How much does an EPK cost? (and why yours can be free)

A booker asks for an electronic press kit. The band searches for “how much does an EPK cost”, and the first page of results is a stack of plans. Some of them are for a single page. Some of them are for a whole website.

The short answer: the EPK is free. BandVolt’s free EPK maker publishes the page on every tier, Basic and Premium. No card is required to sign up. The address is https://your-band.bandvolt.com/epk. Premium, if the band later wants the rest of the workspace, is £9.99 a month for the whole band, or £89.99 a year. The press kit stays free either way.

See a live BandVolt EPK

A live example, published by the band Ketos, is ketos.bandvolt.com/epk. More are on the live EPK examples page.

The film above is the page being built in the band workspace. The longer setup, from a new account to the published link, is in how to make a free EPK. What a promoter reads once the page exists is in what to put in a band EPK.

A pipe band, a brass band, a marching band or a community band uses the same page. The address is the band’s name. BandVolt for ensembles is that workspace.

What an electronic press kit cost usually pays for

The electronic press kit cost is rarely one number, because the bills are for different jobs.

A one-off file. A designer, a publicist or a friend with a layout tool builds a PDF or a single designed page. The price is a quote, and there is no public list to check, so this post does not invent one. The file is finished on the day it is exported. The next show is another round of edits.

A hosted press page. A tool keeps the page online and gives you a link. On some other tools the page is on a free plan, and a paid plan adds a custom domain, video, events or more room for files. On others the page itself is the paid plan, sometimes after a trial. The figures sit on each company’s pricing page. They are not copied here.

A band website. Several pages, a store, a mailing list, tickets. That is a bigger product than the introduction a booker asked for.

A hosted press page is the same job as a BandVolt EPK. The address is your-band.bandvolt.com/epk. The difference is what sits on the free plan, and what starts a subscription.

The EPK cost on BandVolt

Building, publishing and sharing the page is free. The tiers are on the pricing page.

What it is	What it costs
Building and publishing the press page	Free
Signing up (no card needed)	Free
Your address, your-band.bandvolt.com/epk	Free
Writing your bio	Free
Someone opening the link (no account needed)	Free

Premium is there as an option if the band outgrows the free tier, at £9.99 a month or £89.99 a year, for the whole band, on the pricing page.

Copy Link puts the full address on the clipboard, including https://. Where to put that link is in your band EPK link.

Premium is the wider workspace: more storage, more workspace slots, unlimited song links, a public link for a whole album or EP, external collaborators, and content transfer to another band. It does not unlock the press kit, and moving up to it does not start a fee for the page.

The bio

The bio, the tagline and the elevator pitch are fields you type and save. That costs nothing.

Write with AI is on the same card. It drafts a bio, an elevator pitch and taglines from notes you supply. You pick a tone: Professional, Energetic or Casual. You edit the draft, then save it. The draft can be wrong, so read it before it goes on the page.

You can publish without the writer, and without a bio. The page needs a bio or at least one track. Tracks already in the library are enough to put the link live.

The page that goes out has featured tracks in a waveform player, so the audio is not uploaded a second time and not billed by a second host. Shows are gigs you mark Visible on EPK on the band calendar, up to ten upcoming. A rehearsal stays off when the flag is off. Photos, YouTube videos, press quotes, streaming and social links, and a booking email and phone can sit on it too. You can pick a theme and an accent colour, reorder or hide sections, and preview before the page is public. Total views, and views over the last 30 days, are on the EPK tab.

Photos in the gallery count towards the band’s storage. Basic includes 1 GB and Premium includes 50 GB, shared with songs, stems and files. There is no separate hosting invoice for the press page. Anyone with the link can open a published page, with no account.

Which other free plans include the music and the dates is in free EPK makers compared.

Where a paid plan starts

Features as listed on each company’s pricing page in November 2026. The prices are on those pages, and they are not repeated here.

EPK Builder hosts an EPK on the free plan: one featured song, up to 10 photos, up to five sections, social media integration and a contact form. The page gets an epkbuilder.com address. The free plan is not a time-limited trial. The pricing FAQ points to Pro for custom domains, video, events and analytics.

StageOS includes the press kit on the free plan, and no card is required. Uploaded images and documents on that plan are capped at 5 MB in total, across 25 files. Embeds from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud and Mixcloud are unlimited on the free plan and do not count towards that cap. A custom domain, a booking pipeline and a larger upload allowance are on the paid plans.

Tunepact includes the full EPK builder on every plan, with 3 AI images per EPK. Your own photo uploads have no limit. The paid plans are the wider marketing tools. The EPK builder stays on the free plan.

Bandzoogle opens with a 14-day trial. The EPK plan is a single hosted page: web hosting, custom design tools, music players, a tour calendar and a contact form, with up to 10 tracks and 25 photos. A custom domain on that plan is an add-on. Website plans include a custom domain, and they are the fit when the press kit should become a site, a store or a mailing list.

BandVolt hosts the page at your-band.bandvolt.com/epk. If the kit is a link a booker can open today, the BandVolt address is included.

Who can publish one

People aged 16 and 17 can use BandVolt, so older students in a school, college or community ensemble can have their own login. Anyone under 16 must not. The age requirement is the rule. Bands are private by default, and the press page exists only when you publish it.

Before you pay anyone for an EPK

Open the link yourself, on a phone, signed out.

• On BandVolt the page fee is nothing, and no card is required to publish it.
• The address is your-band.bandvolt.com/epk.
• The bio is yours to write. Write with AI can draft it, and you can skip the writer.
• The first track plays, the booking email is an inbox someone checks, and the address in the message is the one Copy Link gave you.

The free EPK maker is that page, on every tier.

Every EPK lives at your-band.bandvolt.com/epk, and custom domains are not offered.

When you are ready, sign up free and publish your press kit.