Choose TrainingPeaks if
Your coach already works in TrainingPeaks, or you want a ready-made plan from its plan store. It also suits athletes who train for triathlon or running as much as for cycling.
TrainingPeaks is a long-established training platform for endurance athletes and their coaches. Garmin bought it in July 2026. Velograph is newer and built for cycling. It keeps a rider's bike fits beside their rides and gives teams a squad board and staff roles. Both plan training and show fitness, fatigue and form.
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Your coach already works in TrainingPeaks, or you want a ready-made plan from its plan store. It also suits athletes who train for triathlon or running as much as for cycling.
You want your bikes, bike fits and rides in one place, with power analysis on the free plan. Teams and clubs get a squad board and staff roles, and each rider decides what each person sees.
Your coach plans in TrainingPeaks and you want your bike fits and ride analysis in Velograph. The two do not connect, but your bike computer can send each ride to both.
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainingPeaks |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 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. | TrainingPeaks Basic is free. It logs and uploads workouts and works with a coach or a bought plan. Planning future workouts and the Performance Management Chart need Premium. |
| 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. | Premium costs $19.95 a month, $49 a quarter or $134.99 a year, in US dollars before tax. |
| 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. | Coach Edition costs $21.99 a month before tax, with 1 Premium and 4 Basic athletes. Each extra Premium athlete costs the coach $9 a month, and less at higher numbers. |
| 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. | There is no separate team plan. Coach Edition Unlimited costs $54.99 a month before tax, for any number of Basic athletes. |
| Trial | Studios and teams get 30 days with everything switched on. Riders start on the free plan. | Premium has a 14-day trial, and Coach Edition has a 7-day trial. |
TrainingPeaks' prices are in US dollars before any sales tax, as its pricing pages showed them to visitors in the United States and in Denmark. Velograph's prices are in euros. Rider Plus includes VAT, and Studio and Team are before VAT.
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainingPeaks |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | TrainingPeaks lists thousands of devices and apps, including Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Polar, Suunto, Apple Watch, Zwift and Hammerhead. |
| Your older rides | You can bring in your whole history from a Strava or Garmin account export, or from intervals.icu. | Up to 5 years of Garmin history can be imported once, and files can be uploaded. Its help centre says there is no direct sync with Strava. |
| 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. | Structured workouts go to Garmin, Wahoo, Zwift, COROS, Suunto, Polar and Apple Watch. |
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainingPeaks |
|---|---|---|
| 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 structured workout builder, an Annual Training Plan with Premium, and a store of plans written by coaches. |
| Fitness, fatigue and form | Fitness, fatigue and form come from the usual 42-day and 7-day averages, explained in plain sentences. | Premium has the Performance Management Chart with fitness, fatigue and form. |
| Power analysis | The power curve with records, critical power and W′, and the surges above critical power in each ride. | Its power charts find intervals and climbs by themselves, and Premium tracks your peak performances. Modeled Power shows your power duration curve with a modelled FTP, anaerobic capacity and peak power. WKO5, its desktop program sold separately, goes further into power modelling. |
| Durability | Velograph shows how much of your best power is left after hours of riding, with records for it. | A built-in durability measure was not found on its pages. Its blog describes fatigue-resistance tests and WKO5 charts. |
| 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 workout generator turns a written description into a structured workout. It is for coaches, in the web app. |
| What is compared | Velograph | TrainingPeaks |
|---|---|---|
| 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 or in its help centre. |
| 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. | A coach account has a head coach, assistant coaches, athlete groups, shared plans and messaging. |
| 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. | Workout files and a summary file can be exported, up to 12 months at a time. Its API is for approved developers only. |
| Languages | English. The blog is also in Danish. | The app is in eight languages, including English, French, German and Spanish. |
Some rows are left out because the pages listed under Sources did not settle them for TrainingPeaks.
Yes. The two do not connect to each other, but a Garmin or other bike computer can send each ride to both. Velograph gets its rides through intervals.icu, Strava or FIT files.
Velograph's Rider plan is free, and Rider Plus costs €9 a month including VAT. TrainingPeaks Basic is free, and Premium costs $19.95 a month, $49 a quarter or $134.99 a year, in US dollars before tax.
Both use a 42-day average for fitness, but the numbers can differ. The two apps may have different rides, a different FTP or a different load for rides without power. TrainingPeaks also adds load in daily steps of one 42nd, which differs from Velograph's smooth average by less than half a point.
Bike fit records were not found on TrainingPeaks' pages. In Velograph, every fit a studio records is kept in your free Passport, with its drawing and numbers, and stays with you when you change fitter or team.
Yes. Garmin announced on 22 July 2026 that it had acquired TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic.
TrainingPeaks' 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 TrainingPeaks as well.