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Our school's club does both FTC and VEX currently because we had VEX parts from before FTC changed to using Tetrix parts.

FTC parts are stronger and the motors are more powerful but vex is far more versatile, they have pneumatics, and many other parts that Tetrix do not have.

As for size wise, there are more vex teams than FTC teams and more tournament than FTC also since vex follows a regional to world's format, unlike FTC which is more of a "pyramid" type.

FTC and vex's robots are similar in size since both have the 18 by 18 by 18 in limit.

Frc is much bigger scale and it requires way more resource than FTC and vex. They only have six weeks to build the robot and hence more intense compare to FTC and vex in that way. Many frc teams have a vex program alongside with their frc program.

Cost wise vex is definitely cheaper than FTC. Only $75 for the first team and $25 for each team after that.

They are both great programs. You can maybe try to attend one of the vex events close to you to get a feel of it. And maybe do so for FTC and frc also.