EVEARA Alternative: Three Products on One Backend

Short answer: EVEARA sells a white-label DIY distribution platform that a company runs under its own name. LabelGrid sells three products on one backend: self-serve distribution, which a label can buy today on a 7-day free trial; Imprint, the white-label portal; and Engine, the API. Their whole product lines up against Imprint, so the question is which shape your business needs, not who has more features. Every EVEARA value in the comparison table below comes from their own published pages, linked beneath it with the date we read them.

Our developer surface is installable and auditable today: public API documentation, an open-source MIT MCP server on npm as @labelgrid/mcp and listed on the public MCP registry at v0.4.0 with 30 tools across eight toolsets, support for ERN 3.8.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 with DDEX import on the API plans and on Custom Distribution, and a sandbox LabelGrid enables at the API upgrade once your paid API plan is active. Their 8 distinct captured pages, read 2026-09-23, do not mention MCP or the Model Context Protocol, do not mention DDEX or ERN, and do not mention a sandbox, while their features page advertises “Full API Capabilities” and api.eveara.com/docs/ returned 403 to our automated client, so their published developer surface is substantially unread.

Products on one backend

DDEX ERN versions

Yours on your own DSP deals, on Custom Distribution and the API tiers

Free-trial days on self-serve distribution plans

Each EVEARA value below is taken from one of their own published pages, and those pages are linked beneath the table with the date we read them. The MCP row is the one exception and says so in its own cell: it records an absence, so it is scanned across all eight of their distinct captured pages rather than read off a single one. Where a dimension could not be sourced from a primary page of theirs, the row is left out.

Each of the 6 EVEARA values above is sourced from their own published pages, read 2026-09-23: eveara.com/, eveara.com/diy-distribution/, eveara.com/features/, eveara.com/outlets/. Dimensions we could not source from one of their primary pages are omitted rather than guessed.

EVEARA’s pricing section 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. No currency amount appears anywhere in their 8 distinct captured pages, read 2026-09-23, so a reseller pays EVEARA a price set by quote.

We will not claim a clean win on that, because Imprint pricing is scoped at onboarding rather than published, and Imprint is the product that competes with theirs. The honest half is narrower. Every LabelGrid distribution plan and every API tier, including Custom Distribution and the API starting prices, sits on our pricing page, so you can size the self-serve and API routes, get internal approval and read the endpoints before you speak to anyone.

A flat yearly fee pays for the platform on Custom Distribution and the API tiers. On those plans you keep 95% of the royalties you earn through LabelGrid’s own standard-DSP deals, and 100% of what you earn on your own DSP deals or your own Merlin membership through SOBO. On Solo, Basic and Pro you keep 85%, 85% and 90%, with no SOBO route. UGC and Content ID revenue carries a 20% fee on revenue earned through LabelGrid’s deals, on distribution plans and API tiers alike.

The price list

Every distribution plan and every API tier carries a published price.

The documentation

Our API documentation is public and readable without a sales call, and it describes the same endpoints that run in production.

The sandbox

LabelGrid opens the sandbox once your paid API plan is active.

The sources

Every EVEARA value in the table above links to the page it was taken from, together with the date on which we read it.

Our WordPress plugin, LabelGrid Tools, pulls releases, artists and download gates into your own site every six hours and builds smart-link landing pages, Spotify pre-saves and gated downloads; it is available to every LabelGrid account at no extra cost and needs no API plan. The open-source MCP server and the @labelgrid/cli companion run against the same public API, so an AI client or a script reaches your catalogue the way the dashboard does.

Say you are a label or an artist releasing your own catalogue. You buy a published annual plan, and every self-serve plan starts on a 7-day free trial. Solo carries one label, Basic three, Pro five and Custom Distribution fifty; Solo, Basic and Pro move up a tier when they reach that limit.

What is in the plan barely changes with the tier. Dolby Atmos mixes and high-resolution masters are delivered on every distribution plan and every API tier at no extra charge. LabelGrid issues an ISRC for each track and a UPC for each release at no cost, and you keep those codes if you leave. YouTube Content ID registration is available on every distribution plan, and you keep 80% of the Content ID and UGC revenue earned through LabelGrid’s deals after a 20% fee. Automated royalty splits and per-artist statements run from Basic up and on every API tier, and Solo carries neither. Every release on a distribution plan is read by a person for quality, metadata and rights before delivery, at no extra cost, unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals.

EVEARA’s captured material sells the platform to a company that runs a distribution service under its own name, so a label buying for itself is a different transaction from the one their pages describe.

Atmos and hi-res

Dolby Atmos and high-resolution masters cost nothing extra on any distribution plan.

Codes included

LabelGrid issues an ISRC for each track and a UPC for each release at no cost, and those codes stay yours if you leave.

Splits and statements

Automated splits and per-artist statements run from Basic up, and Solo carries neither.

Release review

A person checks the audio, the metadata and the rights on every release on a distribution plan, unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals.

This is the like-for-like pairing: EVEARA against Imprint, our white-label portal, with Engine beside it. Both run under your brand, so the live questions underneath are the account structure, the commercial shape and what happens when your business outgrows the plan it started on.

EVEARA’s white-label page carries the heading “100% White Label”. It states that EVEARA “allows your company to define various user pricing models, subscription plans, or even tailored bundles”. Their features page lists native Android and iOS apps and multiple language capabilities, and their homepage publishes a testimonial stating that “Avid’s music distribution Service AvidPlay is based on EVEARA”. For a company that has already decided to run a distribution service, that is a strong published record.

Imprint puts your brand on your own domain, and each end customer sits in its own workspace with its own portal logins. One end customer is one label. An artist who wants a label of their own signs up on your domain and becomes an end customer too. The partition between workspaces is hard: a label end customer cannot see its artists’ data, and only you, the reseller, see across all of them. Each standard API tier counts end-customer portals rather than your own labels: 5 on Starter API, 25 on Growth API, 100 on Scale API and unlimited on Custom API.

The published ladder is the floor of a conversation rather than its ceiling. Custom Distribution starts at 2,000 tracks by default and the cap is raised in the deal, up to unlimited; caps, ceilings, platform fees and packaging are all negotiable, and bulk label pricing for an operation running thousands of single-label artists is a real example. Our shape costs you something too: a label buying a self-serve plan for itself gets no tier of artists to supervise.

Imprint pricing is scoped at onboarding rather than published, and what EVEARA charges a reseller is not published either. The money mechanics in their guide, the monthly subscriptions and per-release fees and royalty percentages, are what a reseller charges its own artists, which is a different transaction again.

Our API documentation is public and needs no login, and the three standard API tiers are priced on the pricing page alongside the Custom API starting price. The sandbox is not a pre-purchase trial: LabelGrid enables it at the API upgrade once your paid API plan is active, and the 7-day free trial on the self-serve plans gives no API or sandbox access.

DDEX ERN import runs as a one-time catalogue load or as a continuous SFTP or S3 feed, on the API plans and on Custom Distribution, with a one-time setup fee wherever it is enabled; we support ERN 3.8.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 in both directions. Our MCP server is MIT-licensed and open source on npm as @labelgrid/mcp, listed on the public MCP registry, and @labelgrid/cli wraps the same public API.

Read the meters before you sign. An API tier is sized by a track limit, by the number of end-customer portals it carries, and by a monthly royalty processing cap measured in US dollars of royalties processed per month: $35,000 on Starter API, $115,000 on Growth API and $350,000 on Scale API. Sustained excess starts a tier-upgrade conversation rather than an overage fee, and every one of those meters is negotiable in a custom deal.

The track limit

Each plan carries its own track limit and its own overage rule.

End-customer portals

Starter API counts 5 end-customer portals, Growth API 25, Scale API 100 and Custom API unlimited, and none of those numbers counts your own labels.

Monthly royalties

The caps are $35,000, $115,000 and $350,000 of royalties processed per month.

The sandbox

LabelGrid enables the sandbox at the API upgrade on an active paid API plan, so it opens after the purchase rather than before it.

A comparison that concedes nothing is worth nothing. Here is where EVEARA is the stronger answer, as their own pages put it.

Their homepage publishes a testimonial stating that “Avid’s music distribution Service AvidPlay is based on EVEARA”, under a heading that reads “Market Leaders go with EVEARA”. That is a named, checkable enterprise white-label deployment on their own site. It is the proof a buyer at this level asks for first; we publish no named Imprint deployment of our own, and pretending otherwise would cost this page its credibility.

Their features page lists “MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio, High-Quality Audio up to 192kHz at 24Bit.” Dolby Atmos and high-resolution audio are parity, and we deliver both on every distribution plan and every API tier at no extra charge. Sony 360 Reality Audio is theirs alone here: their features page publishes it and we make no 360 Reality Audio claim at all, so if that format matters to your catalogue, that is a reason to choose them.

Their features page lists “Available as native Android & iOS” and “Multiple Language Capabilities”. Their white-label page also promises that a reseller defines its own user pricing models, subscription plans and bundles. If your end users expect a store-installed app carrying your brand, that is published capability on their side and a fair reason to choose them.

We keep this section in every comparison we publish; a comparison you cannot trust is worth nothing.

Choose EVEARA if your company has already decided to run a distribution service under its own name and that single layer is all you need to buy. Choose them if a named, published enterprise deployment is what your board wants to see before it signs, because AvidPlay is on their homepage and we have no equivalent to show you. Choose them if native Android and iOS apps carrying your brand are part of what you sell, or if Sony 360 Reality Audio uploads matter to your catalogue.

Choose them, too, if a demo-led conversation suits you better than a price list. Their route in is a booked demo, and ours is a conversation as well on the API and third-party routes, where onboarding screening and KYC/KYB apply. Door policy is not the difference between us. The difference is that LabelGrid also sells a self-serve plan you can buy today.

One vendor

You can start on a self-serve plan and grow into Imprint or Engine later without moving a catalogue elsewhere.

Price before contact

Every distribution plan and every API tier is published.

Flat fees

You pay a flat yearly fee on Custom Distribution and the API tiers, and keep 95% of royalties from LabelGrid’s own standard-DSP deals.

Readable tooling

Our MCP server is open source, and our API documentation needs no login.

Ask these of us, and of everyone else on your shortlist. The answers will tell you more about how a platform actually works than any feature table can, ours included.

01What exactly moves my bill: the size of my catalogue, the number of labels or portals I run, my monthly royalty income, or all three? And can I read that ladder without booking a call?

02Can I get a written price for the tier I actually need before I book a demo, and is the white-label layer priced the same way as the rest of the product?

03Is release review included at no extra cost, does a person do it, and what changes about it once I distribute only through my own direct deals?

04Which ERN versions do you support, in which direction, and what does it cost me to turn catalogue import on?

05Is there a sandbox, and at what point do I get it: before I buy, during a trial, or only once a paid plan is active?

06Is your AI and automation tooling open source and installable today, or described on a page? Can I read the code that would touch my catalogue?

07What happens to my catalogue if I stop paying, and how long does it take to get every release down from every store once I ask?

Every LabelGrid distribution plan and every API tier is published, the API documentation is public, the MCP server is open source, and the EVEARA pages behind every value in the table above are linked beneath it with the date we read them. Imprint is scoped at onboarding, so that part is a conversation on both sides, and the pricing page is where it starts. If anything here is stale or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.