Vekta Pricing 2026: Free for Coaches, But What Does It Really Cost?

TL;DR: Vekta’s pricing model is easy to misread. The coach account is free, permanently, however many athletes you coach, so a coach pays no base subscription. Vekta charges per athlete account instead: €19.99 per month or €179.99 per year, which Vekta says works out at €15 a month and saves 25 percent. For each athlete, the coach decides whether to cover the seat or let the athlete pay directly, and a 14-day free trial covers the athlete seats so a coach can test with a whole roster first (Vekta pricing). Vekta lists no setup fees (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). We did not find a free athlete tier on joinvekta.com, and Vekta does not say whether its prices include VAT. Coachbox bills the other way round: the coach pays a plan from 19 EUR per month billed yearly (excl. VAT) with 5 to 100 athletes included, athletes of a coach use the app for free, and lactate testing is part of every plan. For a self-coached athlete, we also set Vekta against TrainingPeaks Premium below. Which model costs you less depends on who pays, how many athletes you coach and whether you test them.

Vekta Pricing Overview

Vekta is a training and coaching platform for endurance sports, built on Critical Power and W′ modelling rather than a single FTP figure, and it covers cycling, running, swimming and triathlon (Vekta). Its price list is short: a free coach account and one athlete subscription, billed monthly or yearly (Vekta pricing). We did not find feature tiers or paid add-ons on that page. Vekta’s refund policy does mention Adaptive Training Plans as a separate purchase (Vekta refund policy); we did not find their price on joinvekta.com. The subscription includes the performance model, AI interval detection, AI session summaries, the AI workout builder, durability analysis and the mobile app (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks).

The structure has two sides:

Coach Access: Free

Vekta says coach accounts are free, permanently, and stay free however many athletes a coach works with (Vekta pricing). The coach dashboard shows load, recovery, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and wellness for every athlete in one view, and chat sits inside session analysis on desktop and mobile (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). Workspaces let you group athletes by squad or team (Vekta for coaches). Compare that with TrainingPeaks, which lists its Coach Edition from $21.99 USD per month billed monthly with 4 basic athletes and 1 premium athlete, $54.99 USD per month for 5 or more basic athletes, and premium athletes at $9 per month each, with volume discounts for coaches, plus a $99 start-up fee that TrainingPeaks waives with a coupon code, with “additional taxes may apply” (TrainingPeaks coach pricing). See TrainingPeaks Pricing for the full picture.

Athlete Accounts: €19.99 Per Month

Every athlete on Vekta has a paid seat after the trial (Vekta pricing):

Source: Vekta pricing. Vekta lists its prices in euro on joinvekta.com and does not say whether they include VAT. Vekta bills in one of ten currencies, chosen by where you are when you first subscribe, and falls back to euro (Vekta billing), so what you pay outside the eurozone can differ from the amounts above. Vekta is run by GRAIG SAS in France (Vekta legal notice), where the standard VAT rate is 20 percent; because Vekta does not state its VAT basis, we do not convert these amounts.

The coach decides athlete by athlete: cover the seat as part of the coaching service, or let the athlete pay directly. An athlete can also use Vekta without a coach (Vekta pricing).

The 14-day free trial works differently per side. A coach can add as many athletes as they like and run Vekta on real data for 14 days before any athlete seat is charged; an athlete who signs up alone gets the same 14 days (Vekta pricing). Each account gets the trial once, either on a coach workspace or on a personal one, not both (Vekta billing). Vekta lists no setup fees and says you can cancel anytime (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks); a cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period, and Vekta gives no refund for the rest of a period (Vekta billing). We did not find whether the trial asks for a credit card. Vekta’s refund policy does cover a first charge after a trial you forgot to cancel, if you ask within 7 days (Vekta refund policy).

What’s Included

Vekta’s athlete subscription includes:

• Performance model: Critical Power, W′ and Pmax, derived from training data with no test required, plus Critical Speed and D′ for running (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks); VO2 max updates as new data comes in (Vekta for athletes)
• Adaptive zones: seven zones rebuilt daily from CP, W′ and Pmax (Vekta for coaches)
• AI interval detection: every session analysed automatically, with each effort detected and classified (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks)
• AI session summaries: generated after every workout and sent to coach and athlete (Vekta for coaches)
• AI workout builder: structured sessions from a plain-language description, with voice input on mobile (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks)
• Durability analysis: peak power at 0 to 50 kJ/kg of accumulated work (Vekta for coaches)
• W′ balance: modelled second by second through a session, with the cost of a workout predicted before it is ridden (Vekta)
• Race detection: races classified as ITT, flat, hilly or mountain stage (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks)
• Fuelling: a carbohydrate recommendation in g/h for every session a coach builds (Vekta for coaches)
• Device sync: Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS, Zwift, WHOOP and Oura, plus sensor data from CORE, Stryd, Tymewear and Flowbio (Vekta pricing, Vekta integrations)
• Mobile app: create and edit workouts on the phone (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks)
• API: free with every subscription, so a coach can query athletes from Claude, ChatGPT or their own code (Vekta for coaches)

In our view this all-inclusive approach deserves credit. On TrainingPeaks, the WKO5 desktop software for power-duration modelling is a separate one-time purchase of $169 USD, with “additional taxes may apply” (WKO5). Vekta includes CP, W′ and Pmax modelling as standard (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks).

What Vekta Really Costs: Three Scenarios

The published price per athlete reads differently depending on who pays it.

Scenario 1: A self-coached athlete. One seat, €19.99 per month or €179.99 per year (Vekta pricing). You get the full model and analysis. For reference, TrainingPeaks Premium lists $19.95 USD per month or $134.99 USD per year (TrainingPeaks athlete pricing), and WKO5 is a separate one-time purchase (WKO5). The products and currencies differ, so compare what each one includes rather than a single total.

Scenario 2: A coach whose athletes pay their own way. The coach pays nothing for the software. Each athlete pays their own seat at €19.99 per month or €179.99 per year. In our view this works when every athlete is committed enough to carry a subscription, which describes performance-focused adult athletes better than juniors, club riders or casual clients.

Scenario 3: A coach who covers the seats. Many coaches bundle software into their coaching fee. On Vekta, each covered athlete adds €19.99 per month, or €179.99 per year, to the coach’s bill (Vekta pricing). The cost rises in step with the roster; we did not find a volume discount or cap on joinvekta.com.

Vekta lets the coach choose, athlete by athlete, who pays. In our view the model fits practices where athletes value the platform enough to pay for it, and costs the coach more as a covered roster grows.

Hidden Costs? What Else to Consider

No Free Athlete Tier

We did not find a free athlete account on Vekta’s pricing page: after the 14-day trial, every athlete seat is paid, by the athlete or by the coach (Vekta pricing). Coachbox, Nolio (Nolio pricing) and TrainingPeaks (TrainingPeaks coach pricing) each offer a free athlete account. For coaches with club athletes, development riders or price-sensitive clients, part of the roster may stay off the platform.

Cost Grows with the Roster

Because Vekta charges per athlete seat (Vekta pricing), moving from 10 to 30 covered athletes triples what you pay for seats. On a plan with included athletes, the cost stays the same up to the included number and then rises per extra active athlete. Which works out cheaper depends on how many athletes you cover and how many pay for themselves.

Tools You Still Need

We did not find lactate testing on joinvekta.com (Vekta for coaches). Vekta says it has no marketplace, no athlete billing or invoicing automation and no accredited coach education (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). Coaches who run lactate tests add testing software next to Vekta. Coaches who bill athletes monthly need separate payment tooling on Vekta, and on Coachbox too for now: athlete billing on Coachbox is planned but not live yet. See Vekta Alternatives for platforms that bundle more of the stack.

Device Coverage

Vekta’s integration list names Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, COROS, Zwift, Oura and WHOOP, plus sensors such as CORE, Stryd and Tymewear (Vekta integrations). Vekta itself names Apple Watch, Polar and Suunto as hardware it does not yet integrate with directly (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). For a device that is not listed, Vekta asks you to request it on its roadmap and lets you upload FIT files by hand (device not listed, manual FIT import). Vekta says it does not connect to aggregators like Strava, by design, to keep the raw data from the device (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). If part of your roster trains on other devices, check how their data reaches Vekta during the trial.

Is Vekta’s Pricing Good Value?

In our view, for the right user, yes. A committed athlete with a power meter gets Critical Power modelling, durability analysis and AI session analysis in one subscription, where TrainingPeaks sells its power-duration modelling as the separate WKO5 purchase (WKO5). Vekta publishes its price, we did not find feature tiers (Adaptive Training Plans are a separate purchase, per Vekta’s refund policy), and free coach access lets you evaluate it at no cost.

In our view, the value case depends on the roster. Coaches who cover athlete seats pay a cost that grows with headcount, coaches with budget-sensitive athletes may lose part of the roster to the seat price, and coaches who run lactate tests add a testing tool. Our full Vekta Review covers where the platform itself excels and where it stops.

How Coachbox Pricing Compares

Coachbox bills the other way round: the coach pays a published plan, and athletes of a coach use the app for free (Coachbox pricing). All Coachbox prices below exclude VAT.

Coachbox Coach Plans

The extra-athlete fee counts active athletes only, meaning athletes with workouts planned in the future. Following other athletes’ data and reacting to unplanned workouts is free.

Every plan includes training planning, athlete communication, calendars, analytics and annual periodization. Workouts sync from Garmin, Polar, COROS, Suunto, Wahoo, Apple Watch, Fitbit and TomTom, and power from Stryd or a power meter comes in with the workouts. HRV, sleep and resting heart rate sync from the device, which is common ground with Vekta. Lactate tests give LT1 and LT2 automatically in under a minute, from typed values or a photo of a paper protocol. Coachbox AI answers questions about your athletes and writes changes straight into the training plan, and an MCP connection links Coachbox to ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants; Vekta offers a similar route to Claude and ChatGPT through its API (Vekta for coaches).

Athletes of a coach use the app for free. Self-coached athletes can subscribe to Coachbox One at 4 EUR per month billed yearly, excl. VAT (4.76 EUR incl. 19% German VAT). The free trial is 14 days, with no credit card. Organizations can ask for custom pricing.

How Each One Bills

The two products charge in different ways, so we do not add up a monthly or yearly total per roster.

On Vekta, the coach pays nothing, and each athlete seat costs €19.99 per month or €179.99 per year, paid by the athlete or covered by the coach, athlete by athlete (Vekta pricing). A coach workspace is billed for its active athletes: on monthly billing, adding an athlete mid-month is charged right away and removing one is refunded for the remaining days; on yearly billing, changes are pro-rated as a credit or charge (Vekta billing). Vekta does not state whether these prices include VAT.

On Coachbox, the coach pays one plan with a set number of athletes included and a fee per extra active athlete, all excl. VAT, and athletes of a coach pay nothing.

What you pay therefore depends on how many athletes you coach, how many of them pay their own Vekta seat, and whether you run lactate tests. A coach whose athletes all pay their own seat has no software cost on Vekta (Vekta pricing). A coach who covers every athlete pays for each seat. Put your own roster against both price lists to see where you land.

Side-by-Side Pricing Comparison

When Vekta’s Pricing Makes Sense

You are a self-coached, data-driven athlete. One subscription, all features, and the modelling Vekta says WorldTour teams use (Vekta for coaches). At €15 per month on yearly billing, in our view this is strong value for pure analytics.

Your athletes happily pay for their own tools. If your practice serves committed adult athletes who see €19.99 per month as a normal training expense, the free coach account means the software costs you nothing.

You want everything unlocked from the start. No feature matrix to study, one athlete price, and the whole platform (Vekta pricing).

When Coachbox’s Pricing Makes More Sense

You cover platform costs for your roster. A Coachbox plan includes 5 to 100 athletes, and each extra active athlete costs 1.50 to 2.50 EUR per month excl. VAT. Athletes without future workouts planned do not count toward the plan.

Your roster includes athletes who won’t pay. Juniors, club riders, starters and casual clients use the Coachbox app for free when they train with you.

You test your athletes. Lactate testing with automatic LT1/LT2 detection is part of every Coachbox plan, with free tests at the start of your license and a published price per test after that. We did not find lactate testing on Vekta (Vekta for coaches), so on Vekta you run tests in a separate tool. See the full comparison in Coachbox vs Vekta.

Your athletes train on Polar, Suunto or Apple Watch. Coachbox syncs from Polar and Suunto, and reads Apple Watch sessions through Apple Health on iPhone. Vekta names these three as hardware it does not yet integrate with directly (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks) and offers manual FIT upload instead (manual FIT import).

Making Your Decision: Who Should Use Vekta

Use Vekta if you are a self-funded athlete, or a coach whose athletes each carry their own seat, and depth of analysis is what decides it for you: Critical Power and W′ modelling updated daily, durability analysis and AI session summaries in one subscription (Vekta vs TrainingPeaks). In our view, Vekta also suits coaches who work mostly with power data on Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead or COROS and want a free coach account while testing a new platform.

Look elsewhere if you cover the software cost for a large roster, coach athletes who will not pay a monthly seat, run lactate tests as part of your coaching, or need athlete billing inside the platform.

Both platforms offer a 14-day trial, so the cheapest way to decide is to run both with a few athletes and see which economics, and which workflow, fit the practice you actually run.