Pricing · proposed
Score a track against every catalogue on Foundry as often as you like, on any tier, including the free one. What the tiers meter is the thing that lands on somebody else’s desk — the demos an artist sends, and the demos a label receives.
Foundry is free for every label and every artist on it today, and there is nothing on this page you can buy — no card form, no checkout, no trial that turns into a charge. We are publishing the numbers early so the people we are working with can tell us where they are wrong before they are real.
The reason for the wait is written down: we do not charge for a match until the match is good enough, and the bar for that is a number in our own roadmap rather than a date. When it is met, these prices are what we intend to ask. Write to us and we will tell you before anything changes.
For artists
Every tier scores your track against every catalogue on Foundry, as many times as you want. The tier decides how many of those tracks you then send out.
An account, and nothing else. What everyone starts on and most people stay on.
Free, and staying free.
You finish tracks on a schedule and you are sending most months.
or $90 a year — two months free
You are shipping constantly and the send cap is the thing in your way.
or $190 a year — two months free
A label’s inbox is ranked by how well a track fits that label’s own catalogue, and nothing on this page changes that ranking. A paid tier buys your own throughput — how many tracks you can send — and buys nothing at all on the receiving side. It does not raise your score, it does not reorder anybody’s inbox, and it will never put your track in front of a label it did not match. If money could buy placement, the ranking would be worthless to the labels who rely on it, and then it would be worthless to you.
Four things the table above does not have room to say.
Scoring your track against every catalogue costs us a second of compute we were going to spend anyway. Capping it would make the product worse for no saving, so it is not capped on any tier — free included. Test a mix at 2am, test the next version an hour later, test the same track against forty catalogues.
What a send spends is somebody else’s attention, and that is the scarce thing in this market. Five a month on the free tier is enough to send a finished track to the handful of labels it genuinely fits, which is the behaviour the whole matcher exists to produce. It is not enough to spray a catalogue, and that is deliberate.
Pick a label. We measure the distance from your track to the middle of that label’s catalogue, dimension by dimension: tempo, low-end weight, brightness, dynamics, how dense the arrangement is. You get the numbers and the size of each gap. It is not an opinion — it is “your sub sits 9 dB lighter than their median”. It never contains that label’s track list, its roster, or anything about who else sent them something.
No allowance on this page is enforced yet. When they are, going past one starts a conversation rather than an automatic charge, and a send you have already made is never un-made. We would rather set these numbers from a year of real usage than guess at them now.
For labels
A label pays for the inboxes it runs, the catalogue it scores against, and the volume of demos it takes. Never for the size of its A&R team.
One label, one catalogue. What every label on Foundry has right now.
Free, and staying free.
One label with a real back catalogue and a real A&R team.
or $490 a year — two months free
A group running several imprints, each with its own sound and its own inbox.
or $1,490 a year — two months free
More than five imprints, a distributor, or a group whose finance team pays annually against a purchase order. Unlimited workspaces, unlimited team members, catalogue sizes and demo volumes by agreement. We quote it, you get an invoice on thirty-day terms with your PO number on it, and nobody types a card into a web form. Catalogue ingestion is part of the conversation, because for a group it always is.
Six things the table above does not have room to say, and each of them changes what the price means.
This is the one we argued with ourselves about hardest, because you do not choose how many tracks producers send you. So: an allowance is a number we talk to you about, not a meter that charges you, and no demo is ever bounced because a month ran long. A producer who sends you a track is never the one who pays for your tier being the wrong size. If your inbox is consistently busier than your tier, that is a good problem and it is a conversation.
Promos, a signing’s back catalogue, a pile of WAVs from a scout — anything you put in yourself and want measured. That volume is entirely your decision, which is why it carries its own allowance alongside the demos arriving.
We ingest it with you when you start, by hand, and run our matching tests on it before anything goes live. That first load does not come out of a monthly allowance, on any tier.
No allowance on this page is enforced, and when they are, going over one starts a conversation rather than an automatic charge. We would rather set these numbers from a year of real usage than guess at them now — if yours look wrong for your label, that is useful to know.
Owner, A&R and member all open the same workspace on Foundry. There is no privilege ladder to sell you, so we do not pretend there is and do not charge per person. An inbox is worth something only when the whole team is in it.
Tax is added on top where we are registered to collect it, and a VAT-registered business outside the US gives us its VAT number when it signs up, so its invoice is handled the right way round. Annual is one payment, not twelve.
No tier makes a label reply to you, and no tier makes anyone open your track. We can prove that we handed your message to our mail provider, at a time, with a receipt — and everything after that belongs to somebody we cannot see. So we do not sell a reply, we do not report a reply rate, and we will not tell you a track was played when what we know is that a file was downloaded. A label's inbox stays the label's own.
No, and that is on purpose. We do not charge for a match until the match clears a bar we set ourselves and keep measuring. Until then every artist and every label on Foundry is on the free tier, with everything the product does. Write to [email protected] and we will tell you before that changes.
No. Scoring a track against every catalogue on Foundry is unlimited on every tier, free included, and we have no plans to change that. It is sending that carries a monthly number.
No, and we would rather lose the sale than imply it. A label’s inbox is ranked by fit to that label’s own catalogue. Buying Premium or Pro raises how many tracks you can send and changes nothing on the receiving side — not your score, not your position, not whether you appear at all for a label you did not match.
Nothing is enforced today, so in practice nothing happens at all. When these numbers do switch on, you will see where you are before you hit the end of them, and running out means waiting for the month to turn or moving up a tier — never a surprise charge.
Because it is the thing that costs us more, and it is the thing you can count. A second imprint is a second catalogue to measure, a second inbox to score into and a second public page. Team size costs us nothing extra, so we do not charge for it.
It is, and it is the fairest objection on this page. We changed our minds about this deliberately, so here is where we landed: the allowance is a number we talk to you about, never a meter that charges you automatically, and no producer’s demo is ever bounced because your month ran long. The free tier takes fifty demos a month, which is five times what the nearest comparable platform gives away. If yours is busier than your tier every month, tell us — that is the conversation the number exists to start.
They stay. Every label workspace and every artist account on Foundry today is free, and the first act of billing is not going to be taking that away. What the paid tiers add is more sends, a second workspace, a bigger catalogue, and bigger allowances.
Yes. you.trackfoundry.app as your page and [email protected] as your demo address are included on every tier, free included. Being reachable is not a feature we would charge for — it is how the thing works. One handle per workspace, claimed by you, and once it is claimed it is yours to keep.
Not yet. Today the handle lives on trackfoundry.app. Your own domain pointing at your inbox is a thing we have not built, so it is not on this page and it is not in a tier.
No. There is a drop box you can paste into your own site — see Developers — and that is the whole of it. There is no API key, no webhook out to your systems and no partner key, so no tier claims one.
The company, once. Billing sits on the organisation rather than on a person, so an A&R leaving does not disturb the subscription and your finance contact never needs a Foundry login to see an invoice. An artist subscription is the other way round: it sits on your own account and nobody else has to be involved.
Then this page has done its job. Tell us which one and what it should be: [email protected]. Nothing here is printed yet.
