Deezer The European alternative to Apple Music / Amazon Music

Deezer is a French music streaming service from Deezer SA based in Paris, founded in 2007. The platform offers access to over 120 million songs, podcasts, audiobooks, and radio stations. Features include the personalized "Flow" mix, SongCatcher (music recognition), lyrics display, offline mode, and library import from competing services. Deezer was the first major streaming company in 2024 with an "Artist-Centric" compensation model, where AI-generated tracks and manipulation receive lower payouts.

Deezer SA is a French company and subject to EU law and the GDPR. User data is processed in EU data centers. The exact cloud provider is not publicly documented by Deezer. The technology stack includes Ubuntu, Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, and React, among others. Deezer is listed on Euronext Paris.

Deezer offers HiFi/lossless streaming (FLAC) in the standard Premium tier, while Spotify only offers this in higher-tier plans. The "Artist-Centric" model pays out disproportionately to human artists and reduces payments for AI-generated or manipulated streams. Deezer is a listed French EU company, while Spotify uses Google Cloud Platform as infrastructure (US provider). Functionally, Deezer offers SongCatcher for music recognition and a personalized Flow mix.