Choose Auphonic if
You need an API, multitrack handling, or a service you can call from an automated pipeline.
Auphonic alternative
An Auphonic alternative that works offline
Auphonic is hosted audio post-production with a long track record. This does the same core jobs — loudness, noise, silence — as a Windows application, on the machine the file is already on.
Credit where it is due
What Auphonic does better
Written by the people who make the other one, so read it with that in mind — but these are real, and if one of them is what you need, buy theirs.
- Its loudness work is thorough and standards-focused, and it has been trusted for that by broadcasters for years.
- It offers an API and integrations, so it can sit inside an automated publishing pipeline in a way a desktop application cannot.
- It runs anywhere with a browser, and handles multitrack material.
Side by side
The differences that actually decide it
| Auphonic | Sonic Refine | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the audio is processed | Their servers, after an upload | Your own computer |
| Does your file leave your machine? | Yes | No |
| Loudness to a LUFS target | Yes | Yes |
| API and integrations | Yes | No |
| Video tools | No | Compress, convert, smart reframe |
| Platform | Any browser | Windows 10 and 11 |
| How you pay | Metered in processing hours | A licence buys hours each month; nothing auto-renews |
Sonic Refine — Pro
75 hours a month for $19.00
Plus a free tier with 2 hours a month, no account. Nothing auto-renews.
Every plan and price — ours are listed in full, and the comparison table above is generated from them.
If you are automating, Auphonic is the better shape
A hosted service with an API can be wired into a publishing workflow that nobody has to sit in front of. That is a real advantage and this application does not have an answer to it.
If instead you open files, listen, adjust and export — which is what most people actually do — the upload is pure cost.
Where this one is different
The processing happens on your own processor: no upload, no queue, and nothing to think about when the material is under an agreement that forbids third-party services.
And the video sits in the same job — compress, convert and reframe next to the audio chain rather than in a second application.
Straight answer
Which one should you actually buy?
Choose Sonic Refine if
You work on files by hand on a Windows machine and would rather they never left it.
The free tier answers it faster than this page can
Install it, put a real recording through it, and judge the result against whatever you use now. No account, no licence key.