Soundee vs Traktrain — Traktrain Alternative for Producers (2025)

Overall pricing structure

Both Traktrain and Soundee offer a free entry point plus two paid tiers, so producers can start selling without an upfront subscription. From there, each platform scales pricing around how serious and high-volume your catalog is.

• Free tiers on both platforms are designed for testing the waters and smaller catalogs.

• Mid tiers target active producers who want zero commission on sales without going fully unlimited.

• Top tiers unlock unlimited uploads and are aimed at full-time or scaling producers.

Soundee’s plan names (FREE, STARTER, PRO) mirror common SaaS expectations, making it easier to understand what you’re getting as you move up.

Free plans: testing and early-stage use

Traktrain’s free plan allows more initial beat uploads, while Soundee’s free plan trades raw upload volume for long‑term flexibility, including no hard storage cap.

Use the free tiers when you:

• Are just getting started and want to validate demand.

• Don’t yet need a large catalog or advanced workflows.

• Are comfortable with platform commissions on each sale (details in the fees section).

Paid tiers: scaling your catalog

Once you’re ready to invest monthly, the main questions become: “How big is my catalog?” and “How fast am I growing?”

• Traktrain’s mid and top tiers step up primarily around upload and storage limits.

• Soundee’s STARTER and PRO tiers step up around catalog size and long‑term headroom, with the PRO plan essentially removing growth ceilings.

For producers planning a serious, ever‑expanding catalog, Soundee’s unlimited‑style approach on PRO makes long‑term costs more predictable as you grow.

Commissions and Plan-Level Fees

Both Traktrain and Soundee use simple, plan-based commission structures: free plans take a percentage cut, while paid tiers remove platform commissions on sales.

On Traktrain, this means beginners can test the platform with no subscription cost but will see a portion of each sale taken before it hits their account. Upgrading primarily becomes a way to keep 100% of your sales revenue.

Soundee follows a similar pattern, but with a focus on scaling into a “keep-what-you-earn” setup as you move into paid plans. This makes it easier to forecast long‑term take‑home income, especially once your catalog and customer base grow.

For active sellers, Soundee’s emphasis on direct-to-seller payouts and zero platform commission on higher tiers makes it attractive once you’re past the testing phase.

VAT, Taxes, and Control at Checkout

A key difference is how much control you have over VAT and taxes.

Traktrain does not currently provide granular settings for enabling or configuring VAT rules at checkout, so international tax handling is more manual and may require separate tools or workflows.

Soundee explicitly lets you decide when and how VAT is applied, with settings aimed at producers who want to stay compliant while still owning their tax logic. Paired with VAT/tax reporting, this gives more transparency into what portion of each sale is tax versus profit.

Payout Flow and Take‑Home Earnings

Both platforms support instant payouts for store and marketplace sales, meaning revenue doesn’t sit in a platform wallet for long periods. Earnings move to your connected payment accounts as transactions clear, which is particularly useful for frequent collaborators and cash‑flow‑sensitive producers.

Because Soundee combines instant payouts, strong VAT control, and no platform commission on higher tiers, your effective take‑home per sale becomes easier to model and optimize around, especially when you’re running campaigns or scaling up paid traffic.

Payments & Checkout

Both Traktrain and Soundee support modern payment rails like Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and direct card processing, so buyers can check out quickly with familiar methods. Where they start to separate is flexibility and control. Soundee layers on crypto payments and detailed VAT controls, which matters if you sell globally and want to fine‑tune how taxes appear at checkout.

Automatic collaborator splits are available on both platforms, but Soundee is designed around more complex deal structures (bulk deals, mixed carts, and different license types), giving collaborators a clearer, fairer payout logic as your catalog and collab network grow.

Storefront, Domains & Embeds

Traktrain is built as a streamlined marketplace experience with an embeddable player that you can drop into an existing site. This suits producers who only need a clean catalog page and don’t want to think about storefront architecture.

Soundee, on the other hand, behaves like a full storefront engine. You can spin up multiple independent stores, attach custom domains and subdomains, and route each domain to different pages or catalogs. Features like a visual pagebuilder, FAQ sections, type-beat filtering, full-storefront embeds, and granular embed filters let you design branded experiences for different audiences while keeping checkout native and consistent.

Marketing & Sales Tools

Traktrain covers the basics with coupon codes and “buy X for Y price” bundles, which is often enough for simple discounts and occasional promotions. Soundee extends this into a more complete marketing stack: advanced coupon rules, buy‑X‑get‑X‑free deals, abandoned-cart tracking, one-click recovery links, exit-intent popups, countdown timers, and URL-based auto-apply coupons.

Lead capture and list growth are also deeper on Soundee through unlockable free downloads and abandoned-cart flows, whereas Traktrain focuses more on marketplace discovery than funnel building. For producers running campaigns across socials and ads, Soundee’s support for custom parameters, referrer tracking, and tight pixel integrations makes it easier to attribute every sale or play back to a specific post, ad set, or creator collab.

Analytics, Automation & Workflow

Both platforms provide core track and sales analytics plus CSV exports, but the scope is different. Traktrain keeps stats lightweight and easy to read. Soundee adds advanced e‑commerce analytics such as conversion rates, customer lifetime value, returning vs new buyers, abandoned-cart metrics, and store-level performance comparisons.

On the workflow side, each platform offers bulk editing and stems support. Soundee adds scheduling, reuploads without losing stats, and a full voicetag system with auto-tagging, custom tag files, intro-only mode, and interval controls. For automation and integrations, Soundee again goes further, with webhooks, API keys, and Zapier integration enabling custom dashboards, mailing list sync, Discord or Slack alerts, and more complex back-end setups that Traktrain doesn’t aim to cover.