Pricing & plans

Documentation Index

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Patchline has 5 tiers — Free, Starter, Pro, Scale, Enterprise. Every paid tier includes a 30-day free trial. Annual plans get 2 months free (roughly 17% discount). Stripe handles billing. The live, always-current price page is at patchline.ai/pricing — start there if you’re about to sign up. This page explains how the tiers map to features and how AI credits work.

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At a glance

Music storefront platform fee: Stripe payment processing (typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) applies on all tiers, separate from Patchline’s platform fee.

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Plan details

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Free

$0 forever. Good for evaluation, side projects, or curious artists.

• 3 lifetime track uploads
• 10 lifetime catalog imports (e.g., one EP via URL counts as several)
• 100 AI credits per month
• 1 GB storage
• Aria agent chat (web + Telegram)
• AI sonic analysis (5 credits/track)
• Basic release planning
• Music store with 10% platform fee
• 1 connected artist profile

Sign up free →

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Starter

$9.99/mo or$99/yr ($8.25/mo equivalent). 30-day free trial. The entry tier for an artist running their own career. Everything in Free, plus:

• 25 lifetime track uploads (8× Free)
• 100 lifetime catalog imports (10× Free)
• 1,000 AI credits / month (10× Free)
• 10 GB storage
• AI Image Generation (5 credits/image)
• AI Campaign Planner (10 credits/plan)
• Your Artist Profile & EPK
• Release & marketing planning
• Similar artist discovery (2 credits/search)
• Music Store — 0% platform fee
• Secure file exchange + version control

Best for: solo artists, bedroom producers, anyone who’s released a single or two.

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Pro

$29/mo or$290/yr. 30-day free trial. 🔥 Highlighted tier. Everything in Starter, plus:

• 200 lifetime track uploads
• 500 lifetime catalog imports
• 5,000 AI credits / month
• 100 GB storage
• 5 connected artist profiles (manage multiple artists)
• AI Video Generation (20 credits/video)
• Playlist Targeting (find_playlists ranked + inspect_playlist)
• Artist Intelligence Profiles (the deep view)
• Scout agent (A&R discovery)
• Password-protected sharing
• 3 team seats

Best for: DIY labels, artist managers running 2–5 artists, producers with a small roster.

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Scale

$99/mo or$990/yr. 30-day free trial. Everything in Pro, plus:

• 1,000 lifetime track uploads
• Unlimited catalog imports
• 20,000 AI credits / month
• 500 GB storage
• 20 connected artist profiles
• Similar Track Discovery
• Release Management
• Demo Submission Portal (public form for unsigned artists to submit)
• Fan agent (audience-focused)
• Marketplace agent
• Metadata agent (auto-tag entire catalog)
• 10 team seats

Best for: indie labels, artist management companies, mid-size rosters.

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Enterprise

$249/mo or$2,490/yr starting price. Custom pricing for larger operations. 30-day free trial. Everything in Scale, plus:

• Unlimited everything (uploads, imports, credits, storage, artists)
• API Access
• Advanced Document Analysis (Documents + Legal agents)
• Education agent
• Custom integrations
• Dedicated Customer Success Manager
• SLA

Best for: music publishing companies, large entertainment groups, rights management companies, anyone with catalogs over ~1,000 tracks. Contact sales →

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How AI credits work

Credits are the unit Patchline charges per AI action. They reset on the first of each calendar month for monthly plans, or on the first of each month after annual renewal. A typical Free user uses ~30 credits/month: a few Aria conversations + 1 or 2 sonic analyses. A typical Pro user uses ~500–1,500 credits/month running 5–10 artists across releases, pitches, and image generation. Credits do not roll over month-to-month. If you consistently exceed your plan, upgrade — it’s almost always cheaper than the alternative.

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The 30-day free trial

Every paid tier (Starter / Pro / Scale / Enterprise) includes 30 days free. The trial mechanics:

• You enter a payment method at sign-up. No charge until day 31.
• During the trial you get full tier limits — 1,000 AI credits on Starter, 5,000 on Pro, etc.
• Cancel any time during the trial with no charge.
• On day 31 the card is charged for month 1 (or year 1 if you picked annual).
• After the trial ends, downgrading to Free preserves your catalog but reverts you to Free limits — uploads beyond 3 are blocked, AI credits drop to 100/mo.

Stripe owns the trial lifecycle. The subscription_status becomes trialing the moment you sign up for a paid plan, then transitions to active on day 31.

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Annual vs monthly

Annual = 2 months free vs paying monthly: If you’re sure you’ll use Patchline for a year, annual is the right call. If you’re trying it out, monthly. You can switch from monthly to annual mid-cycle — Stripe prorates.

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Music storefront platform fee

This is the most-asked-about pricing detail, so it gets its own section.

• Free tier: Patchline takes a 10% platform fee on every storefront sale (in addition to Stripe processing).
• Every paid tier: Patchline takes 0%. You keep 100% of revenue after Stripe processing (typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).

So if you’re selling music direct-to-fan and earning $50/mo from your store, **upgrading from Free to Starter ($9.99/mo) makes you money** — you save the 10% (~$5) and gain everything else Starter includes. See Storefront overview for the storefront mechanics.

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Team seats

Seats are members of your Patchline workspace — they can sign in, see the catalog, run Aria, plan releases. Roles control what they can do. See Workspaces & teams (coming soon).

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FAQ

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