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ACRCloud
What it is
ACRCloud provides automatic content recognition services 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. Results can include links to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube, as well as ISRC and UPC codes. Listed capabilities cover metadata enrichment, AI music detection, broadcast monitoring, cover-song identification, second-screen synchronization, copyright compliance, audience measurement, humming recognition, offline recognition, and speech to text. Teams can build workflows with APIs, SDKs, console tools, and documentation. The mobile SDK reference covers iOS, Android, and Unity, while the Go SDK supports Linux and macOS. ACRCloud lists music services, broadcasters, labels, distributors, advertisers, automotive platforms, brands, and rights organizations among its audiences. Distributors can check user-generated content against the music database for copyright-infringement risk. A 14-day trial costs nothing, includes full API access, and requires no credit card. Low-latency instances are listed across three regions.
For and against
For
- Database of over 150 million tracks
- Links to major music services
- APIs, SDKs, and console tools
- Offline recognition and speech to text
- 14-day full-access trial
Against
- The listed trial lasts 14 days
- The service targets organizational workflows
- Some SDK support is platform-specific
The verdict
ACRCloud offers broad recognition and monitoring capabilities with cross-platform integration options. Its trial provides a way to evaluate the full API before selecting an ongoing arrangement.
Who it suits
ACRCloud suits organizations that need audio recognition, monitoring, metadata, or copyright workflows across multiple platforms. It is relevant to music services, broadcasters, rights teams, distributors, and developers building API or SDK integrations.
Plans and prices
Free trial
14 calendar days unless usage limit is reached · no credit card required to start
Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
Paid services
Usage quotas and supported features depend on the selected plan or order
Read 15 Oct 2026 · acrcloud.com
On the record
- AI music detection
- ACRCloud offers a detector intended to distinguish AI-generated recordings from real recordings.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- Identification API requests require multipart/form-data, project credentials and an HMAC-SHA1 signature.docs.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
- Broadcast monitoring
- Its broadcast-monitoring product is described as API-first monitoring for radio and television content.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The terms identify the provider as ACRCloud PTE. LTD.acrcloud.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company locations
- LinkedIn lists primary Singapore operations plus locations in Düsseldorf and Beijing.sg.linkedin.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
- Console API
- The console API exposes project creation, listing, retrieval, updates, deletion, bucket health and project-statistics endpoints.docs.acrcloud.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Copyright compliance
- Copyright tools screen user-generated content, support monetization tracking and produce reporting workflows.acrcloud.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Copyright workflows
- ACRCloud describes checking user generated content against its music database to help distributors identify copyright infringement risk.acrcloud.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Data deduplication
- The service can find repeated media files in large databases to reduce storage costs.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
- Derivative works
- Derivative-works detection is designed to match copyrighted tracks that have been speed- or pitch-shifted.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 29 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation site contains console tutorials, SDK references, API references, metadata endpoints and file-scanning examples.docs.acrcloud.com · read 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 · read 15 Oct 2026
