Pricing
Prep for these exams is normally sold one at a time.
AccelaStudy® AI Dental is one subscription across all thirteen component exams and all seven credential paths, billed by the month, canceled whenever you are done.
Subscriptions open at launch in November 2026. Nothing is charged before then.
Pay as you go. Pause or cancel in one click, any month.
$276 billed annually — save $72 against the monthly rate.
At launch, subscriptions open at app.accelastudy.ai and the course catalog at app.accelastudy.ai/courses. Until then the buttons above are inert on purpose — there is nothing to sell you yet.
The arithmetic
Monthly billing changes the shape of the bill, not only the size.
You are renting the engine for as long as you need it, and then you stop.
| How you study | On the monthly plan |
|---|---|
| A single component — six weeks of evenings | 2 × $29 |
| A CDA window, the usual eight to twelve weeks | 2–3 × $29 — under ninety dollars, all in |
| NELDA now, CDA later the same year | Annual billing, and stop counting months |
| A retake after a gap | Resubscribe for the months you study. Your profile is still there. |
The last row is the one that matters most. Prep bought per exam is spent whether or not you needed all of it, and a retake usually means buying something again. Monthly billing makes stopping free — which is exactly the moment a candidate most needs it to be.
The field
You will not find this list on most prep sites, which is odd, because you are going to build it yourself anyway.
Here is the market as it stands, and where we sit in it.
The official affiliate
DALE Foundation®
DANB®’s own affiliate, and the default recommendation for that reason. Sold per item: about $39 for a single practice test, $85 for the CDA three-exam practice bundle, $140 for the Radiation Health and Safety prep bundle, $450 for the CDA prep course. Static question banks and self-paced courses — no adaptivity, no procedure drills, no graded math.
Subscription study courses
Mometrix
Around $59.99 a month for a video-and-question-bank course. Roughly double our monthly price for a fixed course rather than an engine that reorganizes itself around you — and priced per exam family rather than across the whole ladder.
Flashcard apps
Pocket Prep · free decks
Genuinely cheap and genuinely limited: around $9.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or $39.99 once. Good for terminology on a break. Not built to teach a sequence, check a calculation, or tell you whether you are ready.
Where we sit, stated plainly: we are not the cheapest thing on this page — a flashcard app is, by a distance, and if drilling terms is all you need then buy one. We are the only option here that drills the procedural half of the job, grades the arithmetic, runs each exam at its real shape, and covers every credential on the ladder for a single price. Against the per-item route, one $29/mo month costs less than a single practice test.
Comparison
Per-exam practice tests and static courses run roughly $39 to $450 each, paid up front, per exam.
Here is where the money and the study time go on each side.
| Feature | Per-exam practice tests & static courses | AccelaStudy® AI Dental |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | $39–$450 per item, up front | $29/mo, month to month |
| How many exams it covers | The one you bought | All thirteen components, all seven paths |
| Moving up the ladder | Buy again for the next credential | Same subscription; what you proved carries |
| How questions are chosen | A fixed bank, same order for everybody | Chosen against your live weak areas |
| Procedure sequencing | Read about it | Drilled, with the misplaced step named |
| Tray setups and relabeling | Not practiced | Built and checked piece by piece |
| Dental math | Answer marked right or wrong | Graded step by step, solutions verified by computation |
| Exam shape | Generic practice test | Real question count and clock, per component |
| Remote-proctor practice | Rarely | A mode that mirrors it |
| Are you ready? | A percentage correct | An estimate on the 100–900 scale, with its confidence shown |
| Running out of questions | A finite bank you can memorize | Practice exams composed fresh each time |
| Stopping | Already paid | Cancel any month |
Prices in the left column are publicly advertised list prices recorded in August 2026 and vary by product, bundle and promotion — check the current terms of whatever you are comparing against before deciding. The DALE Foundation, Mometrix and Pocket Prep names are trademarks of their respective owners, named here for comparison only; none of them is affiliated with or endorses this product.
$29/mo month to month, or $23/mo on annual billing. Launching Monday, November 16, 2026.
Join the WaitlistDANB®, CDA®, COA®, CPFDA®, CRFDA®, NELDA®, CDIPC®, RHS®, ICE®, and DISIPC™ are trademarks of the Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. AccelaStudy AI is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by DANB; the marks are used here for nominative identification of the exams and credentials only.
DALE Foundation® is a registered trademark of The DALE Foundation, the official DANB affiliate. AccelaStudy AI is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the DALE Foundation; the name is used here for nominative identification only.
Mometrix and Pocket Prep are trademarks of their respective owners. They are named here for nominative comparison only; neither is affiliated with, sponsors, or endorses this product.
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