Not all music licensing companies are created equal—some elevate your film, while others leave you sifting through generic songs. In this deep dive, Finnish filmmaker and YouTuber Kasper Garam pits four major music licensing companies against each other in a head-to-head breakdown.
Ranking Musicbed, Artlist, Epidemic Sound, and Audiio across multiple categories, Kasper breaks down everything from song quality to user experience, helping creatives and filmmakers decide which platform truly delivers.
Keep reading to see how Kasper cuts through the noise and delivers his final verdict.
Music & Artist Quality
Ordered from first to last, this is how Kasper ranks Musicbed, Artlist, Epidemic Sound, and Audiio for their quality of music and artists.
1. Musicbed
“Musicbed takes the win here. There’s an endless stream high quality songs. Even the average song quality is by far the highest.”
2. Artlist
“Artlist is a tiny bit better than Epidemic Sound.”
3. Epidemic Sound
“In terms of music quality, Epidemic Sound and Artlist are very close to each other.”
4. Audiio
“Audiio is a bit worse than [Musicbed, Artlist, and Epidemic Sound], but that doesn’t mean that Audiio’s music is bad in any way.”
Music Diversity & Quantity
Ordered from best to worst, this is how Kasper ranks Musicbed, Artlist, Epidemic Sound, and Audiio for their diversity and quantity of music.
1. Musicbed
“Musicbed has more than [70,000 songs], which is the largest collection of cinematic music in the industry”
2. Artlist
“Artlist has listed on their website that they have 28,000 songs.”
3. Epidemic Sound
“Epidemic Sound says they have 40,000 songs.”
4. Audiio
“In terms of quantity, Audiio falls way behind the competition. Because it is the smallest of the bunch, that means its diversity of music is going to be the worst.”
Music Discovery & Search
Ordered from best to worst, Kasper ranked Musicbed, Artlist, Epidemic Sound, and Audiio for their search functionality and song-discovery features.
1. Musicbed
“The filters and the search engine work exactly the way you’d want it to. I just love to search for music on Musicbed. Also, their Search By Song feature works like absolute magic.”
2. Audiio
“On Audiio, if I have too many filters on, I may not find any songs at all because they just don’t have a big catalog of songs. They also have a Search By Song feature, but because their catalog is a little bit smaller, you may not find a similar song to the one you pasted in the search.”
3. Artlist
“On Artlist, it seems like, no matter what I do with the search, I always end up getting a few of the same results. There’s always a couple of the same songs and same artists on every single search, which is kind of annoying.”
4. Epidemic Sound
“On Epidemic sound, I just never can find the type of music that I want for my projects, so I think the search engine is the worst out of the bunch.”
Plans & Pricing
Ordered from Most Expensive to Least Expensive, Kasper breaks down each of the music licensing companies and ranks them for their plans and pricing.
1. Musicbed
2. Audiio
3. Artlist
4. Epidemic Sound
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