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Aurelius
UX research repository for tagging notes, building insights and finding them again years later
As of 31 August 2026, Aurelius starts at $49/month. A research repository built around analysis rather than recruitment or recording. Softwr lists it under Research. Aurelius is made by Aurelius Lab, available on Web.
Overview
What Aurelius does
Aurelius is a repository for user research. Teams import interview notes, transcripts and recordings, highlight passages, tag them against a controlled vocabulary, then group tagged evidence into insights and recommendations that persist independently of the project that produced them. Its analysis board is the working surface: highlights become cards, cards get clustered, and a clustered group becomes a written insight with the underlying evidence still attached. It also includes transcription, AI-assisted analysis and an automatic report builder. The distinguishing decision is commercial rather than technical: Aurelius charges a flat monthly fee with unlimited users on every plan, at 49 US dollars a month for Professional and 199 for Premium, both billed yearly, with unlimited projects and storage. Repositories are normally sold per seat, and the whole point of a repository is that people outside the research team read it. A design and product organisation of forty people that wants everyone able to search past findings pays the same 199 as a team of four. That single fact changes the total cost comparison against per-seat competitors more than any feature does. The honest limitation is scope. Aurelius does not recruit participants, does not run unmoderated tests, and does not host live sessions. It is the place findings live after the research happens, which means it sits alongside whatever you use to actually run studies rather than replacing it. Teams expecting an end-to-end research platform will need a second tool and a second budget line.
What people use it 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
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.
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Pricing
What Aurelius costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Professional
$49 /mo
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited projects and storage
- Notes, tags and documents
- Clips and highlights
- Analysis board
- AI assist
Premium
$199 /mo
- Everything in Professional
- Recommendations
- Universal search across projects
- Collections
- Zapier integration
- Cross-project tag and insight views
Enterprise
On request
- Everything in Premium
- SSO with SAML 2.0
- IP allowlisting
- Jira integration
- Cross-project insights and custom types
- Advanced permissions
Capabilities
Features
Research repository
Central store for notes, transcripts, documents and recordings across all projects
Analysis board
Drag-and-drop clustering of highlighted evidence into themes
Tagging
Controlled tag vocabulary applied across projects so evidence stays findable
Insights and recommendations
Written findings that hold links back to the raw evidence supporting them
Transcription
Built-in transcription of uploaded interview audio and video
AI assist
Suggested tags, summaries and draft insights from imported material
Automatic report builder
Generates shareable reports from selected insights and evidence
Universal search
Cross-project search over every note, tag and insight, on Premium and above
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
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.
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.
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.
Is there single sign-on?
Only on Enterprise, along with IP allowlisting, Jira and advanced permissions. Everything below is quoted separately.
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