Your plan’s limit is measured against what we actually store, not against what left your machine. Because of how audio is stored, those two numbers are quite different.
WAV and AIFF become FLAC
Every WAV and AIFF is converted to FLAC when it arrives. FLAC is lossless: decoded, it is identical to the original, sample for sample, with the same bit depth and sample rate. Nothing is thrown away.
How much smaller depends on the material. Sparse one-shots and dry recordings compress most; dense, loud, mastered stems compress least. Across a typical library the saving is 30 to 60%, so 1 TB of WAV usually counts as somewhere between 400 and 700 GB.
You always get the original format back. A WAV you uploaded downloads, opens and exports as a WAV — the conversion is a storage detail, not something your DAW ever sees.
What is counted at full size
- Already-compressed audio — MP3, M4A, Ogg — is stored as it is and counted as it is. Re-encoding it would lose quality for a small saving.
- Project files, MIDI, images and anything else non-audio. They are small enough not to matter.
- Deleted files, for the 30 days they sit in Recently deleted. Emptying the bin frees the space immediately.
Where to see your number
Settings › Storage shows what you are using, what your plan allows, what the same library would have cost as WAV, and which folders are the largest. The plan limits themselves are on the pricing page.
If you go over
Nothing is deleted. Uploads stop until you are back under the limit, and everything already in the library stays readable, searchable and downloadable. You will get an email before you hit the ceiling, not after.
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