Uppbeat music on YouTube Shorts

Usable on YouTube with either a credit or a safelist. Free accounts paste a one-video Uppbeat Credit into the description. Paid plans from $6.99 a month safelist your channel instead.

Type: Subscription
Cost: Free with a credit, or from $6.99 a month billed yearly
Credit: A code for each video
Copyright claims: Claims happen
How a claim clears: Connect your channel once
Monetised videos: Allowed, including sponsored content
Channels covered: 1 on Essentials, 3 on Creator, 10 on Pro
After you cancel: Videos published while safelisted stay clear.
Platforms named: YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTokClear on Instagram and TikTok, Uppbeat says. On TikTok, keep the music under 60 seconds or the video may be muted.
Site: uppbeat.io

Free or paid

Plan	Price	How claims are avoided
Free	Free	Uppbeat Credit in each description
Essentials	$6.99 a month billed yearly, or $8.99 monthly	Safelist 1 YouTube channel
Creator	$8.99 a month billed yearly, or $12.99 monthly	Safelist 3 YouTube channels
Pro	$14.99 a month billed yearly, or $24.99 monthly	Safelist 10 YouTube channels

The free plan gives you 3 downloads when you sign up, then 1 more each month, from about 25% of the library. Essentials and Creator cover individuals publishing on their own channels. Pro adds client work and paid ads. A Business plan exists for teams.

The Uppbeat Credit

On the free plan, each download comes with an Uppbeat Credit for your YouTube description. Uppbeat's system reads it when the video is published and stops the claim before it happens. Three rules matter:

One credit per video. Credits "can't be re-used for different videos". Re-download the track for each new Short.
Paste it exactly. Uppbeat asks you to share credits "exactly as they're generated".
Paste it before you publish. A credit added later still works, but you will need the claim release tool to clear what arrived first.

Old credits are in your download history under My account.

The catch

A safelist only protects videos published after the channel was added. Anything you uploaded before then can still be claimed.

Uppbeat's fix for those is the same as for a forgotten credit: run the video through its claim release tool.

How to clear a claim

Check the cause. The usual ones are a reused credit, a credit pasted after publishing, a mistyped credit, or a video published before safelisting.
Fix the description, or safelist the channel.
Rescan the video with Uppbeat's claim release tool, linked from its help centre.
If it still will not clear, contact Uppbeat.

A claim from Uppbeat comes through its copyright partners, Hexacorp and Orfium. A claim from anyone else on an Uppbeat track may mean someone registered the music as their own. Uppbeat asks you to contact it in that case.

On Instagram and TikTok

Uppbeat says its music and sound effects "are clear for use on Instagram". If a Reel does get a claim, Uppbeat says to dispute it through Instagram's form and mention your Uppbeat permission.

For TikTok, Uppbeat says its music "is clear for usage on TikTok", with one limit from TikTok itself: videos "can't have music longer than 60 seconds". A video with longer music may be muted. Uppbeat's fix is to upload a version with under 60 seconds of music, and to contact Uppbeat if a short video still gets a claim.

Common questions

Can you reuse an Uppbeat Credit in another video?

No. Uppbeat says credits "can't be re-used for different videos". Download the track again to get a new credit for the new video.

What happens to your videos if you cancel Uppbeat?

Uppbeat says claims "won't reappear on videos that were published while your channel was safelisted, even if you choose to end your subscription."

Can you make lofi mixes with Uppbeat music?

No. Uppbeat rules out "listening-only" content where the music is the focus, such as lofi mixes or background music channels.

Sources

Facts checked against the sources below on 14 Nov 2026. Licences and prices change, so read the provider's own page before you rely on one.