Xert, from Baron Biosystems in Toronto, models each rider's fitness as a Fitness Signature of threshold power, high intensity energy and peak power, and shows during a ride how much power is left. Its Adaptive Training Advisor and Forecast AI set daily targets and plan towards a goal, an event or a race. Velograph keeps bike fits beside the rides, gives teams a squad board and staff roles, and has a free plan with power analysis.
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You ride with a power meter and want your fitness modelled from every ride without FTP tests, with live guidance on a Garmin, a Karoo or your phone. It suits riders who like daily targets that adapt to group rides, races and Zwift, and coaches who run live group sessions.
You want your bikes, bike fits and rides in one place, with power analysis on a free plan, or your team works with bike fitters, physios and mechanics as well as coaches. Rider Plus adds an AI coach you can ask about your own rides, and a person decides what goes on the calendar.
You train with Xert and want your bike fits in Velograph. A ride recorded on a Garmin can reach Xert through Garmin Connect and Velograph through intervals.icu, and Xert's Download My Data gives you the original files for Velograph too.
| What is compared | Velograph | Xert |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Riders on their own, and the bike fitters, coaches, physios and teams who work with them, in one system. | Cyclists who train with a power meter, indoors and outside. Running with running power and other sports can be tracked in separate profiles. |
| 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. | Its home page shows a free Starter plan, and its help centre says a free account keeps your activities but not the workout library, training plans or apps. Every account starts with a 30-day trial of everything. |
| 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 $14.99 a month or $99.95 a year, in US dollars, with local tax such as VAT added at checkout. |
| 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. | No coach plan or coach fee was found. Its coach guide says a coach needs no paid subscription to coach and can pay for athletes' subscriptions, and each athlete needs Premium for the training features. |
| 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. | No team or club price was found. Any user can create a community for a club, a team or a squad. |
| Trial | Studios and teams get 30 days with everything switched on. Riders start on the free plan. | 30 days of Premium with no credit card needed. During the trial, rides from the last 3 months can be synced. |
Xert's prices are in US dollars, as its pricing page shows them, and its help centre says every subscription is billed in US dollars, with local tax such as VAT added at checkout. Velograph's prices are in euros. Rider Plus includes VAT, and Studio and Team are before VAT.
| What is compared | Velograph | Xert |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Connect, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift, ROUVY, MyWhoosh and Strava, its own EBC app and uploaded files. Its Strava connection works both ways. |
| Your older rides | You can bring in your whole history from a Strava or Garmin account export, or from intervals.icu. | About 3 years of rides can be imported from Strava, and Garmin history comes in with Garmin's historical data permission. Rides older than 3 months need Premium. |
| 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. | The web app, Xert EBC for Android and Hammerhead Karoo, and data fields for Garmin computers and watches. A rebuilt iPhone app is in public beta. |
| 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 Connect, Wahoo, Zwift, ROUVY and MyWhoosh, and play in its own EBC app and on Karoo. |
| What is compared | Velograph | Xert |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | The Adaptive Training Advisor sets daily targets and ranks workouts and rides against them, and Forecast AI builds a day-by-day plan towards a goal, an event or a race. It has more than 400 workouts and a workout generator. |
| Fitness, fatigue and form | Fitness, fatigue and form come from the usual 42-day and 7-day averages, explained in plain sentences. | Its own load model, with training load, recovery load and form split into low, high and peak systems, a training status shown as stars and colours, and a progression chart. |
| Power analysis | The power curve with records, critical power and W′, and the surges above critical power in each ride. | A Fitness Signature of threshold power, high intensity energy and peak power, drawn from your rides without set tests, with Maximal Power Available shown second by second. |
| Durability | Velograph shows how much of your best power is left after hours of riding, with records for it. | A Durability Score shows how hours of riding lower your Fitness Signature, on the long rides you choose to assess. |
| 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. | Forecast AI builds and rebuilds a plan towards a goal, an event or a race, the Adaptive Training Advisor recommends each day's training, and AI-generated workouts match the day's targets. No chat was found on its pages. |
| What is compared | Velograph | Xert |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Rides can be tagged by bike. |
| 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. | Coach communities with a head coach and further coaches, messages and comments with athletes, and live group sessions on a shared screen. |
| Who sees your data | The rider decides, part by part, what a team, coach or fitter sees, and can change it at any time. | Each ride is public, shared with riders on the same ride, shared with your coaches and squads, or private. Team members see each other's Fitness Signatures, and squad members each other's rides. |
| 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. | Download My Data gives a zip of all your original ride files, an API reads your own data with a personal key, and you can deactivate your account yourself. |
| Languages | English. The blog is also in Danish. | The App Store listing for its iPhone app lists English. |
Some rows are left out because the pages listed under Sources did not settle them for Xert.
Yes. Xert's Forecast AI builds a day-by-day plan towards a goal, an event or a race, and its Adaptive Training Advisor recommends each day's training. Velograph's AI coach, Ask, comes with Rider Plus, answers from your own rides and proposes sessions. 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. Xert starts with a 30-day trial without a card. Its own pages differ on what follows: its home page shows a free Starter plan, and its help centre says a free account keeps your activities but not the training features.
Velograph's Rider plan is free, and Rider Plus costs €9 a month including VAT. Xert Premium costs $14.99 a month or $99.95 a year, in US dollars, with local tax such as VAT added at checkout.
Xert has coach communities, messaging and live group sessions, and a coach needs no paid plan to coach. Velograph has a Studio plan for bike fitters, coaches and clinics, and a Team plan with a squad board and staff roles. Bike fit records were not found on Xert's pages.
Yes, though the two do not connect directly. A ride recorded on a Garmin can reach Xert through Garmin Connect and Velograph through intervals.icu or as a FIT file, and Xert's Download My Data gives you the original files.
Xert's side of this page comes only from these pages, read on 29 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 Xert as well.