EchoExam Pricing After ExamView End of Life

Echo360 does not publish a price for EchoExam. The product page ends in a request form rather than a checkout, so every institution is quoted individually. The software directories that rank for the query do print a figure, $99.99, but they contradict each other on what that figure buys: one says per user per month, another says per feature, and neither attributes it to Echo360. All of this was read on 6 September 2026.

That matters more than it used to, because ExamView reached end of life on June 30, 2024 and Echo360 states it will no longer provide updates, security patches or technical support for any version. Thousands of American departments are being pushed toward a product with no list price, in the same budget cycle, and the sources they are checking do not agree.

How much does EchoExam cost?

Nobody outside Echo360 knows, and the honest answer is that the number in the directories should not be planned around. Here is every public source, what it claims, and what it is worth.

Source	Figure printed	Unit claimed	Free version	How much weight it deserves
echo360.com, the vendor	None	Not applicable	Not stated	The only authoritative source, and it publishes no price. The call to action is a request information form.
Capterra	$99.99	Per user, per month	No free version and no trial	Directory listing. Not sourced to Echo360.
GetApp	$99.99	Per feature	Lists both a trial and a free version	Same figure, a different unit, and it contradicts Capterra on the free version too.
Older ExamView desktop listings	$99, $129, $49 upgrade	One time license	Not applicable	Refers to the discontinued desktop product, not to EchoExam.

Read the last column rather than the second. A number that appears in two places with two different units, and with two different answers on whether a free version exists, has not been confirmed by anybody. It is very likely a legacy desktop price that got carried into a cloud listing when Echo360 renamed the product, which is a common failure in software directories and not dishonesty on anyone's part.

Why does Echo360 not publish a price for EchoExam?

Because EchoExam is sold to institutions, not to individuals, and institutional assessment software is almost always quoted on enrollment, seat count and term. Echo360 sells it alongside lecture capture and polling, so a quote for a university is rarely a quote for one product.

There is a second reason specific to this product. Echo360 states that EchoExam carries 50 publishing partners, 12,000 titles and a bank of more than 15,000 approved assessment questions. Content licensed from publishers has its own commercial terms, and what a nursing program pays for NCLEX style items is not what a high school pays for an algebra bank. A single published number would be wrong for almost everyone.

None of that helps the department chair who has to put a figure in a budget in October. It just means the figure has to come from a quote, and the quote has to be asked for properly.

What should I ask for in an EchoExam quote?

Ask for the unit before you ask for the number. Most of the confusion in the public listings comes from nobody stating whether the price attaches to an author, a student, an institution or a term, and a quote that answers that is comparable against alternatives even when the totals differ.

• What is the billing unit. Per authoring seat, per student FTE, per institution, or per site. This single answer determines whether a growing program gets more expensive.
• Which publisher banks are included. If your reason for migrating is the test bank that came with a textbook, confirm in writing that the specific title is covered rather than the catalogue in general.
• What the term is and when it renews. Assessment tools tend to renew on an academic year boundary, which is exactly when nobody is reading email.
• What exports are included. Echo360 states EchoExam connects to an LMS or SIS but does not publish the formats. Ask which files you can take with you if you leave.
• What happens to content you authored. Questions written inside a hosted product are only portable if the export exists.

The last two are the ones people skip and regret. ExamView taught this lesson the hard way: the departments that are comfortable right now are the ones whose banks were exported to a learning system years ago, and the departments in trouble are the ones whose questions only exist inside an application nobody patches. A quote-only renewal is also the kind of line item that grows quietly year over year, which is why teams that watch what their software actually costs month to month set an alert on the renewal date instead of finding it in the budget.

What do the alternatives cost, and which of them publish a price?

Very few. Assessment software is unusually quiet about pricing, which is why a comparison is worth writing down.

Tool	Published price	Where it runs	Where the questions come from
EchoExam	None published. Quote only	Browser	You write them, or a publisher bank
ExamView	Not sold. End of life June 30, 2024	Windows desktop, 32 bit	You write them, or a publisher bank
Respondus 4	$1,695 to $2,945 a year campus wide, by student FTE. No published single user price	Windows desktop	You write them, or a publisher bank
VidQuiz	$0, $19, $39 and $99 a month, on the pricing page	Browser	Written from a video you point it at

The Respondus tiers were read from the Respondus pricing page and checked in August 2026, and Respondus does not publish a figure for its single user license, so none appears here. The pattern across the table is that the two products which will not print a price are also the two that are sold through a purchasing department, and the two that print one are sold to a person with a card.

Price is not the only axis, and on the axis that matters most to a lot of departments, EchoExam wins outright. If your entire workflow depends on the test bank that shipped with a textbook, the product that inherited the publisher relationships is the one that keeps it. No browser tool that writes its own questions can substitute for that, and it would be dishonest to suggest otherwise.

Is ExamView still free if I already have it?

It still runs, which is not the same thing. ExamView usually arrived bundled with a textbook rather than bought outright, so most instructors never paid for it directly and there is nothing to renew. A copy installed on a working Windows machine opens banks and prints tests today, and will keep doing so.

What ended is the ability to fix it. There is no patch, no support call and no supported reinstall, so the real deadline is the day IT replaces the desktop it lives on. There is also no path onto a Mac at all: ExamView is a 32 bit application, and Apple stopped running 32 bit applications with macOS Catalina in 2019.

So the cost of staying is not a license fee, it is the risk of losing access to your own questions on a Tuesday when a machine dies. That is why the export step below is worth doing before the quote conversation, not after.

What happens to my publisher test banks?

The banks do not expire. Your ability to open them does, and the fix is to get them out through the File and Export menu while a machine still runs ExamView. Version 11 writes zips for Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai, Schoology and three Blackboard formats, plus RTF and HTML.

Do it for everything at once rather than course by course. Once the zips are on a shared drive, the Windows dependency is over and the quote conversation becomes a choice rather than a rescue. Our ExamView alternative page lists every export target with the file it produces and where it lands, including the documented 20 matching question cap on Blackboard targets other than Learn 9.1, and the WebCT workaround instructors use when the Canvas export misbehaves.

Check the publisher too, because the same bank is often available in a second format nobody advertises. Goodheart-Willcox still documents ExamView for instructors and updated that guidance in 2026, W. W. Norton distributes test banks in several formats including zips formatted for course management systems, and SAGE ships ExamView on selected titles. A Word document or a course cartridge is easier to live with than a file that needs an unsupported program.

What if the questions do not exist yet?

Then a test generator is the wrong purchase, whichever one you pick. ExamView, EchoExam and Respondus 4 all arrange questions that already exist. If the material you have to assess is a recorded lecture, a training session or a webinar from last week, there is no bank yet and nothing to arrange.

That is the gap VidQuiz fills. Paste a link to the recording and it writes multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions, each with the correct answer, a written explanation and the timestamp it came from, then exports QTI 1.2 for Canvas and Brightspace, Moodle GIFT, Blackboard tab delimited, Google Forms CSV, plain CSV or a PDF with the answer key. Every export is on every plan. If you are unsure which file your learning system wants, what a QTI file actually contains covers why a loose .xml gets rejected and which platform reads which version.

It also will not do several things ExamView did well, and those are worth naming: it does not open .bnk or .tst files, it writes three question types rather than fourteen, and it has no publisher relationships. If matching and numeric response items are load bearing in your exams, budget for the quote.