Soundstripe, artlist, and epidemic sound are some of the best royalty-free music sites available on the internet. They are highly popular among YouTubers or vloggers. To use their music you need to buy their plan, it will be best if you can afford those three sites simultaneously for your videos, but if you wish to go for only one site then which one is the site you should go for? Well in this post I will try to highlight these three music sites i.e. soundstripe vs artlist vs epidemic sound, sound based on their features, which will help you to decide which one is best for your videos.
There are numerous royalty-free music sites available on the internet, among them, sounstripe, artlist, and epidemic sound are such music sites where you can find a good piece of music, by adding their music you can lead your video to a different dimension.
To compare sounstripe vs artlist vs epidemic sound, I’m going to compare some important features of them; I will focus mainly on four categories that are necessary to discuss. Such as –
- Music library
- Musi pricing
- Music licensing
- Music search
Soundstripe vs artlist vs epidemic sound music library –
The quantity of music largely matters. Because, if the quantity is high then you have lots of options to choose the perfect music for your videos. Let’s discuss how many music tracks have on their respective sites starting from –
Soundsrtripe music library –
Sounstripe has over 7000 music tracks, and 60000 sound effects. They have also 100000 stock videos available on their site. They stated that they upload 200 new music tracks every month on their site.
Artlist music library –
Artlist royalty-free music site has over 18000 music tracks on their site, and their music quantity grows day by day with 100+ songs per month. Apart from music tracks they also provide SFX. You can access artlist sound effects library for use in your videos which has 25 different categories. But there is a limitation i.e. you can only download 40 songs and 100 SFX daily.
Epidemic sound music library –
As of today, the epidemic sound has around 35000 music tracks and 90000 sound effects on its site. I think this one has the highest number of music tracks and SFX among all other royalty-free sites.
By looking at the music library, epidemic sound has more music tracks available on their site than the soundstripe or the artist.
Music pricing –
These sites offer subscription-based models to their potential users, also they offer a ‘single song’ model to users, where you can buy a single track from their library. let’s discuss soundstripe, artlist, and epidemic sound price distribution in a detailed way.
Soundstripe pricing –
The Soundstripe pricing system is divided into three categories or models i.e. ‘Creator’, ‘Pro’, and ‘Pro plus’ plans. A user can choose how do you want to pay your bill i.e. monthly or yearly.
In the ‘creator’ plan you need to pay $14.99 per month if you wish to go for a monthly subscription, but if you opted for the yearly subscription then you need to pay $119 per year which is $9.99 per month.
In the ‘Pro’ plan, you will need to pay $29.99 per month for the monthly subscription and $239 per year if you go for the annual subscription plan which will cost you $19.99 per month.
And for the third one which is the ‘Pro plus’ plan, you will need to pay $54.99 per month for the monthly subscription and $399 per year if you go for the annual subscription plan which will cost you $33.99 per month.
Artlist pricing –
Artlist royalty music site offers two subscription-based plans to their potential customer, i.e. ‘Personal’ and ‘Unlimited’ plans.
In the ‘Personal’ plan you need to pay $14.99 per month i.e. $179.88 per annum if you wish to go for a monthly-based subscription, but if you opted for the yearly-based subscription then you need to pay $119.88 per annum which is $9.99 per month.
In their ‘Unlimited’ plan, you need to pay $199.2 at the time of purchase which will cost $16.60 per month.
Epidemic sound pricing –
The epidemic sound offers a total of four different subscription plans to their potential users, which are ‘Free’, ‘Personal’, ‘Commercial’, ‘Enterprise’. A user can choose how do they want to pay their bill i.e. monthly or yearly.
In the ‘Free’ plan, as the name suggests you don’t need to spend money to use this.
In the ‘Personal’ plan you need to pay $7 per month if you choose a monthly subscription or $72 which is $6 per month if you go for a yearly subscription.
In the ‘Commercial’ plan you need to pay $25 per month for the monthly subscription or $300 per year and $12 per month for the yearly subscription or $144 for a year.
For the ‘Enterprise’ plan, you need to contact their customer care.
Music License –
Knowing about their music licensing is very much essential because a proper license can protect your published videos from copyright strikes or rights infringement. These three sites have different license systems for their respective plans. Let’s look at their license system one by one.
First, let’s start with soundstripe royalty-free music site.
Soundstripe licensing –
As I mentioned earlier soundstripe has three main subscription plans i.e. ‘Creator’, ‘Pro’, and ‘Pro plus’ plans. These three have different licensing systems.
In the ‘Creator’ plan, you will get unlimited access to their music as well as SFX and the curated playlist. This plan covers social media, podcasts, and the web also. The stem option is unavailable for this plan. Also, YouTube video clearance tools are unavailable in this plan. This plan is not for commercial purposes. Only one YouTube channel can be monetized in this plan.
The next two plans which are ‘Pro’ and ‘Pro plus’ are quite similar to each other. In these two plans apart from unlimited song use, you can monetize up to 5 YouTube channels. You can use music for social media, podcasts, paid ads, or commercial ads. The stem option is available for these two plans.
You can use a song multiple times for different projects during the length of your subscription. But if you wish to cancel your subscription your projects will be licensed forever but you cannot use their music in your future project.
Also, you cannot use their music to create your own song.
Artlist licensing –
Artlist offers different types of licensing systems for their two plans i.e. ‘Personal’ and ‘Unlimited’ plans.
Their ’Personal plan has some limitations to use. This plan only covers some selected platforms i.e. YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Podcast, and Tiktok, and also only one channel per platform. When you use a song when you have a subscription, it will be covered forever, but if you choose to end your subscription then you cannot use your downloaded song in your new projects. Under this plan, you cannot use their music for your client’s work.
In the ‘Unlimited’ plan you can download unlimited songs. When you download a music track within your subscription period, you can use this song forever or use it on any new project you like even after you decide to end their subscription plan but with respect to their terms and conditions. This plan covers all social media platforms, websites, paid ads, commercial work, etc. Under this plan, you can use their music for your client’s work also.
Epidemic sound licensing –
Epidemic sound offers different types of licensing systems for their four plans i.e. ‘Free’, ‘Personal’, ‘Commercial’, ‘Enterprise’.
In the ‘Free’ plan there are some limitations like you can only able to download 15 tracks per month, also you cannot monetize your videos under this plan.
In the ‘Personal’ plan you can download unlimited music tracks, also you can monetize videos on one channel per platform. Under this plan only selected platforms are covered i.e. YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitch, and Podcasts.
In the ‘Commercial’ plan apart from unlimited music downloading you can use their songs for all social media platforms, digital ads online platforms, and websites. You can publish content for your clients also.
In the ‘Enterprise’ plan, apart from all the features covered under other plans except the ‘free’ plan, you can use their song in TV shows and ads, and also you can create multiple user accounts.
If you want to cancel your subscription, all the videos that you published will stay clear from getting copyright strikes forever.
Music search –
These royalty-free music sites i.e. soudstripe, artlist, and epidemic sound has a large number of music tracks on their respective platform. It is quite difficult to choose an ideal song by searching one by one if the quantity of the music is too high. To tackle this you need some sort of filter as categories to sort out your ideal song. Below I have mentioned the filters they provide on their respective site to help you to find your required song for a video.
Soundstripe music search –
- Mood
- Characteristic
- Genre
- Energy
- Instrument
- Key
- Artist
- Playlist
- Vocals
- Duration
- BPM
- Advance
Artlist music search –
- Mood
- Video Theme
- Genre
- Instrument
Epidemic Sound music search –
- Moods
- Genre
- Tags
- Duration
- BPM
- Vocals
Both soundstripe and epidemic sound provides an important feature called ‘stems’ by which you can download particular audio layers from a single track. But in the artlist, they have yet to include this ‘stems’ feature.
Conclusion –
If you ask me from the soundstripe vs artlist vs epidemic sound, which site has a better quality of soundtracks? Well, the answer can be varied between individuals because people have different tastes in music, some people will like soundstripe’s soundtracks and other some people will like artlist or epidemic sounds soundtracks. There is no doubt that they provide high-quality music, but personally, I prefer artlist over the sondstripe or epidemic sound.
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