 2026-07-30. Check the vendor's page.
See the certification itself: Project Management Professional.
Use public resources when they fit your plan
Free study can help you prepare, but it does not by itself satisfy PMI's 35-hour training requirement. Public resources can complement instruction. Confirm whether you need qualifying training, additional preparation or both before purchase.
Free and official study for Project Management Professional
Published training prices, by provider
Read the rows before you read the prices. These are not comparable offerings. Provider offerings can appear in the same table despite having different delivery modes because each row is a published price for preparing for the same exam, not because the offerings are the same product. Whether the exam fee is included and how long you keep access all differ — so the lowest number here is the cheapest listed price, and nothing more than that.
Every price in this table is published by the provider and captured on the date shown in 'As of'. Providers change list prices without notice, so treat an older reading as a starting point and confirm on the provider's own page before you budget. They are course-price observations; exam treatment varies by row. 'Exam' shows whether the provider states the exam fee is included in the price, is not, or says nothing either way, and 'Includes / access' repeats the provider's own description of what the course covers — their words, not ours. Where a provider describes a course in PDUs, those are professional development units for maintaining a credential you already hold; they are not the same thing as the contact hours a certifying body may require before you can apply. Check the eligibility requirement on this page against what the provider actually says it delivers.
| Provider | Offering | Delivery | Published price | Exam | Includes / access | As of | Source |
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| New Horizons | PMP Certification Exam Prep | Virtual instructor-led | $1,995 per course | exam fee not included | 'Starting at' floor price (in-person higher); exam not included | 2026-09-13 | link |
| ONLC Training Centers | PMP Certification Exam Prep (instructor-led) | Instructor-led (live) | $2,995 per course | exam fee not included | Exam prep (35 PDUs); exam not included | 2026-09-13 | link |
| Learning Tree International | PMP (commercial) | online | $3,350 per course | exam fee not included | 35 PDUs; exam booked separately via PMI. Government price $2,897 also published | 2026-09-13 | link |
Turn published listings into a decision
The table is evidence, not a recommendation. Before choosing, verify every meeting date and time zone, current seat availability, the final total price, guided-lab hours and access period, voucher conditions, recordings or retakes, cancellation terms, current vendor authorization, and whether the organization selling the course is also delivering it.
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Published spread
Among the 3 provider prices verified below, the published training cost for Project Management Professional at ordinary commercial rates ranges from $1,995 per course (New Horizons, Virtual instructor-led) to $3,350 per course (Learning Tree International, online). This is a published-price range, not a recommendation — delivery mode, exam inclusion, and what's bundled differ, so the numbers are not apples-to-apples.
Budget for the exam separately wherever 'Exam' shows exam fee not included. Where it shows not stated, the provider's page did not say either way — ask before you buy. This comparison includes only offerings whose price we verified on the linked provider page; quote-only offerings cannot be compared in the range above. See the training providers hub.
Government and other restricted rates
These are restricted rates, not ordinary public prices. They are listed separately because eligibility is restricted and they are not part of the range above — confirm with the provider whether your organisation qualifies before treating one as available to you.
| Provider | Offering | Delivery | Published rate | Exam | As of | Source |
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| Learning Tree International | PMP (government) | online | $2,897 per course | exam fee not included | 2026-09-13 | link |
Deciding whether to pay
The question these prices answer is not whether to take Project Management Professional — it is whether to pay someone to prepare you for it. That turns on something the table cannot tell you: whether you will actually finish without a schedule, whether you need an environment you cannot build yourself, and whether anyone else is paying. Public resources can complement a course. Choose the practice, feedback and schedule support your work needs; public study is optional. If you are weighing a structured course against studying on your own, bootcamp versus self-study works through that decision with the same published prices.