1point3acres vs PracHub (2026): Which Is Better for Tech Interviews?

PracHub vs 1point3acres comes down to language and what your money buys. 1point3acres (一亩三分地) is a Chinese-language community whose paid English tracker listed 10,512 questions across 401 companies when checked on October 13, 2026; on the App Store, its monthly subscription was $88.00 and a 30-day pass $99.99. PracHub is an English bank of more than 12,000 real, recently asked interview questions as of October 2026, most of them free, with in-depth written solutions on more than 7,000. If you cannot read Chinese, use PracHub; if you can, use both.

Pricing and product details were checked on October 13, 2026.

TL;DR

• Pick 1point3acres if you read Chinese, your onsite is days away at a high-volume company such as Amazon, Uber or Stripe, and you want reports that Blind users say appear within a day or two. Its terms refuse refunds on subscriptions and do not say whether a one-time pass is refundable.
• Pick PracHub if you want to read hundreds of real questions for your target company in English before paying anything, and you want a written answer to study, not only a report of what was asked.
• Use both if you are a Chinese-speaking candidate: diagnose your gaps on PracHub for free, then buy a single 30-day 1point3acres pass the week of the onsite.

This page is the head-to-head. For how the forum itself works, read our 1point3acres guide; for a search routine by company and role, see how to use 1point3acres for interview prep.

At a Glance

Language

1point3acres is a Chinese site with one English room. The forum, the app and its App Store description are in Chinese; only the /interview tracker and the /en landing page were in English when checked on October 13, 2026. The first-hand reports live in the forum. A Blind commenter in October 2023 said Google Translate won't help because question text is obfuscated, and that you "need to understand Chinese to decrypt."

PracHub is written in English from end to end, so the language barrier does not exist. If you read Chinese and the forum's points system is what stops you, our Chinese-language note on 一亩三分地面经的阅读权限与大米 covers it.

Coverage and Freshness

1point3acres is larger at several big employers, and faster. Its /interview counts on October 13, 2026, next to PracHub's measured the same day:

Read it plainly. 1point3acres has more at Amazon, Stripe and Snowflake, and the two are within about 20 questions of each other at Uber, Microsoft and Apple. PracHub leads at Meta by more than two to one, and also at Google and OpenAI. 1point3acres also lists Temu/Pinduoduo, where PracHub is thin with 22 Pinduoduo questions. On speed, Blind users report forum posts appear within one to two days of the interview, and an ex-Meta user called it "helpful for OA and phone interviews" while noting onsites "aren't leaked as often." PracHub cannot match that turnaround. One caution: a Blind commenter in January 2025 called the content "pretty inaccurate nowadays," and the site does not say how questions are verified or how "fresh" is defined.

PracHub's advantage is that you can read before you pay: 616 of its 855 Amazon questions were free on October 13, 2026. The Amazon hub and Meta hub are the two to open first.

Asked at Uber: Design the Data Flow Behind a Food Delivery App's Restaurant List

You trace restaurant data that changes at very different rates from its sources into the list a customer sees for one delivery address, then design how that list is served.

Solutions Depth

1point3acres sells reports. Wikipedia summarises the paid product as access to "interview questions and descriptions of people's interview experiences." The /interview page, checked October 13, 2026, advertises a question tracker, company lists, interview guides, system design resources, an "Interview Copilot" and a Discussion section. Written model solutions are not on that list, and its public pages do not say whether any question comes with one.

PracHub's written solution is the product. More than 7,000 of its questions had a written solution as of October 2026, and more than 1,100 have both the question and the solution free.

Asked at Meta: Implement the Forward Pass of Multi-Head Attention From Scratch

An ML engineer candidate writes multi-head attention with no test cases provided, so correctness has to be argued from tensor shapes and small self-written checks.

A report tells you attention from scratch came up. A written solution is something you can check your own code against.

Free Access

1point3acres lets you browse the tracker's totals, per-company counts and company lists logged out, and sharing an interview experience earns reward points. What is locked is not stated: the /interview pages show a "Buy Membership" link and a "Premium Version" label without saying what a free user can read, and the forum's rules pages sit behind a browser challenge. A Blind poster in November 2024 hit posts that required 188 points; we could not confirm that threshold on a 1point3acres page.

PracHub is free to start: more than 8,000 of its more than 12,000 questions were free as of October 2026, and the companies index lists them by employer.

Asked at Amazon: Leadership Principle Stories: Ownership, Dive Deep, Tight Deadline, Disagree and Commit

Four behavioral prompts that Amazon spreads across technical rounds, with each interviewer carrying a few leadership principles and a Bar Raiser from outside the team probing the stories.

Price and Refunds

1point3acres is expensive by its own published prices. On October 13, 2026, its App Store in-app purchases listed a monthly subscription at $88.00, a 30-day pass at $99.99 and a 12-month pass at $699.99. The same list also sells six-month passes, "VIP" tiers with no unit stated, a one-month platinum card at $79.99 and avocado points packs, without explaining what each tier opens. The website shows no crawlable price list, so web prices may differ.

Refunds are the harder problem. The Terms of Service (last updated August 13, 2021) state: "REFUNDS WILL NOT BE PROVIDED FOR ANY SUBSCRIPTION." They also rule out prorated refunds for mid-month cancellation. The terms only say "Subscription" and do not name the passes, VIP tiers, platinum cards or points packs, so whether those can be refunded is unknown. Do not count on a refund for any tier until the company says otherwise. PracHub is free to start with an optional paid tier, and the free questions involve no purchase at all.

Roles and Rounds Covered

The interview-experiences section of 1point3acres lists three roles as of October 13, 2026: Software Engineer, Data Scientist and Product Manager. The ex-Meta Blind user quoted above called it helpful for OA and phone interviews, less so for onsites.

PracHub publishes its category counts. As of October 2026 it held more than 4,000 coding questions, plus more than 1,500 system design, 1,500 behavioral, 900 analytics and experimentation, 800 machine learning, 700 SQL and Python, 600 statistics and 400 ML system design. For ML engineers, that category depth is the deciding factor.

When 1point3acres Is the Better Choice

• You read Chinese. Its first-hand reports are high volume and recent.
• Your OA or phone screen is next week at a company where its tracker lists hundreds of questions and out-counts PracHub, such as Amazon or Stripe.
• You are interviewing at Temu/Pinduoduo or another China-adjacent employer that English sites, PracHub included, cover thinly.
• You are a data scientist or product manager who wants company-specific recent questions alongside SWE content; its experiences section covers both roles.
• You also need visa, immigration, study-abroad or offer-comparison discussion in one community. PracHub does none of that.

When PracHub Is the Better Choice

• You do not read Chinese. The forum is closed to you in practice, and the English tracker does not say what is free.
• You want answers, not just reports. More than 7,000 questions carry a written solution.
• You are interviewing at Meta, Google or OpenAI, where PracHub's counts are higher.
• You are an ML engineer or a data candidate who wants hundreds of questions each in ML, SQL, statistics and experimentation, sorted by category.

Using Both

1. Diagnose for free. Open your company's hub on PracHub, such as Amazon, Meta or Google, work its free questions by category and note the rounds you cannot answer cleanly.
2. Study the written solutions for those rounds. This is where the time goes.
3. Compare the counts. Find your employer in the companies index and set it against the table above. If 1point3acres lists far more, plan a pass; if PracHub has more, you may not need one.
4. Buy recency last. In the week of the onsite, buy the $99.99 30-day pass, not the subscription, and read only reports from the last few weeks for your role.
5. Let it lapse. The 30-day pass is a one-time purchase; the subscription is the product the no-refund terms name, and it renews unless you cancel.

Practice these on PracHub

The quickest way to know whether 1point3acres (一亩三分地, 1P3A) is worth paying for is to try real questions first. These PracHub questions are free to read, sit in the areas it covers, and each has a written solution:

• Coding (Lexicographically Largest Permutation After Sorting One Fixed-Length Window · Maximize total catch over K hours from ponds whose yield drops after each hour · Merge Overlapping Collinear Lane Segments Given as Integer Point Lists); more in the coding questions.
• System design (Design a Real-Time Trivia Battle Royale Platform with Live Spectating · Idempotent Kafka Consumer: Duplicate Writes, Offset Commits and a Second Database); more in the system design questions.
• Behavioral (End-to-End ML Project Deep Dive: Decisions, Evaluation Design and Career Goals); more in the behavioral questions.

Keep going from the software engineer questions, the full question bank or the company hubs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is PracHub better than 1point3acres?

For English readers, yes. PracHub has more than 12,000 real, recently asked questions as of October 2026, most of them free, with written solutions on more than 7,000. 1point3acres is better for Chinese readers who want the most recent reports at high-volume companies such as Amazon.

Is PracHub free?

PracHub is free to start with an optional paid tier. As of October 2026, more than 8,000 of its more than 12,000 questions were free. The pricing page has the current details.

Does 1point3acres have solutions?

Its /interview page advertises a question tracker, company lists, interview guides and a discussion section; written model solutions are not on that list, and its public pages do not say whether questions come with one. What it sells, per Wikipedia, is interview questions and descriptions of people's interview experiences.

Can I use both 1point3acres and PracHub?

Yes, and Chinese-speaking candidates should. Use PracHub's free questions and written solutions to find your weak rounds, then buy a single 30-day 1point3acres pass ($99.99 on the App Store as of October 13, 2026) in the week of your onsite. Its terms say subscriptions are not refunded and do not say whether passes are.

Is 1point3acres worth paying for if I do not read Chinese?

Usually not. The forum is in Chinese and candidates report its question text is obfuscated against translation. Only the /interview tracker is in English, and it does not state what a free account can read. Start on PracHub instead.

Which is better for Amazon or Meta interviews?

For Amazon, 1point3acres listed 1,087 questions to PracHub's 855 on October 13, 2026, though 616 of PracHub's were free. For Meta, PracHub had 1,206 to 547 on 1point3acres.

Final Verdict

1point3acres is a fast feed of fresh interview reports if you read Chinese, and it is priced accordingly: $88.00 a month by subscription or $699.99 for a 12-month pass on the App Store as of October 13, 2026, with terms that refuse refunds on subscriptions and say nothing about passes. It out-counts PracHub at Amazon, Stripe and Snowflake and covers China-adjacent employers PracHub barely touches.

PracHub is the better default for almost everyone else. It is in English, most questions are free, and more than 7,000 come with a written solution you can study instead of a report you have to decode. It leads at Meta, Google and OpenAI and publishes hundreds of questions each in ML, SQL, statistics, experimentation and behavioral categories.

If you read Chinese, do both: PracHub first, one pass last, and only if your company's count there is clearly higher. If you do not, skip the pass and start with the PracHub question bank.