AIVA vs Loudly vs Suno vs Mureka
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
AIVA
AI composer for instrumental soundtracks, with copyright ownership on...
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Loudly
Berlin AI music generator with vocals, stems and a published-price API
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Suno
Full songs with vocals from a text prompt, now on label-licensed v6 mo...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free forever: 3 downloads/mo, tracks up to 3 min, MP3 and MIDI; non-commercial only, AIVA keeps copyright, credit to AIVA required | Free: limited generations, 30-second previews, 1 download a day, basic MP3, non-commercial use on one social channel | 50 credits a day on v6-mini, standard features, no commercial rights and no monthly downloads | 4 songs a day on the free v7.5 model. No downloads or commercial rights; free-tier output is licensed only for non-commercial use with credit to Mureka |
| Paid from | Standard €15/mo (€11 billed yearly); Pro €49/mo (€33 billed yearly); all + VAT | Personal $8/mo billed yearly ($10 month-to-month); Pro $24/mo yearly; API from $0.15/track | Pro $10/month or $96/year, Premier $30/month or $288/year | Pro $10/month, or $8/month billed yearly ($96) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 100M+ (2M paid subscribers) | ~10 million (self-reported) |
| Founded | 2016 | — | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | Independent (AIVA Technologies SARL) | Independent (Loudly GmbH) | — | Kunlun Tech (via Skywork AI Pte. Ltd., Singapore) |
| Verdict | AIVA is an approachable way to get original instrumental music quickly, and its MIDI export and editor make it useful to musicians as well as non-musicians. Read the licence carefully: only Pro transfers copyright and al... |
Loudly is a capable source of licensed music, with its own instrumental and vocal models and an API whose prices are now published and whose licence is perpetual with indemnity. Read the consumer licence carefully: right... |
Suno is still the easiest way to get a complete, produced song from a sentence, and v6 adds the editing control it lacked: rewrite a chorus or one line in plain language, pull stems, combine songs. The licensing deals wi... |
Mureka is a strong second-tier pick for AI songs: V9.5 sits third on Artificial Analysis's vocal board behind two Suno v6 models, Premier unlocks 12-stem, MIDI and DAW-session exports, and the pay-per-song API from $0.03... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.