iMusician Alternative: Infrastructure for Other People’s Releases

Short answer: iMusician sell a five-rung ladder to artists and labels putting out their own music, two pay-per-release plans and three annual subscriptions, with one account covering several artists. LabelGrid sells the layer a business runs other people’s releases on: royalty accounting, automated splits from Basic up, and, on the API tiers, a documented REST API with a separate workspace for each of your end customers. Imprint puts those workspaces under your own brand, quoted at onboarding. For one artist releasing one record, iMusician is cheaper and simpler than anything on our ladder. Every iMusician value in the table below is taken from one of their own published pages.

Who is the service sold to?

iMusician answer that question themselves, in their general terms: their services “are made for indie artists and labels, and explicitly excludes aggregation businesses (e.g. ‘distributors’). If in doubt, please contact iMusician for a custom deal.” The buyer LabelGrid is built for, a business that releases and accounts for other people’s music, is the buyer their fair-use policy routes into a conversation rather than onto a plan, and they do sell a label tier: AMPLIFY Pro is headed “AMPLIFY PRO: DESIGNED FOR GROWING & ESTABLISHED LABELS” and carries unlimited main artists. It is a statement about who each company sells to rather than about what either can build.

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Products on one backend

100%

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

0

LabelGrid fee to issue a payout

2017

Founded

THEIR PAGES, OUR PAGES

Row by row, from published pages

Each iMusician value below comes from one of their own published pages, linked beneath the table with the date we read them. Where a dimension their pages do not state, or state two ways, we say so instead of picking one.

Feature LabelGrid iMusician
Who the service is sold to Built for the business that releases other people's music. Three products run on one backend: self-serve distribution, Imprint the white-label portal, and Engine the API Their fair-use policy excludes aggregation businesses; custom deal by conversation
Plans Self-serve plans Solo, Basic and Pro, then Custom Distribution and four API tiers, every one of them priced on the website Five plans: Starter, Rockstar, AMPLIFY, AMPLIFY+, AMPLIFY Pro
What you keep on sales revenue You keep 85% on Solo and Basic and 90% on Pro; on Custom Distribution and the API tiers you keep 95% of standard-DSP royalties earned through LabelGrid's deals and 100% of what you earn on your own 0% commission on sales revenue while subscribed to an AMPLIFY plan
If you stop paying If a subscription lapses for more than 60 days, LabelGrid may remove or withdraw the content, on any plan Releases stay online after a subscription ends, with no fee to keep them there
Paying collaborators Automated splits that pay collaborators from the platform, from Basic up and on every API tier; Solo carries no splits Splits are calculated; the account holder pays collaborators manually
Account structure Each end customer is its own workspace with its own logins and a hard data partition. Labels per plan: Solo 1, Basic 3, Pro 5, Custom Distribution 50; the API tiers count end-customer portals at 5, 25, 100 and unlimited on Custom API One account distributes for several artists, capped by a per-plan main-artist allowance
YouTube Content ID Content ID registration on all distribution plans, and Content ID and UGC revenue is 80% to the artist with a 20% fee where that revenue comes through LabelGrid's own deals, which is the same split Content ID: included on AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro, metered per track on Starter — and their own pages disagree on base AMPLIFY and on Rockstar; the conflicting records, with each figure and the page it comes from, are in the add-ons question below
Release review Every release manually reviewed for quality, metadata and rights before delivery, on every distribution plan, unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals; the same commitment A quality-assurance team reviews files and metadata before delivery
Using another distributor Also a non-exclusive licence, with no restriction on using a second distributor for the same release, and no exclusivity surviving termination Non-exclusive licence; direct shop deals allowed, but not a second distributor for the same release, because shops take down duplicates
Who can reach support Ticket or email support on every plan, whichever plan the customer is on Direct email support for subscribers; the community forum for non-subscribers
Trying it Self-serve plans start with a 7-day free trial; distribution itself is paid on every plan, and API or third-party distribution needs onboarding screening and KYC/KYB No free distribution tier

Each of the 11 iMusician values above is sourced from their own published pages, read 2026-09-23: imusician.pro/en/contact-us, imusician.pro/en/products/digital-music-distribution, imusician.pro/en/products/youtube-content-id, imusician.pro/en/support/faqs/article/can-i-distribute-multiple-artists, imusician.pro/en/support/faqs/article/can-i-split-my-revenue-with-other-people, imusician.pro/en/support/faqs/article/does-imusician-take-commissions-on-my-revenue, imusician.pro/en/support/faqs/article/how-can-i-change-my-subscription, imusician.pro/en/support/faqs/article/will-my-music-be-removed-from-the-shops-if-i-dont-renew-my-subscription, imusician.pro/en/terms-conditions, imusician.pro/en/terms-conditions-dd. Dimensions we could not source from one of their primary pages are omitted rather than guessed.

HOW THE MONEY WORKS

The rates, and what we concede about ours

Start with the concession, because it is about money. Their commission FAQ says “If you are subscribed to one of our AMPLIFY plans, no commission will be deducted from your sales revenue”, so on sales a subscribed iMusician customer keeps more than a LabelGrid self-serve customer does. Ours is the plan retention, published per plan: you keep 85% on Solo and Basic and 90% on Pro, and on Custom Distribution and the API tiers you keep 95% of standard-DSP royalties earned through LabelGrid’s own deals and 100% of what you earn on your own direct DSP deals or your own Merlin membership.

Two more meters run beside the headline on both sides, at the same rate. Their commission FAQ puts 20% on social monetisation revenue and 20% on YouTube Content ID revenue “regardless of your current plan”, and on the Content ID and UGC revenue LabelGrid’s own deals earn, the artist keeps 80% with a 20% fee. Same mechanism, same number, and it is the shape of the category rather than a point for either of us.

The 0% is a subscriber rate, which is worth reading carefully before you plan around it. Cancelling an AMPLIFY subscription is done by downgrading, their change FAQ saying “you must downgrade to the Starter plan”, and a Starter customer pays 10% commission on sales revenue. The catalogue stays online throughout, which is more than we promise.

The money path

Published per plan

You keep 85% on Solo and Basic and 90% on Pro, with each rate on the pricing page rather than in a quotation.

Custom and API tiers

On Custom Distribution and the API tiers you keep 95% of standard-DSP royalties earned through LabelGrid’s deals and 100% of what you earn on your own.

Content ID and UGC

A 20% fee applies to Content ID and user-generated revenue earned through LabelGrid’s deals, and 80% goes to the artist.

Issuing a payout

LabelGrid charges nothing of its own to pay you on any plan; your bank’s own transfer and conversion charges still apply.

SAME PUBLIC API

Your catalogue on your own website

The LabelGrid WordPress plugin pulls releases, artists and download gates onto your own site every six hours, on any account and without an API plan, so a discography can go up today. The @labelgrid/mcp server and the @labelgrid/cli companion read the same public API and need what any API client needs: an active API plan, an API token and Node 20+. With one, script a bulk metadata change, or ask your own AI client what the catalogue earned last quarter.

FOR LABELS AND ARTISTS

What sits inside a distribution plan

Our distribution plans are billed yearly and sized by a track limit and a label limit. Inside one: Dolby Atmos mixes and high-resolution masters at no extra charge, YouTube Content ID registration on every distribution plan with its 20% fee on that revenue where LabelGrid’s own deals earn it, automated royalty splits and per-artist statements from Basic up and on every API tier rather than on Solo, and a person checking quality, metadata and rights before delivery unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals.

Review is parity rather than an asymmetry, and it is the kind of thing a page like this should say out loud. Their distribution page describes “our dedicated Quality & Assurance team reviews your files and metadata to guarantee proper formatting and compliance with platform guidelines”, and their agreement reserves the right to refuse a release on audio quality or questionable content. Both companies look at a release before it goes out. Identifiers are the same story: their labels page says they “provide ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) and EAN (European Article Number) codes at no extra cost for all your releases”, and LabelGrid includes ISRC and UPC codes at no extra cost as well.

Trying it works differently on each side, and neither is free distribution. The FAQ on that same distribution page answers the question directly: “No, iMusician is not a free distribution service.” LabelGrid self-serve plans open with a seven-day free trial, distribution itself is paid on every plan, and API or third-party distribution starts with onboarding screening and KYC/KYB rather than a card. How many labels you can keep apart is the meter that decides the tier: 1 on Solo, 3 on Basic, 5 on Pro and 50 on Custom Distribution.

Inside a distribution plan

Release review

A person checks quality, metadata and rights before delivery on every distribution plan, unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals.

Atmos and Hi-Res

Dolby Atmos mixes and high-resolution masters are delivered on every standard plan and every API tier at no extra charge.

Splits and statements

Automated splits and per-artist statements run from Basic up and on every API tier; Solo carries neither.

Labels per plan

1 label on Solo, 3 on Basic, 5 on Pro and 50 on Custom Distribution, with end-customer portals counted separately on the API tiers.

FOR WHITE-LABEL OPERATORS

One account, or a portal each

Both companies let you release for more than one artist. The difference is whether those artists live inside your account or in accounts of their own.

Several artists, one account

Their multi-artist FAQ states that “iMusician allows you to distribute music for multiple artists from a single account”, with an allowance counted from the artists tagged as Main Artist in that account’s library: “Starter or Rockstar: Unlimited”, “AMPLIFY: 1 Main Artist”, “AMPLIFY+: 2 to 20 Main Artists (Selectable)” and “AMPLIFY Pro: Unlimited”. A slot comes back “by taking down all releases associated with a specific Main Artist”. For one operator running several projects, that is less to administer than a portal each.

A workspace per customer

Every LabelGrid end customer is one label with its own logins, catalogue, analytics and earnings, partitioned from every other, while you as the operator see across all of them. On the API tiers the meter is end-customer portals rather than your own labels: 5 on Starter API, 25 on Growth, 100 on Scale and unlimited on Custom API. Name what that shape costs, because it is real: a label customer of yours gets no tier of artists beneath it to supervise, since an artist who wants their own label signs up as their own end customer on your domain.

Past the published ceilings

Imprint is the portal under your brand on your own domain, scoped at onboarding rather than listed on the website. Each standard API tier can add one pack of extra portals through support, fixed at 5 on Starter API, 10 on Growth and 25 on Scale, and past that single pack the answer is the next tier. The other ceiling is the track limit, and it is priced rather than a tier jump on two plans: Pro carries a per-track overage of $0.15 a year and Custom Distribution $0.25 per track per year up to 10,000 tracks, neither of which is a portal charge. A business outside those ceilings gets a custom deal covering caps, platform fees, bulk label pricing and in some cases retention, with the figures agreed under NDA.

The ladder on the pricing page is the floor of that conversation rather than its ceiling. If one account with an artist allowance is all your operation needs, theirs is the simpler thing to run.

FOR API BUILDERS

Read the docs, then buy the plan

Infrastructure gets chosen for years rather than for a month, so the useful question is how much of it you can check before you sign. Every distribution plan and every API tier is priced on the pricing page, including the Custom Distribution and Custom API starting prices. The Engine documentation is public and readable without a sales call, and a sandbox is issued once the plan is active rather than before purchase. Our MCP server, @labelgrid/mcp, is MIT licensed, and the companion CLI @labelgrid/cli wraps the same public endpoints.

On the delivery side we use the DDEX ERN message suite, supporting versions 3.8.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2. In the other direction, DDEX ERN import, whether a one-time catalogue load or a continuous feed over SFTP or S3, runs on the four API tiers and on Custom Distribution, needs support to enable it and technical onboarding, and carries a one-time setup fee wherever it is turned on.

Own the meters plainly: a standard API tier carries a track limit, an end-customer portal limit and a cap on royalties processed each month of $35,000, $115,000 or $350,000, where sustained excess starts a tier conversation rather than an overage charge. Their 35 distinct captured pages, read on 23 September 2026, describe a self-serve web product for artists and labels and do not mention a developer API, a sandbox or public API documentation. If that is part of what you need, put the question to them directly rather than to us.

What an API plan meters

Tracks and portals

Each standard tier carries a track limit and an end-customer portal limit of 5, 25 or 100, with Custom API unlimited.

Royalty processing

Standard tiers cap royalties processed monthly at $35,000, $115,000 or $350,000, with no overage fee.

Sandbox

Issued once the API plan is active, after onboarding screening and KYC/KYB, rather than before you buy.

Open-source MCP server

@labelgrid/mcp is MIT licensed and carries 30 tools across eight toolsets; @labelgrid/cli is the companion CLI over the same endpoints.

WHERE IMUSICIAN WINS

Three reasons to choose iMusician instead

Three places where iMusician is the better answer, taken from their own pages. All three are about money, and the third is a promise we do not make.

One release, one fee

Their positioning page puts the pay-per-release entry at a single figure: “By choosing our option to pay a one time fee for music distribution, you can release a single, EP, or an album for 9€ only.” Nothing on the LabelGrid ladder is that cheap or that simple, and the artist who wants exactly that is not the buyer we build for. If you are releasing your own record and want to pay once rather than subscribe, start there and come back when you are running a catalogue for other people.

No commission on sales

Their commission FAQ is unambiguous: “If you are subscribed to one of our AMPLIFY plans, no commission will be deducted from your sales revenue.” On sales revenue, a subscribed iMusician customer keeps more than a LabelGrid self-serve customer, who keeps 85% on Solo and Basic and 90% on Pro. The scope is worth knowing in both directions rather than as a catch: social monetisation and YouTube Content ID revenue each carry 20% on their side “regardless of your current plan”, which is the same 80/20 an artist sees here on revenue earned through LabelGrid’s deals.

Your music stays online

Their cancellation FAQ says that once a release has reached the shops, “we will not proceed with any takedowns (unless due to copyright issues or any other violation of our terms of service), nor will we ask you to pay additional fees to keep your music online”, and their positioning page repeats it: “Even if you switch plans or cancel your subscription, we won’t take your music down”. LabelGrid is blunter here. A subscription left lapsed or unpaid for more than 60 days can end with us removing or withdrawing the content, on any plan. What a LabelGrid subscription buys is the ongoing service the catalogue runs on, delivery and accounting and the portal, rather than a fee to keep music online; and a customer who cancels with them lands on Starter, paying 10% commission on sales revenue. Theirs is the better published position and we are not going to dress ours up.

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

WHICH ONE

Choose iMusician if, choose LabelGrid if

Choose iMusician if you are releasing your own music and want the simplest possible purchase: one fee for one release, or one annual subscription that carries an artist allowance and charges nothing on sales. Choose them if your catalogue has to stay live through a year when you are not paying anyone, since their terms promise exactly that and ours do not.

Choose them, too, if you want to decide yourself when each collaborator gets paid: their revenue-splits FAQ states that “no split earnings will be paid out automatically. You manage when and how payouts are made!”, and for an artist paying two people occasionally that is control rather than work.

Where it tips the other way is when the releases stop being yours. Paying four collaborators every month by hand is a job; so is answering “what did my artist earn in Brazil last quarter” out of one shared account.

Choose LabelGrid if

You release for others

Each of your customers gets a workspace of its own, with its own logins, catalogue, analytics and statements.

Collaborators get paid

Automated splits pay collaborators from the platform from Basic up and on every API tier, without you initiating each one.

You need your own brand

Imprint puts those workspaces on your own domain, under your own name rather than ours.

You build on an API

Public docs, three standard tiers plus Custom API from a published starting price, and a sandbox once the plan is active.

BEFORE YOU CHOOSE ANYONE

Seven questions for whoever you pick

Put them to us as readily as to anyone else.

01Ask what the plan is metered by, whether that is artists, labels, tracks or royalties processed, and what happens at the moment you cross the meter rather than a year later.

02Ask which earnings the headline rate does not cover, and get a figure for each: social monetisation, YouTube Content ID, and anything sold beside the plan as an add-on.

03Ask whether every price you will eventually pay is readable on the website today, and where the published number stops and a quotation starts.

04Ask whether collaborator payments leave the platform automatically or wait for you to send them, and what happens to a split you change halfway through a month.

05Ask whether a person reviews a release for quality, metadata and rights before delivery rather than after a complaint, on every plan, and how long the queue runs when busiest.

06Ask what happens to releases already live if you stop paying, what it costs to keep them there, and what rate applies to the plan you land on afterwards.

07Ask whether catalogue import runs on the plan you are buying, when a sandbox arrives relative to paying, and whether the tooling is open source enough to read first.

Frequently asked questions

iMusician’s imprint names “iMusician Digital AG” at “Binzstrasse 23 (West Entrance) 8045 Zurich Switzerland” and describes the company as “a Swiss based music start up”. Their about page says iMusician was “Founded in 2008 with a rebellious spirit” and, in the same document, tells a longer story: “25 years ago, iMusician’s founders were electronic musicians starting their own record label”, with a timeline that begins in 1999. The about page also describes “a Swiss music distribution company with offices in Zürich and Berlin”. LabelGrid has been going since 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado. Where a company is incorporated is not a reason to pick either one; it is here because people ask.

For one artist releasing their own music, LabelGrid is not cheaper and we will not pretend otherwise. Their subscription-change FAQ says “We offer five different plans” and names them Starter, Rockstar, AMPLIFY, AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro. Two of those are pay-per-release and three are annual subscriptions, which are different meters. Starter is “a pay-per-release plan with no subscription fees” whose commission is 10% on sales. Their pay-per-release page says of Rockstar that “With Rockstar, your royalties always belong to you. We do not take any commissions on your payouts”, and their commission FAQ extends that to the AMPLIFY plans on sales revenue. AMPLIFY+ prices itself by artist count, listing “Price Options: Variable, depending on the number of main artists you need*” for “From 2 to 20 main artists”, while AMPLIFY Pro carries “Main Artists: Unlimited main artists” and tells labels that “No matter how many new acts join your label, your subscription costs stay fixed.” No AMPLIFY subscription price appears anywhere in the 35 distinct iMusician pages we captured and read on 23 September 2026, so we cannot compare subscription figures with you. On our side every distribution plan and every API tier, including the Custom Distribution and Custom API starting prices, is on the pricing page.

Both companies pay out of what the stores actually send. Their distribution agreement says “Only when revenues have been received, they will be uploaded to your account, and will be net of any costs, commissions or other deductions”, and LabelGrid’s own Terms state accounting fees in a range between 0 and 20% of net payable revenue paid to us by the DSPs, depending on the plan, with the per-plan rate published. Getting the money out differs in the detail. Their general terms say “You can initiate payouts yourself” and that “Once a payout has been initiated, payments will be made within 30 days”, and their payout FAQ publishes bank-transfer fees of “EU countries: €0.40 per transaction” and “Switzerland: €0.28 per transaction”, adding that “On iMusician’s side, there are no transaction fees for PayPal payouts”. LabelGrid charges no fee of its own to issue a payout on any plan, and royalties are paid monthly. On the rails themselves, their terms say “bank payments can only be made to accounts that have an IBAN within the SEPA zone”, with Wise or Revolut suggested and PayPal offered as the alternative.

Both do, at the same rate. Their commission FAQ says “Revenue generated through YouTube’s Content ID system is also not considered part of regular music distribution” and that “A commission of 20% will be deducted from this revenue, regardless of your current plan”, with their Content ID page putting it the positive way round: “You’ll receive 80% of the ad revenue whenever your tracks are used in YouTube videos.” Registration here is available on all LabelGrid distribution plans, and the artist keeps 80% of the revenue LabelGrid’s own deals earn, with a 20% fee. Social monetisation carries the same 20% on their side, again “regardless of your current plan”. Access is where their own pages disagree, and the detail is in the add-ons answer below: their Content ID page says it “is included in all iMusician AMPLIFY plans at no additional cost”, while their plans FAQ meters Starter per track. The licence shape is worth knowing on any platform: theirs is “exclusive for the monetization with Content ID of the recordings for all tracks in this bundle”, which is how Content ID works rather than a quirk of theirs, since the system admits one claimant per recording.

This is the sharpest published difference between the two, and both sides state it plainly. Their revenue-splits FAQ says the feature “is available to AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro users”, that as the primary account holder “you will have full control over the funds”, including splits with people who hold no iMusician account, and then that “no split earnings will be paid out automatically. You manage when and how payouts are made!” So the account holder pays each collaborator, at whatever moment they choose. LabelGrid pays collaborators from the platform automatically through royalty splits, from Basic up and on every API tier, with Solo carrying no splits at all. Neither arrangement is better in the abstract: an artist splitting one EP with two friends may prefer to hold the money and decide; a label accounting to forty artists every month does not want that job. One timing detail on their side: splits “will only take effect from the first day of the next month” and are calculated from the settings as of that date.

On iMusician, yes, inside an allowance. Their multi-artist FAQ says “iMusician allows you to distribute music for multiple artists from a single account”, counted from the artists tagged as Main Artist, and publishes the allowance per plan: “Starter or Rockstar: Unlimited”, “AMPLIFY: 1 Main Artist”, “AMPLIFY+: 2 to 20 Main Artists (Selectable)” and “AMPLIFY Pro: Unlimited”. The allowance does not simply rise with price, since the pay-per-release plans are uncapped on artists while the entry subscription carries one. Their general terms also set the boundary of who they sell to: services “are made for indie artists and labels, and explicitly excludes aggregation businesses (e.g. ‘distributors’). If in doubt, please contact iMusician for a custom deal.” LabelGrid composes the same job differently. Each end customer is a separate workspace with its own logins and a hard data partition, labels are counted per plan at 1 on Solo, 3 on Basic, 5 on Pro and 50 on Custom Distribution, and the API tiers count end-customer portals instead, at 5, 25, 100 and unlimited on Custom API.

Published, and worth reading before you start one. Their subscription terms say “The duration of your subscription is one (1) year”, after which “your subscription will be automatically renewed for an additional subscription period of the same duration as the previous one (1 year)”. A payment method is part of that: “Your stored payment method will be automatically charged for the renewal”, and maintaining a valid one “is required in order to maintain an active subscription”. On refunds their position is “We cannot issue refunds for subscriptions that have already started”. LabelGrid’s standard plans are similar on the substance: fees already paid for the term are not refunded. Moving tiers on their side is instant on an upgrade once the invoice is paid and generally prorated, while a downgrade “will take effect at the end of the current subscription period”.

Their answer is friendlier than ours, and the two acts behind it are not the same. Cancelling a subscription is done by moving down: their change FAQ says “you must downgrade to the Starter plan”, and their subscription terms add that “All distribution releases will remain available online indefinitely. After the subscription ends, the terms of the selected ‘Pay per Release’ plan will apply automatically.” Their cancellation FAQ promises that they will not “ask you to pay additional fees to keep your music online”, with copyright issues and terms violations named as the exception. What changes is the rate a customer pays from then on: on Starter, 10% is deducted from sales revenue. Closing the account is the other act and has the opposite effect: “You can close your iMusician account at any time as long as all outstanding invoices have been paid”, and closure “will trigger the automatic termination of any outstanding services so distributed releases will be taken down”. LabelGrid is blunter than their cancellation route. A subscription left lapsed or unpaid for more than 60 days can end with us removing or withdrawing the content, on any plan.

Some of it is published, and two figures are published two ways, so here are both readings rather than our pick of them. Editorial playlist pitching: their pitching FAQ says it “is free for our AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro subscribers. For pay-per-release and AMPLIFY users, it’s available as an add-on for 20 EUR per release”, while their plans FAQ lists “Editorial Playlist Pitching included” in the Rockstar block. Rockstar is a pay-per-release plan, so those two records disagree about whether a Rockstar customer pays the 20 EUR, and nothing else in the capture settles it. YouTube Content ID splits the same way: their Content ID page says it “is included in all iMusician AMPLIFY plans at no additional cost” and their plans FAQ puts “YouTube CID: Included” on Rockstar and “YouTube CID: Pay per track” on Starter, while their own DistroKid comparison page prices the iMusician side at “$1 one-time per track on pay-as-you-go OR Included in AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro”. Beyond those, their pricing page publishes “Custom release regions €10” and “Video consultation – €20 per session”, the latter listed on AMPLIFY+ as “Video Consultations available for 20.-” and free on AMPLIFY Pro. Their distribution agreement says “You can update releases at any time. If the release is already in shops, a fee may apply”, with AMPLIFY+ and AMPLIFY Pro listed as “Release Changes: Free”, and their promotion page sets a floor for advertising: “To launch a campaign on iMusician ads, a minimum budget of €100 is required”.

Three products on one backend, and a route past the price list. Self-serve distribution is the first: several labels in one account, royalty accounting with per-artist statements and automated splits from Basic up, and release review on every distribution plan unless the account distributes only through its own direct deals. Imprint is the second, a white-label portal carrying your brand on your own domain with a workspace for every customer, scoped at onboarding. Engine is the third: public API documentation readable without a sales call, three standard tiers plus Custom API from a published starting price, catalogue import over SFTP or S3 on the API tiers and on Custom Distribution, a sandbox once the plan is active, and an MIT-licensed MCP server with a companion CLI over the same endpoints. Past the published ceilings a custom deal covers caps, platform fees and bulk label pricing, with the figures agreed under NDA.

See the price before you talk to us

Every distribution plan and every API tier is priced on the pricing page, and the API documentation is public; Imprint is quoted at onboarding. Each iMusician value in the table above comes from one of the pages linked beneath it, read on 23 September 2026. If any of it is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.