Pex Search

Spec sheet

What it does

Pex Search is an automated content-recognition service for identifying copyrighted music in uploads, catalogs and platform content.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Purpose

Search identifies music and rightsholders for licensing, compliance, and anti-piracy.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Security

The Search API uses OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials, and its access tokens are valid for two hours.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Privacy

Vobile's privacy policy says Microsoft Azure stores data on its behalf and that Azure servers are based in the USA and overseas.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Support

The Search API documentation directs customers to their Vobile representative or [email protected] for additional information.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Founded

2014Read 28 Sep 2026 · pex.com

Acquisition

Vobile announced completion of its Pex acquisition on April 14, 2025, with the Pex team joining Vobile.Read 15 Oct 2026 · vobilegroup.com

API availability

The Search API documentation says the APIs are in private testing and are not yet publicly available.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

API file limit

The API documentation recommends keeping uploaded media files under 100 MB.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

API surface

The Search API exposes authentication, start-search and check-search endpoints and returns metadata, match segments, modification details and DSP URLs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Brand use

Brands can search social media posts during or after upload to identify music use, or request a custom audit from the Vobile Music Team.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Company history

Pex says it was founded in 2014 and acquired by Vobile in 2025.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Company legal name

Crunchbase lists the company’s legal name as Pexeso Inc. and founder as Rasty Turek.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company profile

LinkedIn lists Pex as a Los Angeles technology and media company founded in 2014 with 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Composition matching

Proprietary melody matching can find cover versions, live performances, and other uses of compositions that differ from original recordings.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Confidence-score limitation

Returned confidence values range from 85 to 100 and are intended for QA prioritization rather than as an accuracy guarantee or fixed automation threshold.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Content classification

A November 3, 2025 release added classification of file segments as music, speech or silence.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Custom database ingestion

The SDK can ingest fingerprints into a private database, with newly ingested assets generally becoming searchable after a few minutes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

DSP links

Search results can include links to digital-service-provider pages to help rights teams investigate and submit takedown requests.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Funding

Pex’s About page says it announced $57 million in new funding in 2021.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Google Play app rating

The separate PEX companion app for existing card-platform administrators and cardholders is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1.39K reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Integration

The SDK has language bindings for Python, Go, PHP, and Node.js.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Limit: specialized workflow

The AudD comparison says PEX has more configuration and surface area than a simple song-identification API because it targets rights-management workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · audd.io

Live-stream searches

Live streams can be fingerprinted in short segments, with results returned for each segment in real time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Melody and composition matching

Melody and phonetic searches identify cover versions, live performances and other recordings sharing an underlying composition or lyrics.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Modification tolerance

Documentation describes robust matching at 50–150% speed, often 50–200%, and pitch shifts from roughly −9 to +12 semitones, with support for one-second samples.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Modified audio

Search can identify remixes, mashups, nightcore edits, short segments, and multi-track mixes.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Modified-audio matching

The service matches remixes, mashups, nightcore edits, short excerpts and multitrack mixes, including altered pitch or speed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Node requirement

The Node.js binding requires Node 18 or later and native build dependencies because it uses C++ through node-addon-api.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Platform coverage

Pex has described monitoring content across more than 20 platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Praise: integrated compliance workflow

An independent AudD comparison describes PEX as coupling recognition with rights-holder data and licensing actions for upload-compliance decisions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · audd.io

Praise: modified-audio detection

A2IM reported that Pex could identify modified tracks that legacy automated-content-recognition systems missed, addressing an estimated problem of more than one million manipulated DSP tracks.Read 15 Oct 2026 · a2im.org

Praise: rights protection

G2 reviewers praised Pex for preventing unauthorized use, supporting monetization and simplifying copyright and licensing work.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Product launch

Pex says Search launched in August 2023 as an à-la-carte way to access its music-identification technology.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Rating on G2

4.4 out of 5 from 7 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Real-time results

Official documentation says fingerprinting, identification and result delivery take five seconds or less.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Registry

The Vobile Music Registry contains more than 120 million recordings, including Sony, Universal, and Warner catalog.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Registry size

The product page says the Vobile Music Registry contains more than 120 million registered recordings, including Sony, Universal and Warner catalogs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

SDK delivery

Pex supplies an SDK that fingerprints files locally and returns match results, so original media does not need to be sent to Vobile.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

SDK languages

Official bindings are provided for Python, Go, PHP and Node.js.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

SDK license

The public Go and Node.js SDK repositories display MIT licenses; the hosted Search service itself is proprietary and no open-source core is offered.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

SDK platforms

For production and large-scale deployments, the SDK documentation lists Debian 11+/Ubuntu 20.04+ and Red Hat 8+; ARM-based Mac builds are for development and testing only.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Search workflows

The product page says Search can check entire files against databases, public content, or user uploads and return results in real time through its SDK.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Security handling

Pex says fingerprinting occurs on the customer’s local server, Vobile receives only fingerprints, and it cannot reconstruct the original content.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pex.com

Two registries

Customers can search the commercial Vobile Music Registry or a private Custom Database containing their own supplied assets.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.pex.com

Plans and prices

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