What is Airtune? India's beat marketplace explained

What is Airtune? It is a beat marketplace made in India, where artists buy licensed beats and producers sell them. This page describes it in plain words: who it is for, what is sold, how you pay, what the licence gives you and how to reach the team. Every fact here comes from Airtune’s own public pages, read on 10 Nov 2026.

In short

• Airtune is a marketplace for sound: beats, beat packs, sound kits, loops and services.
• Buyers sign up free; producers join by invite and sell on paid Studio plans.
• Every beat comes with a signed licence, and the policies are public.

What is Airtune, and who is it for?

Airtune is an online marketplace for sound, made in India, at airtune.in. Its own site calls it “India’s invite-only marketplace for sound”. Artists come to buy licensed beats, sound kits, loops and studio services. Producers come to sell them and get paid in rupees.

It is built for two groups. Buyers are rappers, singers, video creators, labels and brands who need music they can release with a clear licence. Signing up as a buyer is free and open to anyone. Sellers are producers and engineers. They join by invite: a code from another Airtune producer, or a request that the Airtune team answers after listening to their work.

Airtune is run by Airtune IN, a sole proprietorship of Manasdeep Singh based in Chandigarh, as its public Terms state. This page sticks to what you can check yourself. You can start by listening on Airtune Explore.

What can you buy and sell on Airtune?

You can buy and sell five kinds of product on Airtune: beats, beat packs, sound kits, loops and services. Beats are the core. Each beat is sold under a licence, and the producer chooses which licences to offer and at what price.

Sound kits are collections of sounds for producers, such as drum kits, sample packs, loop packs and preset packs. Beat packs bundle several beats. Loops are single melodies or drum patterns that producers build new beats from, covered by one Loop and Sample License. Services are paid work from a producer or engineer, such as mixing, mastering or a custom beat.

Airtune sells the building blocks of a song and the right to use them. To put a finished song on Spotify or JioSaavn, you use a music distributor, and the licensing page says your licence PDF is the proof distributors ask for. Explore has filters for genre, BPM, key and price, so you can narrow the list before you listen.

For services, the buyer’s payment is held and released as each stage of the work is approved. Our page on artist services explains how that works.

How do payment and licences work on Airtune?

Payment on Airtune works in two currencies. Buyers in India pay in rupees through Razorpay, by UPI, card or netbanking. Buyers abroad pay in US dollars through Stripe. Every price includes tax, and for Indian buyers GST is included in sale price.

Every beat comes with a licence signed in your name. There are four levels: Easy MP3, Easy WAV, Easy Stems and Exclusive. The first three are leases, so the producer can license the same beat to other artists. Exclusive takes the beat off sale at once, and earlier leases stay valid. The licensing page lists unlimited audio streams and unlimited monetised music videos on all four.

After you pay, you get your files and a licence PDF with a QR code. The terms are locked at checkout. The licence is an agreement between you and the producer, and Airtune keeps the record. Our guide to the beat licence agreement explains the clauses in plain words.

Producers set their own prices above these minimums and may offer only some licences. The exact terms are always on the beat page before you pay.

Worked example. An artist in Jaipur licenses two beats. She picks Easy MP3 for a single at the ₹499 minimum and Easy Stems for a second song at the ₹1,999 minimum. Her total is ₹499 + ₹1,999 = ₹2,498, GST included in sale price. This is our maths on Airtune’s minimum prices, and a producer can price higher.

Is Airtune safe?

You can check whether Airtune is safe yourself, and these are the facts. Payments run through Razorpay in India and Stripe abroad. Every beat purchase gives you a signed licence PDF in your legal name, with a QR code, and the licence record is kept permanently.

Refunds have written rules. Airtune’s Refund Policy says sales are final, with a full refund for a genuine problem: files never delivered, broken, incomplete or not what was listed or previewed. You report it within 14 days of delivery, at support@airtune.in or through the site. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method, normally within 7 to 14 days of approval.

Sellers are checked too. Producers join by invite and complete identity checks, including PAN, before payouts, and the Airtune team checks every payout. The operator is named in the Terms, with a Chandigarh address and an MSME registration number. All of this is on the public Airtune policy pages.

A few limits are worth knowing. A refund or chargeback withdraws the licence, so you cannot keep using the beat after one. Airtune is a newer and smaller store than the big global names. And like any marketplace, it cannot promise that a song will never face a claim; the licence is your proof if one comes.

How do you use Airtune on a phone or laptop?

Airtune runs in the browser at airtune.in, on a phone or a laptop. People often search for an “Airtune app”. What we can confirm is simpler: there is nothing to install to browse, buy or download. You open the site, sign in and carry on.

Buying takes a few steps. Search or filter on Explore by genre, BPM, key and price. Play the preview, which carries the producer’s tag. Open the beat page, read the licence terms and pick a level. Pay in rupees or dollars. Your files are ready the moment you pay, and they sit in your account with your orders and licences.

Download your files and the licence PDF straight away and keep a backup. Airtune keeps the licence record permanently, and its Delivery and Download Policy tells buyers to save their own copies of files. If you are new to buying beats, our guide on how to buy beats online in India walks through the choices.

1. Open airtune.in in your phone or laptop browser.
2. Sign up free as a buyer.
3. Filter and listen on Explore.
4. Read the licence on the beat page and pay.
5. Download and back up your files and licence PDF.

How do producers sell on Airtune?

Producers sell on Airtune through Airtune Studio, on a paid plan, after joining by invite. You get a code from another Airtune producer, or you request an invite on the pricing page and the team listens to your work. There is no free seller plan.

The entry plan, Studio Starter, costs ₹199 one time with GST included. Commission depends on the plan: 20% on Studio Starter, 15% on Studio Lite, 10% on Studio and 0% on Studio Pro, per the Airtune pricing page checked on 10 Nov 2026. Producers set a rupee price and a dollar price for each licence.

Money from a sale clears for 7 days when the buyer paid in rupees, or 14 days in US dollars. Cleared money becomes available the following Friday and is paid in rupees to the producer’s verified UPI or bank account. There is no minimum payout. Our pages on Airtune Studio plans and the Airtune wallet and payouts have the detail.

Watch out: Airtune is invite-only and paid-only for sellers. If you are brand new and want to pay nothing, a store with a free plan is a fairer place to start.

Contact and company details

You can reach the Airtune team by email at support@airtune.in. The details below are copied from Airtune’s public policy pages, so you can match them yourself.

This is general information, not legal advice. For a big deal, ask a music lawyer.

Next steps

1. Listen first on Airtune Explore and open a beat page to read its licence.
2. Create a free buyer account on the Airtune sign-up page.
3. Read the rules on the Airtune policy pages before your first purchase.
4. Compare stores in our guide to the best beat marketplace in India.