easyMix: Revenue, team and how it was built
easyMix (AI mixing and mastering of vocal and instrumental tracks for rap and pop artists, France): US$7.1K a month, August 2026. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: headcount not published; Ponicorn lists one maker, "alex str". Launched 2026; still running.Added 7 November 2026
- Outcome
- US$7.1K a month, August 2026
- Evidence
- D reported, not verified
- Launch
- 2026
- Status
- Still running
- Team
- headcount not published; Ponicorn lists one maker, "alex str"
- Outside funding
- None reported
- Group
- Voice and audio
- Main channel
- Creators and short videos
What is not verified
Every money figure on this page rests on one source: the directory Ponicorn, which reported on 28 August 2026 (entry updated 10 September 2026) a Stripe-verified MRR of US$7,097, 171 active subscriptions and US$26,571 in revenue since the start, and named its evidence as "Stripe dashboard, via a third party". The TrustMRR profile it links answered 404 Not found on 7 November 2026, so the payment-processor record could not be read here, and no later figure was found. The maker appears only as "alex str" on Ponicorn; the company's pages name no company, register number, person or launch date. A reader could look for a new payment-processor profile, a founder interview, or an entry in the French company register. The headline number is grade D: one claim or one estimate, with no second source. Aiolum shows it because the story is useful, and marks it so that it is not mistaken for a verified figure.
easyMix is a web app for mixing, the work of balancing and processing the separate recordings of a song (lead vocal, backing vocals, instrumental) so that they sound like one track, and mastering, the last processing step that sets the loudness and tone of the finished file for streaming services. The artist uploads the tracks and describes the result in words: a style such as melodic or drill, more or less autotune, which is pitch correction that pulls a voice to the nearest note, or less reverb. A few minutes later the mix can be downloaded, and a chat asks for a new version. The site is French first, with English pages, and aims at trap, drill, afro and other modern vocal styles.
All money figures come from one directory. Ponicorn listed easyMix with a Stripe-verified MRR (monthly recurring revenue: the subscription money a business takes in each month) of US$7,097 on 28 August 2026, with 171 active subscriptions and US$26,571 in revenue since the start. Ponicorn says the figure came from a Stripe dashboard through a third party and links to a TrustMRR profile, but that profile answered "Not found" on 7 November 2026. Ponicorn lists the business as founded in 2026 and its maker as "alex str"; no founder interview, company register entry, headcount or funding was found.
So the headline is grade D: reported by one source, not verified on this page. The product itself is live and sold through Stripe, and its pages state more than 30,000 users. The page also notes open questions about the site's trust signals and about a library of beats named after famous rappers, and shows four failed startups that sold to musicians or depended on music rights.
How much revenue does easyMix make?
Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.
| Fact | Value | Grade | How we know | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly recurring revenue, 28 August 2026 | US$7,097 | D | Ponicorn directory entry, updated 10 September 2026: "Stripe verified $7,097 MRR, 171 active subscriptions and $26,571 in all-time product revenue on August 28, 2026." Ponicorn names its evidence as "Stripe dashboard, via a third party". The linked TrustMRR profile returned 404 Not found on 7 November 2026. | [1, 11] |
| Run rate from the August 2026 figure | about US$85,164 a year | calc | Calculated: US$7,097 times 12. | [1] |
| Active subscriptions, 28 August 2026 | 171 | D | Ponicorn, same entry. | [1] |
| Revenue since the start, 28 August 2026 | US$26,571 | D | Ponicorn, same entry. | [1] |
| Average revenue per active subscription | about US$41.50 a month | calc | Calculated: US$7,097 divided by 171. Lifetime payments are one-time, so they are not in this average. | [1] |
| Revenue since the start compared with one month | about 3.7 months of the August MRR | calc | Calculated: US$26,571 divided by US$7,097. It fits a business that started to charge a few months before August 2026. | [1] |
| Founded | 2026 | D | Ponicorn's facts box. The earliest dated page on the site is the terms of use, "Dernière mise à jour : 6 mai 2026" (last updated 6 May 2026, translation). The only earlier Internet Archive copy, 25 December 2023, shows "Coming soon." | [1, 4, 10] |
| Time from the earliest dated page to the headline figure | 3 months | calc | Calculated: May 2026 to August 2026. The real launch date is not published. | [1, 4] |
| Team | headcount not published | D | Ponicorn lists one maker, "alex str", and leaves the team field empty. The terms and the privacy policy name only "easymix" with a support address, no company name, register number or person. | [1, 4, 5] |
| Users | more than 30,000, as the site states | C | Home page: "+30000 artistes font confiance à easymix pour leur son" (more than 30,000 artists trust easymix for their sound, translation), next to "4.9 / 5". The site gives no source for either number. | [2] |
| Plans | Pro and Artist, monthly or one-time lifetime | C | Pricing page. Artist gives five times the uses, WAV downloads, memory between sessions and priority support. The amounts load by script and could not be read. | [3] |
| Payments | Stripe | C | Terms: subscriptions "facturés d'avance, de façon récurrente et automatique via le prestataire de paiement Stripe" (billed in advance, automatically, through the payment provider Stripe, translation). | [4] |
| AI processing | Replicate | C | Privacy policy, list of technical providers: "Replicate (traitement IA audio)" (AI audio processing, translation). No model is named. | [5] |
| Affiliate program | 50% of the first paid month | C | Affiliate page: commission confirmed after 30 days, automatic payout from 50 euros, no application. | [7] |
| Country | France | C | The site is French first, prices are in euros, and the terms cite article L221-28 of the French Code de la consommation. No address is published. | [2, 4] |
| Outside funding | none reported | D | Ponicorn's funding field is empty. No other source mentions funding. | [1] |
How to read this table: a grade D value comes from one directory, Ponicorn, which copied it from a payment-processor profile that is now gone. A grade C value is what the company's own pages say. An X value was computed on this page from the rows above it. No value is grade A or B.
| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro, monthly | price not readable | base number of uses; MP3 downloads; library and session history | |
| Pro, lifetime | one-time, price not readable | same features as Pro monthly | |
| Artist, monthly | price not readable | 5 times the uses of Pro; MP3 and WAV; memory between sessions; priority support | |
| Artist, lifetime | one-time, price not readable | same features as Artist monthly |
The pricing page shows two plans, Pro and Artist, each as a monthly subscription or a one-time payment for lifetime access, and shows "— /mois" where the price should be when the page is read without its script. Payment is through Stripe. The terms say that a user who starts using the service gives up the 14-day right of withdrawal and gets no refund except for a serious technical fault or a double charge. Ponicorn's figures give an average of about US$41.50 a month per active subscription (calculated: US$7,097 divided by 171), which is not a list price.
When did easyMix launch, and how did it grow?
From a "Coming soon" page in 2023 to a paid app with 171 subscriptions in August 2026. Each entry carries its grade.
- 25 December 2023CThe only early Internet Archive copy of easymix.io shows a placeholder: "Coming soon." [10]
- 6 May 2026CDate of the current terms of use: a paid web service for AI mixing and mastering, with subscriptions through Stripe. [4]
- 9 August 2026CDate of the current privacy policy, which lists Supabase, Stripe, Replicate, Brevo and analytics providers. [5]
- 25 August 2026CThe site map dates the first French blog articles, on topics such as the cost of a studio mix and how to mix a rap vocal. [9]
- 28 August 2026DPonicorn reports a Stripe-verified MRR of US$7,097, 171 active subscriptions and US$26,571 in revenue since the start. [1]
- 7 November 2026CThe site is live in French and English. The TrustMRR profile that Ponicorn links answers 404 Not found. [2, 11]
Why did easyMix work?
Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.
A studio step sold as a subscription
The pricing page compares easyMix with a studio that charges about 120 to 250 euros per track, often with mastering extra, and says one month of easyMix costs less than one session. The price does not depend on the number of tracks, the style or the number of versions, only on the plan's number of uses.
Describe the sound instead of operating the tools
The user does not set equalizers or compressors. The three steps on the home page are: add the tracks, describe what you want (style, autotune, reverb), download the mix. The terms describe "un interface conversationnel" (a conversational interface, translation) for refining the result, and the Artist plan keeps a memory between sessions.
One audience, one language
The site is written for young French-speaking artists who record at home: the FAQ names trap, drill, afro, jersey, rage and autotuned rap, and compares the service with BandLab and with free presets. The blog answers French search questions such as the cost of a mix.
Short videos and referrals
Ponicorn lists TikTok as the main growth channel and Instagram as a second one. The home page embeds a TikTok post by an artist and YouTube videos under "Ils parlent de nous" (they talk about us), the privacy policy lists TikTok advertising measurement, and an affiliate program pays half of a referred user's first month.
How it was built
No founder has described the build. These details come from the company's own pages (grade C) and from the site's public code. [6, 5, 7, 9]
- A browser app: "Do I need to install software? No. Everything runs right in your browser." The pages are in French and English.
- The AI audio processing runs on Replicate, a service that hosts machine-learning models and charges per use, according to the privacy policy. The model is not named.
- Supabase hosts the database and the data; Stripe takes the payments; Brevo sends the emails (privacy policy).
- Google Analytics 4, a Microsoft analytics service and TikTok advertising measurement track visits and ads (privacy policy).
- A built-in affiliate area creates a referral link at once and pays automatically from 50 euros.
- A French blog and a page per use (AI mixing, vocal mixing, AI mastering, online autotune) are listed in the site map.
Tools named in the sources
Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.
Who tried this before easyMix, and why did they fail?
Four companies in our database of failed startups sold tools or services to musicians, or depended on music rights, and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.
Earbits
The promiseRadio for independent artists, who paid to promote their songs to new listeners.
Why it diedPayments from artists did not grow into a stable revenue stream, and Spotify's recommendations took over discovery of new music.
Magic Instruments
The promiseA digital guitar with buttons and lights that let beginners play songs without learning chords.
Why it diedHardware was costly to make, too few beginners wanted it, and learning apps did the job without new hardware.
BeatDeck
The promiseAudience analytics for musicians and record labels across social and streaming platforms.
Why it diedMusicians are cost-sensitive buyers, and the streaming platforms gave artists their own free analytics.
Mixwit
The promiseDigital mixtapes that users made and shared, with the look of a cassette.
Why it diedIt used music it did not license. Rights holders sent cease-and-desist letters, and the service closed.
The failed startups come from our database of 1,749 dead startups, retold here in our own words. Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.
What changed
Three of the four sold to musicians, who have little money, and lost to something cheaper or free: streaming recommendations, learning apps, the platforms' own analytics. The fourth, Mixwit, built on music it had no license for and was closed by rights holders. Both risks are present here: easyMix sells to young artists on small budgets, and its home page shows a library of beats named after famous rappers.
What is different is the cost of the work. A human mix is hours of an engineer's time; easyMix sends the tracks to models hosted on Replicate and returns a mix in minutes, so it can charge a monthly price below one studio session and still earn money on each user. It also sells to the artists' own wish to release music, not to their fans, and it reaches them where they already are, in short videos on TikTok and Instagram.
Can one person copy easyMix now?
Yes, for one music scene at a time.
The parts are open: hosted audio models, a payment processor and a web app. What made it work, as far as the pages show, is a narrow audience (French rap and drill artists who record at home), their own words on every page, and a price set against a studio session they already know. The hard parts are the sound quality, which decides whether artists stay, and staying clear of music-rights problems.
Where it is still open: The same step for other scenes and languages (Spanish and Portuguese rap, afrobeats, Arabic pop), and the steps around it: vocal tuning for live shows, stem preparation for producers, and release-ready files for podcasts.
- 1Pick one scene and language where artists pay studios for a step that software can do, and write every page in their words.
- 2Let the user describe the sound in plain language and refine it in a chat, instead of showing engineering controls.
- 3Charge a monthly plan priced below one studio session, plus a one-time option for users who refuse subscriptions.
- 4Reach artists through short before-and-after videos and an affiliate program that pays artists who refer other artists.
What could go wrong for easyMix?
The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.
What is not verified
Every money figure on this page rests on one source: the directory Ponicorn, which reported on 28 August 2026 (entry updated 10 September 2026) a Stripe-verified MRR of US$7,097, 171 active subscriptions and US$26,571 in revenue since the start, and named its evidence as "Stripe dashboard, via a third party". The TrustMRR profile it links answered 404 Not found on 7 November 2026, so the payment-processor record could not be read here, and no later figure was found. The maker appears only as "alex str" on Ponicorn; the company's pages name no company, register number, person or launch date. A reader could look for a new payment-processor profile, a founder interview, or an entry in the French company register.
Beat library and music rights
The home page shows a "Bibliothèque de prods" (beat library) with the labels "Free for non-profit" and "Easymix mixe ta voix dessus" (easymix mixes your voice on it, translation). Its beats carry the names of independent producers and of famous artists as style references, for example "Villa, Ninho × Niska" and "Benzema, PLK × SDM". The site does not say what license it has for these beats, or whether a song made on one may be released on streaming services, which the plans present as the goal ("Sons prêts pour les plateformes"). The terms forbid users to upload copyrighted files without permission.
Trust signals on the site
The home page shows about 20 short quotes with first names and social handles, repeated in a carousel, plus a review page that says the reviews are copied as written; this page could not link them to real accounts. The site states more than 30,000 users and a rating of 4.9 out of 5 without a source, against 171 paid subscriptions in Ponicorn's August figure (free accounts may explain the gap). The terms and privacy policy identify the publisher only as "easymix" with an email address. Users who start a mix give up the 14-day withdrawal right, which French law allows for digital content.
Competition
AI mixing and mastering has many sellers, from BandLab (named in easyMix's own FAQ) to SoundBoost.ai, an AI mastering story on this site with grade A revenue of US$218K in 12 months by October 2026, so easyMix's defense is its French rap audience and its focus on vocals rather than its technology.
Dependence on a model host
The privacy policy names Replicate as the provider of AI audio processing, and the FAQ says the service is paid because "audio processing runs on AI models and expensive infrastructure". Price changes or model changes at Replicate, or at the makers of the hosted models, would change the cost and the sound of every mix. No model is named, so this page cannot say whether easyMix trained anything of its own.
Sources
The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.
- D Ponicorn directory entry: easyMix, $7.1k MRR, verified August 2026, updated 10 September 2026Read in full on 7 November 2026. A directory that copies figures from a payment-processor profile; source for the MRR, subscriptions, all-time revenue, founding year, maker name and growth channels.
- C easyMix home page (French), read 7 November 2026Read in full. Source for the three-step workflow, the user count and rating, the quotes, the TikTok and YouTube embeds and the beat library.
- C easyMix pricing page: Les tarifs Easymix, read 7 November 2026Read in full. Plan names and features; the amounts load by script from /api/, which robots.txt disallows, so they were not read.
- C easyMix terms of use: Conditions générales d'utilisation, last updated 6 May 2026Read in full. Source for the service description, Stripe billing, the refund rules, the publisher identity and the content rules.
- C easyMix privacy policy: Politique de confidentialité, last updated 9 August 2026Read the sections on providers and transfers. Source for Supabase, Stripe, Replicate, Brevo and the analytics providers.
- C easyMix FAQ (English), read 7 November 2026Read in full. Source for the styles, the browser-only app, the BandLab comparison and the reason for charging.
- C easyMix partner program (English), read 7 November 2026Read in full. Source for the affiliate commission and payout rules.
- C easyMix reviews page: Avis easymix, read 7 November 2026Read in full. The company's own selection of user reviews.
- C easyMix site map, read 7 November 2026Read in full. Source for the page list and the dates of the blog articles.
- C Internet Archive copy of easymix.io, 25 December 2023Read in full. The only capture before 2026; a "Coming soon" page.
- D TrustMRR profile linked by Ponicorn: easymixCould not open: the markdown profile returned 404 Not found on 7 November 2026; the figures are cited from Ponicorn's copy.
- C Database of failed startups, local exportLocal export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.
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