Google has finally launched Music Beta, a cloud service that stores your music and lets you stream it to any browser or Android-based device. It's invite-only for now, but the beta version is free. It's not without its limitations, but we think it's certainly become a viable competitor against Amazon's own recently released Cloud Player. Here, we present a chart that compares the two services.

table.geekbox th{background-color:E6ECEF'text-align:left'font-weight:bold'} table.geekbox tr.even{background-color:CCCCCC'} .ratingGood{color:093'} .ratingAverage{color:666'} .ratingBad{color:C00'} Music Beta Amazon Cloud Player Storage capacity 20,000 songs Anywhere from 5GB to 1TB (That works out to around 740 songs to 152,000 songs, assuming each song is around four-minutes long recorded at 255kbps) Cost Free and invitation-only for now. 5GB storage for free' $20/year for 20GB, and $1,000 a year for 1TB. Songs bought on Amazon don't count against the limit. Offline options Recently played songs are automatically cached for offline listening on Android devices. You can also manually select songs/albums for offline listening. But you can't download songs to a different computer. You can download the songs to a different computer/device without restrictions. Free music Google provides some free samples during initial setup None Store None Yes' songs cost $0.69 to $1.29 and albums are $7 on average. There are often $3.99 album deals as well. Mobile Android app' playable on iOS via the browser Android app' playable on iOS via the browser Requirements Google account. U.S. only for now. Amazon account. U.S. only for now. Other features Custom playlists that can be synced with the cloud, intelligent mix Amazon's Cloud service extends beyond just music. Sorting New & Recent, Songs, Artists, Albums, Genres, Time, Song Title, Plays, and Rating. Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, Time Edit song info Yes No