AI Music Generators
Short answer
The hard part is not which AI music generator sounds best. It is which one lets you keep what it makes: what each costs, and what its licence allows.
What does an AI music generator do?
You describe what you want — a mood, a genre, a length — and it writes and renders a piece of music. Some give you a finished stereo track. Others give you stems or MIDI you can take into a DAW and change.
That difference matters more than it sounds. A finished MP3 is something you use. MIDI and stems are something you work with. If you intend to produce around the result, a tool that only exports a flat mix has already decided how far you can go.
The three questions worth asking before you compare sounds:
- What do you get back? A mixed track, stems, or editable MIDI.
- What are you allowed to do with it? Personal use, social video, or full commercial release.
- What happens when you stop paying? With some tools the music you already made stays yours. With others, it doesn’t.
What you’re actually allowed to do with the music
This is where these tools differ most, and where their pricing pages are easiest to misread. The cheap tiers frequently do not let you use the music for anything that earns money — and in one case, do not let you own it at all.
AIVA keeps the copyright on its lower plans. On the free tier and on Standard, the pricing page states the copyright is owned by AIVA, monetization is limited or not allowed, and the free tier requires a credit. Only the Pro plan, at €33 per month, says the copyright is owned by you, with full monetization. If you are writing music to release, the cheaper plans are not a cheaper version of the same thing.
Mubert’s first paid plan is still non-commercial. The free Ambassador tier and the paid Creator tier at $11.69 per month are both described as personal and non-commercial, with no monetization, and access to your generated tracks ends if you leave. Pro, at $32.49 per month, is the first plan that allows monetized channels and ads — and work you published while subscribed can stay published.
Soundraw is the clearest of the three on cancellation. Every paid plan allows commercial use, the licence is described as worldwide and perpetual, you keep your royalties, and Soundraw states that anything you make while subscribed stays licensed for life even if you cancel later.
Songen says the output is yours outright — royalty-free, no attribution, no clearance — though it does not publish what the paid tier costs.
These come from each vendor’s own pricing page, checked in October 2026. Pricing pages summarise; the full licence terms are the contract, so read them before you build a release on any of it.
The generators we’ve covered
| AIVA | Soundraw | Mubert | Songen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | From €11/month | From €5.83/month | From $11.69/month | — |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription, billed yearly; copyright only on the top plan | Monthly subscription, billed yearly; the licence survives cancellation | Monthly subscription; commercial use only from the Pro plan up | Free tier with limits, plus an unlisted paid tier |
| Free plan | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | Composers who want editable MIDI they can own outright | Creators who want royalty-free tracks they can keep using after they stop paying | Content creators who need monetizable background music and will pay for the Pro tier | Producers who want royalty-free beats they own outright |
| Our review | Read it | Read it | Read it | Read it |
Prices checked October 2026.
AIVA and Soundraw price in euros, Mubert in US dollars, and the monthly figures shown are the annual-billing rates — all three charge more if you pay month to month.
Which one should you use?
- You want to own what you make and take it into a DAW. AIVA, on the Pro plan, which exports MIDI and gives you the copyright.
- You want royalty-free music for videos, and you want it to stay usable if you stop subscribing. Soundraw.
- You need monetizable background music for channels or ads. Mubert, on Pro — not Creator, which is paid but non-commercial.
- You want beats you own, and you want to try before paying. Songen’s free tier gives you loops and one export.
- You are only experimenting. Every one of them has a free tier. Just don’t publish anything from it: the free tiers are where the ownership and monetization restrictions bite hardest.
A note on what used to be here. This page began as a list of nine generators, and the field has moved. Riffusion became ProducerAI and was acquired by Google in February 2026; Google’s MusicFX closed in July 2026, with both folding into Google Flow Music, which we’re reviewing next. We now cover the tools we’ve actually tested rather than everything that exists.
