Is Aurelius or Condens better?

Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Condens at €15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Condens?

Aurelius starts at $49/month and Condens at €15/month.

Does Aurelius or Condens run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

What is Aurelius best used for?

Aurelius is most often used for a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later, a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats, a consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internally, a team preparing a repeat study who need to know what was already learned about the same problem two years ago before they recruit anyone. Of those, a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later and a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats are not what Condens is typically brought in for.

What can Aurelius do that Condens cannot?

Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Condens covers Automatic transcription, Highlight and tag, Theme clustering, Insight pages.

Research · head to head

Aurelius vs Condens

Aurelius

Research

UX research repository for tagging notes, building insights and finding them again years later

From: $49/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Condens

Research

UX research repository for storing, tagging and sharing qualitative study findings

From: €15/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Aurelius aurelius does not recruit participants or run unmoderated studies, so it is always a second tool alongside a testing or recruitment platform and never the whole research budget.; Condens the gap between the 15 euro Lite plan and the 500 euro Business plan has nothing in it, so a team adding a second and third researcher jumps roughly thirtyfold in cost at exactly the point budget scrutiny arrives.
They diverge on capability: Aurelius covers Research repository, Condens covers Automatic transcription.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Aurelius and Condens actually diverge.

Attributes where Aurelius and Condens differ
Attribute	Aurelius	Condens
Starting price	$49/month	€15/month
Pricing model	Flat monthly fee, unlimited users	Per contributor per month

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Research).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Aurelius

Research repository
Analysis board
Tagging
Insights and recommendations
Transcription
AI assist
Automatic report builder
Universal search

Only in Condens

Automatic transcription
Highlight and tag
Theme clustering
Insight pages
Participant profiles
Search across studies
Viewer seats
Video clip reels

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Aurelius

A research team of three whose findings currently live in individual Miro boards and Google Docs that nobody outside the team can find six months laternot Condens
A product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seatsnot Condens
A consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internallynot Condens
A team preparing a repeat study who need to know what was already learned about the same problem two years ago before they recruit anyonenot Condens

Condens

A solo researcher at a 40-person product company building a searchable evidence base for 15 euros a monthnot Aurelius
A European enterprise research team that needs GDPR-oriented data handling to clear internal procurementnot Aurelius
A team wanting product managers to click from a stated insight straight to the participant clip that supports itnot Aurelius
A researcher inheriting years of interview recordings and needing them transcribed, tagged and searchable in one placenot Aurelius

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Aurelius

Aurelius does not recruit participants or run unmoderated studies, so it is always a second tool alongside a testing or recruitment platform and never the whole research budget.
Integrations are thin, with Zapier, Jira and Slack rather than direct connections to the call recording and testing tools most teams already run, so getting material in often means manual upload.
The tag vocabulary is only as good as the discipline applied to it, and repositories where several researchers invent overlapping tags become unsearchable within a year with no built-in governance to prevent it.
Unlimited users is genuinely unlimited but permissions are basic below Enterprise, so a team that needs client-safe or stakeholder-only views has to buy the quoted tier for something that reads as a table-stakes control.
It is a small independent vendor competing with much better funded repositories, which is a real procurement risk for an organisation storing years of research in it, and enterprise assurance material such as penetration test reports sits behind the top tier.

Condens

The gap between the 15 euro Lite plan and the 500 euro Business plan has nothing in it, so a team adding a second and third researcher jumps roughly thirtyfold in cost at exactly the point budget scrutiny arrives.
Lite includes no viewer seats at all, which defeats the main purpose of a repository: anyone outside the research team who wants to read a finding has to be paid for as a contributor or sent a static export.
Cross-project participant profiles are capped at 25 on Lite, so a solo researcher doing longitudinal work with a recurring panel outgrows the entry tier on that limit rather than on seats.
As a bootstrapped fifteen-person company it ships AI synthesis, automatic theme extraction and moderated-interview features more slowly than venture-funded rivals, so teams that want the repository to do the analysis rather than organise it will find it behind.
It is a repository, not a research platform: recruitment, panel management, unmoderated testing and survey fielding all live elsewhere, so it adds a subscription rather than consolidating one.

Pricing, plan by plan

Aurelius

$49/month

Professional$49/month
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited projects and storage
- Notes, tags and documents
Premium$199/month
- Everything in Professional
- Recommendations
- Universal search across projects
Enterprise$undefined/year
- Everything in Premium
- SSO with SAML 2.0
- IP allowlisting

Condens

€15/month

Lite$15/month
- 1 contributor included, additional contributors 15 euros each
- No viewer seats
- Unlimited projects, transcription hours and storage
Business$500/month
- 5 contributors included, additional contributors 85 euros each
- Unlimited viewers
- Unlimited participant profiles and folders
Enterprise$undefined/year
- Minimum 5 contributors
- Custom contributor rates
- Unlimited viewers

Which should you pick?

Choose Aurelius if

You need research repository.
You also want analysis board.

Aurelius review

Choose Condens if

You need automatic transcription.
You also want highlight and tag.

Condens review

Questions people ask

Is Aurelius or Condens better?: Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Condens at €15/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Condens?: Aurelius starts at $49/month and Condens at €15/month.
Does Aurelius or Condens run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Aurelius best used for?: Aurelius is most often used for a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later, a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats, a consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internally, a team preparing a repeat study who need to know what was already learned about the same problem two years ago before they recruit anyone. Of those, a research team of three whose findings currently live in individual miro boards and google docs that nobody outside the team can find six months later and a product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seats are not what Condens is typically brought in for.
What can Aurelius do that Condens cannot?: Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Condens covers Automatic transcription, Highlight and tag, Theme clustering, Insight pages.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Aurelius: Does the price really include unlimited users?

Yes. Professional at 49 US dollars a month and Premium at 199, both billed yearly, both with unlimited users, projects and storage.

Condens: Is there a free plan?

No, only a 15-day trial on any tier with no card required.

Aurelius: Can I run usability tests in it?

No. Aurelius stores and analyses research; it does not recruit participants or host sessions. Pair it with a testing tool.

Condens: Can stakeholders read findings without a licence?

Only on Business and above, where viewer seats are unlimited. Lite has none.

Aurelius: What is the difference between Professional and Premium?

Premium adds universal cross-project search, collections, recommendations and Zapier. If your value comes from finding old research, Premium is the tier that delivers it.

Condens: Is transcription metered?

No. Transcription hours, storage and project count are unlimited on every plan; participant profiles and folders are what the tiers restrict.

Aurelius: Is there single sign-on?

Only on Enterprise, along with IP allowlisting, Jira and advanced permissions. Everything below is quoted separately.

Condens: Where is data hosted?

Condens is a German company with an explicitly GDPR-oriented setup, which is a common reason European enterprises shortlist it.

Aurelius vs Condens

Aurelius

Condens

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Aurelius

Only in Condens

What people use each for

Aurelius

Condens

Where each one falls short

Aurelius

Condens

Pricing, plan by plan

Aurelius

Condens

Which should you pick?

Choose Aurelius if

Choose Condens if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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