Plans and what they include

Choose a plan by how often you release, how many artists you manage, and whether you need your own label or a shared workspace. The table below compares prices, allowances and the share of royalties you keep.

Every plan has the same stores, worldwide delivery and release checks. Distribution has no per-release fee, store fee or takedown charge. Extra artist and label slots cost separately; AI Mastering by master.audio remains Upcoming.

The plans

Prices include VAT. Yearly billing is one payment for the year and works out cheaper than twelve monthly ones. “No limit” is fair use: put out as much real music as you make.

What you keep

There are exactly two splits, and they follow the plan you are on when the earnings are recorded:

• On either paid plan you keep 92% of what the stores report for your music.
• On Free you keep 70%.

Run’s share covers the cost of getting your music to the stores and keeping it there. It is taken from recording royalties only: publishing, live, merchandise and sync never pass through Run and are not touched. Your royalty split has the detail, including what happens to periods already recorded when you change plan.

What Free is

Free is an ongoing free plan with 1 release a month. Its allowance refills on the 1st of each month; it is not a time-limited trial.

Two other things follow from that:

• The allowance is counted by submission, in calendar months. Submit this month’s release and the next one opens on the 1st. Reopening a release you already submitted, fixing it and submitting it again does not spend the allowance twice.
• It is open to everyone. Create an account, pick Free in setup and you are releasing; there is no invite, no code and no waiting list. Now and then Run may pause new sign-ups for a while: when it does, the sign-up page says so, invitations to a team or a workspace keep working, and support@run.audio can tell you more.

There is no cap on drafts, on any plan. Build as many as you like and submit them when they are ready.

Releases you put out on Free stay live if you later move to a paid plan, or if you stop paying.

What the paid plans include

Both paid plans lift the release limit entirely, raise the split to 92%, and put your releases ahead of the free queue on the way to the stores.

Artist, EUR 14.99 a month or EUR 149.00 a year, covers 5 artist profiles. Releases go out under the Run label, with the rights lines still crediting you. See Rights lines.

White-label, EUR 49.99 a month or EUR 499.00 a year, is the plan for a label or a management company. It covers 50 artist profiles and includes 1 custom Label, and it adds four things the smaller plans do not have: your releases go to the front of every queue at Run, a manager on your support requests, the workspace under your own business name and logo, and 5 seats for people who work your catalog with you. See The White-label plan.

Delivery

This is about the order of Run’s own work, and nothing else. A cleared release goes to the stores in under 24 hours on every plan. What each store does with a delivery afterwards is its own ingestion process, on every plan, and no plan changes it. See Tracking delivery.

Support

Support works the same way on every plan: requests in the workspace, a published support address that a person reads, and the same response target. We aim to respond in under 24 hours, 7 days a week. That is a target, not a guarantee, and no plan carries a guaranteed response time. White-label adds a dedicated manager, who takes that account’s requests first. Nothing about support is metered. See Getting help.

Add-on slots

Both paid plans can buy more of the two things that are capped.

• An extra artist profile is EUR 1.99 a month, or EUR 19.90 a year. Buy them one at a time.
• An extra label is EUR 19.99 a month, or EUR 199.00 a year.

Slots ride your existing subscription, so they bill on the same interval as your plan. Adding one is charged pro rata straight away. Removing one leaves a credit on your account that comes off future invoices, rather than a refund to your card. Slots need a live subscription to ride on, so they are not available on Free.

You buy and adjust them on the slider in Settings, which shows the price change before you confirm it. Subscription and slots covers the mechanics.

Changing or cancelling

Use Settings to switch plan or billing interval. Review the price before confirming; the difference is invoiced or credited immediately. Use Manage billing for payment details, invoices or cancellation in the Stripe billing portal.

Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, not on the spot. Your releases stay live either way: a subscription pays for putting music out and running your catalog, not for keeping it on the stores.

After a downgrade:

• Your catalog keeps distributing and keeps earning. Earnings recorded from that point on carry the split of the plan you are then on; periods already recorded keep the split that applied when they were reported.
• Custom labels you already created keep branding their releases. What locks is creating new ones.
• Artist profiles over the new limit are never deleted. Creating new ones stays blocked until you are back under the limit.
• Add-on slots go inert while the plan is free, and come back if you resubscribe.
• Workspace branding stops rendering and collaborators lose access, both without anything being deleted. Resubscribing brings them back as they were.

If a payment fails

If the payment is never settled, the subscription ends and the account returns to Free. Again, releases already on the stores stay there.