Prices as of November 2026. Competitor prices and facts are as reported by the sources cited in this post; UpcomingSounds prices are the platform's published rules.

A pitch is a promise: send us your track, and something specific will happen next. With Pitch-Us, our research could verify the name — listed among playlist pitching services in UpNComer's roundup — but not the promise behind it. No public model, pricing or refund rules could be sourced. So this guide will not invent a head-to-head. It names the questions that separate a service that protects artists from one that merely collects submissions, and prints UpcomingSounds' answer to each.

What Pitch-Us is, fairly stated

Pitch-Us is a playlist submission service named in UpNComer's roundup of playlist pitching services. That listing is the entire sourced record. How a submission works, what it costs, who listens, and whether any credit expires are all. The service may serve its artists well; "may" is not a basis for spending a release budget.

Where Pitch-Us honestly wins

Only one honest line belongs here: Pitch-Us is named in the field's roundups, so it sits in the set of services artists actively compare. Any further win — on price, speed, catalogue or curator quality — would be, because none could be sourced. We do not award invented points for looking balanced. On the published evidence, there is nothing to score Pitch-Us on yet — and that absence is itself the most useful fact an artist can have before paying.

The trade-offs to weigh

• No published price. What a submission, or a serious round of submissions, costs is. A budget cannot be planned around an unpublished number.
• Listening cannot be checked. Whether curators are verified, and whether they hear the whole track, is. "We pitch your song" says nothing about anyone hearing it.
• Refunds are unwritten. If your pitch goes unanswered, what comes back, and when, is. Silence is the most common outcome in playlist pitching; its price should be printed.
• Expiry is unanswered. Whether any balance or credit expires is.

None of these accuses Pitch-Us of a specific practice. Each marks a question its public record does not answer.

The alternative: UpcomingSounds

Affordable campaigns like no other platform, with premium coverage because curators listen first.

• Price, published: campaigns are 45, 60, 80 or 100 USC (1 USC = £1) and run 45 days; Verified Coverage is 5–900 USC; Curator Pro is £19/mo · £190/yr, with curator payouts every Friday (minimum payout 100 USC, or 50 USC for Pro).
• Listening, published: verified curators listen first — the whole track — before any offer is made.
• Refunds, published: you approve every offer before credits move, and an unanswered offer is automatically refunded after 12 days.
• Expiry, published: credits never expire.

Where we honestly lose: UpcomingSounds has no free tier, is smaller and newer, and publishes no scale numbers. Until Pitch-Us publishes a model, the comparison is between a published model and an unpublished one.

Try the alternative: Start a campaign from 45 USC

Pitch-Us vs UpcomingSounds

• Price / minimum — Pitch-Us: Not published in the sources we reviewed · UpcomingSounds: Campaigns 45–100 USC (1 USC = £1)
• What you get — Pitch-Us: Playlist submission service (named in UpNComer roundup); model · UpcomingSounds: Campaign to verified curators + Verified Coverage (5–900 USC)
• Refund rule — Pitch-Us: Not published in the sources we reviewed · UpcomingSounds: Unanswered offers auto-refunded after 12 days; you approve every offer first
• Who listens / verifies — Pitch-Us: Not published in the sources we reviewed · UpcomingSounds: Verified curators only, listening first (whole track)
• Do credits expire? — Pitch-Us: Not published in the sources we reviewed · UpcomingSounds: Never expire
• Campaign length — Pitch-Us: Not published in the sources we reviewed · UpcomingSounds: 45 days

Not just promotion

A pitch is the most disposable artefact in music promotion: sent in a minute, forgotten in a week, and spent the moment a small service changes hands or shuts down — as small services regularly do. An artist's presence should not be built out of disposable moments. UpcomingSounds anchors every campaign to things that endure: a lasting artist page, track pages in the platform's music catalog at /music that new listeners will find once the catalog opens publicly, long after the pitch window closes, and a coverage record on the profile that makes each release's outcome visible. The dashboard keeps campaigns, offers and coverage together, so nothing about a release lives only in a sent folder. Pitch widely if you choose — but build your presence somewhere it stays yours.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pitch-Us? A playlist submission service named in UpNComer's roundup. That listing is the only fact our research could source; its model and pricing are.

How much does Pitch-Us cost? — no public pricing could be sourced. UpcomingSounds publishes its prices: campaigns are 45, 60, 80 or 100 USC for 45 days.

Does Pitch-Us refund unanswered pitches? Its refund rule is. On UpcomingSounds, an unanswered offer is automatically refunded after 12 days, and you approve every offer before credits move.

How do I compare a pitching service with no published model? Ask four questions in writing: who listens, and do they hear the whole track? What is the total cost? What is refunded on silence? Do credits expire? Compare the answers — or their absence — with a published model.

What is the best Pitch-Us alternative? The service that answers those four questions before you pay: verified curators listen first, campaigns are 45–100 USC over 45 days, unanswered offers are auto-refunded after 12 days, credits never expire.

Other alternatives worth knowing

• SubmitHub — the largest submission marketplace in our research, with published pricing. Head-to-head: SubmitHub alternative.
• Groover — per-professional pricing, strong in Europe. Head-to-head: Groover alternative.
• Playlist Push — playlists only, at a $280 minimum. Head-to-head: Playlist Push alternative.
• DailyPlaylists — playlist submissions with a free tier. Head-to-head: DailyPlaylists alternative.

Every one of them is dealt with, in the same terms, in the hub: All music promotion services compared

Sources, dating and corrections

Competitor prices, limits and rules on this page were checked in November 2026 against the competitor's own published pages or the third-party sources named in the text. Prices and terms change — check the competitor's own site before you buy. This page is published by UpcomingSounds, a competitor: the judgements on it (including any "best fit" wording) are our opinion; the factual claims are the sourced ones. If we have a price, rule or model fact wrong or out of date, send the source link through this site's contact route and we will correct the page and update its checked date.