This is the most directly commercial guide in this cluster, and it is only useful if honest about scope. Published by iatroX, it compares the package a reader will actually use, questions, tutoring, planning, simulations and learning records together where relevant, rather than constructing an artificially expensive collection of unnecessary subscriptions to make any single product look cheap.
iatroX's annual proposition
£99 a year, equivalent to £8.25 a month billed annually, covering paid question banks, Tutor, planning, simulations and CPD in one subscription. The alternative is £29 a month with no annual commitment. Prices as published on 5 September 2026.
The practical break-even points
Calculated from the published UK prices. Three monthly payments total £87, so annual access costs £12 more than a three-month sprint. Four monthly payments total £116, exceeding the annual price by £17. The crossover sits between the third and fourth month: a focused revision period of three months or fewer favours monthly access, while anything longer, or sustained use of several functions across a year, makes annual the cheaper choice.
A dated comparison box
Based on the public pages checked on 5 September 2026, with advertised currencies preserved deliberately. iatroX all-access: £99 a year or £29 a month, paid question banks, Tutor, planning, simulations and CPD within the same subscription. Geeky Medics Everything Plan: £69.99 a year, including 200 AI credits, so compare the relevant credit usage alongside the content package. Quesmed OSCE and MLA CPSA Bank: £39.99 a year, advertising unlimited AI OSCE text and voice practice, a clinical-skills package rather than the entire Quesmed catalogue. Neural Consult annual plan: US$224.99 a year, advertising unlimited searches, simulations and generated study resources subject to its terms and capacity restrictions. AMBOSS international student Qbank Bundle: US$448 a year, distinct from the lower-priced library membership with limited monthly question access. A direct pound-to-dollar comparison would mislead and is not made here.
Lower-priced specialist alternatives, acknowledged
Another product may genuinely cost less for one specific task. A student whose only need is unlimited virtual-patient practice for the CPSA is served by Quesmed's £39.99 clinical-skills bank for less than iatroX's annual plan. A student whose only need is OSCE station volume is served by Geeky Medics' £69.99 plan. iatroX's argument is breadth and integration at the price, questions, Tutor, planning, simulation and CPD feeding each other in one subscription, not that it is the cheapest standalone option in every category, because it is not.
AI usage and billing terms
Subscription duration: annual versus monthly, and whether a plan auto-renews. Included credits: Geeky Medics' 200 credits meter AI use; iatroX includes simulations without credits. Access restrictions: Neural Consult's unlimited terms are subject to capacity; Quesmed's unlimited practice is scoped to a package. And currency: the four competitors above bill in a mix of pounds and dollars, and the reader's own billing currency and any conversion should be checked at purchase.
Recommend according to usage
A short, focused revision period of three months or fewer: monthly access, or a lower-priced specialist tool if a single task is the whole need. Sustained use of several learning functions across a year, an examination pathway plus CPD, or preparation across more than one assessment: annual access, where the per-month equivalent falls below any of the monthly options. The reader who wants only clinical reference: neither, since Ask-iatroX is free.
Reading the table correctly
Two cautions before comparing the figures directly. First, the products are not equivalent packages: Quesmed's price buys a clinical-skills bank, Geeky Medics' buys an OSCE ecosystem with metered AI, Neural Consult's buys upload-driven generation, AMBOSS's buys a question bank above a library membership, and iatroX's buys an integrated learning system, so the cheapest figure is not the best value unless it covers the reader's actual need. Second, the currencies differ, and the dollar-denominated plans are quoted as advertised rather than converted, because a conversion on the day of writing would be wrong by the day of reading.
What the annual price is buying
At £8.25 a month equivalent, the annual plan is priced against the whole package rather than any single component. A reader using only one function, questions alone or simulation alone, is paying for breadth they do not use, and may be better served by a specialist product at a lower price. A reader using two or more, questions plus Tutor, or simulation plus CPD, is paying less for the combination than the components would cost separately elsewhere, which is the specific case for integration at this price.
Frequently asked questions
Is iatroX the cheapest medical AI subscription?
No, and this guide says so: Quesmed and Geeky Medics cost less for single tasks; iatroX's case is breadth and integration at its price.
When does monthly cost more than annual?
From the fourth monthly payment, at £116 against £99 annual, calculated from the published prices.
Are simulations an extra charge on iatroX?
No: they are included in the existing all-access subscription.