Kaplan USMLE vs Osmosis

Kaplan's Step 1 Qbank lists more than 3,200 questions and two full-length practice tests, from $199, with a 7-day free trial. Osmosis lists more than 2,700 Step 1 style questions and adds more than 1,700 short illustrated videos, all vendor-listed counts. Its MD plan is $249 for 12 months or $149 per three months (prices not verified live), and it renews automatically until cancelled. An MS1 whose lectures run ahead of them, or an RN student whose course already uses Osmosis videos in Sherpath, is the audience for Osmosis, which sells separate plans for MD, DO, PA, NP and RN programs. Kaplan's $1,299 FlexTrack is the wrong shape for that student. A Step 1 candidate putting one resource behind dedicated study is better served by the larger bank and optional instruction at Kaplan, which leaves Osmosis behind. On videos alone FlexTrack lists nearly 1,200 from $1,299 against Osmosis at more than 1,700 for $249 a year, though FlexTrack adds a Qbank and discipline exams.