--- title: Beat Licence Checker: what each licence tier actually lets you do publisher: RapCanon canonical: https://rapcanon.com/tools/beat-license-checker/ license: CC-BY-4.0 retrieved: 2026-08-12 --- > Pick a beat licence tier and what you want to do with it. 72 answers across 6 standard tiers and 12 uses, with the trap on each one named. Open CC-BY dataset. Tool # Beat Licence Checker Most licensing disasters are not disputes. They are somebody finding out after release that the tier they bought never covered the thing they did. Pick your tier and what you want to do. Licence tier Free (tagged) Basic (MP3) Premium (WAV) Trackout / Stems Unlimited lease Exclusive rights What you want to do Distribute to Spotify and Apple Music Monetise a YouTube video Register with YouTube Content ID Shoot and release a music video Radio and broadcast play Licence it for TV, film or an advert Perform it live Sell physical copies Register the song with your PRO Claim 100% of the publishing Resell or transfer the beat Release without the producer tag ## Every answer, all 72 Linked cells have a page of their own, because they are the ones where the correct answer contradicts what the tier name implies. Use | Free | Basic | Premium | Trackout | Unlimited | Exclusive | Distribute to Spotify and Apple Music | No | Capped | Capped | Capped | Yes | Yes | Monetise a YouTube video | No | Capped | Capped | Capped | Yes | Yes | Register with YouTube Content ID | No | No | No | No | No | Depends | Shoot and release a music video | Depends | Capped | Capped | Capped | Yes | Yes | Radio and broadcast play | No | Capped | Capped | Capped | Yes | Yes | Licence it for TV, film or an advert | No | No | No | No | Depends | Depends | Perform it live | Depends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Sell physical copies | No | Capped | Capped | Capped | Yes | Yes | Register the song with your PRO | Depends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Claim 100% of the publishing | No | No | No | No | No | No | Resell or transfer the beat | No | No | No | No | No | No | Release without the producer tag | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ## The tiers ### Free (tagged) $0 A promotional lease. The producer tag stays in the record and commercial use is usually not granted at all. ### Basic (MP3) $20–40 The entry lease. Mixed MP3 only, hard caps on streams and sales, and the beat stays on sale to everyone else. ### Premium (WAV) $40–80 Same rights shape as Basic with a higher-quality file and higher caps. Still non-exclusive. ### Trackout / Stems $80–200 You get the separated stems, so you can genuinely mix it. Rights are still a lease and still non-exclusive. ### Unlimited lease $150–300 Caps removed. Everything else is unchanged: the beat is still sold to other artists and the producer still owns it. ### Exclusive rights $300–2,000+ The beat comes off the market. It does NOT mean you own it: in most exclusive agreements the producer keeps the writer's share and the publishing. Scope limit. This models the STANDARD form of each tier. Any individual agreement overrides it. Where a cell says 'depends', the answer is genuinely contract-specific and no general resource can resolve it. ## Put this on your site Free, no account, no tracking of your visitors. If it saves one artist from releasing on the wrong licence it has done its job. Paste this anywhere. Copy embed code Preview it -> Attribution is rendered inside the widget, so it travels with it. Nothing else is required of you. Built on an open dataset, CC-BY 4.0. Reuse it, including commercially, with attribution. Sources: Beat Leasing vs Exclusive Rights Contract Explained · Exclusive vs Non-Exclusive Beat Licenses Explained · Beat Leasing or Exclusive Rights? What to Know in 2026 · Beat Licensing for Beginners: Exclusive vs Non-Exclusive vs Royalty-Free Last reviewed 2026-08-12. --- ## How to cite this page **APA** RapCanon. (2026). Beat Licence Checker: what each licence tier actually lets you do. Retrieved from https://rapcanon.com/tools/beat-license-checker/ **BibTeX** ```bibtex @misc{rapcanon-beat-licence-checker-what-each-licence-t, title = {Beat Licence Checker: what each licence tier actually lets you do}, author = {{RapCanon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://rapcanon.com/tools/beat-license-checker/}, note = {Accessed: 2026-08-12} } ``` **Wikipedia** ``` {{cite web |title=Beat Licence Checker: what each licence tier actually lets you do |url=https://rapcanon.com/tools/beat-license-checker/ |publisher=RapCanon |access-date=2026-08-12}} ``` Licensed CC-BY 4.0. Reuse it, including commercially, with attribution and a link back. Canonical HTML: https://rapcanon.com/tools/beat-license-checker/