What a plan costs
Each plan is sized so a normal month fits inside it: personal work in Entry, half-and-half in Creator, commercial delivery in Studio. No plan expects you to top up every month. New accounts start with 30 free credits, no card required. Top-ups unlock only after a plan quota is used — they refill a plan, they do not replace one.
Start with 30 free credits, no card. A take that fails our quality gate is refunded automatically.
In billing you only see your own tier's top-up — the other two are not offered to you.
| What you get | Other Subscription music app | Gliding Note |
|---|---|---|
| How you buy | Monthly app subscription, you download files | Monthly subscription in credits, every item priced in credits |
| Commercial rights | Allowed inside the app's terms, no document | Per-track licence with the permitted-use wording |
| Provenance | None | AI Music Identification Code issued against the file |
| Buyer's paperwork | None | Licence snapshot stored at payment; the payment provider's confirmation stands as the record |
| Programmatic use | No API | One endpoint, stable task id, re-polling never billed |
| Failure handling | Credits consumed anyway | Credits reserved before the call and released if it fails |
| Who it is for | Your own listening and posting | Client work, campaigns, in-store, product audio |
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| Plan | $/mo | Credits/mo | ¢/credit | Credits buy | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $15.99 | 400 credits | 4.00¢ | 80 tracks a month | First paid work |
| Creator | $79.99 | 2,800 credits | 2.86¢ | 560 tracks a month | Regular delivery |
| Studio | $399.99 | 16,000 credits | 2.50¢ | 3200 tracks a month | Studio volume |
| Top-up for | Price | Credits | ¢ / credit | vs plan rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relay 500 | $24.99 | 500 | 5.00¢ | +75% |
| Item | Credits | Rights | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track | 5 credits | Full licence | WAV + metadata, personal or client use |
| Lyrics to song | 5 credits | Full licence | Bring lyrics, get the take |
| Stems | 6 credits | Full licence | Separated parts for editing |
| AAM registration | 20 credits | Optional | Verifiable ISRC-AAM-CID code |
| Provenance report | 5 credits | Optional | Code + generation record + file hash |
| Rule | What it means | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Tier-bound | Only your own tier's top-up can be bought | No cross-tier arbitrage |
| No hard cap | Buy as often as you need; frequent buyers see an upgrade hint, never a block | Spikes are legitimate |
| Expiry | 12 months from purchase | No stockpiling |
| Warning | Email at 80% of quota and at low balance | No silent exhaustion |
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Sales tax or GST, where it applies, is calculated and collected at checkout. Downloads are free — MP3 and WAV cost nothing. What you pay for is generation: one track, one charge.
There is no resale tier, and no plan grants white-label or sub-licensing rights: a track may be used in work you deliver, but not resold as the track itself.
We may pause new purchases while a payment dispute is open; existing credits and granted licences are not affected by that pause.
Plan credits roll over for one billing cycle, never carrying more than one month's quota (so a balance of at most twice the monthly figure), oldest first; relay packs are limited to three purchases in any twelve-month period and run for 12 months. Credits expire after 12 months of inactivity, with a 30-day notice and a one-time 30-day restore window. Cancelling ends every unused credit with the final cycle. Starting a generation is your instruction to begin immediately. Starting a generation is your instruction to begin at once, and the file is delivered on request within minutes. See Refunds.
What each service costs
One balance, every service. Prices are in credits; a credit is 2.86¢ at Creator and 2.50¢ on Studio.
| Service | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Track | 5 | Full licence, WAV, metadata |
| Lyrics to song | 5 | Write new lyrics, or bring your own |
| Loopable version | +2 | Seamless loop of the same take |
| Stems | 6 | Separated parts for editing |
| AAM registration | 20 | ISRC-AAM-CID code, verifiable |
| Provenance code | 5 | Code + generation record + file hash |
A Creator month is 2,800 credits: 560 finished tracks. Add a verifiable code to any track for 5 credits.
How much a month actually holds
Estimates assume a normal working month, not a launch week. A track is 5 credits, and a loopable version adds 2.
| Persona | Typical output | Credits | Plan that holds it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobbyist, personal only | 20 tracks | 100 | Entry (400) |
| Creator, personal and commercial | 200 tracks | 1,000 | Creator (2,800) |
| Studio, mostly commercial | 1,000 tracks | 5,000 | Studio (16,000) |
| Launch week (any persona) | Double the above | 2× | Top-up, not a bigger plan |
A finished track from $0.10
One credit balance. A single, a card, a journal or a campaign set. You hear it before you keep it.