Questions people actually ask
Who is EVEARA?
EVEARA is an Irish company. Their privacy policy names “EVEARA, a limited company with offices at Castle Chambers No. 6, Castle Street Cork City T12 T25W, Ireland”, and their about page states that “EVEARA was incorporated in April 2015 in Cork/Ireland, with the goal of establishing itself as an industry-standard in DIY white label music distribution”. LabelGrid’s contracting entity is LABEL GRID, LLC, formed in 2017, with its headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Both are established companies, and company age is not an argument either of us should be making.
Does EVEARA publish its pricing?
No currency amount appears in their 8 distinct captured pages, read 2026-09-23. Their features page carries a Pricing heading whose body reads “Depending on the size of your business, we offer various pricing plans for setting up and running your distribution service”, and their guide sends a buyer to book a free demo, so a reseller pays EVEARA a price set by quote. Their published material stops there and never states the commercial model behind that quote, so neither will we. On our side, every LabelGrid distribution plan and every API tier is published, including Custom Distribution and the starting prices for the API tiers. Imprint, our white-label portal, is scoped at onboarding rather than published, so neither company publishes a white-label price.
Is EVEARA a good alternative to LabelGrid?
That depends on how much of the product you need to buy. Their homepage H1 reads “Run Your Own Do-It-Yourself Music Distribution Service” and their features page calls EVEARA “your invisible and silent partner”, so their captured material sells the white-label layer a company runs under its own name. LabelGrid sells three products on one backend: self-serve distribution, Imprint the white-label portal, and Engine the API. If that white-label layer is the whole of what you want, they are a real option. If you want a self-serve plan today and a portal or an API later without changing vendor, that is the case for us.
What does EVEARA’s white-label platform include?
Their white-label page carries the heading “100% White Label” and states that “EVEARA allows your company to define various user pricing models, subscription plans, or even tailored bundles, individually to your company’s needs”. Their guide adds “You decide your pricing, commissions, and user features”, so a reseller sets what its own artists pay. Their features page also lists “Available as native Android & iOS” and “Multiple Language Capabilities”, with no further detail in the capture. Imprint is comparable on branding: your brand, your domain, each end customer in its own workspace. Read those pricing sentences carefully, though. They describe a reseller charging its own artists, not what EVEARA charges the reseller.
Does EVEARA have an API?
Their features page lists “Full API Capabilities” as a platform feature, and that heading is the whole of what our capture read about it: api.eveara.com/docs/ returned HTTP 403 to an automated client and api.eveara.com/ rendered 29 characters. The 403 tells us an API host exists. It tells us nothing about the documentation, the authentication, the endpoints or the pricing basis, and a firewall refusing a bot says nothing about what a human sees. Ours we can describe: LabelGrid’s API documentation is public and readable without a sales call, the three standard API tiers and the Custom API starting price are published, and LabelGrid enables the sandbox at the API upgrade once a paid API plan is active.
Does LabelGrid have an MCP server and a sandbox, and does EVEARA?
LabelGrid publishes an official open-source MCP server: @labelgrid/mcp on npm, MIT-licensed, listed on the public MCP registry as io.github.labelgrid/labelgrid-mcp, v0.4.0 with 30 tools across eight toolsets. It needs an API plan, an API token and Node 20+. The sandbox opens at the API upgrade, once a paid API plan is active. On their side we can report only what we read: their 8 distinct captured pages, read 2026-09-23, do not mention MCP or the Model Context Protocol, and do not mention a sandbox. Their API documentation returned 403 to our automated client, so a sandbox and a developer toolchain could both sit behind it unread.
Which DDEX ERN versions does each platform support?
LabelGrid supports ERN 3.8.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2, in delivery and in import alike. We are not a DDEX member and we claim no membership; this is support for the message versions. DDEX ERN import, as a one-time catalogue load or a continuous SFTP or S3 feed, runs on the API plans and on Custom Distribution rather than on Solo, Basic or Pro, and it carries a one-time setup fee wherever it is enabled. Their 8 distinct captured pages, read 2026-09-23, do not mention DDEX or ERN. That describes what their published marketing covers and not their delivery stack: their API documentation was unreadable to our capture, and a delivery standard is exactly the thing a marketing page leaves out.
Do both platforms support Dolby Atmos and hi-res audio?
Yes. Their features page lists “MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio, High-Quality Audio up to 192kHz at 24Bit.” LabelGrid delivers Dolby Atmos mixes and high-resolution masters on every distribution plan and every API tier at no extra charge, with no per-track add-on fee. Atmos needs an ADM BWF file with its own ISRC alongside the stereo master, and it reaches Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL. Sony 360 Reality Audio is the one format in their list we claim nowhere. If you need it, their features page is where it is published.
Is the catalogue screened, and who owns the music?
Their white-label page states “To avoid copyright infringement, all distributed tracks are checked and fingerprinted (in real-time)”, and their homepage lists Music ID and Fingerprinting among the platform’s components. LabelGrid screens by a different mechanism: a person reads every release on a distribution plan for quality, metadata and rights before delivery, at no extra cost, unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals. Both mechanisms are real and neither ranking is ours to make. On ownership, their white-label page states that “Music creators always remain in control, keeping 100% of their rights and earnings” under the reseller’s programme, whose pricing and commissions their guide says the reseller sets. On our side, LabelGrid takes ownership of nobody’s recordings.
Does LabelGrid do custom deals, and what does one change?
Yes, and the published ladder is where that conversation starts. A custom deal is normally for a business that does not fit the ceilings of the listed plans, whether that is too many tracks, too many labels or too much monthly royalty income. Custom Distribution is the worked example: it starts at 2,000 tracks by default and the cap is raised in the deal, up to unlimited. Caps and ceilings, platform fees, bespoke packaging such as bulk label pricing for an operation running thousands of single-label artists, and in special cases royalty retention, are all negotiable. The route is public. The numbers inside any individual deal are not.