Repost by SoundCloud is SoundCloud's own paid distribution and promotion service for artists. The free repost button you tap to reshare a track on your profile is a different thing entirely. It started as Repost Network, a company SoundCloud bought in 2019, and it now lives inside the Artist and Artist Pro subscription tiers. If you want your music on Spotify, Apple Music, and dozens of other platforms straight from SoundCloud, this is the service that does it.
What repost by SoundCloud actually is
The name confuses a lot of people because SoundCloud also has a free repost feature built into every profile. Anyone can tap the repost icon on a track and it shows up on their followers' feeds for free. That is a social action. Nobody pays for it and nothing gets distributed.
Repost by SoundCloud is different. It is SoundCloud's own paid artist tool for getting a track distributed to other streaming platforms and monetized, run directly through your SoundCloud account rather than through a third party distributor like DistroKid or TuneCore. When someone searches "repost by soundcloud," they are almost always trying to figure out this distribution product, not the repost button, so that is what this article covers.
I've run a record label called Märked on SoundCloud for 10 years, so I have seen how easily the two get mixed up. A repost from a channel like that is a real channel choosing to reshare your track to its followers because it likes the music. Repost by SoundCloud is a subscription product that pushes your track's audio file to other platforms. Different mechanism, different purpose, same confusing name.
Where the name comes from
SoundCloud acquired a company called Repost Network in May 2019. Repost Network was an independent artist distribution platform built by Jeff Ponchick, and it had two arms: a public distribution product called Repost, and a label services division called Repost Select. SoundCloud folded both into its own product and ran it under the Repost by SoundCloud name for a few years.
In October 2022, SoundCloud rebranded the whole thing as SoundCloud for Artists, and the platform got another dashboard refresh in October 2025. The tools carried over, but the standalone "Repost by SoundCloud" name mostly disappeared from SoundCloud's own marketing. It still shows up in search because plenty of artists and older guides never stopped using it.
What you get with the Artist and Artist Pro plans
As of this writing, SoundCloud sells two paid plans that include what used to be called Repost by SoundCloud. Prices and features vary by promotion and region, so check SoundCloud's own pricing page before you commit, but here is what it lists today.
The Artist plan runs $3.25 a month billed yearly at $39. It covers two tracks a month for distribution and monetization, one free mastering credit a month, and distribution to more than 50 platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, and YouTube Music.
The Artist Pro plan runs $8.25 a month billed yearly at $99. It covers unlimited uploads and unlimited distribution and monetization, three mastering credits a month, a split royalties feature for tracks with collaborators, and priority support on top of the same 50-plus platform reach.
Both plans now pay artists 100% of the royalties earned, including royalties from outside platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. That is a real change worth knowing about if you last looked at this a year or two ago. SoundCloud eliminated its distribution revenue share at the end of November 2025. Before that, artists using Repost by SoundCloud kept 100% of their SoundCloud earnings but only 80% of what came in from external platforms, with SoundCloud taking the other 20%. That cut is gone now.
Repost by SoundCloud vs a repost from a real channel
This is where the naming trips people up the most, and it matters because the two things solve completely different problems. Repost by SoundCloud gets your track onto more platforms. It does not get anyone new to listen to it. Distribution and promotion are not the same job.
A repost from an actual SoundCloud channel is promotion. It puts your track in front of that channel's real followers, people who chose to follow because they trust what that channel plays. Märked's SoundCloud channel grew past 19,000 followers over 10 years, mostly through premieres, and none of that reach came from a distribution subscription. It came from channels choosing to play music their audience actually wants to hear.
If your goal is getting your track technically available on Spotify and Apple Music, Repost by SoundCloud (or any distributor) does that job fine. If your goal is getting people to actually discover and play your track, you need real channels reposting it, which means either building relationships with channel owners directly or going through a network built for that purpose. If you want to see how those networks work and what a fair repost costs from a real channel, I wrote a full breakdown of how a SoundCloud repost network works and what to expect from one.
For artists who want both, a download gate can ask a fan to follow or repost before they get the download link, which stacks real engagement on top of whatever distribution plan you already pay for.
Is repost by SoundCloud worth it
For distribution alone, yes, if you are already active on SoundCloud and want one subscription instead of juggling a separate distributor. The 100% royalty change made the Artist and Artist Pro plans genuinely competitive with dedicated distributors like DistroKid, and you are not paying twice for something you can get bundled into a platform you already use.
Where it falls short is discovery. Distribution gets your track onto shelves. It does not put anyone in the store. Any distributor has the same limit, so I do not hold it against Repost by SoundCloud specifically. The tool does one job and it does that job well. Just do not confuse "my track is distributed" with "my track is being heard."
My honest take, coming from someone who runs both a channel and a promotion tool: budget for both if you can. Use Artist or Artist Pro to get your catalog properly distributed and paid, and separately invest in real reposts from channels that reach the audience you actually want. One handles the plumbing. The other handles the people. You can see 12 paid repost options compared side by side if you want to look at the second half of that equation.
Common questions about repost by SoundCloud
What is repost by SoundCloud used for
It is used to distribute and monetize your music on SoundCloud and on external streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, all managed from one SoundCloud subscription. It replaced the standalone Repost Network product SoundCloud bought in 2019 and now runs as part of the Artist and Artist Pro plans.
Is repost by SoundCloud the same as reposting a track for free
No. The free repost button lets any SoundCloud user reshare a track to their own followers at no cost. Repost by SoundCloud is a paid subscription for distributing and monetizing your own music across platforms. They share a name but do completely different jobs.
Is repost by SoundCloud worth it for a new artist
It depends on what you need. If you want your music properly distributed and paid across streaming platforms without juggling a separate distributor, it is a solid option, especially now that both paid tiers pay 100% royalties. If your real problem is that nobody is listening yet, distribution will not fix that. You need real plays and real reposts for that, and that is a promotion problem distribution was never built to solve.
How is repost by SoundCloud different from a SoundCloud repost network
A repost network connects your track with real channel owners who choose to repost it to their own audience, which is a promotion and discovery mechanism. Repost by SoundCloud is SoundCloud's own distribution product for getting your track onto other platforms and paid correctly. Most serious artists eventually use both, since one gets your music available and the other gets it heard.
