Research · head to head
Aurelius vs Valispace
Aurelius
Research
UX research repository for tagging notes, building insights and finding them again years later
- From
- $49/month
- Rated
- -
Valispace
Research
Requirements and systems engineering for hardware teams, with published per-seat pricing
- From
- $999/year
- Rated
- -
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.; Valispace the three-seat minimum means a solo consultant or a two-person startup pays for a seat nobody uses, roughly 3,000 US dollars a year before anyone logs in.
- They diverge on capability: Aurelius covers Research repository, Valispace covers Live requirements.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Aurelius and Valispace actually diverge.
Identical on both: free tier (No), 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 Valispace
- Live requirements
- Budgets and margins
- Component tree
- Verification and validation
- Python API and Jupyter
- ValiAssistant
- SSO and MFA
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 Valispace
- A product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seatsnot Valispace
- A consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internallynot Valispace
- 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 Valispace
Valispace
- A small satellite team keeping mass and power budgets live across a design cycle instead of rebuilding spreadsheets before each reviewnot Aurelius
- A drone manufacturer that needs requirement traceability for a certification authority but cannot justify an enterprise requirements databasenot Aurelius
- A university engineering department teaching systems engineering with real traceability under the flat education ratenot Aurelius
- An electronics-heavy hardware startup wanting requirements linked to the PCB design work happening in Altiumnot 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.
Valispace
- The three-seat minimum means a solo consultant or a two-person startup pays for a seat nobody uses, roughly 3,000 US dollars a year before anyone logs in.
- Ownership has changed twice in two years, from independent to Altium to Renesas by way of the Altium acquisition, and the technology has been repackaged as the Altium Requirements Portal, so the standalone roadmap is genuinely uncertain.
- It is not a certified DO-178C or ARP4754 toolchain component in the way established requirements databases are, so highly regulated aerospace programmes may still need a recognised tool alongside it.
- The parametric model rewards teams who structure their data properly at the start; teams that import a flat requirement list get a slower version of a document tool and none of the budget automation.
- Integration depth outside the Altium and Jira world is limited, so linking to an existing PLM or a CAD-driven mass properties source usually means writing against the Python API yourself.
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
Valispace
$999/year- Valispace$999/year
- Minimum three users
- Requirements, components, V&V and analysis modules
- ValiAssistant AI beta
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- On-premise deployment option
- Staging servers with controlled update timing
- Advanced support terms
- Education$1000/year
- Flat annual rate for an institution
- Unlimited students and professors
- Non-commercial projects only
Which should you pick?
Choose Valispace if
- You need live requirements.
- You work on Web, On-premise, API.
- You also want budgets and margins.
Questions people ask
- Is Aurelius or Valispace better?
- Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Valispace at $999/year, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Valispace?
- Aurelius starts at $49/month and Valispace at $999/year.
- Does Aurelius or Valispace run on more platforms?
- Aurelius runs on Web. Valispace runs on Web, On-premise, API.
- 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 Valispace is typically brought in for.
- What can Aurelius do that Valispace cannot?
- Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Valispace covers Live requirements, Budgets and margins, Component tree, Verification and validation.
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.
Valispace: Who owns Valispace?
Altium acquired it in December 2023, and Renesas Electronics acquired Altium in 2024. It is therefore a Renesas-owned product, despite frequent reports elsewhere linking it to defence groups.
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.
Valispace: Is it the same thing as the Altium Requirements Portal?
They share a lineage. Requirements Portal is the Altium 365 packaging of Valispace technology. The standalone Valispace product is still sold with its own pricing.
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.
Valispace: What does it actually cost?
999 US dollars per user per year with a minimum of three users, billed annually. Enterprise with on-premise deployment is quoted separately.
Aurelius: Is there single sign-on?
Only on Enterprise, along with IP allowlisting, Jira and advanced permissions. Everything below is quoted separately.
Valispace: Can it replace a requirements database like DOORS?
For small and mid-sized hardware programmes, often yes. For programmes with contractual tool mandates, no.
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