Best AI Song Generators in 2026: Full Songs From a Prompt

Updated October 16, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Type a description – “upbeat country song about a road trip” – and these tools hand back a finished track with vocals, lyrics, and arrangement. On published features and pricing, Suno is the default for complete songs you can download and use commercially, AIVA and Soundraw cover the instrumental side, and Udio is one of the strongest-sounding generators – with one major catch. One rule runs through the whole category: on nearly every platform, free songs are for personal use only.

Suno

Suno is the category leader and the most complete package. Give it a prompt or your own lyrics and it generates full songs – vocals, instrumentation, structure – two versions at a time. The free plan includes 50 credits a day (roughly 10 songs) but no commercial rights. Pro is $10 a month, or $8 a month billed annually, with 2,500 credits a month, commercial rights on songs made while subscribed, and – since September 2026 – a cap of 20 song downloads a month. Premier is $30 a month ($24 annually) with 10,000 credits, 60 downloads a month, and access to Suno Studio, its multitrack editor with stem separation.

Best for: Songwriters, creators, and businesses that need finished songs with vocals and a clear commercial license.

Udio

Udio built its reputation on audio fidelity, particularly vocals, and its editing tools – extend, remix, inpainting – are genuinely useful. Pricing mirrors Suno: a free tier with 10 credits a day (capped at 100 a month and up to 3 full-length songs a day), Standard at $10 a month for 2,400 credits, and Pro at $30 a month for 6,000 credits. The catch is significant: following its Universal Music Group partnership, Udio disabled downloading of audio, video, and stems on every plan in October 2025, and downloads had not returned at the time of writing. Songs can be played and shared inside Udio, but you cannot export a file to release or use elsewhere.

Best for: Experimentation and drafting inside the app. Until downloads return, it is not a production tool for released music.

Mureka

Mureka (from Skywork AI) takes a structure-first approach: its MusiCoT system plans a song’s arrangement – intro, verse, chorus, bridge – before generating the audio, aiming for more coherent tracks. It accepts text prompts, your own lyrics, humming, or a reference track. A free tier covers personal use. The Basic Music & Speech plan is $8 a month billed annually for up to 400 songs a month with MP3 downloads and commercial licensing. Pro is $24 a month billed annually for 1,600 songs, WAV and stem downloads, reference-audio uploads, and voice cloning.

Best for: Creators starting from a melody or reference track who want stems and voice options.

AIVA

AIVA is the instrumental specialist on this list, composing in more than 250 preset styles – cinematic, orchestral, electronic, jazz – and exporting MIDI so you can keep editing a composition in your own software. It does not do sung vocals. Pricing is in euros, plus VAT. The free plan allows 3 downloads a month of tracks up to 3 minutes, non-commercial, with credit to AIVA. Standard is €11 a month billed annually (15 downloads a month, limited monetization on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram). Pro is €33 a month billed annually with 300 downloads a month, all formats including WAV, and – the important part – the copyright in your compositions transfers to you.

Best for: Film, game, and video scoring where you need editable, licensable instrumental music.

Soundraw

Soundraw generates royalty-free instrumental tracks for video and is built for non-musicians: pick a genre, mood, and length, then adjust tempo, energy, and instrumentation section by section. There are no vocals. You can try it free, and the Creator plan at $16.99 a month (cheaper on annual billing) includes unlimited MP3 downloads licensed for commercial use as background music. Artist plans, starting higher, add WAV and stem downloads and the right to distribute and monetize songs on streaming platforms. Its models are trained on in-house, licensed material – its main pitch to risk-averse brands.

Best for: YouTubers, podcasters, and marketers who need background tracks that fit a video’s exact length and mood.

Beatoven.ai

Beatoven.ai generates instrumental background music from text prompts and sells it by the minute rather than by the song. Creating tracks is free and unlimited, but downloads are what you pay for: subscription download plans start at $30 a year for 15 minutes of downloads a month, and pay-as-you-go minutes cost $3 per minute with no subscription. Downloads include a license and stems, and the company holds Fairly Trained certification – its training data is licensed and musicians compensated.

Best for: Video and podcast producers who need a modest amount of defensibly licensed background music each month.

Loudly

Loudly combines generation with the rest of the release pipeline. Its free plan allows limited generations (a few downloads, non-commercial); the Personal plan is $10 a month and Pro is $30 a month, both cheaper on annual billing. Paid plans add a commercial license, stem downloads, and sample-pack export to a DAW; Pro adds AI mastering and distribution of your tracks to streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. Instrumentals are its strength; its vocal model is newer and more limited than Suno’s.

Best for: Independent artists who want generation, mastering, and distribution under one subscription.

A note on rights

Commercial rights are plan-dependent everywhere: free tiers on Suno, Mureka, Loudly, and AIVA are personal-use only, and licenses generally cover songs created while your subscription is active. Labels spent the last two years suing, then settling with, AI music companies – and those deals are why terms keep changing: Suno’s download caps and Udio’s download freeze both came from label agreements. Read your plan’s current terms before releasing anything.

FAQ

Can I sell songs I make with an AI song generator?

Usually yes on a paid plan – Suno Pro and Premier, Mureka’s paid plans, AIVA Pro, and Loudly’s paid plans all include commercial rights, each with its own conditions. Free-plan songs are almost never cleared for commercial use.

Which AI song generator has the best vocals?

Suno and Udio are the two vocal specialists; Suno is the practical pick because its songs can be downloaded and released, while Udio’s cannot be exported.

Do I own the copyright to an AI-generated song?

It varies. AIVA Pro explicitly transfers copyright to you; other platforms grant a commercial license rather than ownership, and the legal status of fully AI-generated music is unsettled in many jurisdictions. Keep your prompts and plan records for anything you release.

What is the cheapest way to get commercial rights?

Mureka Basic and Suno Pro, both $8 a month billed annually, are the cheapest tiers with commercial licensing for full songs.

Bottom line

Start with Suno Pro if you want complete songs with vocals you can release. Choose AIVA or Soundraw for instrumental work, Beatoven.ai for minutes of background music, and Loudly if you want distribution bundled in. Treat Udio as a listening room for now – it sounds excellent, but a song you cannot download is a song you cannot use.