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.

What ReverbNation is, fairly stated

ReverbNation is one of the veteran names in independent music — part of the indie landscape for decades, long before most of today's pitching services existed. Its core offer, per the songpitch.app guide in our research, is submissions: opportunities spanning labels, festivals and sync, with a free tier plus paid tiers.

That breadth is the defining trait. Where a specialist sells one outcome, ReverbNation sells access to a wide board of industry opportunities an artist can apply to over time — a festival submission here, a sync opportunity there. For an artist building a general industry presence, a long-running board like this is a familiar tool. Current paid-tier pricing is: our source confirms the structure, not verified figures.

Where ReverbNation honestly wins

• Decades of presence. In a field of startups, longevity is evidence: the platform has operated through multiple eras of the music business and is still standing.
• Opportunity breadth. Labels, festivals and sync in one board is a range no focused curator marketplace — including ours — attempts to match.
• A free tier to start. Begin without paying, learn the board, and decide whether the paid tiers earn their place.

The trade-offs worth knowing

Breadth is also the trade-off. A general board is, by construction, unfocused: your submission joins large, open competitions for attention, and the board cannot tell you that a named, verified curator will listen to your whole track before anything is decided. With verified tier prices unavailable in our material, you cannot do the side-by-side maths published flat prices allow. It clarifies the choice: a broad legacy board for general submissions, versus a focused marketplace built around one accountable mechanic — listening first.

The alternative: UpcomingSounds

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

• Campaigns are a flat 45, 60, 80 or 100 USC (1 USC = £1), running 45 days — every price published before you start.
• Verified curators listen first, to the whole track, before any offer. No open-board lottery.
• You approve every offer. Nothing is charged without your yes.
• Unanswered offers are auto-refunded after 12 days; credits never expire.
• Verified Coverage is priced openly from 5 to 900 USC.

Fewer doors, deliberately — but every door has a verified listener behind it, and the price of knocking is on the wall.

Not just promotion

An opportunity board is a place you visit; a platform home is a place your work lives. UpcomingSounds puts your artist and track pages in the platform's music catalog at /music, where they stay in place between submissions — findable at the catalog's public launch — instead of existing only inside applications. Its curators are public profiles you can check before you spend — a name, a history, a presence — rather than anonymous opportunity listings. Coverage earned stays on your profile as a permanent record. Coming next, in that same home: a Pro services marketplace — a public catalog of music services, built and waiting behind its launch gate — and a Coverage Marketplace inside the artist space, now in build.

Frequently asked questions

Is ReverbNation free? It offers a free tier plus paid tiers, per the songpitch.app guide; specific paid pricing is in our material. UpcomingSounds has no free tier — campaigns are a flat 45, 60, 80 or 100 USC (1 USC = £1) for 45 days, published up front.

What can you submit to on ReverbNation? On the sourced facts: labels, festivals and sync opportunities. UpcomingSounds is narrower by design — campaigns to verified curators who listen first, plus Verified Coverage priced from 5 to 900 USC.

ReverbNation or a curator marketplace — which suits a new release? For broad opportunity applications over time, the veteran board fits. For a focused campaign where verified curators listen first, you approve every offer, and unanswered offers auto-refund after 12 days, that is the marketplace model.

Compare the wider field: 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.