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Both cover music licensing. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Soundstripe | Suno | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $9.99 | From $8 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | None |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Music Licensing, Stock Footage & Assets | Music Licensing, AI Content Tools |
| Works with | YouTube | YouTube, TikTok |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Music and effects, cleared for YouTube
Soundstripe licenses music and sound effects on a subscription and clears them against YouTube automatically, so a video does not come back with a claim on it a week after going up. The catalogue runs to 58,000 tracks and nearly 100,000 effects. Single-track licences are sold separately, for anybody who needs one song rather than a habit.
Our note
Epidemic Sound is the direct competitor and both clear YouTube automatically. Soundstripe's reference search is the better way to find a specific sound, and Epidemic's catalogue is the better place to find something nobody else has used.
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Full songs, with vocals, from a written prompt
Suno writes and performs a song from a description, vocals included, which is a different proposition from the loop libraries creators have used for background music. Credits refresh monthly and cover generation rather than length. Read the plan you are on before publishing: what you may do commercially with a track depends on it, and the free plan is the strictest.
Our note
This is the tool people mean when they say AI music now, and the free plan is enough to find out whether it makes anything you would use. For background music under a video, a library like Uppbeat is still less trouble; for a song that had to be about something specific, nothing else is close.
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