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About Welding Inspector Prep

Welding Inspector Prep is an independent study resource for people deciding whether and how to earn the AWS Certified Welding Inspector certification. It is operated by Urban Algorithm LLC. We are not the American Welding Society, we do not administer the exam, and we do not certify anyone.

Why we are neutral

Almost every site that ranks for this credential is run by a company selling a $2,000-plus seminar. Their advice cannot honestly tell you to skip the seminar, because that is their revenue. We sell no seminar and no course, so our tools can tell you when exam-only self-study is the cheaper, sensible path, and when it is not. That neutrality is the entire reason this site exists.

How the data is sourced

Every fee on this site traces to the American Welding Society Certification and Education Price List, and every endorsement fact to the official AWS endorsement pages. Each figure carries the date it was last checked against that source, shown on the page. Fees set by an Authorized Training Facility (such as the Part B practical) are labelled as provider-set rather than given a fabricated single number. We publish facts (fees, exam structure, code editions), never the copyrighted code text itself.

We show you the date each figure was last verified. We do not promise a fixed re-verification cadence, because that is an internal process target, not something we will claim publicly until automation actually delivers it.

Editorial standards

• Every number is sourced and dated. No number appears on a page without a registered fact.
• Tools are free and ungated. No signup, no email, no paywall, ever.
• We name the credential for topical accuracy, never as an endorsement of us by anyone.
• Practice questions are original, authored from the public exam structure, never copied.

Contact

Reach the publisher through the Urban Algorithm contact page. Welding Inspector Prep is a project of Urban Algorithm LLC.