The best benefit of APT is tracking and evaluating your play against their bots with a majority of the focus on preflop play. Its good for teaching folks starting hands but anyone can get that from a book and some discipline at the playchip tables.
They'll track your stats against the bots like if you 3bet enough or too much, if you know starting hands, stuff that pokertracker gives you. And it will judge your play by comparing your play to a statistical model. So its a good alternative but I'm thinking if you can use poker tracker on the micro limits or especially on play chip tables then I would go that way especially if PT4 is only a one time fee of $100 or so because APT doesn't offer lifetime memberships anymore and its expensive! lol.
The bots are better than playchippers or freerollers but the truth is you're not going to face those types of players at the tables playing micro limits or $1/2 live so its best to actually face the folks you're going to play rather than practicing against the higher poker IQ folks either bots or real. I mean, zero point in training against a serious professional player when you're actually never going to face that type of player and you can't beat the folks you normally play at the lower stakes like a bunch of folks shoving all in with Ax with blinds 15/30 in a freeroll, lol.
You can try APT for 30 days and they offer a money back guarantee and the folks will respond to emails and questions quickly so its a good option but there are also old pre Black Friday
poker strategy books that offer sound fundamental advice you that you can get used sent to your door for a few bucks if you're in the States or downloaded on Kindle on Amazon for under $10 so way under the price of a month of APT.
I believe if people study a book for at least 6 months to a year then it would be better investment than going the APT route. If you can use Poker Tracker on playchipers then that would be a better route than APT. But you have to put the effort and study time into it whatever route you go. So you can try to the APT route but at $200 to $250 a year or even at $100 bucks a year with their 4 year/$399 plan that's a lot, I mean, a lot of poker books that you could invest in your poker education and APT is only focused on NL Holdem.