Soundstripe

Music licensing with a $10 creator plan

Slipstream also clears YouTube, TikTok, Meta and podcasts on one creator plan, starting at $10, capping channels rather than the download count Soundstripe measures.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Podcast, Twitch

Royalty-free music written in house

HookSounds writes its whole catalogue in house rather than licensing from outside artists, starting at $9.99, a smaller, hand-picked library next to Soundstripe's tens of thousands of tracks.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Podcast

Music cleared for monetized video

Epidemic Sound also clears its catalogue for monetized video specifically, starting at $9.99 with no free tier, another major library to weigh against Soundstripe's 58,000 tracks.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Podcast, Twitch

One licence covering music, footage and plugins

Artlist bundles footage and editing plugins into the same licence as the music, starting at $19.99, a wider bundle than Soundstripe's music-and-effects catalogue.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

Music and sound effects, or a lifetime licence

Audiio also sells a lifetime licence instead of only a subscription, starting at $199, an option to stop paying entirely that Soundstripe's plans do not offer.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

Music for video with a free tier that clears claims

Uppbeat keeps a free tier that still clears copyright claims, unlike Soundstripe which has no free tier at all, before its own $6.99 plan.

Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Podcast, Twitch

Music that changes shape to fit the edit

Filmstro reshapes a track's intensity to match the cut itself rather than picking a fixed song, starting at $11.91, for an edit where the music needs to follow the pacing.

Works with YouTube

Templates and footage for video editors

Motion Array at $11 bundles templates and footage for editors alongside music, wider than a cleared music library.