First, the disclosure this page owes you: we build PlusEV Poker, a preflop trainer that competes with GTO Wizard’s training features. You should read everything below knowing that. In exchange, every factual claim here is verifiable, the prices carry dates, and the section on who should not use our product is real.

Why do people look for a GTO Wizard alternative?

Almost never because the product is bad. GTO Wizard is the most complete GTO study suite on the market, and serious players know it. The three reasons that actually send people searching:

  • Price. As of August 2026, plans run from about $26/month (Starter) through $44/month (Premium) to $116/month and beyond for the top tiers — after a 2026 price increase on the upper plans. Studied over a year, that is real money at low and mid stakes, where the improvement has to outrun the subscription.
  • Depth you may not use. Full postflop trees, node-locking, aggregated reports — built for professionals studying complete strategies. If your leaks are preflop, most of what you are paying for is a library you never open.
  • Studying is not retaining. A solver shows you the answer; it does not make the answer automatic when you are seated with money in front of you. Players who know the charts and still misplay them are not short of information. They are short of reps.

What are the actual alternatives?

Prices checked August 2026; all of them change, so treat the table as a snapshot and the vendors’ sites as the source of truth.

ToolFocusFormatPriceFree tier
GTO WizardFull GTO study: preflop + postflop solutions, analysis, drillsWeb app~$26-$116+/mo, ~20% off annuallyLimited free tier
PlusEV PokerPreflop only, 6-max cash, spaced-repetition drillingiOS / Android appSubscription (monthly, yearly or lifetime), 7-day free trialLimited free hands for new players
DTO PokerMTT-oriented trainer; preflop sold as a one-time productWeb + mobilePreflop from ~$278 one-time; postflop subscriptions ~$10-30/moTrial spots
pokertrainer.seFree practice exercises and quizzesWebFreeEverything

Two honest observations about that table. Nothing on it replaces GTO Wizard one-for-one — its breadth is the product. And every alternative wins on a single axis instead: pokertrainer.se on price, DTO on tournament formats, PlusEV on making preflop decisions stick.

Who is each tool actually for?

Stay with GTO Wizard if you study postflop seriously, play MTTs at a level where ICM spots decide your year, or want one tool for everything. Nothing below matches its tree depth, and if you use that depth weekly, the price is justified.

DTO Poker fits tournament players. Its DNA is MTT: ICM spots, varying stack depths, and a preflop product you buy once rather than rent. For a cash-game player it is the wrong shape.

pokertrainer.se is where “free” beats everything else. The exercises are basic and nothing adapts to you, but as a zero-cost way to drill fundamentals it is legitimate, and we have no problem saying a free site is the right answer for a beginner deciding whether they care yet.

PlusEV is for one specific player: you play 6-max cash, you know your preflop is leaking, and you want it fixed rather than explained. It does not do postflop. It does not do tournaments. If you want either, buy something else — genuinely.

What does “drilling” get you that solutions don’t?

Measured, in our case: retention. PlusEV deals you real spots, scores your answer against the solution, and puts every miss into a spaced-repetition queue that resurfaces it until you stop missing it. The mechanism is the same one language apps use, applied to the ~500 preflop decisions that repeat forever.

Whether that works is not a matter of opinion — we measured it across 1,043,612 hands of post-training play: intermediate players improved by +0.061 BB per hand on average after 30 days of training. The full methodology, including what we counted and what we excluded, is in the study.

The best argument for the split approach is what the button’s opening range actually looks like — every one of these is a decision you will face tonight:

Button opening range, 6-max 100bb — one of the ranges PlusEV drills — PlusEV solver data, exported 2026-08-26
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 3

A solver will show you this chart. Drilling is how, three weeks from now, you raise T7s from the button without thinking about it. Where the seats change what you open is covered in our positions guide, and the trainer itself lets new players try a limited number of hands free, no card required, with a 7-day trial for the full version.

The bottom line

If you need a solver, GTO Wizard remains the one to beat, and this page will not pretend otherwise. If what you need is for your preflop game to stop leaking — and for most cash players below high stakes, that is the honest diagnosis — then a trainer built only for that, at a fraction of the price, is the better spend. That is the product we build, and the case study is where we prove it rather than claim it.