AI Song Maker: Top Tools Compared on Free Plans and Rights

Start with Suno if you just want to hear your idea as a song. Its free plan gives 50 credits a day, which Suno counts as about 10 songs, on its v6-mini model.

Free Suno songs cannot be downloaded and come with no commercial rights, so anything you plan to publish, monetize or use in an ad needs a paid plan. Suno Pro costs $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, and adds 20 downloads a month plus commercial use.

Prices are the rates listed on each tool's official pricing page on 12 and 13 October 2026. "Yearly" means the monthly price when you pay for 12 months upfront.

Several sites that rank for this search are web apps built on music models made by others. The aisongmaker.io menu, for example, lists ACE-Step, MusicGen and DiffRhythm generators. That is not a problem in itself, but the license you receive is the one from the site you pay, so read that site's commercial terms rather than the model maker's.

Free plans are built for trying ideas, not for publishing. Across the tools above, the same three limits keep appearing.

• Downloads. Suno's free plan lists "No monthly song downloads", and the free tiers of aisongmaker.io and aisong.io exclude downloads too.
• Commercial rights. None of the free plans checked here includes them. Suno's FAQ is direct about it: free plans don't include commercial rights, while Pro and Premier songs can be used commercially.
• Privacy and storage. aisongmaker.io lists private generation as a paid feature, and aisong.io keeps free songs for 7 days.

Timing matters as well. Suno's plan details describe commercial rights "for songs made while subscribed", and Mureka's FAQ lists "Can past creations made before upgrading be commercially used after upgrading?" as a common question.

Do not assume that upgrading later covers a song you made on a free plan. If a song is meant for commercial use, generate it while you are on the paid plan.

1. 1Decide where the song will go. Listening and sharing with friends works on a free plan. A monetized YouTube video, a paid ad, client work or a streaming release needs a plan with commercial rights.
2. 2Write a style prompt. Name the genre, tempo or energy, mood, lead instruments and the voice you want, for example "upbeat indie pop, 120 BPM, bright guitars, handclaps, warm female vocal".
3. 3Add lyrics, or let the tool draft them. Label the parts (Verse, Chorus, Bridge), keep the chorus short enough to repeat, and spell unusual names the way they sound if the singer gets them wrong.
4. 4Generate several takes. aisong.io returns two songs per generation, and Music Studio lets you request up to three variations at once. Choose the take with the strongest chorus, not the best intro.
5. 5Fix parts instead of starting over. Suno's paid plans add deeper editing, such as replacing or adding a section, and Eleven Music lets you edit the sound and lyrics of individual sections.
6. 6Download on a paid plan and keep a record. Note the plan you were on and the date you made the song. It is the simplest proof of your license if a platform or client asks.
7. 7Mix it for the job. Under narration, use an instrumental version or keep the song well below the voice.

A good prompt describes the sound, and good lyrics give the model a clear structure. These starting points cover common requests.

Usually yes, if three things line up.

1. 1Your plan grants commercial use. Suno Pro and Premier, ElevenLabs Starter and above, the paid plans of aisongmaker.io, aisong.io and Mureka, and FluxNote's paid plans all list commercial rights, with its pricing page specifying social posts, paid ads and client work.
2. 2The platform allows it. Spotify has not banned AI music. Its September 2025 policy allows vocal impersonation only when the impersonated artist has authorized it, introduces a filter that stops recommending spammy uploads, and backs an industry standard for showing AI involvement in song credits. Suno's FAQ also reminds users that they are responsible for each platform's terms.
3. 3You know what you own. A commercial license is permission to use the song. Copyright is a separate question: in January 2025 the US Copyright Office concluded that AI outputs can be protected only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements, and that prompts alone are not enough. Lyrics you write yourself, and creative edits or arrangements of the output, can be protected. A song generated from a one-line prompt may not be.

FluxNote is a video and content studio, not a free song maker. Its Music Studio is a paid feature: the app asks Free users to upgrade before generating, and the Free plan's 100 credits are for trying Image Studio. On a paid plan you choose a model for each track.

• ElevenLabs Music for vocals or instrumentals up to 5 minutes
• Suno, with engines up to v5.5, for full songs with vocals
• MiniMax Music, which writes lyrics for you when you leave them blank
• Google Lyria for 30-second instrumental clips
• Stable Audio for cinematic instrumentals and background beds

The app shows the credit cost before you generate, lets you request one to three variations, keeps every take in a history tab and lets you download the track. Credits come from the same monthly pool as video and images: 2,000 on Rise, which costs $20 a month or $10 a month billed yearly (see pricing).

If you only want songs, Suno Pro at $10 a month is cheaper and runs Suno's newer v6 models. Music Studio makes sense when the song is one part of a video you are producing, such as a jingle for a product ad or a soundtrack under a faceless video, because the track stays in the same workspace as the edit.

• A prompt cannot guarantee a specific melody, singer or arrangement, and each take comes out differently.
• Vocals can blur words, names and brand terms, so listen to every line before you publish.
• Length caps vary by model. Eleven Music runs from 3 seconds to 5 minutes per track, and Google Lyria in Music Studio makes 30-second clips.
• Imitating a real artist's voice is a fast way to get a song removed. Spotify allows vocal impersonation only when the artist has authorized it.
• Subscription credits do not roll over on Suno or on the plans behind Music Studio, so choose a plan that matches how often you will create.

Plan limits and prices come from each tool's own pages, read on 12 and 13 October 2026: Suno pricing, ElevenLabs pricing, the Eleven Music documentation, aisongmaker.io pricing, aisong.io pricing, Mureka plans and Music Studio plans.

Music plans change often, and some prices vary by region or appear only after sign-in, so confirm the current terms before you pay.