Number of Seats/Users: Aurelius offers discounts based on the number of users or seats. A higher volume typically leads to a better discount structure, especially for enterprise-level usage.

Commitment to a Long-Term Contract: Discounts are often provided to companies that commit to using the service for a longer period (e.g., 1-year or 3-year contracts). A longer commitment shows Aurelius that the company is serious and willing to invest in the platform long-term.

No Active Discounts: Companies that are not already receiving other active discounts may have a better chance of qualifying for additional discounts from Aurelius. Aurelius reserves discounts for new customers or those not currently under promotional pricing.

Volume or Usage Commitment: Aurelius offers discounts if you agree to a minimum amount of usage or transaction volume. This could be based on data storage, transactions, or other metrics tied to how much you will use the platform.

Enterprise-Level Negotiation: Companies that qualify as “enterprise” due to their size or complexity (e.g., having large teams, multiple departments, or geographical presence) may be eligible for additional discounts from Aurelius. Such companies are often in a position to negotiate for better pricing.

Early Renewal or Prepayment: Aurelius often offers discounts if you renew early or prepay for the entire contract period. This is a common approach to securing a lower price.

Here at Spendbase our internal data shows that Aurelius is seen as a strong fit for teams focused on making the most of qualitative research, especially when insights need to be reused over time across projects.

Key strengths our Spendbase clients highlight:

• Powerful organization & search
• Central place to store all research notes and insights
• Strong tagging and filtering (including multi-tag “show me only X and Y” logic)

• Easy to search across projects and time to answer “what do we already know about X?”

• Qualitative analysis made easier

• “Digital post-it wall” style clustering and grouping
• Ability to turn raw notes into key insights with linked evidence

• Tag-level counts and themes that support data coding and pattern finding

• Collaboration & sharing

• Shareable insights instead of static slide decks
• Helps teams avoid duplicated documentation and scattered voice-of-customer data

• Particularly valued by UX researchers, designers, and copywriters

• Onboarding & support

• Simple, lightweight UI that lets people “just start”
• Strong, responsive support and a CEO engaged with research teams
• Feature requests are often acknowledged and, in many cases, shipped quickly

Our internal data also shows consistent areas of friction:

• UI / UX limitations
• Tagging workflow can lead to duplicates (spelling/case issues)
• Visual design for tags and note editing feels clunky to some teams

• A few basic usability bugs and small annoyances (tiny edit boxes, limited text formatting)

• Feature gaps vs. broader research suites

• Very strong at organizing and analyzing qualitative feedback, but:
  • Does not cover study creation, survey sending, or facilitation
  • Missing advanced items like video timestamping in some setups
  • Some clients want more structure (e.g., list-style note views, scoped tags per project)

From a Spendbase discount and value perspective, Aurelius tends to deliver:

• Time savings on:
• Report creation
• Finding past insights and quotes
• Cross-project synthesis
• Better reuse of existing research, which reduces the need to re-run similar studies.

Net takeaway: if your primary cost driver is time spent organizing, analyzing, and reusing qualitative research (rather than running the studies themselves), Aurelius appears to offer strong ROI, with the caveat that you may still need other tools in your stack for end-to-end research workflows.