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Vekta vs IntervalCoach for coaches
Vekta is free for the coach and your athletes subscribe. On IntervalCoach you pay per seat and your athletes pay nothing. Here is how they compare for a coach.
Quick verdict
Vekta is a cycling coaching platform built coach-first. It is free for coaches, athletes pay a monthly subscription, and it puts every athlete's sleep, resting heart rate, HRV and morning check-in on one screen, with automatic analysis and Monday reports. IntervalCoach adapts each athlete's plan every day, covers more than cycling and works with Intervals.icu, which Vekta does not list. The pricing models are opposite: on Vekta your athletes carry the cost, on IntervalCoach you do and they pay nothing.
Vekta and IntervalCoach, side by side
| What coaches weigh | IntervalCoach | Vekta |
|---|---|---|
| Who pays, and how | You pay per athlete seat: €10 each for 3 to 4 athletes, €8 from 5, €7 from 15, and a quoted price from 40. The seat includes that athlete's full Max plan, so the athlete pays nothing. | Free for coaches. Athletes pay a monthly subscription. |
| Monthly cost for 5 / 10 / 20 athletes | €40 / €80 / €140, paid by you. Your athletes pay nothing. | Free for you. Each athlete pays a monthly subscription. |
| AI plan adaptation | Yes. Each athlete's plan adapts daily to their recovery, their load and what they actually did, and follows the standing instructions you set. Put an athlete on Coach-led and changes wait for your approval instead. | Automatic analysis and Monday reports |
| Daily list of who needs you | Yes. Who needs you today and why, with a handled state, plus what changed since you last looked. | Yes. Sleep, resting heart rate, HRV and a morning check-in for every athlete on one screen |
| Recovery data from wearables | Yes. HRV, resting heart rate and sleep from Garmin, Whoop, Oura, Apple Health and Google Health, read against each athlete's own baseline. | Yes. Sleep, resting heart rate and HRV; syncs with Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Whoop and Oura |
| Intervals.icu | Works with it, and it is optional: Wahoo, Whoop, Google Health and Apple Health connect directly. | Not listed |
| Billing your athletes | No. You invoice your athletes yourself. | Not listed |
| Coach-athlete messaging | Feedback on completed workouts, which the athlete can reply to, and a shared Coach+ thread. No open chat between coach and athlete. | Not listed |
| Template library or marketplace | No template library or marketplace. | Yes, a workout library |
| Team and assistant coaches | No shared team account. Each coach buys their own seats. | Not listed |
| Free trial | Yes, on request: 14 days with 3 seats. You add a card at the start and nothing is charged during the trial. | Free for coaches, with a trial for your whole roster |
Where Vekta is the better choice
You coach cyclists and want a platform built around that, at no cost to you. Your athletes carry the subscription, so your costs stay flat as the roster grows.
You plan the training yourself and want the monitoring and analysis done for you. Vekta shows sleep, resting heart rate, HRV and a morning check-in for every athlete on one screen, analyses sessions automatically, sends Monday reports and connects to Claude and ChatGPT.
Where IntervalCoach is the better choice
Your athletes train on Intervals.icu, or they do more than ride. IntervalCoach works with Intervals.icu and plans cycling, running, triathlon, swimming and strength, each with zones kept current against the athlete's fitness.
You want the plan itself to adapt. Each athlete's week adapts overnight to their recovery, their load and what they actually did, within the standing instructions you set, and on Coach-led, proposed changes wait for your approval in one To do list for the squad. The seat includes the athlete's full Max plan, so nobody on your roster pays a subscription of their own.
Common questions
Who pays on Vekta and on IntervalCoach?
Vekta is free for coaches, and each athlete pays a monthly subscription. On IntervalCoach you pay €10 to €7 per athlete seat depending on roster size, and the seat includes the athlete's full Max plan, so your athletes pay nothing.
Does Vekta work with Intervals.icu?
Vekta does not list an Intervals.icu connection. IntervalCoach works with it: an athlete who connects a free account gets the workouts on their Intervals.icu calendar.
Both send a Monday report. What is different?
The IntervalCoach digest arrives every Monday at seven local time: who needs attention first and why, last week against plan, and every race in the next fortnight. Alongside it, each athlete's plan adapts daily within the standing instructions you set.
Coach your squad on IntervalCoach
Sign in with Google, Apple, email or Intervals.icu, start your Coach Plan and invite your first athletes. Each seat carries one athlete, and they pay nothing.
Add or drop seats whenever your roster changes.