PRICING

How Much Does LabelGrid Cost?

LabelGrid uses flat annual pricing with no per-release fees. Distribution plans run from $99/year (Solo, up to 100 tracks, 85% royalty retention) to $199/year (Basic), $499/year (Pro, 90% retention), and Custom from $999/year (up to 2,000 tracks, up to 100% retention). For platforms and distributors building on the API, plans are Starter $139/month, Growth $389/month, and Scale $879/month (billed yearly, full API and sandbox). Every standard plan includes a 7-day free trial, the WordPress plugin, your own label name on releases, and release scheduling. Automated royalty splits are included from Basic up. Support is included on every plan and answered by our own team, with an average response time under 2 hours during business hours.

Prices on this page are current as of July 2026.

THREE WAYS TO BUY

Which LabelGrid do you need?

Distribute your music

Releasing your own catalog, from solo artist to full distributor. Flat annual plans, published below.

See distribution plans →

Build with Engine

Building distribution into your own product? Engine’s monthly plans scale with your catalog.

See Engine API pricing →

Resell with Imprint

A white-label portal your customers subscribe to and pay you on. Imprint pricing is scoped at onboarding rather than fixed, because it is sized to your roster, your catalog volume and your payout needs, and because you build your own plans, set your own prices and bill your customers on your own Stripe account.

See Imprint pricing →

Distribution Plans

Flat annual plans for labels, artists and distributors releasing their own catalog. The Custom plan covers Merlin members, direct deals and large catalogs.

LabelGrid Plan SoloSolo

$99 /year

Starting small? Our solo plan has everything you need to get started.

  • Up to 100 tracks

  • 1 Record Label

  • Keep 85% royalties

  • WordPress Plugin

  • Dolby Atmos Deliveries

LabelGrid Plan BasicBasic

$199 /year

Have a larger catalog or more than 1 label? Basic gets you started.

  • Up to 200 tracks

  • Up to 3 Record Labels

  • Keep 85% royalties

  • WordPress Plugin
  • Dolby Atmos Deliveries

  • Artist Royalties Management

LabelGrid Plan ProPro POPULAR

$499 /year

Looking to keep more royalties or have a rather large catalog?

  • Up to 500 tracks

  • 5 label portals included

  • Keep 90% royalties

  • Overage $0.15/per track/year

  • WordPress Plugin

  • Dolby Atmos Deliveries

  • Artist Royalties Management

LabelGrid Plan CustomCustom ENTERPRISE

Starts at $999 /year

Up to 100% royalties, any catalog size, and special features. 2,000 tracks included, then a published per-track rate.

  • Up to 2000 tracks

  • 50 Record Labels

  • 95% royalties on LabelGrid’s DSP network, 100% on your own direct deals

  • Overage $0.25/track/year for tracks beyond the 2,000 included, up to 10,000

  • Custom overage for catalogs > 10000 tracks

  • Dolby Atmos Deliveries

  • Premium Support

Engine API Pricing

Plug LabelGrid straight into your stack with Engine, our developer API: the easiest way to automate music delivery, royalty reporting and multi-label accounting through a single, white-label endpoint. Every price is published right here. There is no sales-call gate to find out what LabelGrid costs, and the complete API documentation is public to read before you commit. Tell us which tier you want and we set the account up, sandbox included.

LabelGrid Starter API plan
Starter API

$139 /month

Billed Yearly except Overages

Fast on-ramp for a first catalogue and in-house dashboards.

  • 95% royalties on LabelGrid’s DSP network, 100% on your own direct deals

  • 3,000 tracks included

  • 5 label portals included

  • Add label portals in packs of 5 for $28, from the API or the dashboard, no support ticket

  • Up to $35k monthly royalties processed, the volume this tier is sized for, not a limit on what you can earn

  • Guaranteed first response within 2 business days

  • Official MCP server — AI assistant access

LabelGrid Growth API plan
Growth API

$389 /month

Billed Yearly except Overages

Adds horsepower, higher catalog size and 25 label seats for serious automation.

  • 95% royalties on LabelGrid’s DSP network, 100% on your own direct deals

  • 10,000 tracks included

  • 25 label portals included

  • Additional +10 labels: $90

  • Up to $115k monthly royalties processed, the volume this tier is sized for, not a limit on what you can earn

  • Guaranteed first response within 2 business days

  • Official MCP server — AI assistant access

LabelGrid Scale API plan
Scale API

$879 /month

Billed Yearly except Overages

Designed for large catalogs, with a dedicated manager.

  • 95% royalties on LabelGrid’s DSP network, 100% on your own direct deals

  • 25,000 tracks included

  • 100 label portals included

  • Additional +25 labels: $170

  • Up to $350k monthly royalties processed, the volume this tier is sized for, not a limit on what you can earn

  • Dedicated TAM / 2-business-day SLA

  • Official MCP server — AI assistant access

LabelGrid Custom API plan
Custom API ENTERPRISE

Starts at $2149 /month

Billed Yearly except Overages

Unlimited capacity, custom SLAs and full white-label controls.

  • 95% royalties on LabelGrid’s DSP network, 100% on your own direct deals

  • Track capacity sized to your catalog

  • Unlimited Record Labels

  • Custom/Unlimited monthly royalties

  • Dedicated TAM / Custom SLA

  • Official MCP server — AI assistant access

White-Label Portal

Resell with Imprint

Imprint, the LabelGrid white-label portal, gives your customers a distribution platform that carries your name. They sign up on your domain and subscribe to plans you price. Artist payouts run on the schedule you set. LabelGrid runs the pipeline underneath; the brand they see is yours.

✓  Your brand and domain✓  Your plans, your prices✓  Billing on your Stripe✓  Artist payouts built in

Explore Imprint →

Imprint

Custom pricing

Scoped at onboarding and sized to your roster, catalog volume and payout needs.

Early resellers get onboarded first.

Optional extras

LabelGrid Gate

WordPress catalog sync, smart links and pre-saves on their own, for sites that do not need distribution. This is not an extra on top of a distribution plan. Every standard and API plan already includes these features, so Gate exists only for people who want the WordPress side without distribution.

$39 /year

Preflight QC

Automated pre-release quality control. Audio and metadata are checked before delivery, along with credits and rights. For API and white-label plans. Priced on the number of releases you push each month and scoped when you talk to us, with no per-release fee. It runs automatically on every release. Learn more.

Price on request

Stream Radar

Artificial-streaming early warning across your catalog. It monitors your whole catalog live and flags, at track level, the releases showing patterns consistent with artificial streaming, so you can act before DSP fees, takedowns or strikes arrive. An addon for Engine and Imprint plans: join the waiting list and we scope the price with you. Audio fingerprinting and AI content protection controls are already included on every plan. Learn more.

Price on request

All Major DSPs

Global Distribution

DDEX 3.8 + 4.3

Standards-Compliant

Spotify

Preferred Provider

Merlin

Network Member

7-Day

Free Trial

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Everything Included in Every Plan

Dolby Atmos and Hi-Res Audio delivery are included in every distribution plan, at no extra cost and with no per-track add-ons. YouTube Content ID and social (UGC) monetization are available on every distribution plan too. UGC and Content ID earnings through LabelGrid’s deals carry a 20% fee, so you keep 80%; on your own direct (SOBO) deals, no UGC or Content ID fee applies. Marketing tools are included in every plan, including Gate: a hosted release landing page at links.labelgrid.com with no website to build, Spotify pre-saves with configurable fan actions, consent-based email capture you can export as CSV, your own Meta Pixel and GA4 firing on those pages, promo video generation for social, and promo mailouts to DJs, radio and curators. Every release LabelGrid delivers ships as a standards-compliant DDEX ERN feed in the version each store requires, on every plan; DDEX import is available on API plans. Every plan also includes the help center and support tickets answered by our team, and every release goes through both the automated validation and the manual review before it ships.

Feature Solo
$99/yr		 Basic
$199/yr		 Pro
$499/yr		 Custom Distribution
$999+/yr
Advanced Audio
Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hi-Res Audio (Lossless/FLAC/WAV) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Apple Motion Artworks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Audio Fingerprinting ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
AI Content Protection Controls ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Monetization
YouTube Content ID ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Social Monetization (TikTok/IG/FB) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Automated Royalty Splits — ✓ ✓ ✓
Artist Royalties Management — ✓ ✓ ✓
Cover Song Support ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Management
Advanced Analytics ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SOBO / Direct Deals — — — ✓
Merlin Network — — — ✓
Track Limit 100 200 500 2,000+
Label Portals 1 3 5 Up to 50
Royalty Retention 85% 85% 90% Up to 100%
WordPress Plugin ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Premium Support — — — ✓
Feature Starter
$139/mo		 Growth
$389/mo		 Scale
$879/mo		 Custom API
$2,149+/mo
Advanced Audio
Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hi-Res Audio (Lossless/FLAC/WAV) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Apple Motion Artworks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Audio Fingerprinting ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
AI Content Protection Controls ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Monetization
YouTube Content ID ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Social Monetization (TikTok/IG/FB) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Automated Royalty Splits ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Artist Royalties Management ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Cover Song Support ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Management & Enterprise
Advanced Analytics ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
REST API Access ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Official MCP Server ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DDEX Import ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sandbox Environment ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
White-Label Platform ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SOBO / Direct Deals ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Merlin Network ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Dedicated Account Manager — — ✓ ✓
Support Priority SLA 2 business days 2 business days 2 business days Custom
Review Priority SLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

With LabelGrid, advanced features are included by plan, starting at $99/year; automated royalty splits and artist royalties management start on the Basic plan.

PLANS AT A GLANCE

LabelGrid Pricing Compared

Flat annual pricing. No per-release fees. Distribution plans below; API plans for platform builders follow.

Plan Price Tracks Labels Royalty retention Best for
Solo $99/year Up to 100 1 85% Solo and serious independent artists
Basic $199/year Up to 200 3 85% Small labels with a growing roster
Pro $499/year Up to 500 5 90% Growing labels ($0.15/track overage)
Custom Distribution From $999/year Up to 2,000 Up to 50 Up to 100% Direct DSP deals and maximum retention
API plan Price Active tracks Labels Includes
Starter API $139/month Up to 3,000 Up to 5 Full API, sandbox, MCP server, billed yearly
Growth API $389/month Up to 10,000 Up to 25 Full API, sandbox, MCP server, billed yearly
Scale API $879/month Up to 25,000 Up to 100 Full API, sandbox, MCP server, billed yearly

CHOOSE YOUR PLAN

Which LabelGrid Plan Is Right for You?

  • Solo artist → the Solo plan ($99/year). Up to 100 tracks under one label, 85% royalty retention.
  • Small label → the Basic plan ($199/year). Up to 200 tracks across 3 labels, plus artist payout accounting.
  • Growing label → the Pro plan ($499/year). Up to 500 tracks across 5 labels, 90% retention, advanced analytics.
  • Distributor or direct-deal label → the Custom Distribution plan (from $999/year). Up to 2,000 tracks, up to 50 labels, and up to 100% retention via direct DSP deals or SOBO.
  • Platform builders → the API plans (Starter, Growth, Scale). Full REST API and sandbox to run your own branded distribution on our backend.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions About Distribution

LabelGrid uses flat annual pricing. Distribution plans are Solo $99/year (up to 100 tracks), Basic $199/year (up to 200 tracks, 3 labels), Pro $499/year (up to 500 tracks, 5 labels), and Custom from $999/year (up to 2,000 tracks, up to 50 labels). API plans for platform builders are Starter $139/month, Growth $389/month, and Scale $879/month, billed yearly. There are no per-release fees, and every standard plan includes a 7-day free trial.

Yes, all of it. Every distribution plan and API tier is listed on this page with its real price, including the Custom and API starting prices. There is no sales-call gate to learn what LabelGrid costs, and price changes are published here first.

Every standard plan includes a 7-day free trial with full access to the platform. You enter payment details at signup, but you are not charged until the trial ends. Cancel any time during the trial and you will not be billed. Delivery to stores begins on a paid plan.

No. LabelGrid charges a flat annual fee per plan, not a fee per release. Unlimited releases are included within your plan’s track limit. The Pro plan adds tracks beyond its limit at $0.15 per track/year, and the Custom plan at $0.25 per track/year, so you only pay more if your catalog grows past the included allowance.

Yes, once you release regularly. Per-release pricing charges again for every single and album you put out; a LabelGrid plan covers the whole catalog for one annual fee. Solo is $99/year for up to 100 tracks, whether you release once or every month. There are no per-release fees, and the price only changes if you outgrow the plan.

Royalty retention is the share of streaming and download royalties you keep after LabelGrid’s distribution and management fees. Solo and Basic retain 85%. Pro retains 90%.

Custom Distribution and API plans retain 95% on LabelGrid’s own DSP deals, and up to 100% when you distribute on your own direct DSP deals (SOBO) or under your own Merlin Network membership, where LabelGrid handles technical delivery only.

The API plans let platforms and distributors build their own branded distribution on LabelGrid’s backend. Starter API is $139/month (up to 3,000 active tracks, 5 labels), Growth API is $389/month (up to 10,000 tracks, 25 labels), and Scale API is $879/month (up to 25,000 tracks, 100 labels). All include the full REST API and a sandbox environment and are billed yearly. See the API documentation for details.

Signing up gives you 7 days of full access to the platform. Payment details are entered at signup, but nothing is charged until the trial ends. Cancel during the trial and you will not be billed. Store delivery starts on a paid plan.

With LabelGrid, you can rely on us for distribution, or if you have your direct contracts or other distribution solution, you can use just the catalog manager and other parts of the system to fit within your existing workflow.

Your data is hosted on EU and US infrastructure. Stored data is encrypted, access is role-based and limited to authorised personnel on a need-to-know basis, and backups run nightly.

LabelGrid runs in any modern browser. No software download, and nothing to install.

LabelGrid is registered as Label Grid LLC in Denver, Colorado. The team works remotely.

LabelGrid is a digital music distribution and royalty accounting platform for record labels and distributors, and for artists releasing on their own.

If you have a direct relationship with a particular DSP, we can accommodate your needs and become your delivery solution, also known as a digital supply chain provider. This allows you to maintain the contractual direct relationship and collect royalties directly from those DSPs. Additionally, if there are any DSPs for which you do not hold a contract, you can use our direct deals to get your content delivered there.

Direct deals and SOBO sit on the Custom and API plans, which are built for labels and distributors that hold their own DSP contracts or their own Merlin Network membership. On Solo, Basic and Pro, LabelGrid’s own deals cover delivery to all major DSPs, so getting your music into stores never depends on holding a contract yourself.

Yes. Merlin Network is a preferred partner for us. We work with various Merlin Network members who use LabelGrid as their delivery solution.  Merlin Network collects and pays you directly, and you are only responsible for paying your annual LabelGrid subscription fee, which is 0% taken from your royalties by LabelGrid.  As for DSPs that are not a part of Merlin Network, we can deliver to them as well, either under our contract, where we take a royalty % based on your plan, or 0% if you have a direct deal with them.

Direct deals and SOBO sit on the Custom and API plans, which are built for labels and distributors that hold their own DSP contracts or their own Merlin Network membership. On Solo, Basic and Pro, LabelGrid’s own deals cover delivery to all major DSPs, so getting your music into stores never depends on holding a contract yourself.

For optional UGC / Content-ID monetization (such as on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, etc.) through LabelGrid’s deals, we retain 20% on every distribution plan to cover Content ID monitoring, claim management and UGC platform administration. On your own direct (SOBO) deals, no UGC or Content ID fee applies.

No. AI-generated music is distributed at the same cost as any other release. The only requirement is accurate disclosure of AI involvement during upload.

CUSTOM & API

Custom Accounts & API Services

Retention depends on your plan and channel. Solo and Basic retain 85% and Pro retains 90% on LabelGrid’s DSP deals. Custom and API plans retain 95% on LabelGrid deals, and 100% when you distribute on your own direct deals (SOBO) or through your Merlin Network membership. UGC and Content ID monetization collected through LabelGrid’s deals carries a 20% fee on every distribution plan; on your own direct (SOBO) deals, no UGC or Content ID fee applies.

On Custom and API plans, you can use the BYO-Deals option: we configure our system to deliver content on your behalf to Spotify, Apple, Deezer, or regional platforms, with revenue routed directly to you per your agreements. As part of our aggregation services, we can set up your account to use your direct deals where you have them and our deals where you don’t, giving you the best of both worlds.

Plan limit behavior depends on your plan type. On standard plans (Solo, Basic, Pro), you upgrade to the next tier when you reach your limits. On the Custom plan, an overage is applied automatically to your next invoice. On API plans (Starter API, Growth API, Scale API), you upgrade to the next API tier. On Custom API, overages are handled flexibly based on your agreement. The monthly royalty figure on each API tier works the same way: it is the volume that tier is sized for, and passing it moves you to the next tier. It is not a ceiling on what you can earn. Cleared royalties are paid out monthly by bank transfer or wire, with no minimum payout threshold, whatever the volume.

Each plan bundles a set number of active label portals. Need more? Contact our support team and we will add a pack (5, 10 or 25) to your account. Packs activate instantly and can be removed at the next billing cycle if your roster shrinks.

Imprint, the LabelGrid white-label portal, has custom pricing scoped at onboarding and sized to your roster, catalog volume and payout needs. Join the waiting list and pricing for your setup is part of the onboarding conversation.

Three addons are optional and priced separately: LabelGrid Gate at $39/year as a standalone WordPress-integration plan (its features are already included with every standard and API plan), plus Preflight QC and Stream Radar, both priced on request. Everything else on this page is included in the plan price.

Two routes, depending on how you work. On a standard plan, migration is handled with our team: contact us and we move your existing catalog across, including metadata, ISRCs and release history, and the bulk upload guide in the help center covers importing many releases in a single pass. No code and no XML on your side. For platforms building on Engine, there is also an Import endpoint in the API and an S3 endpoint for DDEX XML feeds, with import errors returned inline with XPath references so fixes take minutes. Either way, we generate ISRCs where they are missing and validate the metadata against DSP rules before anything ships.

Every LabelGrid plan includes support: the help center, plus support tickets answered by our team, on Solo, Basic, Pro and Custom Distribution alike. The API plans add a contractual first-response service level on top. Starter API and Growth API target a first response within 2 business days. That is the target we hold ourselves to, not a queue you sit in. In practice the average response time is under 2 hours during business hours. Both figures are targets rather than per-ticket promises, and the two business days is the one we publish. Support runs on business days in working hours, and a person on our team writes the reply rather than a chatbot. Scale API adds a dedicated account manager under the same 2-business-day target. Custom API also includes a dedicated account manager, with support on terms agreed with you.

Every statement carries DSP-level detail: which platform, how many streams, what rate, and what each party earned, broken down by release and track. You configure royalty splits once, per release or per track, and each party is credited automatically every cycle; committed expenses then reduce that balance until recoupment clears. Royalties are calculated in each platform’s own currency and converted to your payout currency, so multi-currency earnings stay accurate. Export a statement as a PDF to send to the artist, or pull the transactions as CSV for your own books. Automated royalty splits are included on the Basic, Pro and Custom plans; the artist statements, expense ledger and recoupment that make up Artist Payouts are a separate feature on Basic and above, and white-label reporting carrying your own label’s identity starts at Pro. LabelGrid pays your own cleared royalties out monthly by bank transfer or wire, with no minimum payout threshold.

Advanced analytics is included on every standard plan. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Audiomack, Boomplay, AWA, KuGou, KuWo and QQ Music report into one set of views scoped to your labels, with forty-seven metric sections across streaming and social: plays, listeners and saves, streams by country with Apple city and storefront breakdowns, age and gender, completion and skip behaviour, device, OS and stream source, and the playlists a track landed in for Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer. Where a store does not report a metric, the dashboard marks it unavailable rather than printing a zero, weekly-reporting stores stay weekly instead of being spread across seven invented days, and partially reported days are marked partial. You can read it in the dashboard, query it from your own code through the public API, or ask an MCP-compatible AI assistant such as Claude or Cursor through the official open-source MCP server, which is on every API tier.

Every plan, from Solo at $99/year up, includes the help center and support tickets answered by our team. The help center walks through common solutions first and then connects you with us. Replies come from our team during working hours on business days, so there is no chatbot and no overnight desk. Premium Support on Custom Distribution is a higher tier of that, not the only tier of it. Every plan also gets the two release checks: an automated validation that runs the moment you save and names the exact field and track when something fails, and a manual review by our team before the release reaches a store.

Yes, two ways. White-label distribution is live now on every Engine API plan: you build your own front end on the REST API and your customers never see LabelGrid. Imprint is the no-code version of the same engine: your domain, your logo, your exact brand colours and fonts, layouts you choose rather than a fixed skin, your own subscription plans and prices, and billing on your own Stripe account with the money going straight to you. Imprint resellers are onboarded in order from the waiting list, and every new portal gets hands-on setup help. Pricing is scoped during that onboarding conversation.