every DistriBeats plan, explained properly

The short answer

If you release once or twice a year, take DistriBeats PayOnce: ₹200 for a single, no subscription, 90% royalties, and the release stays live forever. If you release regularly, take Pro at ₹999 a year and keep 100% of everything. If you run a label or manage artists, take Label at ₹9,999 a year and release under your own registered label name. If you are just starting, the free Collab tier gets your first record out at ₹0 with a 60% share.

All plans at a glance

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1. DistriBeats PayOnce — pay per release, keep it forever

PayOnce removes the part of distribution artists hate most: paying rent on music you already made. You pay a one-time distribution fee when you submit a release, and that release is yours, live, for as long as you want it live.

• ₹200 flat for a single, ₹180 per song for an EP (2–6 songs), ₹150 per song for an album (7+ songs).
• 90% of streaming royalties paid to you, on every store, forever.
• Lifetime release protection — no renewal, no annual fee, no takedown because a subscription lapsed.
• ₹0 takedown fee if you ever do want a release pulled.
• Free ISRC and UPC codes, delivery to the top stores worldwide, and priority support.
• Up to 10 artist profiles in one roster under a single PayOnce account.
• Console activates instantly — you only pay at the moment you submit a release.
• Royalty reports are fetched automatically from the delivery pipeline into your dashboard.

The comparison that matters: a subscription distributor charges you again every single year for a song you released once. Miss a renewal after a rough month and the catalogue comes down — playlists, links, streams and all. On PayOnce there is no renewal date to miss.

2. Annual Subscription — Pro, AI Pro and Label

Pro — ₹999 a year, 100% royalties

The plan most working artists end up on. Unlimited releases under a 24-release fair-usage policy, 100% of your royalties, free codes, smart links, an artist EPK and instant AI support. Fully AI-generated tracks are not accepted on Pro — that is what keeps the queue fast and the price at ₹999.

AI Pro — ₹3,499 a year, 100% royalties

The dedicated plan for AI-made music, with an extra high-quality fingerprint and review pass on every release. For eligible AI distribution payments DistriBeats contributes 25% to the Artist Compensation Fund through our partners while 25% goes to the infrastructure that keeps distribution affordable for everyone.

Label — ₹9,999 a year, 100% royalties, custom label name

Register your own label name at signup. It is locked to every release you deliver and displayed on stores as the record label, so your catalogue builds equity in your brand and not in a distributor's. You manage a roster of artist profiles under one login, release on their behalf, and see every release, invoice and royalty line in one place. Existing Pro members can upgrade to Label at ₹7,777 for the first year.

3. DistriBeats Free (Collab) — ₹0

A genuinely free way to get a first record onto stores. Accounts are human-reviewed before approval, the royalty share is 60%, and everything else — codes, stores, dashboard, AI support — is the same platform everyone else uses. Upgrade whenever the streams justify it.

How AI releases pay for human artists

Most distributors either ban AI music or quietly let unlimited generated catalogues in at the same price real musicians pay. Both are bad for artists. Generated music can be produced in effectively infinite volume, and infinite volume is exactly what clogs an automated approval pipeline and dilutes store and playlist trust.

AI music has its own simple pricing — ₹3,499 a year on AI Pro, or ₹400 / ₹360 / ₹300 per song on PayOnce AI Made. For eligible AI distribution payments, 25% goes to the Artist Compensation Fund through our partners, and 25% supports the infrastructure that keeps the platform affordable for everyone. AI creators get a clean, legal, well-supported route, and every AI release directly helps human musicians keep creating. Marking an AI release as human-made is a policy breach and is not refundable.

2-minute AI approval, and what actually happens in them

Every submission runs through the same automated pipeline, with no human in the path unless something is wrong:

• Metadata validation against store standards — titles, credits, songwriter legal names, genre and subgenre, ℗ and © rights lines.
• Artwork checks — JPG or PNG, square, 1500×1500 to 5000×5000, no logos or URLs.
• Audio checks — WAV, MP3 or FLAC, 30 seconds to 15 minutes, rejected before any screening cost is spent.
• Copyright screening of a fingerprinted sample against the DistriBeats copyright database.
• Approval in about 2 minutes, then delivery to stores after QC.
• Video and Dolby Atmos add-ons stay in Submitted status until a person verifies those files by hand.

Support runs the same way. Aura, our AI support desk, answers instantly in any timezone and escalates to a human when a question actually needs one — which is why there is no overnight ticket queue to wait through.

DistriBeats vs other distributors

Publicly advertised prices at the time of writing, converted approximately. Always confirm on each provider's own pricing page, including ours.

The structural difference is not the number, it is the model. Everyone else sells you a subscription and holds your catalogue against it. DistriBeats gives you a one-time option that keeps your music live for life, an annual option that pays you 100%, and a free tier that does not pretend to be anything else.

Which plan should you choose?

• One or two releases a year → PayOnce. ₹200 a single, 90% royalties, live forever.
• Five or more releases a year → Pro at ₹999, 100% royalties, unlimited under fair use.
• AI-made catalogue → AI Pro at ₹3,499, or PayOnce AI Made at ₹400 per single (₹360/₹300 per song on EPs and albums).
• Label, band collective or manager → Label at ₹9,999 with your own label name and roster.
• First ever release, budget ₹0 → Collab free tier at a 60% share, subject to approval.

Frequently asked questions

Start where you are

You do not need to commit to a subscription to get your music on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Instagram this week. Pay once, keep 90%, keep it live for life — or go annual and keep everything.