Artlist vs Envato Elements Comparison 2026
Artlist licenses music, footage and plugins on one subscription starting at $19.99 a month billed annually, and the licence survives cancelling for anything already published. Envato Elements covers a wider shelf: footage, music, fonts, mockups and Premiere and After Effects templates, at $16.50 a month on the same annual billing, or $39 paying month to month. Annualized, Envato's plan runs about $42 a year cheaper than Artlist's entry tier. The real question is catalogue: a cinematic music library against a general design shelf.
One licence covering music, footage and plugins
Unlimited stock assets on one subscription
At a glance
- Envato Elements starts cheaper, at $16.50.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Artlist | Envato Elements | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19.99 | From $16.50 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Artlist
One licence covering music, footage and plugins
Artlist sells a subscription that licenses everything on it for everything you make, including the videos you monetise, and the licence survives the subscription ending for anything already published. That last clause is the one worth reading twice, because it is where most stock music libraries hedge. The catalogue leans cinematic. Somebody who needs one track this month will find a per-track shop cheaper, and Artlist does not sell that way.
Our note
The licence terms are the product here and the catalogue is secondary, which is the opposite of how these are usually sold. Compare against Epidemic Sound on what happens when you stop paying rather than on how many tracks each claims.
Only on this side
- Works with YouTube
- Works with Instagram
- Works with TikTok
Envato Elements
Unlimited stock assets on one subscription
One subscription covers footage, music, sound effects, fonts, mockups and project templates for Premiere and After Effects, and the licence on anything you have already used survives you cancelling. For somebody publishing weekly it replaces four stock accounts. Quality is uneven, and finding the good file takes longer than the price suggests it should.
Why people weigh these two
- Envato Elements instead of Artlist
- Envato Elements gives unlimited stock downloads on one $17 subscription, spanning design assets as well as music and footage.
- Artlist instead of Envato Elements
- Artlist bundles music, footage and plugins under one licence, closer to Envato's all-in-one approach, at $19.99 a month against $16.50.
Which one should you pick
Pick Artlist if music is the point and you want a catalogue that leans cinematic rather than generic. The entry AI Starter tier is $19.99 a month billed annually, with $69.99 and $399.99 tiers adding libraries and AI allowances above it, and everything you publish while subscribed stays cleared after you cancel.
Pick Envato Elements if you need fonts, mockups and edit-ready templates alongside footage and music, not just music. At $16.50 a month billed annually it undercuts Artlist's entry tier by roughly $42 a year, but the $39 month-to-month rate erases that gap fast, so commit to the year or skip it. Count how many separate stock subscriptions it actually replaces before buying: usually two, not the four the pitch implies.
Common questions
- Is Envato Elements cheaper than Artlist?
- Yes, on the annual plan. Envato Elements is $16.50 a month billed annually against Artlist's $19.99, a difference of roughly $42 a year. Pay Envato month to month instead and it jumps to $39, more expensive than Artlist's entry tier.
- Do both licences survive cancelling a subscription?
- Yes. Artlist and Envato Elements both state that anything downloaded and used while you were subscribed stays cleared after you cancel, so a published video does not lose its licence retroactively on either one.
- Which one covers more than video?
- Envato Elements does. Alongside footage and music it includes fonts, mockups and project templates for Premiere and After Effects, useful for a channel that also needs thumbnails and graphics. Artlist stays to music, footage and its own plugin suite.
- Does Artlist offer a cheaper month-to-month option?
- The pricing page shows annual billing for its tiers, and a monthly commitment is either more expensive or not offered depending on the tier. Envato Elements states its month-to-month rate outright: $39, more than double the $16.50 annual rate.
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