Is LeetCode Premium Worth It? Price, Features and Who Should Pay

LeetCode Premium price and cost: what the page showed on November 14, 2026

The subscribe page offers two plans, monthly and yearly, and marks prices in US dollars. The table records what a signed-out visitor in the United States saw on November 14, 2026, while a Black Friday banner dated November 9 to 30 was on the page. Both plan prices were shown next to higher crossed-out prices, and the page does not say which figures remain after the promotion, so read the table as a dated snapshot and open leetcode.com/subscribe for today's numbers.

The decision does not depend on the exact prices. Divide the yearly price by the monthly price and round up: that is the number of months after which the yearly plan is cheaper. If you expect to stay subscribed for fewer months than that, pay monthly. A single hiring season of four to eight weeks is one or two monthly payments, which is below the break-even at any price ratio we saw.

Worked example with the November 14, 2026 snapshot: $159 divided by $35 is 4.5, so yearly wins from the fifth month (four months cost $140, five cost $175). With the banner's $129 it wins from the fourth month (three months cost $105, four cost $140). The page's “Save 62%” label compares a year with twelve monthly payments: 12 times $35 is $420, and $159 is $261, or 62 percent, less. Redo this arithmetic with whatever the page shows when you read this.

Billing rules matter as much as the price. LeetCode's cancellation policy, in a help-center article updated in 2026, says you can cancel at any time, that the subscription then stays active until the end of the period you paid for, and that you must cancel before the renewal date to avoid the next charge. It also says subscriptions are non-refundable in most cases, with refund requests reviewed case by case. A separate help article says a monthly subscriber can switch to the yearly plan at a price prorated for the unused part of the current month; that article was last updated about four years ago, so confirm the amount on the checkout page before paying.

• LeetCode Premium: plans, prices and features
• LeetCode Help Center: Cancellation, Refund, and Termination Policy
• LeetCode Help Center: Can I upgrade/change my plan?

What LeetCode Premium includes

The subscribe page lists ten benefits. A few of them change what you can practice; the rest make the editor and judge faster or more comfortable. The descriptions below paraphrase the subscribe page and its FAQ as of November 14, 2026. LeetCode's help-center article on the same question was last updated about eight years ago and is shorter, so the subscribe page is the better reference.

One detail deserves attention before you pay for company lists. The FAQ on the subscribe page says they are compiled from user surveys that ask whether a member saw a question in a real interview, and that the lists are updated frequently. They are reported by other candidates, not supplied by the companies, so read them as a record of what candidates say they were asked rather than a list of what you will be asked.

• LeetCode Premium: plans, prices and features
• LeetCode Help Center: What will I get with a premium subscription?

Who gets value from Premium, and who does not

The Premium features that are hardest to replace for free are the company lists and the timed simulations, and both pay off most when you already solve Medium problems reliably and know where you are interviewing. Before that point the bottleneck is usually learning the patterns, which the free problems and curated lists already cover; premium solutions and the debugger can make that work more comfortable, but they do not do it for you.

Use the table as a starting point, not a verdict on the product. If you land in a “not yet” row, decide again on the day a recruiter schedules a technical round.

A one-month plan to get your money's worth

A subscription starts when you pay, not when you start studying, so begin the month only after a date is confirmed and you can give it at least an hour a day. LeetCode's policy says a cancelled subscription stays active until the end of the paid period, so if you want exactly one month you can cancel early and keep access for the rest of it.

The plan assumes one target company. With two or three, split weeks one and two between their lists and keep weeks three and four as written.

• Day 1: subscribe monthly, cancel the renewal if one month is all you want, open the target company's list and sort it by frequency.
• Week 1: solve the most frequently reported questions in timed attempts with a fixed time box, for example 25 to 30 minutes for a Medium. Read the official solution only after your own attempt.
• Week 2: continue down the list, and run two interview simulations to practice starting cold under a clock.
• Week 3: re-solve every question you missed in weeks one and two from a blank editor. Use the debugger on wrong answers instead of rereading the editorial.
• Week 4: two or three more simulations, a final pass over your misses, and no new topics in the last three days.
• Throughout: write a three-line note per problem (trigger, invariant, complexity) so the month leaves something behind after access ends.

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LeetCode Premium discount: documented ways to pay less

LeetCode's help center answers the discount question in one sentence: follow its social accounts, where special promotions are announced. That article was last updated about four years ago, but it matched what we saw: on November 14, 2026 a Black Friday banner dated November 9 to 30 advertised $30 off the annual subscription with a promo code shown on the subscribe page itself. Promotions end, so look for the current one on the subscribe page rather than relying on a code quoted elsewhere. Outside promotions, the options are structural rather than secret.

For students, the only page on leetcode.com that we found is “Bring LeetCode to Your School”, a group offer for 50 or more schoolmates. On November 14, 2026 it was marked “Coming soon” and could not be joined, so it is not a discount you can count on yet; check the page for its current status.

• Buy one month, timed to your interviews, instead of a year you will not use.
• If you will stay subscribed past the break-even month, take the yearly plan, ideally during a promotion announced by LeetCode itself.
• If you start monthly and decide to stay, upgrade rather than re-subscribe: a help article (about four years old) says the yearly price is prorated for the unused part of the month, and the checkout page shows the amount before you pay.
• If you are a student, check the school program page to see whether it has opened.
• Skip resold or shared accounts. They are not an official offer, you have no recourse if access disappears, and LeetCode's policy says accounts terminated for violating its terms are not refunded.

• LeetCode Help Center: Do you have any discounts or promo codes?
• LeetCode: Bring LeetCode to Your School
• LeetCode Help Center: Can I upgrade/change my plan?

Free alternatives before you pay

LeetCode's own FAQ describes Premium as an addition to its free questions and articles, so the real question is whether the free part is enough for your stage. The study plans LeetCode 75 and Top Interview 150 were viewable without signing in on November 14, 2026. Grind 75, by the author of the Blind 75, worked that day without an account or payment; its FAQ says it places Premium questions as late as possible and that non-Premium alternatives to them exist. NeetCode's Blind 75, NeetCode 150 and NeetCode 250 pages were also open to read without an account that day; NeetCode sells its own Pro plan separately.

What Premium's company lists give you can be partly approximated without paying: ask the recruiter what the rounds cover, read the company's official interview-prep page, and practice the patterns those pages name. Disclosure: this library is published by RecallDeck, a spaced-repetition flashcard app for interview topics. It is not a coding judge and is not a substitute for Premium's features or for solving problems; it is one of several tools covered in the alternatives roundup below.

• The best LeetCode alternatives, and when to use each one
• Blind 75 vs NeetCode 150 vs LeetCode 75
• The best coding practice platforms for interview preparation
• LeetCode: Study plans
• Grind 75: Frequently asked questions

What happens when the subscription ends

After you cancel, nothing changes until the paid period runs out. Once it has, the help center says you can still retrieve the code you wrote for Premium questions, but you cannot run or submit code for those questions without an active subscription. That help article was last updated about eight years ago, so confirm the current behavior with LeetCode support if your notes depend on it.

The safer habit is to keep your own record while you have access: your solution, the three-line note, and the list of questions you missed. Then the end of the month costs you the judge and the lists, not what you learned.

• LeetCode Help Center: Retrieving code for a premium question after the subscription expired
• LeetCode Help Center: Cancellation, Refund, and Termination Policy

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