Unlimited License vs. Exclusive Rights: Which One Does Your Song Actually Need

In short: the Unlimited license ($99.95) lets you use the beat with no cap on streams or sales, stems included, but the beat keeps selling to other artists. Exclusive rights give you the beat just for you: it comes off the store for good and the price is agreed on WhatsApp. See beats available for exclusive rights →

"Unlimited" and "Exclusive" are the two most confused terms in beat licensing — the names practically ask to be mixed up. They're not close to the same thing, and picking the wrong one either wastes money or leaves your song under-protected. See every license tier side by side →

Unlimited: no cap, but not alone

An Unlimited license removes every ceiling a lower tier has — no cap on sales, no cap on monetized streams, and it usually adds the separated stems plus 100% of the master royalties staying with you. What it does not remove is exclusivity: the same instrumental can still be licensed to other artists, because you don't own it — you own an unlimited-use license to it.

For most artists, this is the right tier. You get every practical right you need to release, monetize, and scale a song with zero usage ceiling, at a fraction of what buying the beat outright would cost.

Exclusive: ownership, at ownership pricing

Exclusive rights pull the beat from sale entirely and hand you (functionally) full ownership — no one else can buy or use it again, ever. This is the tier that actually behaves like the beat is "yours" in the way people usually mean when they say that. It's priced accordingly, and it's negotiated directly rather than sold at a fixed price, because the producer is giving up all future income from that instrumental in one transaction.

When Unlimited is the right call

• You want the song out now and don't want to negotiate a custom deal first
• You're fine with the beat theoretically existing elsewhere, as long as your release has no usage ceiling
• Budget matters, and paying exclusive-rights pricing for a song you're not certain about yet doesn't make sense

When Exclusive is worth it

• The song is a planned single or the centerpiece of a project you're investing real budget into
• You specifically don't want the instrumental available to anyone else, at any point
• You're building a brand around a specific sound and want that instrumental fully off the market

The mistake to avoid

Buying Exclusive on a song you're not sure about yet is the most common overspend in beat licensing — you're paying ownership pricing for a track that might not even make the final cut of a project. The reverse mistake is rarer but costs more: releasing a song that takes off on a Basic license and blowing past its cap without upgrading, which risks the license itself. Match the tier to how certain you are about the song, not to how good the beat sounds on first listen.

Quick comparison

Every beat on Laruny that's available for exclusive rights is priced individually and negotiated directly over WhatsApp — see pricing and how that process works → Unlimited, when offered, is a fixed price you can check right on the beat's page. Browse the catalog and compare tiers on any beat →

Frequently asked questions

Can I start with Unlimited and move to Exclusive later?

Yes. When you want to upgrade to Exclusive, whatever you already paid is credited against the price. You never pay twice for the same beat.

When is Exclusive worth it?

When the song is going to be your main single, when you’re going to invest in promotion, or when you don’t want that beat to show up in another artist’s song.

Where can I see which beats are available for exclusive rights?

The exclusive beats page lists the ones that are still available. See exclusive beats →