Envato Elements vs Splice Comparison 2026
Envato Elements is one subscription across footage, music, fonts, mockups and templates, at $16.50 a month billed annually or $39 paying month to month. Splice licenses samples, loops and presets by monthly credit: Sounds+ is $12.99 a month for 100, up to Creator+ at $39.99 for 500. Envato Elements hands over finished assets to drop into a project. Splice hands over raw material for building a track from scratch, a different job even though both keep the licence after you cancel.
Unlimited stock assets on one subscription
A sample library rented by the month
At a glance
- Splice starts cheaper, at $12.99.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Envato Elements | Splice | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $16.50 | From $12.99 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
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.
Our note
Worth it at the annual price and hard to justify at the monthly one. Count how many separate stock bills it actually replaces first, because the honest answer is usually two rather than the four the pitch assumes.
Only on this side
- Covers design & graphics
Splice
A sample library rented by the month
Splice licenses samples, loops and presets by the credit, and anything downloaded stays licensed after the subscription stops, which is the arrangement that made it standard in music production. Credits refresh monthly and roll into the next month unused. It previews sounds inside the digital audio workstation rather than in a browser tab. This is raw material for making music rather than finished tracks to drop under a video, so a creator who wants a background bed should buy a licensing library instead.
Why people weigh these two
- Splice instead of Envato Elements
- Splice is a sample library built for music production rather than footage or templates, renting from $12.99 a month against Envato's broader $16.50 bundle.
- Envato Elements instead of Splice
- Envato Elements bundles unlimited stock assets including audio at $16, on the same rented subscription model.
Which one should you pick
Pick Envato Elements if you need finished footage, music, fonts and templates across a project and publish often enough that four separate stock bills are the real alternative. It replaces the most at the $16.50 annual price and is harder to justify month to month at $39.
Pick Splice if you are making music rather than scoring a video, and will arrange the raw material yourself. Its own guidance is to download hard for a few months on a credit plan, then stop, since anything already downloaded stays licensed. A creator who wants a finished track to sit under a video will find nothing here in that form, and should look at Envato Elements or a music licensing library instead.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- For raw sample credits, Splice: its entry Sounds+ plan is $12.99 a month against Envato Elements at $16.50 billed annually, or $39 paying month to month. They do not buy the same thing though. Envato Elements hands over finished footage, music and templates; Splice hands over samples and loops you arrange yourself.
- Do downloads stay licensed after I cancel?
- Yes, on both. Envato Elements' licence is lifetime on anything downloaded and used while the subscription ran, and Splice's downloaded samples stay licensed after the subscription stops.
- I need a finished background track, not raw samples. Which one is for me?
- Envato Elements. Splice's own brief is explicit that a creator wanting a finished track to sit under a video will find nothing here in that form, since it sells raw material for making music rather than finished tracks.
- Does either come with a free tier or trial?
- Neither. Both go straight to a paid plan, with no free tier and no trial listed on either pricing page.
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