Wahoo announced the Wahoo App on August 12 — a rebuild that folds cycling and running into one piece of software and restructures how much you pay to use it. If you read our SYSTM vs. TrainerRoad comparison back in February, the number we quoted for standalone SYSTM was $149 a year. That number is gone. SYSTM’s full workout library, its video sessions, and its 4DP power profiling now live inside a new Pro tier that costs $179.99 a year, or $17.99 a month. Everyone who bookmarked our February math needs the updated version, so here it is.

This isn’t a small repricing. It’s Wahoo collapsing a standalone product into a subscription ladder, the same move Garmin made with Connect Plus and the same move that’s been annoying wearable buyers across the whole category for two years running now.

Quick Verdict

Detail	Info
Announced	Aug 12, 2026
What changed	Cycling and running training merged into one “Wahoo App,” replacing standalone SYSTM
Base tier	Free with compatible Wahoo hardware — recording, device pairing, route planning
Core tier	$4.99/mo or $49.99/yr — training load, fitness trends, performance analytics
Pro tier	$17.99/mo or $179.99/yr — full SYSTM library, video workouts, structured plans, 4DP + new 3DP
Old SYSTM price (Feb 2026)	$149/year, standalone
Price change	+$30.99/year, roughly 21%
New running feature	3DP (Three-Dimensional Pace) — threshold pace, max aerobic pace, anaerobic capacity
Amateur takeaway	The value math from our TrainerRoad comparison just moved. Recheck it before you renew.

What Wahoo Actually Announced

The pitch, per Wahoo, is a single app that treats cycling and running as one training picture instead of two separate products bolted together. Cycling Weekly’s coverage of the launch frames it as Wahoo going after Garmin and TrainingPeaks directly on their own turf — one ecosystem, one login, training load and recovery data shared across both sports instead of siloed by device.

That’s the marketing framing. The mechanical reality is what matters more: three tiers, and the stuff that used to be a $149 standalone product is now the top tier.

Wahoo hasn’t been fully clear about what happens to people who were already paying for SYSTM before the switch — BikeRadar noted that Wahoo “hasn’t said whether existing subscribers will move automatically to Pro, or whether any features will change between tiers” at launch. If you’re a current subscriber, check your renewal date and read the fine print before it auto-renews at the new price.

The Three Tiers, Broken Down

Here’s what actually separates the tiers, based on Wahoo’s own subscription page:

Tier	Price	What you get
Base	Free (requires compatible Wahoo hardware)	Device pairing, activity recording, route planning, live tracking
Core	$4.99/mo or $49.99/yr	Everything in Base, plus training load tracking, fitness trends, and performance analytics
Pro	$17.99/mo or $179.99/yr	Everything in Core, plus unlimited SYSTM access, daily workout recommendations, structured training plans, immersive video workouts, and strength/mobility/recovery/mental-training content

Both 4DP (the four-number cycling power profile we’ve written about before — sprint, anaerobic, sustained, threshold) and the new 3DP running equivalent sit across Core and Pro, but the actual structured workouts built around those numbers are Pro-only. Knowing your 4DP without a plan that trains it is a nice chart. It’s not coaching.

The Running Side: What 3DP Actually Measures

Three-Dimensional Pace is Wahoo’s running answer to 4DP, and it’s the clearest sign the Wahoo App isn’t just a SYSTM rebrand — it’s a bid to be a two-sport platform. 3DP breaks a runner’s fitness into three numbers instead of one blended pace zone:

• Threshold pace — roughly the effort you can hold for an hour, the running equivalent of FTP
• Maximal aerobic pace — your ceiling for aerobic-only effort, useful for setting VO2-style interval targets
• Anaerobic capacity — how much hard, short-duration work you have in reserve above threshold

If you’re a road cyclist who also runs — cross-training, an off-season 10K, a duathlon — having both profiles under one login instead of split across a cycling computer and a separate running watch app is a real convenience. If you never run, 3DP is a feature you paid part of your Pro subscription toward and will never open, which is worth factoring into whether Pro’s price makes sense for you specifically.

What This Does to the Price You Remember

Do the subtraction and it’s not subtle. $179.99 minus the $149 we quoted in February is $30.99 a year — a jump of roughly 21%. That’s not inflation-adjustment money. That’s Wahoo deciding SYSTM’s video library, workout catalog, and 4DP testing are worth meaningfully more than they were seven months ago, packaged with running features most cyclists reading this site will never touch.

It also changes the comparison that anchored our whole February piece. Back then, the honest read was: TrainerRoad at $189/year builds fitness faster, SYSTM at $149/year keeps you entertained and sane through winter, and paying for both at $340/year combined wasn’t crazy if you wanted structured bike work plus yoga and strength. At $179.99, Wahoo’s Pro tier now sits $9 a year from TrainerRoad’s price. The entertainment-and-variety option that used to undercut the structured-training option by $40 a year now barely undercuts it at all. If you were choosing SYSTM partly on price, that reason mostly evaporated.

Is the Wahoo Pro Tier Worth $180 a Year?

The Pro tier is worth $179.99 a year if you’ll actually use the parts that justify the price: the full SYSTM video and structured-workout library, 4DP-based plan personalization, and the strength/yoga/mobility content bundled in. It’s a weak value if you only want basic ride recording and analytics, since those sit in the free Base and $49.99 Core tiers.

1. You’ll use SYSTM’s workout library regularly, not occasionally. At 600-ish structured sessions plus video content, Pro pays for itself if you’re training indoors multiple times a week through winter. If you ride outside most of the year, you’re paying for a library you’ll open twice.
2. You want 4DP or 3DP driving your actual training plan, not just a one-time test result. The profiling itself sits in the cheaper Core tier — you’re paying Pro’s premium for the structured plans built around those numbers.
3. The yoga, mobility, and strength content has real value to you. Our February testing found this was the part of SYSTM worth the most relative to its cost — a $50-70/year standalone yoga app is a real thing people pay for, and here it’s bundled in.
4. You’re not already paying for TrainerRoad, Zwift, or a coach delivering structured workouts through another platform. Stacking Pro on top of an existing structured-training subscription is the $340/year-plus territory we described in February, and that math gets harder to justify at the new price.
5. You train both disciplines. If you’re one of the growing number of cyclists doing structured running too, 3DP plus 4DP in one login is a genuine convenience Garmin and TrainerRoad don’t match today.

The COROS Wrinkle

Here’s the part that makes the timing land strange. Alongside the paywall move, Wahoo also announced a two-way API integration with COROS, letting Wahoo App users pull running and recovery metrics from COROS watches into their training picture at no extra cost.

COROS, for its part, has been the industry’s loudest holdout against exactly the trend Wahoo just joined. Its CEO told TechRadar in May that COROS has “no plans” to lock training insights behind a subscription: “If the profit from hardware sales is able to cover it, then we’ll find a way to offer it for free.” Garmin paywalled training-readiness and VO2 max trends behind Connect Plus in 2025. Wahoo just paywalled SYSTM. Tom’s Guide’s read is that COROS and Suunto are positioned to be the ones who benefit from riders and runners getting tired of watching free features move behind a login wall one release at a time.

So the same week Wahoo raised the price of its own structured-training product, it also built a free bridge to the one major brand refusing to charge for the equivalent. Worth sitting with, if you’re deciding where your subscription dollars go next.

Where This Leaves You

If you’re already on SYSTM, your renewal is going to look different. Confirm your tier before it processes — the price gap between what you signed up for and what you’ll pay next cycle is real money over a year.

If you’re weighing SYSTM against TrainerRoad, the case for TrainerRoad just got stronger on pure value grounds: $189/year for the more disciplined, more adaptive platform now costs $9 more than Wahoo’s Pro tier instead of $40 more. The entertainment argument for SYSTM still holds if variety is what keeps you training through a bad winter — that hasn’t changed — but the discount that used to offset TrainerRoad’s better adaptive training is mostly gone.

If you’re not currently paying for either and building an indoor training setup from scratch, the honest advice from February still applies: figure out whether you need a plan that adapts to missed workouts (TrainerRoad) or a library that keeps you from quitting in January (SYSTM), and price both against your actual training hours before committing to either one — or to $340-plus a year for both.

The Bottom Line

Wahoo didn’t just raise a price. It restructured the product so that what used to be an optional standalone purchase is now the top rung of a subscription ladder, priced within single digits of its main structured-training competitor. The Base and Core tiers genuinely add free and cheap value for riders who just want ride recording and analytics. But if SYSTM’s workouts, videos, or 4DP-driven plans are why you subscribed, budget for $179.99 a year now, not the $149 this site quoted seven months ago — and if you haven’t compared that against TrainerRoad since February, the numbers have moved enough to be worth another look.

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Pricing and tier details from Wahoo’s official subscription page, Cycling Weekly’s launch coverage, and BikeRadar’s reporting. COROS integration details from Bikerumor; COROS subscription stance from TechRadar and Tom’s Guide. Standalone SYSTM pricing referenced from our own February 2026 testing.