Rakuten Music
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Rakuten Music, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Rakuten Music's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | — | 20 hours per 30 days |
| Standard | $980 a month | All functions · no song limits · Every 30 days, tax included; unlimited listening |
| Student | $480 a month | Unlimited listening · maximum six-year eligibility · Every 30 days, tax included; ages 15–25 and Rakuten student membership |
| Bundle | Free | 10 or 5 hours playback per 30 days · some downloads/full playback unavailable · no Web full playback · No automatic billing; eligibility tied to Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten membership rank or specified cards |
| Light | ¥500 a month | 20 hours playback per 30 days · some songs limited to 30-second previews · Every 30 days, tax included |
| Rakuten Card/Mobile member | ¥780 a month | Unlimited listening · all functions · Every 30 days, tax included; eligible Rakuten members only |
| Annual Light | ¥5,000 a year | 20 hours playback per 30 days · some songs limited · Every 360 days, tax included; about ¥417 per month |
| Annual Standard | ¥9,300 a year | Unlimited listening · all functions · Every 360 days, tax included; about ¥775 per month |
The facts
Each one read from Rakuten Music's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Money
- Ad-free listening
- The service advertises music playback without advertising interruptions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Family plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
What it does
- AI availability limit
- The AI music agent is for paid plans and excludes Bundle-plan users; rollout began gradually on Android.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI feature
- Rakuten AI for Music lets paid subscribers search for artists, songs, albums and playlists with natural-language requests.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API scope
- Rakuten Web Services documents APIs for Ichiba, Books, Travel, Recipe, Kobo and GORA, and explicitly says no other Rakuten services are provided; Rakuten Music is not listed.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Background playback
- The app supports background playback while users do other tasks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Bundle eligibility
- Bundle access is provided to Rakuten Mobile Strongest Plan users, Diamond/Platinum/Gold members and Rakuten Black or Premium Card holders.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Bundle restrictions
- After the Bundle playback allowance is consumed, playback becomes 30-second previews and several functions are disabled.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Charts
- Charts and trend rankings are provided for discovering popular music.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Developer onboarding
- Rakuten Web Services requires registering an application to obtain an application ID and access key, with up to five apps per developer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The public app listings identify Rakuten Group as developer and provide no open-source licence; the consumer app is distributed as a proprietary service.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: casting integration
- A Google Play reviewer complained that Rakuten Music cannot be selected as a Google Home provider and has no cast function.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: missing tracks
- App Store reviewers repeatedly reported that notable songs and artists are absent despite the advertised large catalog, with cover or karaoke duplicates appearing instead.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: playback bugs
- App Store complaints describe offline playlists stopping, tracks becoming unavailable and repeat or skip controls failing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: recent outage reports
- DIGLE documented user reports of problems after a May 2026 update and quoted Rakuten's request for incident details.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: update requirement
- An App Store reviewer criticized forced updates while in offline mode and said shuffle often repeats tracks from the same album.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Lossless audio
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- App data disclosure
- Google Play says the app may share personal information, app activity and app-performance information with third parties.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- Rakuten Group states it was founded on February 7, 1997.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Rakuten Group lists its head office at Rakuten Crimson House, 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The operating legal entity is Rakuten Group, Inc. (楽天グループ株式会社).checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- Rakuten reports 29,419 consolidated employees and 9,989 non-consolidated employees as of December 31, 2025.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2016checked 28 Sep 2026
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