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About SoundCloud
SoundCloud is a streaming service built around uploads from artists, bands, DJs and other audio creators. Alongside mainstream releases, its catalog includes demos, remixes, DJ sets and tracks that are not published on other platforms, and listeners can like, follow and explore trending music.
Listening in the browser is free. SoundCloud Go+ is a paid listener subscription, and Artist Pro is a paid plan for creators. It suits listeners who follow underground scenes and musicians who want a place to publish their work.
Strengths
- Large catalog including remixes, demos and DJ sets
- Anyone can upload and publish their own audio
- Free listening in the browser
Limitations
- Some features require a paid Go+ or Artist Pro subscription
- Closed, centralised platform
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to listen, with paid Go+ subscriptions for listeners and Artist Pro plans for creators.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- SoundCloud
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Listeners following independent artists and creators publishing their own tracks
- Categories
- Audio tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to SoundCloud
Compare allSoftware that can replace SoundCloud for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Spotify
A music streaming service with a web player and lossless audio for Premium subscribers.
Spotify is a mainstream streaming service with lossless audio for Premium subscribers, but it lacks SoundCloud's open uploading for anyone to publish their own tracks.
Deezer
A music streaming service with a free ad-supported tier and paid plans including FLAC quality.
Deezer also has a free ad-supported tier and adds FLAC streaming on its HiFi tier, with apps for Android and iOS, but it is not an open upload platform.
Funkwhale
A self-hosted, federated platform for storing, streaming and sharing music and podcasts.
Funkwhale is an open-source, self-hosted and federated platform for sharing music and podcasts, with no tracking or ads, but you or someone else must run a server.
Pandora
A music and podcast streaming service with radio-style stations, plus on-demand listening on paid plans.
Pandora offers free ad-supported radio-style stations plus podcasts, with on-demand listening only on paid plans and no way to upload your own music.
SoundCloud as an alternative
Listings that name SoundCloud as an alternative.
Tidal
A paid music streaming service offering lossless FLAC stereo and Dolby Atmos on supported tracks.
SoundCloud adds free browser listening and lets anyone upload tracks, with a catalog heavy on independent artists, remixes and DJ sets, but no lossless quality mentioned.
YouTube Music
Google’s music streaming service with official songs, music videos, live performances and covers, free with ads or ad-free with Premium.
SoundCloud centers on independent artists who upload their own tracks, so it offers more unsigned music but a smaller official catalog.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Last.fm
Music tracking service that records your listening history and recommends music and events.
Castopod
A free, open-source podcast hosting platform you can self-host, with fediverse interaction built in.
Suno
A web-based AI music generator that turns a text prompt or your own lyrics into full songs.
Udio
An online AI music generator for creating, discovering and sharing music tracks.
Mixxx
Free, open-source DJ software for live mixing with controller and timecode vinyl support.
