Is Aurelius or Reduct better?

Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Reduct at $12/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Reduct?

Aurelius starts at $49/month and Reduct at $12/month.

Does Aurelius or Reduct run on more platforms?

Aurelius runs on Web. Reduct runs on Web, 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 Reduct is typically brought in for.

What can Aurelius do that Reduct cannot?

Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Reduct covers Transcript-based editing, Automatic transcription, Human transcription add-on, Highlight and tagging.

Research · head to head

Aurelius vs Reduct

Aurelius

Research

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

From: $49/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Reduct

Research

Edit video by editing its transcript, built for researchers rather than video editors

From: $12/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.; Reduct automatic transcription struggles with technical vocabulary, product names and strong accents, so teams working in specialist domains spend real time correcting transcripts or pay extra for the human transcription add-on, which erodes the cost advantage.
They diverge on capability: Aurelius covers Research repository, Reduct covers Transcript-based editing.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Aurelius and Reduct actually diverge.

Attributes where Aurelius and Reduct differ
Attribute	Aurelius	Reduct
Starting price	$49/month	$12/month
Pricing model	Flat monthly fee, unlimited users	Per user per month
Platforms	Web	Web, API

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 Reduct

Transcript-based editing
Automatic transcription
Human transcription add-on
Highlight and tagging
Reel assembly
Redaction
Multicam sync
Collaborative commenting

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 Reduct
A product organisation that wants every designer and product manager to search past research without paying forty repository seatsnot Reduct
A consultancy running discovery for multiple clients that needs tagged evidence kept separate per client but searchable internallynot Reduct
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 Reduct

Reduct

A research team that runs twenty customer interviews a quarter and needs stakeholders across product and design to watch and comment without buying them seatsnot Aurelius
A researcher assembling a five-minute highlight reel of user pain points for an executive review, working from transcript text rather than a video timelinenot Aurelius
A public defender office redacting faces and identifying details from body-camera and interview footage before disclosurenot Aurelius
A global insights team transcribing and translating interviews across several languages before coding them thematicallynot 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.

Reduct

Automatic transcription struggles with technical vocabulary, product names and strong accents, so teams working in specialist domains spend real time correcting transcripts or pay extra for the human transcription add-on, which erodes the cost advantage.
Transcription hours are a pooled annual allowance rather than monthly, so a team that front-loads a large research programme in one quarter can exhaust the year and face overage charges for the remaining nine months.
The Personal tier caps file size at 4GB, which is easily exceeded by an hour of multicam or high-bitrate recording, forcing an upgrade for reasons unrelated to the feature set.
Independent review coverage is very thin, so there is little public evidence to check vendor claims against, and buyers effectively have to rely on their own trial rather than peer signal.
The company has raised only about 4 million USD since 2018 and remains small, which makes enterprise vendor viability review and data-export planning genuinely necessary before you make it the home of years of research recordings.

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

Reduct

$12/month

Personal$12/month
- 120 transcription hours per editor per year
- Up to 10 commenters
- 720p export
Professional$40/month
- 300 transcription hours per editor per year
- Up to 50 commenters
- Timeline view
Enterprise$75/month
- 4K export
- SAML and Google SSO
- SOC 2 Type II

Which should you pick?

Choose Aurelius if

You need research repository.
You also want analysis board.

Aurelius review

Choose Reduct if

You need transcript-based editing.
You work on Web, API.
You also want automatic transcription.

Reduct review

Questions people ask

Is Aurelius or Reduct better?: Neither clearly leads. Aurelius starts at $49/month and Reduct at $12/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Aurelius or Reduct?: Aurelius starts at $49/month and Reduct at $12/month.
Does Aurelius or Reduct run on more platforms?: Aurelius runs on Web. Reduct runs on Web, 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 Reduct is typically brought in for.
What can Aurelius do that Reduct cannot?: Aurelius covers Research repository, Analysis board, Tagging, Insights and recommendations. Reduct covers Transcript-based editing, Automatic transcription, Human transcription add-on, Highlight and tagging.

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.

Reduct: How is Reduct priced?

Per editor per month: 12 USD on Personal, 40 on Professional and from 75 on Enterprise, with transcription supplied as a pooled annual hour allowance per editor.

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.

Reduct: Do stakeholders who only watch and comment need a paid seat?

No. Commenters are separate from editor seats and included up to 10 on Personal and 50 on Professional, which is the main reason research teams choose it.

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.

Reduct: Can I use it as a proper video editor?

Only up to a point. It handles transcript-driven cutting, reels and multicam sync, then exports to Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro when you need real finishing.

Aurelius: Is there single sign-on?

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

Reduct: Is there a free tier?

No. There is a 14-day trial on Professional with five hours of transcription, but no permanent free plan.

Aurelius vs Reduct

Aurelius

Reduct

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Aurelius

Only in Reduct

What people use each for

Aurelius

Reduct

Where each one falls short

Aurelius

Reduct

Pricing, plan by plan

Aurelius

Reduct

Which should you pick?

Choose Aurelius if

Choose Reduct if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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