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What it is

ACRCloud provides audio recognition services for files, streams, and live broadcasts. Its music recognition uses a fingerprint database of more than 150 million tracks, and results can include links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, as well as ISRC and UPC codes. Other listed capabilities include metadata, AI music detection, broadcast monitoring, cover song identification, second-screen sync, copyright compliance, audience measurement, humming recognition, offline recognition, and speech to text. Teams can assemble workflows with APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation. Mobile SDK references cover iOS, Android, and Unity; its Go SDK supports Linux and macOS. The service is aimed at music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations. Distributors can compare user-generated content with the music database to identify copyright infringement risk. The platform supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. The listed trial is free for 14 days, with full API access and no credit card required.

Spec sheet

What it does
ACRCloud is a business audio-recognition platform for identifying, enriching and monitoring audio from files, streams and live broadcasts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Privacy
ACRCloud's privacy policy says personal data processing is handled in line with GDPR and applicable country-specific data protection regulations.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Support
ACRCloud says technical support covers API integration, troubleshooting and workflow optimization, with English as the primary support language.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
AI music detection
ACRCloud offers a detector intended to distinguish AI-generated recordings from real recordings.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Android SDK requirements
The Android SDK documentation requires a project host, access key and access secret and includes online and offline recognition examples.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
API authentication
Identification API requests require multipart/form-data, project credentials and an HMAC-SHA1 signature.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
API limits
The identification endpoint documents sample files below 5 MB and says samples shorter than 15 seconds generally perform better.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
Broadcast monitoring
Its broadcast-monitoring product is described as API-first monitoring for radio and television content.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
CLI
The official ACRCloud CLI manages services such as buckets, supports JSON or table output and uses an MIT license.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Company legal name
The terms identify the provider as ACRCloud PTE. LTD.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Company locations
LinkedIn lists primary Singapore operations plus locations in Düsseldorf and Beijing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sg.linkedin.com
Company profile
LinkedIn lists ACRCloud as a privately held software-development company founded in 2015, headquartered in Singapore, with 2–10 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sg.linkedin.com
Console API
The console API exposes project creation, listing, retrieval, updates, deletion, bucket health and project-statistics endpoints.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
Copyright compliance
Copyright tools screen user-generated content, support monetization tracking and produce reporting workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Copyright workflows
ACRCloud describes checking user generated content against its music database to help distributors identify copyright infringement risk.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Data deduplication
The service can find repeated media files in large databases to reduce storage costs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Data-use restriction
The terms say customer content and customer-specific derived data are not used to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark machine-learning models.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Derivative works
Derivative-works detection is designed to match copyrighted tracks that have been speed- or pitch-shifted.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Developer platforms
The mobile SDK reference lists iOS, Android, and Unity, while the Go SDK page says that SDK supports Linux and macOS.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
Documentation depth
The documentation site contains console tutorials, SDK references, API references, metadata endpoints and file-scanning examples.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
File-scanning limits
File-scanning uploads support audio or fingerprint files below 500 MB and can also accept URLs from platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Vimeo and Brightcove.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
Founder and size
Crunchbase lists Tony Li as founder, Singapore as headquarters and a 1–10 employee headcount.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
Free trial
The music recognition page offers a 14-day free trial with full API access and no credit card required.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Humming recognition
Humming recognition lets users search for a song by humming its tune.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Infrastructure regions
The company lists low-latency instances in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, including US East/West, Frankfurt/London and Singapore/Tokyo.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Integration
The company says teams can build workflows with APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Integrations and customers
ACRCloud lists music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands and rights organizations as target sectors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Limit: Linux audio formats
The Linux C SDK is limited to 16-bit little-endian RIFF/WAVE PCM input.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Limit: sample-size constraint
The identification API documents a 5 MB maximum sample size.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.acrcloud.com
Linux SDK limitation
The Linux C audio-and-humming SDK supports only little-endian RIFF/WAVE Microsoft PCM audio at 16-bit depth.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Live-channel detection
The platform detects live and time-shifted television channels at scale.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Music catalog
ACRCloud says its music-recognition reference database contains more than 150 million tracks and is continuously updated.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Music metadata
The platform provides global DSP links and composition data as a music-metadata service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Music recognition
The service identifies music using audio-fingerprinting technology.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Music service links
Music recognition can return links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, as well as ISRC and UPC codes.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Offline recognition
Offline recognition detects custom content on devices without a network connection.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Praise: accuracy and speed
Trustburn reviewers repeatedly praise fast, accurate song identification.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustburn.com
Praise: integration
Trustburn reviewers repeatedly describe integration as easy or smooth.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustburn.com
Praise: support
Several Trustburn reviewers describe support as helpful or responsive.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustburn.com
Rating on Trustburn
3.8 out of 5 from 11 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · trustburn.com
Recognition catalog
Its music recognition service uses a continuously updated fingerprint database of over 150 million tracks.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Recognition features
Listed capabilities include music recognition, metadata, AI music detection, broadcast monitoring, cover song identification, second-screen sync, copyright compliance, audience measurement, humming recognition, offline recognition, and speech to text.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Refund limitation
Unless law or an applicable order says otherwise, fees are non-refundable after the relevant billing event.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Regional infrastructure
The homepage lists low-latency instances in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
SDK availability
ACRCloud publishes SDK repositories for Android, Java, Python, PHP, C, C# and other platforms through its GitHub organization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Second-screen sync
Second-screen features detect prerecorded content so applications can interact with television broadcasts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Security safeguards
The terms describe access controls, encryption in transit, least-privilege access, logging and secure-deletion procedures as safeguards.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Speech to text
Speech-to-text converts broadcast radio and television streams into text in real time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Target users
The site lists music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations as audiences for the platform.Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Windows SDK requirement
The C# SDK notes that Windows deployments require the appropriate Visual C++ runtime package.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

Free trial Free 14 days · full API access · no credit card required Read 29 Sep 2026 · acrcloud.com
Free trial Free 14 calendar days unless usage limit is reached · no credit card required to start Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Paid services Priced on request Billing cycles, usage charges and quotas shown at purchase or in the applicable order Usage quotas and supported features depend on the selected plan or order Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Music fingerprint database exceeds 150 million tracks
  • Recognition can return listening links and ISRC/UPC codes
  • Supports offline recognition and humming recognition
  • Trial includes full API access without a credit card

Limits

  • No free plan is listed
  • Trial lasts 14 days

Who it suits

ACRCloud suits organizations that need to identify or monitor audio, including broadcasters, music services, labels, and rights organizations. Its APIs and SDKs also suit teams building recognition workflows into their products.

ACRCloud in depth

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Overview

ACRCloud is an audio-recognition service for organizations that need to identify, enrich, or monitor sound across products and media workflows. It suits teams building recognition into an app or managing music across broadcasts and user-generated content. Its breadth is compelling, but it is a service to integrate, not a ready-made consumer song-finder.

Its music recognition draws on a continuously updated fingerprint database of more than 150 million tracks. Matches can include streaming links and industry identifiers; the wider toolkit covers broadcast monitoring, speech, and copyright-related workflows.

Key features

Music identification and metadata: Recognition can return links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, plus ISRC and UPC codes. That combination is useful when an app needs to route listeners to a track or a service needs identifiers for catalog work.

Multiple recognition tasks: Capabilities include humming and offline recognition, cover-song identification, AI music detection, and speech to text. This range can consolidate related audio tasks, though it does not make ACRCloud a consumer app for casual song searches.

Broadcast and audience workflows: Broadcast monitoring, second-screen sync, and audience measurement address the needs of broadcasters and advertisers. Distributors can also check user-generated content against the music database to help identify copyright-infringement risk.

Integration and infrastructure: APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation give teams ways to build workflows around the service. Low-latency instances in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific may suit geographically distributed products.

Privacy and safeguards: ACRCloud's privacy policy says personal data processing follows GDPR and applicable country-specific rules. Its terms describe access controls, encryption in transit, least-privilege access, logging, and secure-deletion procedures.

Pricing

ACRCloud has no free plan, so ongoing use means moving beyond the trial. Its Free trial costs nothing for 14 days, includes full API access, and requires no credit card. That is enough to evaluate an integration without an initial payment, but it is time-limited rather than a continuing free tier; no renewal terms or usage quotas are given.

There are no other plan prices to compare. Teams should choose ACRCloud for the recognition workflow they need, not on the assumption that the trial establishes the cost of production use.

Platforms

ACRCloud supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows, with cross-platform support and offline identification. Its mobile SDK reference covers iOS, Android, and Unity; the Go SDK page says that SDK supports Linux and macOS. The API-oriented approach makes platform support most relevant to teams integrating the service, rather than individuals looking for a standalone desktop or mobile experience.

Who it's for

ACRCloud is aimed at music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations. It is a strong fit when a team needs recognition plus metadata, monitoring, or rights workflows within its own product. A business seeking a simple, ready-to-use music identification app should look elsewhere.

For integration work, ACRCloud says its technical support team can assist with API integration, troubleshooting, and workflow optimization, with inquiries typically answered within 24 business hours.

Pros and cons

Pro: The 150-million-plus-track fingerprint database and music-service links, ISRC, and UPC make recognition results useful beyond simply naming a track.

Pro: Music, speech, broadcast, and copyright capabilities give organizations several related audio workflows to build around one service.

Pro: Full API access during a 14-day trial, without a credit card, offers a practical window to evaluate an integration.

Con: There is no free plan, so the trial does not support ongoing evaluation or light use at no cost.

Con: The API-and-SDK emphasis brings integration work; it is not the convenient choice for someone who just wants to identify a song on a phone.

Alternatives

For an individual song lookup, AHA Music has a free, ad-supported Guest plan with all recognition, five total recognitions per day, BPM and key detection, but no recognition history or playlists. Choose it for capped personal use rather than ACRCloud's broader organization-oriented workflows.

AudD is an API alternative with pay-as-you-go file recognition at $5 a month, billed at $5 per 1,000 requests, with the first 300 requests free. It is worth comparing when a request-priced API better fits the expected volume; ACRCloud instead offers a 14-day full-API trial with no credit card.

Audible Magic offers custom enterprise services tailored to platform needs and existing music licenses; choose it when that customization is the priority. WhoSampled offers free text search, track ID, and Spotify and Apple Music library scanning for people who want those music-discovery tools. Annie is free to download, with no subscription required for music identification and universal links. SongRec is a free, open-source Shazam client focused on Linux desktop use. SoundHound offers a free ad-supported option or a 6.99 USD one-time ad-free purchase for Android and iOS. AirScrobble is an iOS option with music discovery, Last.fm integration, Auto Scrobble, and Apple Music integration.

Browse Music Identification Apps for consumer-facing lookup options, or Audio Analysis Software for a broader category.

Verdict

Choose ACRCloud if you are building a product or organizational workflow that needs music recognition alongside metadata, monitoring, or rights-related capabilities. Its broad toolkit, large fingerprint catalog, and full-access trial are the main reasons to consider it. Look elsewhere if you need a free ongoing tier or a finished song-identification app rather than an integration platform.

Verdict

ACRCloud combines a broad set of audio-recognition capabilities with APIs and SDKs for workflow integration. The listed trial provides full API access, but there is no free plan.

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