What IT certifications actually cost

The fee guides skip is the retake

A voucher is the sticker price, not the cost. 80 of the 92 certifications here charge the full price again to retake, so a single failed attempt doubles the exam bill. Renewal is the other quiet line: most credentials expire in three years and cost money or continuing-education hours to keep. The honest budget is voucher plus one retake you hope not to need, plus whatever renewal the vendor states, and it is why answering practice you can trust the first time is the cheapest line item on the page.

Want the total for your own shortlist rather than one exam? The cost calculator adds voucher, retake and renewal across a set of certifications.

Every exam by price

All 92 certifications, most expensive first. The voucher and retake are from the vendor’s own pricing page; click a name for the full breakdown with its source.

Where this comes from and reuse it

Every figure is derived from the open certification dataset at build time, and each row in that file keeps the official vendor page its numbers came from. The data is licensed CC BY 4.0, so you can use this table in your own article, spreadsheet or tool with a link back as the only condition. To cite it:

Certification cost data from FirstTry (https://firsttry.app), CC BY 4.0.

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