soundcloud.com
SoundCloud
Who runs SoundCloud, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest music streaming alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mixcloud
Measured from SoundCloud’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SoundCloud01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SoundCloud
SoundCloud soundcloud.com
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Wikidata: German business providing an online audio distribution platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What SoundCloud tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
12 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SoundCloud
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SoundCloud, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
Very close - 02
Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack
Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.
Very close - 03
Listen to DJ Sets, Mixes and Sounds | hearthis.at
Stream your mixes and sounds on hearthis.at - lossless audio streaming and unlimited uploads. Sell directly & get paid instantly.
Very close - 04
Spotify - Web Player: Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks Online
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks. Listen to your favorites online now.
Very close - 05
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 06
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Very close - 07 Anghami anghami.com
music streaming service
Very close - 08
Deezer | 1 Month Free | Music Streaming app online
Try Deezer at 0EUR! 120+ million tracks & podcasts in high resolution audio quality, ad-free, offline unlimited music and playlists. Plans from 11,99 €/month.
Very close - 09
Pandora
American music streaming and recommendation website
Very close - 10
Music Online - Listen to Latest Mp3 Songs | Download New & Old Songs | Wynk Music
Download & Listen to the Latest MP3 songs, Genres of Music & Podcast Online on Wynk Music. Create your Playlist to Enjoy Hindi, English, Bollywood, Regional, Old Songs & much more.
Very close - 11
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 12
subscription-based music streaming service
Very close - 13
Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
Very close - 14
Qobuz - Musik in hoher Soundqualität - Streaming und Downloadkäufe in Hi-Res Audio (Germany)
Mehr als 100 Millionen Titel im Streaming in hoher Klangqualität. Qobuz ist zudem führender Hi-Res-Downloadshop.
Very close - 15
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
Very close - 16 Boomplay boomplay.com
music streaming service
Very close - 17
Online Songs on JioSaavn: Download & Play Latest Music for Free
Listen to Latest and Trending Bollywood Hindi songs online for free with JioSaavn anytime, anywhere. Download or listen to unlimited new & old Hindi songs online. Search from most trending, weekly top 15, Hindi movie songs, etc on JioSaavn.
Very close - 18
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 19
Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
Very close - 20
酷狗音乐 - 就是歌多！小说相声也很多！
酷狗音乐在线正版音乐网站，为您提供酷狗音乐播放器下载 、在线音乐试听下载，提供听书、长音频、频道、听小说和MV播放服务。酷狗音乐，就是歌多！小说相声也很多！场景音乐也很多！
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SoundCloud’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SoundCloud uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SoundCloud adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SoundCloud’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:178.249.138.0/23 ip4:145.253.129.2…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=e1469db8bb5c9886c8a7abbece38ddc342618aa4ac7dca85b…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: sKffKbK_t9BEBwdfGl-ZQFVJtjrsqfGy8pcg2kgD9Ep3yxyN2H2vcQ==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms67894313
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:178.249.138.0/23 ip4:145.253.129.2…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-56.awsdns-07.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DJEx73gNNUTjejVL
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=fycZUT0eVlPEiaehQXOKmXCe9NJeJsZmCWgWfW7…
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=tJKfbnEmy7WvFRWf3KQMyZ05PnvVJidfQRNnq4…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: dY0CigqM8Inubs_hgrYMwk-zGchKwrvJLcvI_G8631Q
- Miro TXT miro-verification=f08757fb9739f5263de5643f8c9534cccb49b7d3
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=aaDf7uN8420EVWFPGzzgrYMC2i5hLHzKqJvpygMdH0M
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-sOXO0PYHFRn8QJdpVkjwvqyI
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_hBlTOUUcSiW7IhDAv16bqQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on soundcloud.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Zendesk · not on soundcloud.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on soundcloud.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on soundcloud.com 5/20
- OneTrust 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- SendGrid · not on soundcloud.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on soundcloud.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on soundcloud.com 4/20
- Zoom 4/20