Beatoven.ai
Fairly Trained background music and sound effects, with an API
Overview
Beatoven.ai, from Bengaluru, generates instrumental background music and sound effects from text prompts with its own maestro models, trained on licensed tracks and listed by Fairly Trained. Downloads carry a licence for use in your own videos, podcasts and games, and an API serves music, effects, metadata tagging and search.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Unlimited generations on all models
- 30 minutes of downloads a month
- Advanced track editing
- Exclusive music licence
- Unlimited generations on all models
- 60 minutes of downloads a month
- Advanced track editing
- Exclusive music licence
- Download minutes for occasional use
- Unlimited generations while purchased credits are active
- maestro music generation
- maestro sound-effect generation
- Music Intelligence metadata tagging
- Natural-language music search
What you can produce with Beatoven.ai
- Instrumental background tracks generated from a text prompt by the maestro model
- Sound effects generated from a text prompt
- MP3 or WAV downloads with a perpetual licence for use in your own content
- Music and sound-effect generation inside your own product through the API
- Automatic metadata tagging of a music catalogue (genre, emotion, energy shifts)
- Natural-language search over a music library
Beatoven's case rests on clean training data: it is listed by Fairly Trained, says maestro learned from licensed tracks with musicians paid, and gives every download a perpetual licence for use under your own content. The output is mood-matched background scoring rather than songs, and the licence forbids streaming release, reselling and registering tracks.
The catch is opacity on price. The pricing page linked from its own menu is returning Not Found, so the last published plans ($10 to $20 a month, or $3 a download minute) cannot be confirmed as current, and the API is unpriced. A sensible pick for video and podcast beds where rights matter; ask for a quote before building on the API.
What we found
Beatoven.ai is a Bengaluru company, operated by Beatoven Private Limited, that generates background music and sound effects for video, podcasts, games and ads. Its own model, maestro, turns a text prompt into an instrumental track, and a second maestro model does the same for sound effects. Rolling Stone India dates the launch to February 2021, with Mansoor Rahimat Khan and Siddharth Bhardwaj as founders, and Entrepreneur India reported an INR 11 crore pre-Series A round led by Capital 2B in March 2024.
Provenance is the main reason to choose it. Beatoven appears on the certified-models page of Fairly Trained, the scheme set up by former Stability AI executive Ed Newton-Rex to certify models that do not use copyrighted work without a licence. Beatoven says maestro was trained on more than 3 million ethically sourced music and sound-effect tracks and that contributing musicians are paid. In December 2024 it announced a jointly built generator with Musical AI, a rights-attribution company, to be sold to Musical AI's enterprise clients as a white-label service.
The licence is narrower than the phrase royalty-free suggests. A download carries a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use the track synchronised with your own content; Beatoven keeps ownership, asks for a credit where practicable, and its FAQ bars releasing tracks on Spotify or Apple Music. Reselling and registering tracks are not allowed either.
Pricing is the weak spot. The pricing page linked from Beatoven's own menu returned Not Found on 14 October 2026. Its last archived version, from June 2026, listed a free trial for generating, Creator at $10 a month for 30 download minutes, Visionary at $20 for 60, yearly plans at $100 and $200, and extra minutes at $3 each. The developer API for music, effects, metadata tagging and search publishes no price. Read those figures as last published rather than current.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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