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Labelmate, the Habitat alternative
Your royalty statements with nothing to copy: Labelmate finds your reports, contracts and invoices in your mailbox, its AI reads your contracts and quotes the passage, a tested engine does the maths to the cent, and your data stays encrypted on your computers.
Compared with Habitat point by point, from its own pages and the sources listed below, read on 22 September 2026. Habitat is online royalty management software for labels, publishers and distributors: statement import, splits, reports and artist payments. It is made by Habitat Financial Technologies, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Why choose Labelmate over Habitat
Your data stays with you
Habitat keeps the data you create in it in the cloud, with three hosts in the United States, and its privacy policy provides for machine learning over it, in some cases with third parties. Labelmate keeps your data encrypted on the label's computers, and our servers only carry sealed copies we cannot read.
A price that doesn't follow your royalties
Habitat charges by the royalties processed each month and the number of users: $85 a month up to $5,000, $200 up to $25,000, from $500 beyond. Labelmate's price depends on how many artists you pay, from $35 a month (€29).
Nothing to type in
At Habitat, you enter your contracts, splits and advances in the tool. Labelmate spots your contracts and invoices in your mailbox, and its AI proposes their values and quotes the exact passage: all you do is approve.
AI that reads your contracts
We found no AI feature in Habitat's product. Labelmate's AI reads your contracts and invoices and quotes the passage, and a tested engine does all the maths, to the cent.
Point by point
With LabelmateYour data stays on your computers
With HabitatNoIn the cloud, with three hosts in the United States (Railway, Render, Amazon Web Services).
With LabelmateYesOn the label's computers, encrypted. Our servers only carry sealed copies we cannot read.
Reports spotted in your mailbox
With HabitatNoForwarded, uploaded or auto-imported from 200+ distributors, DSPs and stores, according to its site. Unmatched lines are flagged for review.
With LabelmateYesSpotted for you in your mailbox, or dropped in (CSV, Excel, ZIP). Your distributor's format is set up with you.
Contracts filled in for you
With HabitatNoEntered once in the tool: contracts, splits, advances, recoupable expenses.
With LabelmateYesThe AI reads the contract and quotes the passage: the artist, the rate, the advance, the signing date. All you do is approve.
AI that reads your documents
With HabitatNoNo AI feature described in the product. Its privacy policy mentions machine learning over your data, in some cases with third parties.
With LabelmateYesReads contracts and invoices and quotes the exact passage. The maths never goes through the AI.
Every figure tied to its report row
With HabitatYesBranded statements published to artist portals, with the line-item detail. The period is locked after the calculation.
With LabelmateYesOne PDF per artist, archived as PDF/A, every figure tied to the report row it came from. Once issued, they never change.
A public price that doesn't follow your sales
With HabitatNoIn dollars only: DIY $85 a month (up to $5,000 of royalties processed a month, 5 users), Indie $200 ($25,000, 15 users), Enterprise from $500.
With LabelmateYesBy the number of artists you pay, from $35 a month (€29). Free for the first 10 labels during early access.
App in English and French
With HabitatYesSite in 22 languages, French included.
With LabelmateYesApp and support in English and French.
No price per user
With HabitatNot statedUp to 5 users (DIY), 15 (Indie), unlimited (Enterprise). Roles: not found.
With LabelmateYesSeveral people, each on their own computer, synced and encrypted. No price per user.
An online space for your artists
With HabitatYesYes, on every plan, mobile-friendly.
With LabelmateComingComing. Meanwhile, each artist receives a PDF with every line in detail.
Artists paid from the tool
With HabitatYesYes: banking and tax details, invoices and payments, through Wise and PayPal.
With LabelmateNot statedLabelmate works out what is owed, to the cent. You pay from your bank, as you do today.
Sources
Everything this page says about the other software comes from the pages below, read on 22 September 2026. A price or a plan may have changed since: their site is the reference. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will fix it.
Getting started with Labelmate
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Apply for access
Tell us about your label: how many artists you pay, which distributor you use, where your reports arrive.
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Your format, set up with you
We teach Labelmate your distributor's report format, from your own files.
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Your next statements, together
We prepare your next statements with you and check every figure by hand.
Free for the first 10 labels, during early access.
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