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Take the activity from the watch that recorded it, not from Strava’s copy of it. No athlete cap, no daily quota, no terms deciding who may see it.
link an athlete’s own watch — no Strava account involved
// Your own id for your own user. You hold no provider
// credential, and they register with nobody but you.
const link = await stridee.post('/v1/connect', {
provider: 'garmin', // or coros, polar, wahoo, zepp
external_user_id: 'user_4821',
return_uri: 'https://app.yourapp.com/settings/devices',
});
// Redirect their browser. Good for 30 minutes.
res.redirect(link.connect_url);The same run, two sources. One row goes to Strava, and for some readers it should settle it.
| What is being compared | Strava API | Stridee |
|---|---|---|
| Where it comes from | Strava’s copy, once the watch has synced | The manufacturer, as the workout lands |
| Who you may show it to | The athlete who recorded it, nobody else | Whoever your users consent to |
| Training a model on it | Prohibited by the API agreement | Yours to use |
| Request ceiling | 200 per 15 min, 2,000 a day — 100 and 1,000 on reads | Not metered |
| How many athletes | 1, then 10, then an app review | Your plan’s ceiling, from day one |
| What it takes to start | An active Strava subscription, per developer | A plan from 32.50 € a month, 14 days free first |
| Devices covered | Anything synced to Strava, phone recordings included | Garmin, COROS, Polar, Wahoo, Zepp, Hammerhead and Fitbit — no phone recordings |
Strava’s figures read from its published developer documentation and API agreement announcement on 24 August 2026. Check them before deciding anything on the strength of this page.
One call earlier in the chain. Your users consent on a screen we host, and finished activities arrive at your endpoint, sealed to your key.
Two weeks free. Then from 32.50 € a month.
Checkout is the signup. No waitlist, no sales call.
- Garmin, COROS, Polar, Wahoo, Zepp, Hammerhead and Fitbit behind one connect call
- Every endpoint on every plan — never priced per athlete
- 14 days free, and no card charged until they are up
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Cancel any time from the Stripe billing portal, or email [email protected] within 30 days and we refund you.
Plans start at
Or 39 €/month, month to month. Paying annually gets you two months free.
Hacker, Startup, Scale and Enterprise differ on one thing: how many of your users may connect a watch. Everything else is on every plan.
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Strava API questions
No. Stridee reads activities from Garmin, COROS, Polar, Wahoo, Zepp, Hammerhead and Fitbit — the manufacturers themselves. There is no Strava integration and it is not on the roadmap. This page exists to help you choose between the two, not to sell you both.
Three cases. If your feature is built on segments, kudos, clubs or followers, that is Strava’s product and nothing here replaces it. If your users record on a phone and never sync a watch, those activities never reach us. And if you are building against your own account and already subscribe to Strava, their API is the shorter path — a bill you already pay beats a new one.
Two clauses matter for most products. Third-party apps may display a user’s Strava activity data to that user and to nobody else, which rules out coach dashboards, team views and club leaderboards. And the terms explicitly prohibit using data obtained through the API in artificial intelligence models or similar applications. Separately, a Strava subscription is a prerequisite for creating an app at all.
They reconnect once, naming the manufacturer of the watch they own, through a consent screen you never build. Your own external_user_id is the handle on both sides, so nothing in your database has to be rekeyed — the row gains a provider link rather than a new identity.
No. We meter neither calls, activities nor endpoints. What a plan buys is how many of your users may connect a watch, and every plan is the whole API — all five providers, every endpoint.
Pushed, not polled. A finished workout reaches the manufacturer and we deliver an activity.created event to your endpoint, sealed to your public key. There is no polling loop to write and no schedule to tune.
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