🆚 Spotify vs. Tidal

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Audio streaming service
Audio streaming service

About

Spotify is a digital music-streaming service that gives users access to a large online library of music tracks and podcasts.

It offers over 100 million songs and around 7 million podcast titles, supports cross-platform playback across mobile, desktop, and smart devices, allows offline downloads of up to 10,000 tracks on each of up to 5 devices for Premium users, and provides AI-powered personalized recommendations.

Tidal is a music streaming service focused on high-fidelity audio and artist-centric distribution.

It offers over 110 million tracks and hundreds of thousands of music videos, supports lossless FLAC streaming and high-resolution audio up to 24-bit/192 kHz, and provides formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio.

Headquarters

Stockholm, Sweden
Oslo, Norway

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Ads between tracks, no offline listening
Premium
Student$5.99/month
Individual$11.99/month
Duo$16.99/month
Family$19.99/month
Free version ❌Free 30-day trial
Student$5.49/month
Individual$10.99/month
Family
(up to 6 members)
$16.99/month
DJ Extension$9/month

Categories

Audio Streaming › Rank #1
Audio Streaming › Rank #22

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Spotify audio streaming service is 155 times more popular than Tidal.
Total websites

Market share

Audio Streaming

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Spotify is more popular than Tidal in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Brazil
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Spotify is more popular than Tidal in all market segments.
Entertainment
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
General News
Sports
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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