# MileSplit Alternatives for Track Athletes > What MileSplit puts behind its paywall, the free and paid alternatives for results, rankings and video, and the one that ranks every legal mark for free. August 10, 2026 · 7 min read · Updated September 23, 2026 People do not usually search for MileSplit alternatives because they dislike MileSplit. They search for it in March, after clicking on their own ranking and hitting a subscription screen. So this is not a takedown. It is a straight answer to a narrow question: **what else is there, and what does each one actually give you for free?** > **If you came here from a paywall:** TrackReels ranks every wind-legal mark for free, with the race attached, on open boards for every event, boys and girls. There is no subscription for rankings and rank cannot be bought. [Create your free profile](https://trackreels.io/signup) or [check the boards first](https://trackreels.io/leaderboard). ## What MileSplit paywalls, precisely Worth being exact, because the internet is full of guesses. MileSplit's own subscription FAQ states that a PRO subscription unlocks **state and national rankings** and **athlete race history and progression**. Meet results themselves are broadly viewable. MileSplit does not publish a subscription price on its public pages. I checked its subscription FAQ, its own "what you get when you subscribe" article and its plan announcement, and none of the three names a figure. Prices quoted on third-party blogs are not from MileSplit, so check the current rate at the signup screen rather than trusting a number you read somewhere. The short version: **your results are free, your ranking is the product.** ## What MileSplit is genuinely good at Skip this and you will make a bad decision. MileSplit is a media network with a database inside it. It runs state sites with real coverage, photographers at meets, articles, rankings that people actually read, and video. If you are near the top of your state list, appearing there has value that no database can replicate, because people browse it recreationally rather than only looking you up. If that describes you, the subscription is probably not your problem. Read on anyway for what to pair it with, because the one thing a media network cannot do is put the race next to the mark on a page you own. ## The alternatives, honestly ### TrackReels, for a free ranking with the film attached This is our site, so weigh it accordingly. The specific gap it fills: **the ranking is free and the video carries the mark.** Every reel requires its event, time or distance, date, wind reading and whether the timing was fully automatic or hand held, at upload. Wind-illegal marks in the sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps get labeled and kept off the boards rather than quietly counted. PRs and season bests are worked out for you. [The leaderboards](https://trackreels.io/leaderboard) are open to read and to rank on, for every event, boys and girls, and you rank the moment a legal mark is posted. Coaches use it from the other side. Recruiters are verified against a college domain, search by event, class year and state, watch the race with the mark attached, keep private recruiting boards, and message athletes inside the NCAA contact rules, which the site enforces by graduating class. The free plan is a complete recruiting profile: a public page at trackreels.io/yourname, unlimited marks by [bulk entry](https://trackreels.io/signup), five videos plus one a month, and full ranking. Paid plans buy upload room and progression charts, never a better rank. [Every tier is on the pricing page](https://trackreels.io/pricing). What it is not: a meet results database with twenty years of history, or a media network with photographers at your regional. Use it alongside those, not instead of them. > **Two minutes, no card.** [Create your TrackReels profile](https://trackreels.io/signup), enter the marks from your last results sheet, and see where they rank tonight. ### Athletic.net, for the raw data The closest direct substitute, and in many states the one your meet director actually uploads to. Deep performance history, clean progressions, every split. It paywalls the same thing MileSplit does. An Athletic+ membership is [US$9.99 a month, or US$7.97 a month paid annually for a total of US$95.64](https://support.athletic.net/article/7d9a6maocc-become-an-athletic-member), and what it unlocks is unlimited rankings, ad-free browsing, full AthleticTV access and athlete comparison tools. One housekeeping note: meet uploads can leave a runner with two bios, and the help center article on [merging duplicate athletes](https://support.athletic.net/article/pt3fi2bqdj-merging-duplicate-athletes) walks through the fix, a correction filed as "Athlete has two bios" from the bio you want to keep, which gets merged automatically within seconds when the two records agree and goes to staff review when they do not. The difference worth knowing: Athletic.net tells you the price before you commit. MileSplit does not. If you are going to pay for a ranking view, that transparency is a reasonable tiebreaker. For the record, every TrackReels price is on its [pricing page](https://trackreels.io/pricing); Athletic.net publishes its price (US$9.99 a month or US$95.64 a year for rankings), and MileSplit and NCSA do not publish one. Which of the two has your results at all is regional, and there is [a two-minute test for working that out](https://trackreels.io/blog/milesplit-vs-athletic-net). ### Your state athletic association, for official results Free, authoritative, and consistently overlooked. State association sites and the timing companies that run your meets post official results, usually as PDFs or a results portal. They are the source both commercial sites are built on. Not searchable, not ranked, not pretty. But if you need a citable result for a coach, this is the primary source and it costs nothing. It is also the link to paste into the results field when you enter a mark on TrackReels, and it is what a moderator checks against when verifying marks. ### TFRRS, if you are looking at college marks Free, and the standard reference for college results. Not a high school tool and not a recruiting profile, but if you are trying to work out what a program's current roster actually runs, this is where to look rather than at a recruiting-standards blog post. For the published recruiting ranges by division, event and gender, TrackReels keeps [a free standards page](https://trackreels.io/standards) that is cited and dated. ### MaxPreps, if you want breadth over depth Covers many sports. Track is not its strength, and its coverage of field events in particular is thin. Reasonable if your school already uses it for everything else, weak as a track recruiting tool. ### Hudl, if you want team film Built for team sports and priced for teams. It technically handles other sports, but it is not designed around an individual athlete's marks, and a track performance without its time, wind and timing method attached is not doing recruiting work. That is the exact thing a TrackReels reel carries by design. ## What to use for what - **Looking up an official result:** your state association or timing company. Free. - **Performance history and progressions:** Athletic.net. Free to view, paid for rankings. - **State visibility and coverage:** MileSplit, if your state's site is active. - **College roster marks:** TFRRS. Free. - **A free ranking, a profile you own, and film attached to every mark:** [TrackReels](https://trackreels.io/signup). Free tier, no card, rank cannot be bought. Most athletes need two of these, not one, and almost nobody needs to pay for more than one ranking subscription. The one on this list that never asks for a subscription to rank you is the last one. ## The question underneath the question If you are paying to see where you rank, it is usually because a coach asked where you rank, or because you are trying to work out whether your marks are good enough. That second one is answerable without a subscription, in three steps, all free: 1. Convert the mark properly first. A stopwatch 11.2 and a camera-timed 11.2 are not the same performance, and [the hand time to FAT converter](https://trackreels.io/convert/hand-time-to-fat) does it the way meet seeding does. 2. Put it against the [published college recruiting standards](https://trackreels.io/standards) for your event to see which divisions recruit it. 3. Put it on [a TrackReels profile](https://trackreels.io/signup) and see where it sits on [the live event boards](https://trackreels.io/leaderboard), with the race behind the number for any coach who looks. Read [why a hand time and a FAT time differ](https://trackreels.io/blog/hand-timing-vs-fat-explained) before you compare anything, because a coach will treat the two very differently. Rankings, compare, standards and calculators are free here and stay free; a profile takes two minutes. [More TrackReels guides](https://trackreels.io/blog) · [Create your athlete profile](https://trackreels.io/signup) ## Keep reading ### [MileSplit vs Athletic.net: Which Is Better?](https://trackreels.io/blog/milesplit-vs-athletic-net) Both paywall their rankings. What each covers, what a subscription buys, which one your state uses, and the free option that ranks every legal mark. ### [NCAA Altitude Conversions End in 2026-27](https://trackreels.io/blog/ncaa-altitude-conversion-eliminated) The NCAA voted in June 2026 to end altitude and indoor track-size conversions for championship qualifying from 2026-27. What the report says, what changes. ### [There Is No Cross Country Recruiting Standard](https://trackreels.io/blog/cross-country-recruiting-standards) Every 5K cross country recruiting table online falls apart on inspection. What college coaches actually recruit distance runners off instead. --- Canonical page: https://trackreels.io/blog/milesplit-alternatives Site guide for agents: https://trackreels.io/llms.txt