Redline AthletePlans & pricing
The physics is the same on every plan.
Pro saves your work, sends it to your head unit, lifts the caps and remembers who you are. Nothing about the model changes. Every new account starts with 30 days of Pro, no card.
- ✓A real route, preloaded
- ✓Full pacing and fatigue model
- ✓Play by play. Every stretch where the trail or the brakes set your speed instead of your legs, what to do on each, on an overhead of the trail or the elevation
- ✓Print the demo route’s ride plan
- ✓2 custom fuel points
- ✓2 markers
- ✓Color the map and profile by surface, gradient, power zone or predicted speed
- ✓Five day trail outlook: tread wetness from rainfall, drying and the soil under the trail
- ✓Progression, shown on a sample rider and a sample goal
- –Upload your own GPX
- –Saved athlete profile
- ✓30 days of Pro to start. No card. After that the account stays free unless you choose Pro
- ✓Everything in Guest
- ✓Load your own GPX, as many as you like, or build a route from several files
- ✓Tag the surface by hand, or let Suggest sections read it from the map
- ✓3 AI reads of your plan per 30 days
- ✓2 custom fuel points
- ✓2 markers
- –Saved routes and plans: keep the .gpx and load it again any time
- –Course files for your head unit
- –Print your own ride plan
- –Saved athlete profile
or $59 / year save 45% · $4.92/mo
- ✓Progression. Upload the activity afterwards, or import it from Strava, and see it against the plan you actually raced on, chart by chart. Every activity on a route is kept, so you see where the time moved between your first and your latest
- ✓Training files for every goal. Ride the goal indoors before you ride it for real: a race simulation of the whole goal at goal pace, its hardest demands as intervals, and the route as a FIT course for a trainer that simulates the grade. As a Zwift file, an ERG file for TrainerRoad and most other trainer apps, a percent-of-FTP file, or a Garmin FIT workout
- ✓A training calendar to your goal. The weeks to the goal laid over the days you can ride, a check on whether you are doing too much or too little, rides you log by hand, and the plan as a calendar file or a link your calendar follows. With two or more goals ahead, one season plan across all of them; with none, a general plan from your own riding, with the focus you pick
- ✓The Ride packet. Everything a plan produces, in one place: tick the parts of the printed plan you want, up to two handlebar strips, and the course file for your head unit
- ✓Calibration. An activity you did alone on a planned route fits the model to you: one scalar on your FTP with a band that says how sure it is, and the plan’s numbers earn their precision from it
- ✓The AI read, without a cap, before the ride and after it. A short read of the plan and of the ride, written from the numbers on the page, plainly or as a coach would put it, or in a voice you describe yourself, with gearing and what to bring on request. Free accounts get three reads of the plan every 30 days; Pro stops counting and adds the read after the ride.
- ✓The Pro charts. Power Output, Tank left (how full your tank is along the route, and where to eat) and Where the Time Goes. Keep any chart on screen while you place feeds, and switch the charts between detail, smoothed and spread
- ✓Markers, sent to your head unit, without a cap. Select a stretch of the route and the marker reads back what the plan says you will average there: watts, speed, how deep into your legs you will be when you arrive, or how technical it is. Export the route and every marker as a GPX or TCX course file. Free accounts build and read two markers; sending them to the unit is Pro
- ✓Surface, section by section. Describe the route in plain English, “first 13 miles paved, then forest road to mile 69, singletrack home”, and it splits the route into sections the model prices separately. Surface is worth 13 to 17% of your finish time, a bigger swing than changing bikes. Tagging it by hand is free
- ✓A race’s stops, read from its page. Give it the race page’s link and the aid stations, water and cut-off times come back as stops on the route, for you to check, with how much time you have at each. Typing them yourself is free
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Up to 20 saved routes, all live at once, plus unlimited fuel points and markers, with fueling placed for you
- ✓Unlimited AI ride reads, before and after
- ✓Printable ride plan for any route
- ✓Saved athlete profile: weight, FTP, HR zones, units, handling and fatigue sliders, fuel type and your calibration
- ✓My Rides: save a route and reload it any time
- ✓Your plan frozen before you ride, settings and all, so the comparison afterwards means something
- ✓Cancel any time, from your own billing page
Every plan runs the same solver on the same physics. Guest and Free are not a cut-down model, they are the full one. What they cap is saving, course files, printing your own plan, fuel points, markers and AI reads.
Questions people actually ask
Before you pay for anything.
Is it cheaper to pay for the year?
Yes. $59 a year instead of $9 a month, which works out at $4.92 a month and saves you $49, or 45%. Worth it if you race a full season. If you only need it for one event, take the monthly and cancel when you are done. Both cancel from the same billing page, and neither one locks you in.
Can I save routes on the free plan?
No. A free account loads and plans as many routes as you like, but saving them is Pro: keep the .gpx and load it again any time. Pro keeps up to 20 routes live in My Rides, each with its plans. Every new account starts with 30 days of Pro, and anything saved in those 30 days waits in My Rides and comes back when Pro does.
Does re-loading the same file cost me anything?
No. Loading a route is free and unlimited on a free account, however many times you do it. Saving it is the Pro part.
Why can I print the demo route but not my own ride?
So you can see exactly what the ride sheet looks like, the whole thing rather than a watermarked teaser, before deciding whether it is worth paying for. Load the guest route, hit print, and judge it. Printing the plan for a route you uploaded yourself is the Pro line.
What are the Pro charts?
Three cards: Power Output, Tank left, which shows how full your tank is along the route and where to eat, and Where the Time Goes. Pro also keeps any chart on screen while you place fuel points, so you can watch the tank respond instead of guessing, and draws the charts smoothed or spread as well as in detail. Coloring the map and the profile by surface, gradient, power zone or predicted speed is free on every plan, and so is every other chart. The model is the same either way; nothing about the physics is behind the paywall.
Can I send the plan to my Garmin or Wahoo?
You can export the route with your markers on it, as either a GPX or a TCX course file. Which one you want depends on the unit, and it is worth being straight about this because the differences are real. Use the TCX for a Garmin: it writes the markers as proper course points, which is what an Edge announces as you reach one, and the timings come from the ride the model predicts for you. A Wahoo ELEMNT ACE, BOLT 3 or ROAM 3 shows markers from either file on the map; earlier BOLT and ROAM units list them in the cue sheet instead. A Hammerhead Karoo imports the route but drops the markers, so send that one through Ride with GPS if you want them. Suunto and Amazfit take the route happily, and manage points of interest separately in their own apps. Exporting is a Pro feature. Building and reading the markers is not.
What is a route marker?
Drag across any chart to select a stretch, a climb say, and the app tells you what the plan predicts you will average across it. Watts, or speed if you ride without a power meter, or how deep into your legs you will be when you get there, or how twisty it is. That becomes a marker, named with its own number, drawn on the map and every chart, and carried onto your head unit so it calls the stretch out as you arrive. You are not typing a target in. You are reading back what the plan already says, which is why the number moves when your FTP or the surface does. Your fuel points can be dropped in as markers too, so the unit tells you when to eat as well as when to push. Free accounts build and read two markers; sending them to the unit is Pro.
Can I see what Progression looks like before I pay?
Yes. As a guest, Progression shows a sample rider and a sample goal, so you can see what it reads before you have any rides of your own. And every new account starts with 30 days of Pro, no card, so your own activities show up in it from the start.
What happens if I cancel Pro?
You keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for, then drop back to the free plan. Nothing is deleted. Your saved profile is still there if you come back.
Where does my payment actually go?
To Stripe. Card details are entered on Stripe’s own checkout page and never touch this site. Redline Athlete only ever learns that a payment succeeded.
No card to look around. The guest demo runs the full model on a loaded route.