Racing Alpha vs Racing Post
An honest, factual comparison — including the things Racing Post does better than us. Prices and features below are from public pricing pages as of June 2026; Racing Post runs frequent promotions, so effective prices are often 30–60% below headline.
The short version: Racing Post is the industry's newspaper — journalism, replays, scale we don't pretend to match. Racing Alpha is a data and tools site, and the data tools punters actually use daily — ratings, pace, draw bias, price checks, a verified tipping ledger — are free here, while most of that surface starts at £19.95/month there.
| Feature | Racing Alpha | Racing Post |
|---|---|---|
| Per-runner ratings & verdict on racecards RP's Pro Card sits behind their entry paid tier. | Free | Members' Club Insights (£19.95/mo) |
| Pace / run-style maps Timeform (same owner group as some rivals) charges ~£30/mo for pace data via Race Passes. | Free on every card | Not a Racing Post feature |
| Draw bias heat maps (IV, A/E, PRB) The closest equivalent is Geegeez Gold at ~£36/mo. | Free for every GB & IRE flat course | Basic draw comments only |
| Fair-price / value check vs the market De-overrounded consensus of ~31 books — a price check, not a tip. | Free on every priced card | Not offered |
| Tipster record verified against closing prices (CLV) We found no UK competitor that computes CLV at all. | Free, every pick, public ledger | Not published |
| Trainer / jockey / course / combo stat profiles | Free | Full profiles in paid tiers |
| Betting calculators (EW, Lucky 15, Rule 4, dutching…) | Free | Free |
| Daily AI tip with advised price, tracked publicly Their tipping bundle; ours is one transparent pick per day. | Free | Tipping tier (£29.95/mo) |
| Digital newspaper, journalism, interviews | Not offered | Ultimate tier (£49.95/mo) |
| Race replays | Not offered (rights-restricted) | Included in paid tiers |
| Cancellation RP's published terms require phone cancellation with 7–30 days' notice depending on plan. | Nothing to cancel — no subscription exists | By phone, with notice period |
What Racing Post does better
Credit where due. Racing Post has decades of archive, a newsroom covering every yard in the country, race replays we cannot licence as an independent, bloodstock and sales coverage, and the digital edition of the paper itself. If you want racing journalism, that is their product and it is a good one. We do not compete with it.
What we compete on is the daily data workflow: the numbers a punter checks before a bet. Our position is that those numbers — ratings, pace, draw, price — should be free, computed honestly, and shown with their sample sizes and caveats attached.
The part we'd want to know as customers
- No subscription, so nothing to cancel.Racing Post's published terms require cancellation by phone with a notice period. We think self-serve-everything should be table stakes; if we ever launch a paid tier, cancellation will be one click, and the ledger, CLV record and audit story will stay free forever — they are the proof of work, and proof shouldn't be paywalled.
- Every performance claim is checkable. Our live ledger records each pick at its advised price and settles it publicly, and our CLV page compares every advised price with the closing price — the hardest self-audit in tipping, and one we've published even when it embarrassed our own backtests (that story here).
About this comparison
Compiled June 2026 from publicly available pricing and feature pages. Racing Post is a trademark of its owner; we are not affiliated. Promotional pricing changes frequently — check their site for current offers. If anything above is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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