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SoundHound pricing
SoundHound publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the music tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, SoundHound pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free with ads; no consumer subscription, company revenue comes from enterprise voice AI licensing
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
SoundHound plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundHound | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where SoundHound stops being free
SoundHound, Free
- Unlimited song identification including hum-to-search
- Ads shown within the app
- No premium consumer tier
No paid tier on record
SoundHound lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full SoundHound feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Audio fingerprint matching
- Hum-to-search
- Lyrics and artist info
- Streaming service links
- Music charts and history
- Voice search
People bring SoundHound in for someone wanting to identify a song by humming or singing it when no recorded original is playing nearby, a user wanting an alternative to shazam that also offers voice search for songs and lyrics, someone identifying a song and wanting a direct link to play it on their existing streaming service, a listener wanting to browse trending identification charts across genres. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SoundHound are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Music
Too few music tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SoundHound (this page) | Free | Free with ads; no consumer subscription, company revenue comes from enterprise voice AI licensing | - | |
| rekordbox | Free | Per user per year | - | vs SoundHound |
| DistroKid | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs SoundHound |
| Pro Tools | Free | Per user per year | - | vs SoundHound |
| Serato DJ | Free | Per user per month | - | vs SoundHound |
| GarageBand | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs SoundHound |
| Traktor Pro | Free | One-time purchase | - | vs SoundHound |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the SoundHound badges page.
Before you pay for SoundHound
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
SoundHound runs on ios, android, and is published by SoundHound AI, Inc. of Santa Clara, California, United States. The full record is on the SoundHound review, and the rest of the category is under best music tools.
SoundHound pricing questions
- How much does SoundHound cost?
- SoundHound publishes a single tier, SoundHound, at Free.
- Does SoundHound have a free plan?
- Yes. The SoundHound tier costs nothing and covers unlimited song identification including hum-to-search, ads shown within the app, no premium consumer tier.
- Which music tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 music tools listed alongside SoundHound have a free tier: rekordbox, Pro Tools, Serato DJ, GarageBand, Traktor Pro.
- What am I actually paying for with SoundHound?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for someone wanting to identify a song by humming or singing it when no recorded original is playing nearby, a user wanting an alternative to shazam that also offers voice search for songs and lyrics, someone identifying a song and wanting a direct link to play it on their existing streaming service.
- Does SoundHound charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these SoundHound prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare SoundHound against before paying?
- The closest music tools in this directory are rekordbox, DistroKid, Pro Tools, Serato DJ. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SoundHound covering price, platforms and features.