Comparison
Royalti.io vs Label Engine
Label Engine is a bundle: distribution, accounting, promotion and demo management sold together, and free to use if you distribute through them. Royalti.io is royalty infrastructure you pay for and keep whichever distributor you use. The choice is mostly about whether you want your accounting tied to who ships your music.
Side by side
| Royalti.io | Label Engine | |
|---|---|---|
| Business model | Subscription only. We take no share of your distribution revenue and do not need to be your distributor. | Revenue share on distribution — you keep 82.5% of distribution revenue and 80% on YouTube Content ID. Accounting, promotion and demo tools are then free to use.label-engine.com · read 2026-09-01 |
| Price without distribution | Free plan permanent; paid plans $19 / $49 / $99 per month, metered on royalty volume. | Label Services subscription at $499/year or $49/month, covering up to 10 labels.label-engine.com · read 2026-09-01 |
| Distributor independence | Distributor-agnostic. Import statements from any distributor or DSP; delivery via DDEX is optional and included from Starter up. | The free-accounting path requires distributing through Label Engine; otherwise the Label Services subscription applies.label-engine.com · read 2026-09-01 |
| Promotion and demo tools | Not part of the product. | Included — promo mailing tools and demo submission management, with 15M+ promos sent and 45K+ demos received cited on their homepage.label-engine.com · read 2026-09-01 |
Which one you should actually pick
Choose Label Engine if…
- You want distribution, promo and accounting from one vendor
- The bundle is genuinely convenient, and if you are distributing through them anyway the accounting is free. We do not offer promotion or demo management at all.
- You run an electronic label leaning on promo workflows
- Label Engine grew up in that world — the promo and demo tooling is a real part of the product, not a checkbox.
- You are happy for your distributor and your accounting to be the same company
- It is fewer relationships to manage, and the data arrives without an import step.
Choose Royalti.io if…
- You want to change distributor without changing your books
- Royalty history, contracts and splits stay with us regardless of who ships the music. Coupling accounting to distribution is exactly what makes switching painful later.
- You use several distributors at once
- Common for labels with catalogue spread across FUGA, Believe and direct deals. We import from all of them into one ledger.
- You want the accounting to be the product, not the retention hook
- Free accounting attached to a revenue share is a pricing choice, not a gift. Our subscription is the whole of what you pay us.
Sources
- https://label-engine.com/ — read 2026-09-01
- https://label-engine.com/pricing.php — read 2026-09-01
Every claim about Label Engine on this page comes from their own public pages, dated above. Competitors change their products and their prices; if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it. Last reviewed 2026-09-01.