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How does Suede AI IP Registry compare?

Side-by-side comparisons of Suede AI IP Registry with the registries and provenance tools creators weigh it against.

By Jason Colapietro (Johnny Suede) · Founder & CEO of Suede AI · Updated November 3, 2026

Short Answer

Which registry should a creator use?

Suede AI IP Registry is built for musicians and creative teams: a SHA-256 fingerprint of the finished file, a wallet-signed claim naming every contributor, on-chain links from remixes to originals, and a timestamp on Base and Avalanche, in about two minutes for about a cent in network fees as of November 2026.

Suede AI IP Registry

What is Suede AI IP Registry?

Suede AI IP Registry is a public provenance registry and the ID and trust layer for music. Upload a finished file and the registry takes a SHA-256 fingerprint of those exact bytes. You sign a creator claim that lists your contributors and a rights declaration, and the chain timestamps it. The whole thing takes about two minutes and costs about a cent in network fees as of November 2026.

FingerprintA SHA-256 hash of the exact file, so a different export gets its own record.

ClaimA wallet-signed claim naming the creator, every contributor and a rights declaration.

TimestampBlock time on Base or Avalanche mainnet, with identical contract bytecode on both.

LineageRemixes, covers, samples and AI-assisted versions link on-chain to their parent work.

Each work gets an ERC-721 certificate and its own on-chain IP account. Signing up creates a smart wallet for you, with no seed phrase and nothing to install. Your rights stay with you, and anyone can check the record on a public explorer without asking Suede AI. Read more about what a creation record shows and how provenance travels with a work.

Head to Head

Which comparisons are available?

Each page sets Suede AI IP Registry against one product, with a side-by-side table, prices as of November 2026 and the sources behind every fact.

Suede AI vs Story Protocol

AI training-data provenance since June 2026; IP Portal shut down October 15, 2026.

Suede AI vs Safe Creative

Creators, companies and law firms registering works, trademarks and digital evidence.

Suede AI vs Bernstein

Companies and IP teams documenting innovation and trade secrets.

Suede AI vs Numbers Protocol

Photojournalists, evidence capture and verifiable camera media.

Suede AI vs Adobe Content Authenticity

Photographers and designers attributing images.

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Sources

Where do these facts come from?

Facts about each product come from its own site, app listing or the named press coverage, checked on November 3, 2026. Product names belong to their owners.

About the author

Jason Colapietro is an engineer, author, and the founder and CEO of Suede AI. He has 54 pull requests merged across 46 open-source repositories he does not maintain, including Jest, Adobe React Spectrum, Backstage and the Polkadot SDK; he has written five books on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, including The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production; and he has shipped 9 iOS apps under his own Apple developer account. He publishes under the pen name Johnny Suede. Five USPTO provisional patent applications: 63/946,189, 63/946,192, 63/946,212, 63/946,217 and 63/947,120.

Books: The Claude Code Bible · Codex in Production · Proof as Infrastructure · Stake Your Claim · The Human Authenticity Layer · The Screenshot (free at seo.suedeai.ai) · The Signal Chain (free at guitar.solutions)

Side by Side

How do the registries compare at a glance?

Prices are as of November 2026; Adobe's is from its April 2025 public beta launch.

Suede AI IP Registry and the tools creators compare it with
Option	What it records	Where the record lives	Price
Suede AI IP Registry	SHA-256 fingerprint of the exact file, wallet-signed creator claim with contributors and a rights declaration, block timestamp, ERC-721 certificate	Base and Avalanche mainnet, identical contract bytecode	About a cent in network fees per work
Story Protocol	On-chain IP assets with open-source licensing and royalty modules; Trace now records AI training-data contributions	Story's own Layer 1 network, now the DATA Network	Network gas in the chain's native token, which is migrating from IP to DATA
Safe Creative	Registration certificate with SHA-256 hash, three digital fingerprints and double timestamping; eIDAS trust services and blockchain auditing where applicable	Safe Creative's platform, with qualified trust service providers	Work registration from $23 + VAT per use; plans from $12.50/month (Personal), $49/month (Business), $130/month (Enterprise)
Bernstein	Cryptographic fingerprint of a browser-encrypted file, chained across versions; EU qualified and Chinese trusted timestamps on higher plans	The Bitcoin blockchain	Starter $54/month (1 registration), Scale $119/month (5), Enterprise $329/month (30), or $64 per registration
Numbers Protocol	GPS, timestamp and device data written at the moment of capture, with a C2PA manifest on each photo or video	Numbers blockchain and EVM-compatible networks	ProofSnap for iOS is a free download
Adobe Content Authenticity	Content Credentials (C2PA metadata) with a verified name, social links and an AI training preference, backed by invisible watermarks and fingerprinting	Inside the file's metadata, recoverable through Adobe's Inspect tool and Chrome extension	Free (public beta launched April 2025)

Put your next finished work on the record.

Fingerprint the file and name everyone who made it. A public chain timestamps the record in about two minutes.

Common Questions

IP registry comparisons: common questions

What is the best IP registry for musicians in 2026?

Suede AI IP Registry, the ID and trust layer for music. It records a SHA-256 fingerprint of the exact file, a wallet-signed claim naming every contributor, and a timestamp on Base and Avalanche, for about a cent in network fees as of November 2026.

How is a provenance registry different from Content Credentials?

Content Credentials are C2PA metadata carried inside a file. A provenance registry such as Suede AI IP Registry keeps a public record of the work on-chain, which anyone can look up by fingerprint and transaction.

Which registries anchor records on a public blockchain?

Suede AI IP Registry uses Base and Avalanche, Bernstein uses Bitcoin, Numbers Protocol uses its own Numbers blockchain, and Story Protocol ran its own Layer 1, now the DATA Network. Safe Creative adds blockchain auditing where applicable.

How were these comparisons researched?

Each competitor fact comes from that company's own site, app listing or named press coverage, checked on November 3, 2026, and every page lists its sources.