CAT Online Coaching 2025: Best Institutes, Fees, Reviews

Post COVID-19, Online CAT coaching has rapidly gained traction among aspirants for its flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and access to highly rated faculty. Online CAT coaching eliminates geographical limitations, offering students the ability to choose the best trainers for each CAT section and tailor their preparation plan. Top Online CAT coaching institutes offer live sessions, recorded lectures, dedicated doubt-solving, and comprehensive mock series. 

Based on student feedback and social media reviews, the leading names in online CAT coaching for 2025 include Rodha, Elites Grid, Cracku, 2IIM, Unacademy, and MBA Wallah (PhysicsWallah). Check their detailed analysis in table below. 

Table 1: Top Online CAT Coaching 2025 Institutes

In response to growing student need, in addition to classroom coaching programs, most leading offline CAT coaching institutes now also offer comprehensive online courses. TIME, IMS, and Career Launcher have expanded their reach through live online classes, recorded video lectures, and online doubt-solving platforms. 

CAT online coaching fees varies significantly from Rs 10,000 to 30,000. Check details of CAT 2025 online coaching fees in the table below. 

Table 2: Top Online CAT Coaching 2025 Institutes

Read a brief overview of some of the best online CAT coaching institute in 2025. 

Rodha

Rodha Educational Solutions offers online courses for competitive exams like CAT, SSC, IBPS. They aim to impart highest qualification content for entrance exams through YouTube channel - RODHA. 

USP: Highly rated QA for non-engineers, clear explanations. Best for students with weak quant basics.

Elites Grid

Elites Grid is one of the pioneers in the online MBA coaching domain. Since its inception in 2015, we have trained thousands of students for various entrance exams including CAT, XAT, NMAT, SNAP, IIFT, TISS, MICAT etc. 

USP: Strong LRDI. But sometimes batches start late. VARC often replaced by students with VARC1000 add-on.

2IIMs: Best Online CAT Coaching Institute-Offers Coaching with More Mocks

Chennai based 2IIM was founded by IIM Bangalore MBA Rajesh Balasubramanian. 2IIM has a Teaching Philosophy that focusses a lot on fundamentals and basics. Many 2IIM students have successfully cracked CAT with high score, and are studying at top IIMs. 2IIM offers coaching for CAT only in following formats:

1. CAT Coaching online 2024: The module Offers videos, quizzes, practice tests etc to teach from very basics of CAT Exam.
2. CAT Study Material  covers CAT Syllabus and practice questions.
3. Online Mock CAT Series on the lines of CAT exam pattern.

USP: Good sectional balance, active doubt clearing.

Cracku: CAT Online Coaching by IIT-IIM Alumni

Cracku is an online cat coaching platform, founded by IIT-IIM alumni, that focuses on providing resources and coaching for CAT and other MBA entrance exams. Maruti Konduri, an IIT Bombay (2008) and IIM Ahmedabad (2011) alumnus, previously at Barclays investment bank, co-founded Cracku in 2014. He is a 5-time CAT 100 percentiler (CAT 2024, CAT 2023, CAT 2022, CAT 2021, and CAT 2019 and 99.99 in CAT 2020).

USP: Known for quality mocks and sectional tests. Platform offers extensive question bank and video solutions.

Mindworkzz: Online CAT Coaching by Arun Sharma

Set up by IIM Bangalore Alumnus Arun Sharma, Author of Best Selling CAT Prep Books published by McGraw Hill, Mindworkzz runs both Classroom and Online CAT Coaching.  It runs Online Comprehensive CAT Coaching program which offers a comprehensive suite of prep tools as well as test series and DILR exclusive CAT preparation programme. 

• Good alternative to class room coaching, as it saves on a lot of extra resources and can be accessed from the comfort of your home.
• Time Flexibility: The class session timings are very flexible in CAT online coaching, even Night Classes are provided by some major online CAT coaching players.
• Saves Time: No commuting required to attend CAT coaching online; hence you could easily save around 2-3 hours of crucial time, which you may then utilize to study more efficiently
• Cost effective:  With huge variety of options in the form of different and customized course offerings, the online CAT coaching is gaining momentum among lot of aspirants, as the course fees are also lower because of the lower costs for the organizations, in maintaining physical structures and preparation material and entire center operation setups.
• Enhanced learning: The classroom environment only has a handful of students studying and attending lectures together, which is where the online platforms that offer the same lecture to hundreds of students attending at the same time, improve the overall learning experience as you interact with a multitude of fellow aspirants coming from different backgrounds and geographies, and can hence learning from the questions asked by one another.
• Updated study material: As shown in the above table, the amount of material that a student can access through the CAT coaching online courses is far more than the offline versions. There are video lectures and live sessions, which are recorded, both of which are available for use anytime you need it. This undoubtedly helps in the revision according to your comfort.
• Quality education: With the growing number of people coming into this test preparation industry as educators, even good quality institutes had started hiring fresh graduates as teachers, thereby compromising on quality sometimes. With the advent and growing acceptance of the online format, the one surety would definitely be good quality and consistent education provided by the best of faculty.
• Safety: Needless to say, in these trying and difficult times, with a deadly pandemic outbreak spreading across the world, it would definitely be a cause for concern to go outside and study in classrooms full of students. Here is where the importance of online coaching will further increase and it shall soon be the more accepted way of studying.

Youtube is also one place where there is a wide variety of free video content available, topic-wise, subject-wise and even exam-wise. Given below is a list of some of the most famous youtube channels for MBA preparation:

Whenever you decide on any online platform, you should always ask for the following things before proceeding to pick one:

1. Demo Class: In fact, special online CAT Demo classes are designed to give special effects.  It is better to opt for running Demo CAT online class.  You will get a feel of pedagogy, the level of understanding that you may expect from the actual classes. The questions posed by the students in such classes and the answers received by them, will make you form an idea whether to go for it.  If the queries raised by you are duly answered, you will have the satisfaction of selecting the right coaching institution.
2. Past Results: All institutes claim a lot of good results. Just focus on the ratio of number of good results to the number of enrolled students. Also, try to find out the number of final B-School admits from the same institution.
3. Faculty: Find out how motivated the students are in the online CAT classes. If the trainer is able to create interest in the topic and is teaching the topic, which is relevant to the examination, the online CAT classes are serving their purpose.  It is better to interact with the faculty in regard to CAT preparation strategy.
4. Test series: There should be ample CAT exercises in the online preparation classes. You need to check whether the coaching Institute has full length Mock Tests and can provide the same to you timely. Would the test series be in accordance to the CAT examination pattern? Answers to these questions must be sought and well analyzed before selecting the right online coaching.
5. Apart from the above, gather the information as to what shall be the number of live sessions, which topic will have more classes, batch size, availability of Doubt clarification classes. To answer such questions, ask for its course module, take some already posted feedback- ask them to send a few feedbacks of different dates to assess the quality. This will help you going for the best available online preparation option.

6. Be your judge: There is a growing trend for online CAT classes as the aspirants find them more convenient but you will have to judiciously select the right coaching based on above parameters. CAT is one of the most prestigious examinations that pave your way to the best B-schools in India. The examination may not be a cakewalk and would require hard work. You need an online CAT coaching that could make you prepare to perform your level best in CAT exam.

    

In this article, we have tried to cover an in-depth analysis of the top CAT online coaching institutes and their preparation courses. Hope you found this article helpful for cracking CAT 2024. MBAUniverse.com will continue to update this article with latest information about the CAT online courses, fee and other details for top coaching institutes. Also Read: CAT Syllabus 2025, CAT Pattern 2025, CAT Preparations 2025 and CAT Mock Test 2025.