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F1-Grade Analytics for Grassroots Motorsport. Here's How We Price It.

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Race Ninja gives you one free analysis every month. Beyond that, buy individual credits or subscribe from 9.99/month for 10 uploads. The price covers cloud compute for AI, computer vision, and telemetry extraction.

Race Ninja pricing page showing Subscribe and Pay As You Go options

Wanted to take a minute to explain how pricing works on Race Ninja and why.

The goal from day one has been simple. F1-grade analytics for grassroots motorsport. Telemetry analysis, lap timing, sector splits, braking point detection, racing line visualisation, corner speed analysis, Perfect Lap, Head to Head lap comparison, and AI coaching insights. The kind of data tools that Formula 1 teams, professional race engineers, and top-tier karting outfits have had for years. Built for club racers, karting families, and track day drivers. From a single GoPro or DJI camera. No expensive data loggers or proprietary software needed to get started. And if you already run a MyChron, Alfano, or AiM dashboard, even better. Race Ninja layers that data on top of your video and GPS telemetry to create an even richer analysis pack. Each tool does what it does best.

It's taken over a year of working on this almost every morning before my day job, at lunch, and for a few hours most evenings to get it to a place where I was willing to share it. Every day, for at least 365 days. I'm obsessed with giving back to grassroots motorsport, because it's given so much to my son already. And honestly, grassroots gets shamefully cast aside (and in a lot of ways, pillaged) by the highest levels of the sport. This is my small way of pushing back against that.

I'd love to give this away for free, and in a lot of ways we already do. The development side is free. I'm a data engineer and scientist in my day job, and I've built this in my spare time for my son and for anyone else who wants to use it.

What costs money is the compute. Every upload goes through a pipeline that cuts your video into laps, extracts and processes the GPMF telemetry, synchronises everything, and then runs the deeper layers on top. AI, computer vision, machine learning, and sound event detection. None of that is free on our side, and that's what the price reflects. Nothing more.

Here are the options, so you can pick what fits.

Honestly, we don't mind whether you subscribe or pay as you go. The important thing to us is that you get high quality analytics and insights that make you faster. The pricing just covers our costs for delivering that.

Free, forever. Your first analysis every month is free. One on me, every user, every month. And if you want more, you can share an analysis publicly with the community (they're private by default) and get your credit back. Share your data, help others learn, keep analysing.

Pay per analysis. No subscription. Buy a credit or a pack and use them whenever. Valid for a couple of years, so you've got flexibility.

Clubman Lite — £9.99/month. 10 uploads a month. Enough for a kart racing weekend or a couple of practice days. This tier also turns off the AI interpretation if you'd rather read the data yourself. The computer vision, machine learning, and sound event detection still run in the background, so your data quality is identical. We just don't narrate it for you.

Clubman. Same as Lite but with the AI interpretation switched on. Data can be overwhelming in the paddock between sessions, so this adds a second set of "eyes" that summarise what matters and point out where the time's hiding. Useful for Rotax racing, IAME, Bambino, Cadet, Junior, Senior, hill climbs, track days, or any motorsport where tenths matter. It's not gospel, just a useful extra perspective.

Higher tiers. More powerful features that need more compute. Priced accordingly, but still a fraction of what traditional motorsport data analysis costs.

One thing worth saying.

If you already pay for cloud storage to keep your racing footage safe, Race Ninja doubles as that. You can download your videos whenever you want, they're always yours. You just also get the full analysis stack sitting on top of them.

That's it really. I think it's fair for what it does, and I wanted to be upfront about the why.

Any questions, happy to answer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Race Ninja really free to use?

Yeah. You get one free analysis every month, no credit card, no trial expiry. If you want more without paying, share an analysis publicly and you get the credit back. That's it.

Why does it cost anything if you built it for free?

The development is free — I built this in my spare time. What costs money is the cloud compute. Every upload runs through AI, computer vision, machine learning, and telemetry extraction. That processing costs real money on Google Cloud, and the pricing covers those costs.

Do I need a subscription or can I just pay per upload?

Both. You can buy individual credits or packs with no subscription at all — they're valid for a couple of years. Or grab a monthly plan if you're uploading regularly. Whatever works for you.

Does Race Ninja work with a MyChron or AiM Solo?

They're complementary. A MyChron or AiM Solo gives you engine data, RPM, and temperatures that a camera can't capture. Race Ninja gives you GPS racing lines, braking points, visual overlays, and AI coaching from your GoPro or DJI footage. Run both and you get an incredibly rich analysis pack. GoPro is the foundation, dashboard data makes it even better.

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