Pex Search
Pex Search identifies music and rightsholders for licensing, compliance, and anti-piracy work.
What Pex Search is
Pex Search identifies music and rightsholders for licensing, compliance, and anti-piracy work. It can check full files against databases, public content, or user uploads and return results in real time through its SDK. The Vobile Music Registry includes more than 120 million recordings, among them Sony, Universal, and Warner catalog. Search can identify remixes, mashups, nightcore edits, short excerpts, and multi-track mixes. Melody matching can also find covers, live performances, and other uses of compositions that differ from original recordings. Brands can check social media posts during or after upload, or ask the Vobile Music Team for a custom audit. SDK bindings are listed for Python, Go, PHP, and Node.js. Production documentation lists Debian 11+, Ubuntu 20.04+, and Red Hat 8+; ARM-based Mac builds are for development and testing only. The API is in private testing and is not publicly available. Pex Search is paid, with pricing on request.
Good
- Registry includes more than 120 million recordings
- Identifies altered audio and multi-track mixes
- Melody matching finds covers and live performances
- SDK bindings include Python, Go, PHP, and Node.js
Watch out
- Search APIs are in private testing, not public
- Pricing is available on request
- ARM-based Mac builds are for development and testing only
Who it suits
It suits organizations that need to identify music and rightsholders in content for licensing, compliance, or anti-piracy workflows. Brands can use it to check social posts or request a custom audit.
Verdict
Pex Search covers both recording matches and composition uses, including altered audio. Teams should account for the API’s private-testing status and check that their deployment platform fits the documented options.
Plans and prices
From Pex Search's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Custom enterprise plan | Priced on request | Music Registry or private Custom Database search · SDK/API access · Contact Vobile/Pex for pricing |
| Pex Search | Priced on request | No public price listed; contact the Vobile Music Team |
The facts
Each one read from Pex Search's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Acquisition
- Vobile announced completion of its Pex acquisition on April 14, 2025, with the Pex team joining Vobile.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API availability
- The Search API documentation says the APIs are in private testing and are not yet publicly available.checked 4 Oct 2026
- API file limit
- The API documentation recommends keeping uploaded media files under 100 MB.checked 4 Oct 2026
- API surface
- The Search API exposes authentication, start-search and check-search endpoints and returns metadata, match segments, modification details and DSP URLs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Brand use
- Brands can search social media posts during or after upload to identify music use, or request a custom audit from the Vobile Music Team.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Composition matching
- Proprietary melody matching can find cover versions, live performances, and other uses of compositions that differ from original recordings.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Confidence-score limitation
- Returned confidence values range from 85 to 100 and are intended for QA prioritization rather than as an accuracy guarantee or fixed automation threshold.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Content classification
- A November 3, 2025 release added classification of file segments as music, speech or silence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Custom database ingestion
- The SDK can ingest fingerprints into a private database, with newly ingested assets generally becoming searchable after a few minutes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- DSP links
- Search results can include links to digital-service-provider pages to help rights teams investigate and submit takedown requests.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Pex’s About page says it announced $57 million in new funding in 2021.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The SDK has language bindings for Python, Go, PHP, and Node.js.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Limit: specialized workflow
- The AudD comparison says PEX has more configuration and surface area than a simple song-identification API because it targets rights-management workflows.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Live-stream searches
- Live streams can be fingerprinted in short segments, with results returned for each segment in real time.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Melody and composition matching
- Melody and phonetic searches identify cover versions, live performances and other recordings sharing an underlying composition or lyrics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Modification tolerance
- Documentation describes robust matching at 50–150% speed, often 50–200%, and pitch shifts from roughly −9 to +12 semitones, with support for one-second samples.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Modified audio
- Search can identify remixes, mashups, nightcore edits, short segments, and multi-track mixes.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Modified-audio matching
- The service matches remixes, mashups, nightcore edits, short excerpts and multitrack mixes, including altered pitch or speed.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Node requirement
- The Node.js binding requires Node 18 or later and native build dependencies because it uses C++ through node-addon-api.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Pex says it was founded in 2014 and acquired by Vobile in 2025.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the company’s legal name as Pexeso Inc. and founder as Rasty Turek.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Pex as a Los Angeles technology and media company founded in 2014 with 51–200 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2014checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Google Play app rating
- The separate PEX companion app for existing card-platform administrators and cardholders is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1.39K reviews.checked 15 Oct 2026
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