Soneam vs Audome, for working engineers

Comparison pages usually work by finding a gap. This one is awkward to write, because Audome has most of what we have and got there first with better-known customers. So the useful thing is not a scorecard. It is to be precise about the handful of places the two products answer the same question differently, and to be plain about where they are simply ahead.

At a glance

	Soneam	Audome
What it is	Review, approval and delivery for finished audio	All-in-one audio collaboration and project management
Free plan	Yes: 10 GB, 5 projects, every feature	No: 10-day trial, no card
Headline pricing	Free / $9 / $19 / $39	$15/mo, or $12.50 billed yearly · Pro $59/mo
Clients need an account	No	No
Lossless playback, no login	Yes (FLAC)	Yes (up to 96 kHz / 24-bit)
Time-stamped comments and to-do list	Yes	Yes
Automatic version management	Yes	Yes
Password links, download on/off	Yes	Yes
Branding on the client page	Logo and accent color	Logo, cover image, artist and client photos, comments off
Client file upload, no login	Yes (2 GB per file)	Yes (no stated limit)
Recorded approval of a version	Yes, printable	Not mentioned anywhere on their site
Streaming loudness and codec preview	Yes	Not offered
LUFS and true-peak metering	Yes	Not offered
Checksum on delivery (SHA-256)	Yes	Not offered
Payment-gated download	Yes, every plan · 0% fee	Listed on Pro ($59/mo); their own page says payment is not integrated yet
Storage	10 GB free, 50-600 GB paid	300 GB on the plan page; FAQ says unlimited
Published testimonials	None yet	Six, with credits

Facts checked August 2026 by reading their own pages. Two rows above give both sides of something their site says twice, differently. If anything here is stale, tell us and we'll fix it.

What your client actually sees

This is the one screen either product is really selling, and both are good at it. Theirs goes further on presentation: a cover image, an artist photo, a photo of the client, and the option to turn the comment section off. Ours puts the loudness preview and the finished files on the same page as the sign-off.

Open a live client page and use it yourself: play it, drag a comment onto the waveform, switch versions level-matched. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for, which is the point.

We agree about normalization, and answer it differently

Audome's page states the principle well: no compression, no loudness normalization, let people hear the work exactly as it is supposed to sound. We agree, and Soneam never alters the master either. The player is a lossless one and the file that comes down at the end is the file you uploaded.

The difference is what happens after that. Your client is going to hear this record on Spotify, and Spotify is going to turn it down. Soneam lets them hear that inside the review: the same lossless file, played at the level the platform will actually play it, with the true-peak ceiling shown, and the codec applied if you want it. Refusing to normalize and showing what normalization will do are not in conflict. The first is about fidelity and the second is about expectations, and the argument at the end of a mastering job is usually the second one. We read all five of their public pages looking for LUFS, true peak, dBTP or codec, and none of those words appear.

Feedback is not a sign-off

Both products collect precise feedback and both let you hold the download back until you are ready. That is control, and it is genuinely useful. It is not a record.

A Soneam approval writes down who accepted which version, on what date, from where, and the page prints. When a label asks in March which master was signed off in September, that question has an answer that is not a scroll through a comment thread. We searched their site for approval, approve or sign-off across 3,499 words and found none of them. That does not prove the product lacks it, only that they do not sell it, which is worth knowing if it is the part you need.

Where Audome wins, honestly

• People you have heard of use it. Six named testimonials with credits, including Joe Marlett of Blink-182, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, who says "Audome is the only way I deliver mixes", and Max Derkum of Kim Wilde and Lily Allen records. We have not published a single testimonial, so there is nothing to hold up next to that.
• Room. 300 GB on their $15 plan, with an FAQ that says storage and bandwidth are unlimited. Per pound that beats every Soneam plan under $39. If you keep a back catalog online, that matters more than anything else on this page.
• The delivery page as a presentation. Cover image, artist photo, a photo of the client, and the ability to switch comments off so the page is purely somewhere to listen. Joe Marlett's quote is specifically about tailoring the delivery per client. Ours is lighter: your logo and your accent color.
• Client uploads with no stated limit. If your clients send you session folders rather than a stereo file, their file vault has no cap on their page. Soneam caps a client upload at 2 GB a file.

What Soneam hasn't earned yet

A public record. Audome has customers who will vouch for it by name, with their credits beside them. We have not published testimonials yet, which is a reason to test us rather than trust us. Trying us costs nothing and never expires, there is no card on file, and every delivery carries a SHA-256 checksum, so the claim that matters most is one you can verify without asking us. Run one real project through and judge it on that.

Where Soneam pulls ahead

• The approval is a document. Who, when, which exact version, printable. Their flow ends at feedback and a download switch.
• The mastering layer. Streaming loudness and codec preview in the review, LUFS and true peak on every version, and level-matched A/B so nobody approves the louder one by accident. None of those words appear on their site.
• Getting paid, on any plan. Set an itemized balance and the download unlocks when the client pays, by card straight into your own Stripe account or by bank transfer with one click of confirmation from you. Soneam takes 0% and is never in the payment path. Their paywall is listed on the $59 plan and their own comparison page says payment is not integrated yet. Either way, ours is on the free one. The workflow is in the getting-paid guide.
• Starting costs nothing. A 10-day trial is enough to look around. It is not enough to find out whether your clients will use a review link, because that depends on your clients, and they are busy. A free plan that never expires is.
• Verification. SHA-256 on delivery, so the bytes that left can be checked against the bytes that arrived.

Which should you pick?

• Pick Audome if what you want is the most polished version of the shared workflow from a team with real names behind it, if you need the storage, or if the presentation of the client page is the thing you are buying.
• Pick Soneam if the mastering end is where your job actually gets contentious: what it will sound like after the platform turns it down, which version was signed off, and getting paid before the files move.
• Undecided? Ours is free indefinitely and theirs is free for ten days. Run the same project through both and keep the one your client answers faster.

Frequently asked questions

Is Soneam a good Audome alternative?

They are the two closest products in this space, so the honest answer is that it depends on three things. Both give clients a no-login link, lossless playback, time-stamped comments, automatic versioning, password protection and a download on/off switch. Soneam adds a recorded approval of the exact version, with who, when and which file, printable; a streaming loudness and codec preview so the client hears what Spotify or Apple Music will do to the master; LUFS and true-peak metering; SHA-256 checksums on delivery; a payment gate on every plan at a 0% fee; and a free plan that never expires. Audome has no free plan, only a 10-day trial.

What does Audome do better than Soneam?

Trust, room and presentation. Audome carries six named testimonials with credits attached, including Joe Marlett of Blink-182, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, who says it is the only way he delivers mixes. Soneam has not published testimonials yet. Their plan page gives 300 GB for $15 a month and their FAQ says storage and bandwidth are unlimited, which is more room per pound than any Soneam plan under $39. Their client page goes deeper on presentation, with a cover image, artist and client photos, and the option to switch the comment section off entirely, against a logo and an accent color here. Their client file upload states no limit, where Soneam caps a client upload at 2 GB per file.

How do Soneam and Audome prices compare?

Audome has no free plan: Studio is $15 a month, or $150 a year which works out at $12.50 a month, with 300 GB on the plan page, and Pro is $59 a month or $576 a year. The trial is 10 days with no card. Soneam is free forever for 5 projects and 10 GB with every feature, then $9 for 50 GB, $19 for 200 GB and $39 for 600 GB, all with unlimited projects. The payment gate is the sharpest gap: on Soneam it is on every plan including the free one, at a 0% platform fee, while Audome lists a paywall on its Pro plan at $576 a year and its own comparison page says payment is not integrated yet.