Music and sound effects Loudly vs SOUNDRAW
Can you ship a game made with Loudly or SOUNDRAW? By stored vendor quotes: Loudly: "Paid plans, with caveats", cheapest verified commercial plan $8/mo (billed yearly); SOUNDRAW: "Paid plans, with caveats", cheapest verified commercial plan $11.04/mo.
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
Paid-plan commercial use is on the record. Read the caveats before you ship.
Paid-plan commercial use is on the record. Read the caveats before you ship.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | Loudly | SOUNDRAW |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Loudlyverified Personal is $8 a month billed annually ($96 a year), with 2,500 credits a month. | SOUNDRAWverified Creator is $16.99/mo ($11.04/mo on the annual display) for individuals and companies under 10 employees. Artist Starter is $29.99/mo, Artist Pro $35.99/mo, Artist Unlimited $50/mo. Enterprise is 'Ask'. |
| Commercial use | Loudlyverified The Personal card lists a commercial-use license and MP3/WAV downloads; Pro lists a Pro license with commercial use. | SOUNDRAWverified Creator and the artist plans list commercial use, use as background music, and distribution and monetization on Spotify and Apple Music. |
| Ownership of outputs | Loudlyverified Loudly keeps the copyright and grants you commercial rights; you get a license, not ownership. | SOUNDRAWverified The terms keep the phonogram producer's neighboring rights with SOUNDRAW and grant users a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license under their plan. |
| License caveat | Loudlyverified Projects can be monetized in perpetuity only if they were completed and released during the term of the agreement, so ship the game while you are subscribed. | SOUNDRAWverified Creator lists unlimited monthly track downloads as mp3. Artist Starter lists 10 downloads as mp3. Artist Pro lists 20 downloads as mp3, wav, and stems. |
| Steam disclosure | Loudlyverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | SOUNDRAWverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | Loudlyverified Paid plans download high-quality MP3 and WAV files. There is no game-engine plugin; you import the audio files yourself. | SOUNDRAWverified The comparison row lists mp3 on the lower artist tiers and mp3, wav, stems on Artist Pro and above. Engines are not named. |