Choose Stride if
You want the AI to plan and adjust your sessions from your sleep, HRV and recovery. Stride also suits runners, swimmers and triathletes, and its phone apps are in the app stores.
Stride is an AI training platform for endurance athletes and coaches, co-founded by Alex Dowsett and launched in November 2025. Velograph also has an AI coach. It adds a free plan with power analysis, bike fits that stay with the rider, and roles for team staff. Both show durability, critical power and W′.
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You want the AI to plan and adjust your sessions from your sleep, HRV and recovery. Stride also suits runners, swimmers and triathletes, and its phone apps are in the app stores.
You want a free plan that keeps your bikes, bike fits and rides with power analysis. Bike fitters, coaches and teams work in the same system, and the rider decides what each person sees. Rider Plus adds the AI coach.
| What is compared | Velograph | Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Riders on their own, and the bike fitters, coaches, physios and teams who work with them, in one system. | Endurance athletes and their coaches, in cycling, running, swimming, triathlon and strength training. |
| Free plan | The Rider plan is free and never expires. It keeps your bikes, your bike fits and your rides, with power analysis and fitness, fatigue and form. | No free plan was found on its pages. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial. |
| Paid plan for a rider | Rider Plus costs €9 a month including VAT. It adds training plans, race tools and an AI coach with 200 AI credits a month. | Athletes pay €18 a month on stride.is. In the UK App Store it costs £14.99 a month or £149 a year. |
| For coaches and bike fitters | The Studio plan costs €50 a month for one practitioner and €30 for each extra one, excluding VAT. It has bookings, a client journal, bike fits, follow-ups and AI. | Coaches pay a base fee of €18 a month. A coach can pay for athletes' seats on one monthly bill, or athletes pay for themselves. |
| For teams and clubs | The Team plan costs €69 a month for 10 riders and €7 for each extra rider, excluding VAT. Staff accounts are free. | Teams are free to create, with team admin, coach and athlete roles. Each athlete's seat is paid by the athlete or the coach. |
| Trial | Studios and teams get 30 days with everything switched on. Riders start on the free plan. | 14 days. A card is needed to start the trial on the web. |
Stride's web prices are in euros as stride.is showed them, with nothing said about VAT. Its UK App Store prices are in pounds and include VAT, as all UK App Store prices do. Velograph's prices are in euros. Rider Plus includes VAT, and Studio and Team are before VAT.
| What is compared | Velograph | Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Where rides come from | Rides come in from intervals.icu, which collects them from Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift and most other devices, and from Strava. You can also upload FIT files from any device. | Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS, Polar, Zwift, ROUVY, Magene, Apple Health and Health Connect, with WHOOP and Oura for recovery. Its Strava connection ended on 1 September 2026. |
| Your older rides | You can bring in your whole history from a Strava or Garmin account export, or from intervals.icu. | Garmin history goes back 5 years, and Wahoo, Hammerhead, ROUVY and Magene histories come in full. FIT files and Garmin or Strava export files can be imported. |
| Web and phone apps | Velograph works in the browser on a computer or a phone. Apps for iPhone and Android are in testing and not in the app stores yet. | Web, with apps for iPhone and Android in the app stores. |
| Workouts on your devices | Planned sessions can be sent to your intervals.icu calendar, which passes them on to your devices. Later moves and edits follow. | Planned workouts go to the connected devices and apps, except Polar. Apple Watch gets them 14 days ahead. |
| What is compared | Velograph | Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Training calendar and plans | Rider Plus and Team add a training calendar with drag and drop, week programs, a season planned back from your main race, and race plans with pacing. | A calendar, a workout library and builder, and an AI planner whose proposals you apply. Its pages say it has no library of ready-made plans. |
| Fitness, fatigue and form | Fitness, fatigue and form come from the usual 42-day and 7-day averages, explained in plain sentences. | Load, acute load and fatigue, under its own names. |
| Power analysis | The power curve with records, critical power and W′, and the surges above critical power in each ride. | FTP, critical power, W′ and W′ balance, with interval, climb and match detection. |
| Durability | Velograph shows how much of your best power is left after hours of riding, with records for it. | Stride shows durability curves for your rides. |
| AI coach | Ask, the AI coach, answers from your own rides and proposes sessions. You or your coach decide what goes on the calendar. Any plan can use your own Claude or OpenAI key instead of AI credits. | An AI planner, insights after each session and each week or month, a workout generator and a connection to Claude. Every plan has the same AI allowance. |
| What is compared | Velograph | Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Bike fits | Bike fitters record fits as drawings with every number. Each fit is kept in the rider's free Passport and stays with the rider. | Bike fit records were not found on its pages. |
| Team staff | A squad board shows each rider's readiness, plan against ride, form and coming races. Coaches, managers, bike fitters and mechanics each have their own role. | Team admin, coach and athlete roles, group coaches, and one bill for the athletes' seats. |
| Taking your data with you | You can download your rides as FIT or GPX files, one at a time or all together, and delete your account yourself. | You can download rides as FIT files, laps as CSV and insights as PDF. An API with personal tokens covers your data, except data from Garmin. |
| Languages | English. The blog is also in Danish. | The apps list English and 18 other languages. |
Some rows are left out because the pages listed under Sources did not settle them for Stride.
Yes. Stride's AI plans sessions and writes insights after each one. Velograph's AI coach, Ask, comes with Rider Plus, answers from your own rides and proposes sessions. In Velograph a person decides what goes on the calendar, and with a human coach, the coach decides.
Velograph's Rider plan is free and keeps your bikes, bike fits and rides with power analysis. No free plan was found on Stride's pages, and every plan starts with a 14-day trial.
Velograph has a Studio plan for bike fitters, coaches and clinics, and a Team plan with a squad board and staff roles. Stride has free teams with admin, coach and athlete roles. Bike fit records were not found on Stride's pages.
Velograph connects to Strava. Strava rides are shown to you only and are never used by the AI. Stride's Strava connection ended on 1 September 2026, and Strava export files can still be imported there.
Stride's side of this page comes only from these pages, read on 25 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check them before you decide. Velograph's own prices are on the pricing page.
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The Rider plan is free. You can keep using Stride as well.