Epidemic Sound vs Soundraw Comparison 2026
Both remove the same fear, which is a copyright claim on a video that earns. Epidemic Sound licenses a human catalogue at $9.99 a month billed yearly, with clearance that follows your channel. Soundraw generates the track instead, from $16.99, and you keep the rights to what it makes. The trade is between music somebody wrote and music that fits the timeline exactly.
At a glance
- Epidemic Sound starts cheaper, at $9.99.
- Neither has a free tier.
- Epidemic Sound bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
Epidemic Sound | Soundraw | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9.99 | From $16.99 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Annual only | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 30 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
Epidemic Sound
Music cleared for monetized video
Epidemic Sound exists to solve one problem, which is a copyright claim landing on a video that was earning. Every track is licensed for the platforms creators publish on, and the clearance follows the channel rather than the upload. The catalogue is smaller than a stock library's, and cancelling ends the licence on work you already published.
Our note
The subscription is a licence rather than a purchase, so treat leaving as a decision about your back catalogue and not just about next month's bill. Uppbeat's free tier is the cheaper starting point if you are not yet earning.
Only on this side
- Covers stock footage & assets
- Works with Podcast
- Works with Twitch
Soundraw
Generated music you keep the rights to
Soundraw writes the track rather than licensing one, so you pick a mood, a genre and a length and then adjust the arrangement until it fits the edit. Downloads come as WAV or as separated stems. Because nothing is licensed from a rights holder, there is no claim to dispute and no attribution to remember.
Why people weigh these two
- Soundraw instead of Epidemic Sound
- Soundraw generates original tracks you keep the rights to rather than licensing existing recordings, from $16.99 a month against Epidemic Sound's $9.99.
- Epidemic Sound instead of Soundraw
- Epidemic Sound licenses a human catalogue cleared for monetized video at $10, if generated music is not the point.
Which one should you pick
Epidemic Sound is the better answer when the music is doing real work in the video. Creator at $9.99 billed yearly covers unlimited downloads, social and podcast licensing and monetization on one channel per platform, with stems and sound effects included and thirty days free to start. Read one thing first: the subscription is a licence rather than a purchase, so leaving is a decision about your back catalogue and not only about next month's bill.
Soundraw suits background music where the risk you want gone is the claim, and where the track fitting the cut matters more than who made it. You can generate and preview for nothing; the subscription is what lets you download. The output is competent rather than memorable, which is the right trade for most edits and the wrong one for a title sequence.
Common questions
- What happens to my old videos if I cancel?
- With Epidemic Sound, the subscription is the licence, so cancelling is a decision about the back catalogue as well as next month. Soundraw's downloads are yours to keep, which is the practical argument for generated music.
- Is generated music safe from copyright claims?
- That is precisely what Soundraw sells: tracks that will not trip a content system, with the royalties kept by you. Epidemic Sound achieves the same outcome differently, by clearing a human catalogue against your channel.
- Which is cheaper over a year?
- Epidemic Sound's Creator plan at $119.88 a year against Soundraw's annual Creator rate of about $11.04 a month. Soundraw's annual discount is the larger one, stated at up to 67 percent.
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