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Prices and features checked against each vendor on September 28, 2026.
Suno generates complete songs with vocals and lyrics from a text prompt, and its Premier tier adds Suno Studio for editing and stem separation. The free plan gives 50 credits a day on the free models with no commercial rights and a shared queue. Pro is $8 a month (or $6.40 a month billed annually) for 2,500 credits a month, commercial use, the best models, a priority queue and 20 song downloads a month; Premier is $24 a month (or $19.20 a month annually) for 10,000 credits, 60 song downloads a month, Suno Studio, uploads of up to 30 minutes of audio and 3 stem separation types.
The sticking points are rights and downloads. Free users get no commercial rights at all, so anything made on the free plan cannot be used in monetized videos or released. Paid plans include commercial use, but downloads are capped separately from credits: Pro allows 20 song downloads a month and Premier 60, so a subscriber can still have credits left and be unable to export more finished songs. Monthly credits do not roll over, and purchased top-up credits can only be used while a subscription is active. The pricing page also does not say how many songs a given number of credits produces, which makes cost per track hard to estimate.
The second concern is what you can do with the output. Suno makes full songs with vocals, which is not what a video editor, podcaster or app developer needs if they want an instrumental bed under speech with a clear license. Several of the tools below sell background music with explicit licensing terms, stems and distribution, and some are trained on licensed catalogs, which matters if your client or platform asks where the music came from.
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Best for: Creators who already pay for AI voice and want music, sound effects and dubbing from one credit pool.
ElevenLabs bundles its Eleven Music generator with text-to-speech, sound effects, voice cloning and dubbing, all metered in credits. The free plan gives 10,000 credits a month with no commercial license; Starter is $6 a month (or $5 a month on annual billing) for 30,000 credits and commercial licensing including music; Creator is $22 a month (or $18.33 a month annually) for 121,000 credits and professional voice cloning; Pro is $99 a month for 600,000 credits. ElevenLabs quotes Eleven Music at roughly 900 credits per minute of audio, so Starter yields around 33 minutes of music a month if you generate nothing else. It replaces Suno for people who need voice and music together rather than songs alone.
Best for: Video editors and app developers who need royalty-free background tracks of a set length, not songs to release.
Mubert generates instrumental tracks to a chosen duration, mood and genre, which suits videos, podcasts and apps better than a vocal song. The free Ambassador plan gives 25 tracks a month with 5 downloads for non-commercial use; Creator is $14 a month (or $11.69 a month annually) for 500 tracks a month, unlimited downloads, tracks up to 25 minutes and lossless export, still non-commercial; Pro is $39 a month (or $32.49 a month annually) and unlocks commercial use and monetization plus a full track editor; Business is $199 a month for agency licensing. Mubert states that its tracks cannot be published on streaming platforms or registered with Content ID, so it is not a release tool.
Best for: Composers and filmmakers who want to own the copyright to the output outright.
AIVA composes in classical, cinematic and other styles and lets you edit the result as MIDI. The free plan allows 3 downloads a month for non-commercial use with copyright held by AIVA; Standard is €11 a month billed annually (€132 a year) for 15 downloads a month with limited monetization on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram; Pro is €33 a month billed annually (€396 a year) for 300 downloads a month, full monetization, tracks up to 5 minutes 30 seconds and high-quality WAV files, and on Pro AIVA states the copyright is owned by you. That ownership clause is the main reason to choose it over Suno's per-plan commercial license.
Best for: YouTubers and streamers who want unlimited background music downloads, with an upgrade path to release on Spotify.
Soundraw generates instrumental tracks you can restructure section by section, and it publishes clear licensing per tier. The pricing page localizes currency; in Australian dollars it showed Creator at A$9.16 a month on annual billing for unlimited MP3 downloads with commercial use for videos, podcasts, apps and games, Artist Starter at A$16.58 a month for 10 downloads with distribution to streaming services, Artist Pro at A$19.92 a month for 20 downloads with WAV and stems, and Artist Unlimited at A$27.42 a month for unlimited downloads with stems. Unlike Suno, the base plan has no monthly download ceiling, and the Artist plans exist specifically for people who want to distribute and collect royalties.
Best for: Teams that need a licensed-data model, longer structured tracks and the option to self-host.
Stable Audio is Stability AI's music and sound generator, and the company states its Stable Audio 3.0 models are trained on fully licensed data and can create structured tracks up to six minutes long, with Medium and Small models available as open weights for self-hosting and an enterprise license that includes legal indemnification. The web app sells credit-based subscriptions; Stability's site lists tiers from Solo at $12 a month with 660 credits through Session at $30 and Producer at $90 up to Studio at $199 a month with 14,000 credits. The pricing table renders dynamically, so confirm current figures on stableaudio.com before buying.
Best for: Artists who want generation, stems, mastering and streaming distribution with 100 percent of royalties kept.
Loudly combines text-to-music, remixing, stem splitting, AI mastering and distribution to more than 50 platforms, and it states that its proprietary models are rights-cleared by design and that you keep 100 percent of your royalties. Its FAQ describes a free plan with a daily generation allowance and a 30-second limit on free tracks, plus Personal and Pro subscriptions on monthly or annual billing; distribution on monthly plans allows up to 20 releases a month and annual plans up to 200, and Pro permits use in digital advertising up to a media spend of $100,000. Plan prices are not printed in the FAQ, so check the vendor's pricing page.
Best for: Hobbyists who want to release AI songs to streaming services with the platform handling distribution.
Boomy is built around making songs and releasing them, with the company managing distribution. Its support center states that any active paid Creator or Pro membership gives full commercial rights to the songs you download, that Creator and Pro releases can include up to 25 songs each, and that you can release as many songs as your download limits allow. Membership prices are only shown in the app and the pricing page requires JavaScript, so check the vendor's pricing page for current costs. It is closer to Suno in spirit than the background-music tools, with distribution as the differentiator.
If you need music under video, podcasts or apps, Mubert or Soundraw will serve you better than Suno because they sell instrumental tracks with plain licensing and no monthly download ceiling on the base plans. Choose AIVA if owning the copyright matters, ElevenLabs if you already need voice and sound effects alongside music, Stable Audio if licensed training data or self-hosting is a requirement, and Loudly or Boomy if your goal is releasing tracks to streaming services and collecting royalties.
