Anki Word Bank
Best Paid Anki Decks for Language Learning: Prices Compared
Updated October 14, 2026. Every price below was checked on the seller's own page on that date. We sell decks at Anki Word Bank, so we have a stake; every claim is linked so you can check it.
Short answer
- Cheapest: Anki Word Bank, $5 per deck (some $4.99, German A1 $3, premium English decks $9.99). One-time payment, 30-day money-back guarantee. Every other seller in the table below charges $19.99 or more for a full vocabulary deck.
- Human-recorded audio: Refold, $24.99–$29.99 per 1,000-card deck. The only seller here that states its audio is recorded by native speakers.
- Most cards per dollar: Eidetic ($24.99, 4,100–18,000+ cards) and DeckLearn ($19.99, 10,000 sentence cards).
- Free: AnkiWeb shared decks. Quality varies; check the audio and the last update date before importing.
Prices compared
| Seller | Deck | Price | Size | Audio | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anki Word Bank | Top 1000 and exam decks | $5 | 300–1,200 words | Neural TTS, native accent (stated) | 16 |
| DeckLearn | Complete Spanish / German / Japanese / Korean | $19.99 (sale, listed from $79) | 10,000 sentences | Not stated | 4 (US store) |
| Eidetic | Single language deck | $24.99 | 4,100–18,000+ cards | AI voice (stated) | 5 |
| Refold | 1K decks | $24.99–$29.99 | 1,000 cards | Native-speaker recordings (stated) | 10 |
| Prep2go | Exam decks (DELE, DELF, CIPLE, Goethe) | $26 | 939–2,482 cards | Not stated | 13 |
| Language Atlas | Single vocabulary deck | €29.99 (sale, regular €34.99) | Not stated | Not stated | 10 |
| Anki Core Decks | Full course per language | $199 | 8,000–11,000 cards | "Native-speaker audio" (type not stated) | 6 |
Marketplaces such as AnkiDecks.com list decks from individual creators, priced from $7.99 to $200.
What $5 gets you at Anki Word Bank
- One
.apkgfile, yours to keep. Works in Anki desktop, AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid. No subscription. - 300–1,200 words per deck, ordered by frequency or matched to an exam level (DELE, DELF, Goethe, JLPT, HSK, TOPIK).
- Each card is an AI-generated example sentence built around the target word (in bold), with its translation and audio.
- The audio is neural text-to-speech with a native accent, not human recordings. Every deck page has audio samples.
- Most decks come with 8 card-front languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, depending on the deck.
- Target languages (16): Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Irish and English.
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
Most bought: Spanish Top 1000 ($5), French Top 1000 ($5), German Top 1000 ($5), Italian Top 1000 ($5), German A1 (Goethe) ($3), JLPT N5 ($5).
When to pay more
- You want human-recorded audio: Refold.
- You want 5,000+ words in one purchase: Eidetic, DeckLearn or Anki Core Decks.
- You want a full method, not just a deck: Refold (immersion) or Anki Core Decks (mnemonics, A1–C1).
When free is enough
Strong free decks exist for the big languages: Kaishi 1.5k for Japanese, and frequency decks for Spanish and French on AnkiWeb. Pay when the free options for your language or exam lack audio, lack example sentences, are English-front only, or haven't been updated in years.
Sources
Prices checked October 14, 2026: Refold decks · Refold Spanish 1K · Eidetic decks · Eidetic FAQ (audio) · DeckLearn US · Prep2go shop · Language Atlas shop · Anki Core Decks store · AnkiDecks.com