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Chartmetric vs Soundcharts

Both track artists across streaming, social and radio. Chartmetric adds an AI query assistant; Soundcharts prices per artist with an API focus.

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Chartmetric Soundcharts
Vendor Chartmetric Soundcharts
Pricing model Subscription Subscription
Free tier Yes No
Deployment Cloud Cloud
Open source No No
Best for A&R teams, managers and labels needing one dashboard across streaming, social and radio data for artist discovery. Managers and labels who want real-time, per-artist streaming and playlist tracking priced by roster size.
Pricing

Limited free access to basic artist profiles; paid plans unlock full historical data, demographics and A&R tools, billed monthly or yearly.

Manager $40/month
Premium $117/month
Ultra $150/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Per-artist dashboard pricing scaling from a single artist to unlimited, plus separate API and data-share plans.

For Artists $10/month
10 Artists $49/month
PRO $129/month
API from $50/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Cross-platform streaming and social performance tracking
  • Playlist placement and curator database
  • Audience demographic insights
  • Chartmetric Artist Rank comparison charts
  • Historical database across 14M+ artists
  • Flow AI natural-language data queries
  • Radio airplay monitoring
  • Real-time streaming and chart tracking
  • Playlist placement monitoring
  • Radio airplay tracking
  • Audience insights and notifications per artist
  • Developer API for custom integrations
  • Bulk data-share subscriptions

Verdict

Chartmetric and Soundcharts do the same core job — pulling streaming, social, playlist and radio data from Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok and other platforms into one artist-tracking dashboard — and both are aimed at managers, labels and A&R teams rather than individual fans. The differences show up in pricing structure and in what sits on top of the core tracking. Chartmetric's tiers unlock progressively more artists and add its Flow AI assistant for natural-language queries against the data. Soundcharts prices strictly by how many artists you track, from a single-artist plan to an unlimited PRO tier, and puts more emphasis on a developer API and bulk data-share subscriptions for teams building their own tools.

Choose Chartmetric if

  • You want an AI assistant (Flow AI) to query the data in natural language rather than building your own reports.
  • Your team needs the broadest historical database — Chartmetric covers 14 million-plus artists — for discovery and peer comparison via its Artist Rank score.
  • You want a single subscription that scales in feature depth (Manager, Premium, Ultra) rather than strictly by artist count.

Choose Soundcharts if

  • You want pricing that scales cleanly with roster size, starting from a single-artist plan at $10/month up to unlimited at $129/month.
  • You are building your own internal tools or reports and want a developer API as a first-class product, not an add-on.
  • You need near-real-time tracking with no rate-limit constraints on API queries, which Soundcharts specifically advertises on its API tier.

What they share

Neither publishes original sales data the way Luminate does — both aggregate and re-present what streaming and social platforms already report through their public and partner APIs. Both also compete with the lower-priced Viberate on breadth of coverage, so if price is the binding constraint, it's worth comparing all three rather than just this pair.

Last reviewed September 22, 2026

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