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Is this SoundCloud username free?
Check any SoundCloud username against the platform itself, asked from the beat.rip edge. Beat.rip says taken, likely free or exactly why it cannot tell.
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- characters
- 3–25
- how it is checked
- Edge
- best free answer
- Likely free
SoundCloud username rules
- Length
- 3 to 25 characters
- Characters
- Letters, digits, underscores and hyphens. Capitals are allowed, and Beat.rip lowercases every name before asking, so it checks the lowercase form.
Beat.rip checks these rules on your device before any request. A username that breaks them is marked invalid, never available, and no request is sent for it.
How Beat.rip checks SoundCloud
The beat.rip edge asks soundcloud.com directly, and nobody in between. Documented oEmbed: 200 with author_name and author_url for a user, 404 for none. Reserved path words that the profile URL answers 200 for have no author. The profile URL’s status is the fallback.
Requests are paced to at most 2 requests at a time, 200 ms apart, identify themselves as beat.rip, and each answer is cached for seconds to minutes, so a busy minute never hammers the platform.
Every result row links to https://soundcloud.com/name, with your name in place of “name”, so you can confirm by hand.
What each answer means on SoundCloud
- Taken
The platform’s own endpoint returned an account for the username.
- Likely free
No account at SoundCloud’s own endpoint. Likely free, but a name can still be reserved, suspended or held.
- Unknown
The platform refused, rate-limited or answered something unrecognised. The row says which and links to the profile.
- Invalid
The username breaks one of the rules above, so nothing was asked.
Questions about SoundCloud usernames
How long can a username be on SoundCloud?
Between 3 and 25 characters.
Which characters can a username use on SoundCloud?
Only letters, digits, underscores and hyphens. Capitals are allowed, and Beat.rip lowercases every name before asking, so it checks the lowercase form.
Can Beat.rip tell whether a username is free on SoundCloud?
It can say “likely free” when SoundCloud’s own endpoint has no such account. A name can still be reserved, suspended or held, so Beat.rip never calls it available.
Does checking a username on SoundCloud reserve it?
No. Beat.rip cannot sign up on your behalf; claim the username on SoundCloud itself. Availability changes by the minute.