Airbit vs Beatstars – Where Should I Sell My Beats?

Deciding where you should sell your beats seems to have become quite a challenge for producers in the modern era, with options like Airbit and Beatstars available deciding can be difficult, but to really know you have to be able to look at the two platforms side by side and compare their features as well as their pricing structures, And from there make an educated decision based on your own subjectivity.

At-a-glance

Category	Airbit	BeatStars	Best for
Pricing model	Monthly or Yearly	Monthly or Yearly	All producers
Sales fees	0%	0% + 12% Marketplace fee	All producers
Website/Storefront	Yes	Yes	All producers
YouTube Content ID	Yes (Not on a free plan)	Only on Pro Plan	All producers
Music Distribution	No	Yes	All producers
Marketplace promotion	Yes	Yes	All producers
Monetization extras	Yes	Yes	All producers
Best for beginners	Yes	Yes	Yes

Features & Prices Compared

Airbit

Platinum	Free
Price: $7.99 Per Month (Paid Annually), $19.99 Per Month (Paid Monthly)	Price: $0.00
Upload and sell Unlimited Beats and Sound Packs	NEW: Upload 20 Beats (Marketplace Only)
NEW: Abandoned carts	NEW: 0% Seller Commission on Marketplace and No Buyer Fees
NEW: Sell Services	NEW: Global Artist Community access via BandLab
NEW: 0% Seller Commission on Marketplace and No Buyer Fees	NEW: Auto-create & Post Beat Videos on YouTube & TikTok
NEW: Global Artist Community access via BandLab	NEW: Social Unlock Free Downloads
NEW: Auto-create & Post Beat Videos on YT/TikTok
Infinity Store & HTML5 stores with 0% commission
Eligible for YouTube Content ID Monetization
Platinum Rewards
Accept PayPal and Credit Cards (via Stripe)
Custom Licenses & e-Signed Contracts
Accept Offers
Co-Producer Splits
Discounts & Coupons
Google Analytics / Facebook Pixel Integration
Scheduled Releases
NEW: Social Unlock Free Downloads
Create Playlists, Beat Tapes & Albums
Sell Songs
Premium Support

BeatStars

Features	Starter	Growth	Professional
	Price: $23.99/year	Price: $95.99/year	Price: $215.86/year
Custom Pro Page (Website Builder)	x	x	✓
Customizable Domain	x	x	✓
Offer Memberships	x	x	✓
Blog Posts	x	x	✓
Email & SMS marketing integrations	x	x	✓
Sell Custom Merchandise	x	x	✓
Creator Rights Agency access	x	x	✓
5% Discount on Promote	x	x	✓
TikTok Pixel Integration	x	x	✓
Stem Uploads	x	✓	✓
Unlimited Sound Kit Uploads	x	✓	✓
Unlimited Custom Services	x	✓	✓
BeatStars Publishing	✓	✓	✓
Provide Discounts & Coupons	✓	✓	✓
Google & Meta Pixel Integration	✓	✓	✓
Premium Analytics & Sales Statistics	✓	✓	✓
Monthly Beat ID Credits	x	1	3
Yearly Promote Credits	x	$25	$50
Free Monthly PROkit downloads	3	5	10
Opportunities Submissions	✓	✓	✓
Monthly Lemonaide Credits (AI Melody Generator)	50	150	250
Statistics History	✓	✓	✓
MP3 and WAV Uploads	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Instant Payments	✓	✓	✓
Seller Commission	0%	0%	0%
Embeddable Beat Stores	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Custom License Agreements	4	Unlimited	Unlimited
Monthly Private Messages	20	Unlimited	Unlimited

As you’ll see, both platforms have very similar features. Even though BeatStars is more expensive, I would say it comes out on top, as you get more valuable features for your monthly subscription.

The Advantage of using Airbit

• • On both account types that Airbit offers, you keep 100% of the sales you generate.

• • You can create your own beat-selling website with their infinity store feature.

• • With Airbit, you can monetize videos that use your music with YouTube Content ID.

The Advantage of using Beatstars

• • With Beatstars, you also keep 100% of your sales, whether you have a paid or free account.

• • Beatstars has a unique feature that Airbit lacks: Soundcloud and Audiomack Monetization, which allows you to earn additional income through monetizing plays via both platforms.

• • Beatstars can also act as your Distributor and upload your music to all major streaming platforms.

• • Beatstars can take care of your publishing and collect your royalty payments thanks to their partnership with Sony Music Publishing.

• • Track where your music is used across Social Media with their Beat ID feature.

Do a lot of Collaborations?

Both platforms offer a revenue-sharing feature so that you can share the revenue you make from selling your collaborative project leases with co-producers.

Mail Integration

When you build a brand as a Music Producer, staying in regular contact with your customers is essential to your business’s growth, and one of the most effective ways to do so is through email marketing.

Both platforms integrate with popular email marketing systems such as MailChimp, AWeber, and GetResponse, making managing customer contacts between platforms easy.

YouTube Content ID

YouTube  Content ID is a tool that is essential to any beat seller. Airbit has had Content ID within its system for many years, BeatStars also has the same functionality however its not as accessible as Airbit makes it.

To use BeatStars’ YouTube Content ID system, you have to be subscribed to their highest paid plan.

The advantage of using Airbit is that YouTube Content ID is bundled into your standard subscription.

An easy alternative to bypass this is to use a platform like Identifyy which can monetize your music through Content ID for free.

Marketplace Promotion

Both platforms offer marketplaces to help you sell your beats; Airbit doesn’t charge any fees when you make a sale, but BeatStars charges a 12% fee when you sell a lease or an exclusive.

Running paid promotions on both platforms couldn’t be any more different. Beatstars uses a credit system that allows you to spend whatever you like, whereas Airbit allows you to control a budget but limits you to running your ad for a minimum of a week. 

What Are The Pros of Airbit Compared To Beatstars?

• • Airbit has an excellent YouTube Content ID integration, meaning that you can manually submit your beats one by one or all at once.

• • Airbit’s HTML player is very lightweight and doesn’t add much to your site because of loading scripts from an external service (The Beatstars HTML Player significantly slows down your site)

• • Exclusive lifetime discount codes for Modern Producers, DopeBoy Kits, and much more

What Are The Pros of Beatstars Compared To Airbit

• • With Beatstars, you can take advantage of monetizing your plays through multiple platforms such as SoundCloud and Audiomack

• • Beatstars has managed to create a real community feeling on their platform, meaning that with every beat you post, genuine people are listening to it

• • Beatstars has integrated with Printful, which means that producers can sell Merch not just Beats

• • HTML players are more customizable

• • Beat ID Feature

• • Can distribute your music to major streaming platforms

• • Can act as your PRO Organisation and collect streaming royalties

What Are The Cons of Airbit Compared To Beatstars

• • Airbit on a yearly payment plan is more expensive than Beatstars

• • Airbit promotions work out more expensive and return very little other than A LOT of plays

• • Airbit has fewer features than Beatstars

What Are The Cons of Beatstars Compared to Airbit

• • HTML players significantly slow down your page load time due to loading an abnormal amount of external scripts

• • No YouTube Monetization

Where should you sell your beats?

While both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages, the best approach when deciding which to use should be based on your desired goals, affordability, and whatever matters to you the most. 

But the strategy that I would recommend is this: use both!

Both BeatStars and Airbit attract ideal users who will buy your beats; both have large social media followings where they promote their users, and each attracts a large amount of traffic. Let’s take a look at the user base statistics for each platform.

Airbit User Statistics

According to Airbit, over 800,000 producers use the platform to sell their beats from over 100+ countries around the globe, with millions of beats sold.

Airbit Social Media Followers

• • Instagram – 6.9K followers

• • YouTube – 30.9K subscribers

• • Facebook – 37.5K likes

BeatStars User Statistics

The latest figures from Music Business World suggest that BeatStars currently has 10,000,000 producers using the platform, which makes it 10x larger than Airbit. 

So if you use BeatStars not only are you competing against more producers, but there is also more traffic to possibly generate a sale.

BeatStars Social Media Followers

• • Instagram – 585K followers

• • Facebook – 385K followers 

• • YouTube – 300K+ subscribers

Why you should use both Airbit and BeatStars

By using both Airbit and BeatStars, producers can tap into a potential audience of roughly 4 to 8 million monthly users, with an estimated 200,000 to 800,000 active buyers, making a multi-platform approach one of the most effective ways to increase both visibility and sales.

Rather than choosing one platform over the other, a hybrid strategy allows you to benefit from BeatStars’ massive traffic while leveraging Airbit’s lower competition, ultimately expanding your reach, reducing platform dependency, and creating more opportunities for discovery where buyers are already searching for beats.

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