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ACRCloud
What ACRCloud is
ACRCloud provides automatic content recognition for identifying, enriching, and monitoring audio from files, streams, and live broadcasts. Its music recognition service uses a continuously updated fingerprint database of over 150 million tracks. Recognition results can include links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, along with ISRC and UPC codes. Listed capabilities also 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 build workflows using APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation. The mobile SDK reference lists iOS, Android, and Unity; the Go SDK supports Linux and macOS. ACRCloud names music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations among its audiences. Distributors can check user-generated content against its music database to identify copyright infringement risk. Low-latency instances are listed in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. A 14-day trial costs nothing, includes full API access, and requires no credit card. ACRCloud lists a freemium pricing model, while its plan details say there is no free plan.
Who it suits
ACRCloud suits teams that need to identify, enrich, or monitor audio, including music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations. Developers can build workflows with its APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation.
What it does well
- Music recognition draws on a database of over 150 million tracks.
- Results can include streaming links and ISRC and UPC codes.
- Offline recognition and humming recognition are listed capabilities.
- A 14-day trial includes full API access with no card required.
- Low-latency instances are listed across three regions.
What to know first
- There is no free plan.
- The trial lasts 14 days.
Limits
There is no free plan. The free trial lasts 14 days and includes full API access.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | 14 calendar days unless usage limit is reached · no credit card required to start | Free |
| Paid services | 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 | On request |
As acrcloud.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Getting started
- Visit the ACRCloud website.
- Start the 14-day trial at no cost; no credit card is required.
- Use the APIs, SDKs, console tools, or documentation to build a workflow.
- Choose a supported SDK platform: iOS, Android, or Unity for mobile, or Linux and macOS for the Go SDK.
Verdict
Choose ACRCloud if your work needs audio recognition, monitoring, or enrichment and its listed APIs and SDKs fit your workflow. The Free trial plan includes full API access, but the service has no free plan and the trial lasts 14 days.
Questions
Does ACRCloud have a free plan?
No. ACRCloud lists a 14-day free trial instead.
How much does the trial cost and what does it include?
The trial is listed as free for 14 days. It includes full API access and requires no credit card.
Which platforms are supported?
The listed platforms are Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. The mobile SDK reference covers iOS, Android, and Unity, while the Go SDK supports Linux and macOS.
Can recognition results link to music services?
Music recognition can return links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, as well as ISRC and UPC codes.
What tools can teams use to build workflows?
ACRCloud lists APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation.
Facts from ACRCloud's own pages
- AI music detection
- ACRCloud offers a detector intended to distinguish AI-generated recordings from real recordings. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Android SDK requirements
- The Android SDK documentation requires a project host, access key and access secret and includes online and offline recognition examples. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- Identification API requests require multipart/form-data, project credentials and an HMAC-SHA1 signature. · docs.acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API limits
- The identification endpoint documents sample files below 5 MB and says samples shorter than 15 seconds generally perform better. · docs.acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Broadcast monitoring
- Its broadcast-monitoring product is described as API-first monitoring for radio and television content. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The official ACRCloud CLI manages services such as buckets, supports JSON or table output and uses an MIT license. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The terms identify the provider as ACRCloud PTE. LTD. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company locations
- LinkedIn lists primary Singapore operations plus locations in Düsseldorf and Beijing. · sg.linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists ACRCloud as a privately held software-development company founded in 2015, headquartered in Singapore, with 2–10 employees. · sg.linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Console API
- The console API exposes project creation, listing, retrieval, updates, deletion, bucket health and project-statistics endpoints. · docs.acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Copyright compliance
- Copyright tools screen user-generated content, support monetization tracking and produce reporting workflows. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Copyright workflows
- ACRCloud describes checking user generated content against its music database to help distributors identify copyright infringement risk. · acrcloud.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Data deduplication
- The service can find repeated media files in large databases to reduce storage costs. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- 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. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Derivative works
- Derivative-works detection is designed to match copyrighted tracks that have been speed- or pitch-shifted. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Developer platforms
- The mobile SDK reference lists iOS, Android, and Unity, while the Go SDK page says that SDK supports Linux and macOS. · docs.acrcloud.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation site contains console tutorials, SDK references, API references, metadata endpoints and file-scanning examples. · docs.acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- 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. · docs.acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founder and size
- Crunchbase lists Tony Li as founder, Singapore as headquarters and a 1–10 employee headcount. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Free trial
- The music recognition page offers a 14-day free trial with full API access and no credit card required. · acrcloud.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Humming recognition
- Humming recognition lets users search for a song by humming its tune. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure regions
- The company lists low-latency instances in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, including US East/West, Frankfurt/London and Singapore/Tokyo. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The company says teams can build workflows with APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation. · acrcloud.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations and customers
- ACRCloud lists music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands and rights organizations as target sectors. · acrcloud.com, 15 Oct 2026
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