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A GTO Wizard AI alternative: custom solves and node locking for less
For players who want to solve their own spots, not just look up pre-solved ones. What custom solving costs at GTO Wizard and here, what each includes, and where GTO Wizard is the better buy. Prices checked 24 October 2026 and sourced at the bottom.
Short answer
GTO Wizard's node locking starts at its Elite tier: $169 a month, or $139 a month billed yearly, for one format. BeyondGTO Pro includes custom flop, turn and river solves with node locking for $39.99 a month, or $24.99 billed yearly, covering every format. The free plan gives three solves a day to try it first.
What custom solving costs
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Covers | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTO Wizard Elite | $169 | $139/mo | One format | AI preflop and postflop solver (2 players); Nodelocking; 3-way single-size postflop solutions; 150,000 hands/month in Analyzer |
| GTO Wizard Ultra | $359 | $289/mo | One format | AI preflop solver (up to 9 players, with rake); AI postflop solver (3 players); 1,500 monthly Power Credits for custom aggregated reports |
| BeyondGTO Free | $0 | $0/mo | Every format | Three AI solves a day on flop, turn or river, on your own board, ranges, pot and stacks |
| BeyondGTO Pro | $39.99 | $24.99/mo | Every format | Unlimited AI solves on every street, node locking, bet-tree edits, the full Solver Library and every GTO Report |
Tiers are bought per format — NLH Cash, NLH Tournament and PLO4 are separate purchases. The prices below are for one format. A player who studies both cash and tournaments at the Elite tier pays $278 a month billed yearly.
What a custom solve here does
- You set the spot: board, pot, stacks, both ranges and the bet sizes, then solve the flop, turn or river.
- Node locking: open the padlock on any node, set how the opponent actually plays it, and the rest of the tree re-solves against that.
- Deal turn and river cards from a solved flop and keep going down the hand.
- It runs in the browser on a laptop or a phone. Across 423 real flop solves in the 30 days to 17 October 2026, the median took 5.3 seconds of solver time (how that was measured).
Where GTO Wizard AI is stronger
- Multiway and custom preflop. Its upper tiers solve three-player postflop spots and custom preflop trees with up to nine players. BeyondGTO's custom solver is heads-up postflop, and its preflop side is a pre-solved library, not a solver you configure.
- Breadth and track record. A larger pre-solved library, a longer history and a deep back catalogue of recorded coaching.
If you need multiway or custom preflop solving, pay for that tier. If you mostly solve heads-up postflop spots from your own hands, you are paying for features you will not use.
Solve your own spot free
Three solves a day on the free plan, flop to river, no card. Bring a hand you know well and judge the answer.
three AI solves, 25 graded drill hands and two Solver Library spots per side a day, a sample GTO Report and unlimited hand recording, with no card
Billed yearly at $299.99, or $39.99 monthly. Every format, every feature, 30-day money-back guarantee.
Sign in with Google · no credit card · nothing to cancel. Only drilling? Drills is $14.99 a month for unlimited graded hands.
Questions
- How much does GTO Wizard AI cost?
- Node locking starts at the Elite tier: $169 a month, or $139 a month billed yearly. That is for one format; NLH cash, NLH tournament and PLO4 are bought separately. Three-player postflop solving and the 9-player preflop solver are in Ultra, at $359 a month or $289 billed yearly.
- Is there a cheaper solver with node locking?
- BeyondGTO Pro includes custom flop, turn and river solves with node locking for $39.99 a month, or $24.99 a month billed yearly, covering every format. Desktop solvers also offer node locking for a one-time licence, but you supply the computer.
- Can I try custom solves for free?
- Yes. BeyondGTO's free plan includes three AI solves a day on flop, turn or river, on your own board, ranges, pot and stacks. No card is needed and it does not expire.
- What does GTO Wizard AI do that BeyondGTO does not?
- Custom preflop solves, with up to nine players at the Ultra tier, and three-player postflop solves. BeyondGTO's custom solver is heads-up postflop, and its preflop side is a pre-solved library rather than a solver you configure. If multiway or custom preflop solving is what you need, GTO Wizard's upper tiers are the right tool.
- How fast is a custom solve?
- Across 423 real flop solves on BeyondGTO in the 30 days to 17 October 2026, the median took 5.3 seconds of solver time and nine in ten finished within 20 seconds. River solves take well under a second.
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Where these figures come from
Every price on this page was checked on 24 October 2026 against the source below. Prices change and tiers get restructured — if you are about to pay for something, check the vendor's own page first. We publish our own price in full on the pricing section; nothing here is a quoted estimate.
- GTO Wizard · GTO Wizard's own pricing page, checked 16 September 2026 · official site · PokerNews on the Ultra price from 15 October 2026, published 25 September 2026
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