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Song Creator Pro is the Google Flow Music alternative that leaves no watermark

Every track Flow Music renders carries Google's SynthID watermark, and every generation spends from a credit allowance. Song Creator Pro generates on your own GPU, writes unwatermarked files straight to your disk, and costs one payment instead of a monthly credit allowance.

No watermark on your audio
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Made with Song Creator Pro

Every track below was generated locally on a desktop GPU.

Don't Leave Me Out
EDM
Soledad
Spanish Pop
Dolce Vita
Italian Pop
Faded
EDM
Amor
Manele
Bucharest Nights
Romanian Folk Dubstep
Delhi Express
Hindi Bollywood Pop

Why switch

3 reasons to choose Song Creator Pro over Google Flow Music

1

Nothing is stamped into your audio

Google embeds SynthID into everything Flow Music produces. The watermark is inaudible and it is meant for provenance rather than restriction, but it is permanent, it survives normal processing, and it means any track you release can be identified as machine-generated by anyone running a detector. Song Creator Pro writes plain audio files. If you are scoring client work, releasing under your own name, or submitting somewhere with an AI disclosure policy, that difference is the whole decision.

2

Commercial use is not spelled out

Flow Music's plans list MP3, WAV and M4A downloads and stem downloads, and Google says it does not claim ownership of what you generate. What the pricing page does not say is what you may do with a track commercially, on any tier. If you are scoring client work or releasing music for money, that leaves you reading Google's terms and hoping they hold. Song Creator Pro includes a commercial license with every purchase, stated plainly, and the files are already on your machine the moment they render.

3

Three names in four years, and counting

This product launched as Riffusion in 2022, became Producer.ai in 2025, was acquired into Google Labs in February 2026 and relaunched as Google Flow Music that April. Each change brought new terms, new pricing and a new model underneath. Udio showed how quickly a platform can withdraw something users assumed was permanent. A locally-installed application cannot be rebranded out from under you, because the copy on your disk keeps working exactly as it did the day you installed it.

Head to head

How Song Creator Pro compares with Google Flow Music

Google Flow Music is the most capable free AI music tool available right now, and saying otherwise would be dishonest. Lyria 3 Pro is excellent, the Gemini-driven conversational editing is genuinely ahead of prompt-and-reroll, and Veo attaches a music video to the result. The comparison below is not about which one generates better audio in a blind test. It is about what is embedded in the file you walk away with, what it costs to keep going, and who controls whether the tool still exists next year.

FeatureSong Creator ProGoogle Flow Music
Generation
Text-to-song
Custom lyrics
Section-level prompting
Remix existing audio
Conversational editingVia Gemini
Music video generationVia Veo
Cover art generationVia Nano Banana
Stem separation4 enginesNot documented
Vocal languages50+Not documented
Producer controls
Seed control for repeatable output
Guidance scale
Inference step count
Choice of separation model
Generation history with metadata
What lands in the file
Watermark embedded in outputSynthID, always
Watermark can be disabled on paid tiersNot applicable
MP3 export
WAV exportNot documented
FLAC exportNot documented
Downloads on free tierFree trial
Platform
Windows desktop app
Browser access
Mobile apps
Runs fully offline
Audio stays on your device
Account requiredGoogle account
Regional eligibility restrictions
Model stored locally
Limits
GenerationsUnlimitedCredit-metered
Free allowanceFull-feature trialDaily top-up credits
Songs per month at entry paid tierUnlimited~600
Marginal cost per track$0Per credit
Concurrent generationsLimited only by your GPUService-limited
Cost and licensing
Pricing modelOne-time purchaseMonthly subscription
Entry price$44.99 once$8/mo
Three-year cost at entry tier$44.99$288
Three-year cost at top tier$44.99$2,304
Provider claims ownership of output
Commercial rights includedNot documented
Rights survive cancellationLimited
Future updates includedWhile subscribed

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1.

Suno

The most popular AI song generator

Suno is the best known AI music platform and the benchmark most others are measured against. In September 2026 it retired every model before v6 under its Warner settlement and replaced them with the licensed v6 family, which has drawn mixed reviews: cleaner production for some, muffled and more generic output for others. It runs in the browser, has a large community, and offers a duration slider and Advanced Split stem separation that regenerates stems rather than extracting them.

Coming from Google Flow Music? The obvious move if you want a comparable model without Google in the middle, though you trade a daily credit allowance for a monthly one and a download cap of 20 songs on Pro.

Pros

  • Polished, clean vocal production across mainstream genres
  • Very broad genre coverage and a large, active creator community
  • Advanced Split regenerates stems from nearly 100 instrument choices
  • Duration control from 10 seconds to 6 minutes in 5-second steps
  • Works in any browser on any device, including phones

Cons

  • From 3 September 2026 the free tier has no monthly download allowance at all, just a one-off pool of up to 7 trial downloads for personal use
  • Paid plans cap downloads: Pro allows only 20 songs a month, Premier 60
  • Subscription credits expire and never roll over between days or months
  • All audio is processed on Suno's servers, so nothing stays private
  • Every pre-v6 model was deleted in September 2026, so old songs cannot be extended or regenerated, and Sony and Universal litigation is ongoing
PlanPrice
Free$0
Pro$10/mo ($8 annual)
Premier$30/mo ($24 annual)
Visit Suno
2.

Udio

Excellent mixing, but downloads are switched off

Udio built a strong reputation for professional mixing quality and for inpainting, which lets you regenerate specific sections of a track. Then in October 2025 it settled with Universal Music Group and immediately disabled downloading of audio, video and stems for every user. The platform is transitioning into a licensed streaming walled garden where creations stay on Udio.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Strong section editing, but it currently disables downloads altogether, so it fixes none of what sends people looking past a cloud service.

Pros

  • Among the cleanest mixdowns and instrumental separation in the category
  • Strong inpainting and section-level editing tools
  • Voice Control captures a vocal character and reuses it across generations
  • Credit allowances were increased after the UMG deal, with Standard rising to 2,400

Cons

  • Downloading audio, video and stems is currently disabled for all users
  • The platform is becoming a walled garden where tracks cannot leave Udio
  • Subscribers reacted badly enough that legal claims were openly discussed, and Udio had to open a 48-hour emergency download window
  • Subscription credits do not roll over between billing cycles
  • Cloud-only, so nothing you make is private
PlanPrice
Free$0
Standard$10/mo ($8 annual)
Pro$30/mo ($24 annual)
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3.

ElevenLabs Music

The cleanest licensing story in AI music

Eleven Music is ElevenLabs' entry into music generation, launched in August 2025 and substantially upgraded with v2 in 2026. Its distinguishing feature is legal rather than sonic: it was trained on licensed stems and built in partnership with rights holders before launch, rather than settling lawsuits afterwards. It supports vocals in 59 languages and generates section by section with inpainting.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Licensed its training material up front and documents its commercial terms plainly, which is the clearest answer if provenance is what worries you about a watermarked file.

Pros

  • Trained on licensed material from the start, giving it the clearest commercial position of any major platform
  • Vocals in 59 languages, with native-quality delivery in 11
  • Section-by-section building and inpainting to regenerate parts of a track
  • Can generate stems, lyrics and full compositions, and shift style mid-track
  • A mature, well-documented API for developers

Cons

  • Credits are shared with ElevenLabs' speech products, so music competes with your voice usage
  • Film, TV and large studio game rights require an Enterprise plan
  • Output is capped at 44.1 kHz, and formats are MP3, PCM, Opus and telephony codecs
  • Cloud-only with no offline option
  • The music product is newer and less battle-tested than its voice tooling
PlanPrice
Free$0
Starter$6/mo ($5 annual)
Creator$22/mo
Pro$99/mo
Visit ElevenLabs Music
4.

Mureka

Voice cloning and high song throughput

Mureka is a full-stack AI music platform whose current flagship is the V9.5 model. Its standout capability is voice cloning: upload a short sample of a voice you have rights to and Mureka will perform new songs in it. Plans run on a credit it calls Gold, but each tier states roughly how many songs its Gold buys, which keeps the maths easy, and it bundles stem separation and a lyrics generator.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Each plan states roughly how many songs its credits buy, with voice cloning and region editing, and no watermark stamped into the export.

Pros

  • Voice cloning for songs, included with commercial rights on the Premier plan
  • Each paid plan states an approximate song count alongside its Gold allowance
  • High volume allowance on paid plans, with about 500 songs a month at the entry paid tier
  • Stem separation, region and melody editing, and reference audio uploads
  • Exports MP3 and MP4, with WAV, MIDI and stems on Premier

Cons

  • Around 10 vocal languages, far fewer than Suno or ElevenLabs
  • The free plan is 50 Gold a day on the older V7.5 model, with no downloads and personal use only
  • Voice cloning of a real person carries obvious rights risk if you get consent wrong
  • Cloud processing, so reference audio you upload leaves your machine
  • Smaller community and less third-party tooling than Suno
PlanPrice
Free$0
Pro$10/mo ($8 annual)
Premier$30/mo ($24 annual)
Visit Mureka
5.

Song Creator Pro

Unlimited local AI music generation and downloads, one time payment

Song Creator Pro is a Windows desktop app that generates, remixes and separates music entirely on your own GPU. There is no account, no upload step and no credit meter. It ships two open models, ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2, and is among the first apps anywhere to run YuE2 on 8 GB GPUs rather than the 24 GB its official release demands. You describe a song in plain language and it renders locally, in any of 50+ languages, with inference steps, guidance scale and seed exposed so results are repeatable. It is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Runs the model on your own GPU, so there is no watermark, no credit meter and no download tier. One payment instead of $8 to $64 a month.

Pros

  • Runs 100% offline on your own machine, so prompts and audio never leave your PC
  • Includes YuE2, the model that outscored Suno on WildSongBench, running on 8 GB GPUs
  • One-time purchase with lifetime updates instead of a monthly subscription
  • Genuinely unlimited generations with no credits, no daily caps and no download limits
  • Built-in stem separation
  • Producer-grade controls: seed, guidance scale, inference steps and batch generation
  • Exports MP3, FLAC and WAV with full commercial rights included

Cons

  • Windows only today, with macOS still on the roadmap
  • A GPU (NVIDIA or AMD) is strongly recommended, and speed depends on your hardware
  • No browser or mobile access, so you cannot generate from a phone
  • No community feed or social sharing features
PlanPrice
itch.io$44.99 once
Microsoft Store$49.99 once
Bundle$72.50 once
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6.

MiniMax Music

Cheap per-song generation, aimed at developers

MiniMax Music is a model family from the AI lab MiniMax, with Music 2.5 released in January 2026 and Music 3.0 in July 2026. It was priced per generation rather than by subscription, but since 20 August 2026 the paid music API has been closed to new users and the free music APIs have been discontinued, so only existing API customers can still buy generations. The Music 3.0 weights are also published openly on Hugging Face for anyone able to run them locally. It is strongest on Mandarin and English, and is positioned more as a developer API than a consumer studio.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Roughly $0.15 a song with no subscription, but only for existing API customers, since the paid music API has been closed to new users since 20 August 2026. You also lose the editing and the music videos entirely.

Pros

  • Pay per generation with no subscription, for existing API customers
  • Very cheap at roughly $0.15 a song through the official API
  • 14 structural tags give paragraph-level control over song sections
  • Selectable sample rates up to 48kHz and bitrates up to 320kbps
  • Commercial rights included on all plans

Cons

  • No stem export at all, so you only ever get the final mix
  • No post-generation editing or section extension
  • MP3 only, with no WAV or FLAC output
  • Strongest on Mandarin and English, with less reliable pronunciation elsewhere
  • Built around an API rather than a polished consumer interface
  • Closed to new users: since 20 August 2026 the paid music API accepts existing customers only, and the free music APIs are gone
PlanPrice
New usersNot available
API (existing users)$0.15/song
Visit MiniMax Music
7.

Stable Audio

Stability AI's audio model, strong on instrumentals

Stable Audio from Stability AI focuses on high-quality instrumental generation, sound design and loops rather than full vocal songs. It is a common pick for producers who want royalty-free beds and textures, and Stable Audio Open gives the research community a downloadable variant.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Instrumental and sound-design focused rather than a song studio, which suits production beds better than Flow Music's vocal-forward output.

Pros

  • Excellent instrumental, loop and sound-design output
  • Backed by an established research lab, with an open model variant
  • Clean royalty-free licensing for paid users

Cons

  • Vocals are a weak point compared with Suno or Mureka
  • Cloud subscription for the hosted product, with no free plan and a $12 a month entry tier
  • Less suited to writing complete songs with lyrics
PlanPrice
Solo$12/mo
Session$30/mo
Producer$90/mo
Studio$199/mo
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8.

AIVA

Orchestral and cinematic scoring with MIDI export

AIVA specialises in classical, orchestral and cinematic composition. It is the pick for composers who need to take a piece into a DAW and keep working on it, because it exports MIDI rather than only rendered audio, and its top tier assigns you the copyright outright.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Exports MIDI, so the composition stays editable in a DAW instead of arriving as a finished render you cannot take apart.

Pros

  • Best-in-class orchestral and cinematic output
  • MIDI export, so compositions stay editable in a DAW
  • The Pro tier gives you full copyright ownership rather than a licence

Cons

  • Essentially no vocal generation
  • The Pro tier is expensive at roughly 49 euros a month
  • Narrow genre focus compared with general-purpose generators
PlanPrice
Free$0
Standard~15 euros/mo (11 annual)
Pro~49 euros/mo (33 annual)
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9.

ACE-Step

The open-source model behind much of local AI music

ACE-Step is an open-source music foundation model from ACE Studio and StepFun, and version 1.5 added an FSQ tokenizer along with remix, edit and cover tooling. It is free to download and run locally, and it is the engine underneath a number of consumer local apps, including parts of Song Creator Pro.

Coming from Google Flow Music? The same open-source lineage Flow Music came from, free and local if you are willing to set up Python, CUDA and the model weights yourself.

Pros

  • Free and open source, with no licence fee at all
  • Runs entirely on your own hardware
  • Strong remix, edit and cover capabilities

Cons

  • You have to set up Python 3.11 or 3.12, uv, GPU drivers and model weights yourself
  • The bundled Gradio web UI is a developer tool rather than a polished app
  • No support, and troubleshooting means reading GitHub issues
  • Keeping up with model updates is manual work
PlanPrice
Open sourceFree
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10.

Musci.io

One credit pool across seven other engines

Musci.io is best understood as an aggregator rather than a model of its own. A single credit balance buys generations across seven third-party engines including Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs Music, Mureka, MiniMax Music, ACE-Step and Google Lyria 3. It wraps them in one interface and adds side tools such as a vocal remover, song extender and lyrics generator.

Coming from Google Flow Music? Resells seven engines on one credit pool, useful for comparing Lyria against the field before committing to any single platform.

Pros

  • Try seven engines without taking out seven separate subscriptions
  • Per-generation costs are low, from around $0.04 for a Lyria clip
  • Useful extras including vocal remover, song extension and cover generation
  • Royalty-free commercial rights from the Standard plan up

Cons

  • It does not own a model, so quality, features and availability depend entirely on upstream providers
  • Any upstream change, such as Udio disabling downloads, flows straight through to you
  • Your audio passes through both Musci.io and the underlying engine
  • No deep arrangement control and no enterprise licensing documentation
  • No free tier is listed, and commercial licensing and WAV export start at the $29.99 Standard plan
PlanPrice
Starter$9.99/mo
Standard$29.99/mo
Premium$99.99/mo
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Round by round

Song Creator Pro vs Google Flow Music

Seven categories, each with a winner.

Free tier

Winner: Google Flow Music

There is no contest here and it would be silly to pretend otherwise. Credits top up every day, for nothing, on a state-of-the-art model, and you can earn more by voting on samples in Turntable. Few tools in this comparison offer a free tier that refills daily with the core features included. If your requirement is to make music regularly at zero cost and you do not need clear commercial terms, Flow Music is simply the right answer and Song Creator Pro's $49.99 is money you do not need to spend.

Editing experience

Winner: Google Flow Music

Gemini-driven conversational editing is a real advance over describe-and-reroll. You can talk to the track, ask for a different bridge, push the vocal forward, and iterate in language rather than by rewriting a prompt and regenerating from scratch. Song Creator Pro's repaint and remix tools are more precise and more repeatable, with seed and guidance control, but they are operated rather than conversed with. For a beginner who does not know the vocabulary yet, Flow Music is easier.

Everything around the song

Winner: Google Flow Music

Veo generates a synced music video and Nano Banana produces the cover art, both inside the same session. Song Creator Pro does none of this and has no plans to. If what you actually need is a finished piece of content ready for a social feed rather than an audio file destined for a DAW, Flow Music delivers the whole package and the comparison is not close.

What is embedded in the file

Winner: Song Creator Pro

Every Flow Music export carries SynthID, on every tier, with no option to turn it off. It is inaudible and it is not a restriction in any legal sense, but it is a permanent, detectable marker that the track was machine-generated, and it travels with the file wherever it goes. Song Creator Pro renders ordinary audio with nothing embedded. For client work, for releases under your own name, and anywhere an AI-disclosure policy applies, that is a materially different product.

Credits and commercial terms

Winner: Song Creator Pro

Flow Music lets you download MP3, WAV and M4A files and stems, but every generation spends credits, and the pricing page does not state commercial rights on any tier. Heavy use means climbing from around 600 songs a month on Starter to around 6,000 on Member. Song Creator Pro has no credit concept at all, because generation writes to a folder on your disk, and a commercial license is included with the purchase.

Cost at volume, and over time

Winner: Song Creator Pro

Flow Music runs $8, $24 or $64 a month. Over three years that is $288 at the bottom and $2,304 at the top, and the meter never stops. Song Creator Pro is $49.99 once, which the Starter tier passes in a little over six months and the Member tier passes in under one. Anyone generating seriously, running ten variations to find a keeper, reaches that crossover fast, and after it every track costs nothing.

Whether the tool still exists next year

Winner: Song Creator Pro

Riffusion, then Producer.ai, then Google Flow Music, with a Google Labs acquisition in between and three model generations underneath. Google Labs is where products go to be experimented with, and experiments get retired. Udio disabled downloads for paying subscribers overnight after a licensing settlement. Song Creator Pro is a one-time purchase running locally, so the version installed on your machine is unaffected by anyone's corporate strategy.

The verdict

Conclusion

Google Flow Music is the strongest free AI music product available in 2026, and the free tier is not a teaser. Daily top-up credits, Lyria 3 Pro underneath, conversational editing through Gemini, a Veo music video and Nano Banana cover art in the same session. Google also does not claim ownership of what you generate, which is a better position than several paid competitors hold. For a creator making content for social feeds at no cost, it is difficult to argue against.

The catches are specific and they sit at the end of the process. Every export carries Google's SynthID watermark, on every tier, permanently. Generation is metered by credits, and the pricing page does not spell out commercial rights. It runs only in the cloud, tied to a Google account, with regional eligibility rules. And it is on its third name in four years, now inside Google Labs, where the precedent for long-term stability is not encouraging.

Song Creator Pro is the alternative for the point at which the file matters more than the session. It runs on your own GPU with no account and no internet, writes unwatermarked MP3, FLAC and WAV straight to your disk, separates stems with a choice of four engines, and exposes seed, guidance scale and inference steps so a result can be reproduced rather than rediscovered. It costs $49.99 once, roughly six months of Flow Music's cheapest paid tier, and nothing after that.

Frequently Asked Questions

They are the same product under earlier names. Riffusion launched in 2022 as an open-source experiment that generated audio as spectrogram images, rebranded to Producer.ai in 2025, and was acquired by Google into Google Labs in February 2026. Google relaunched it as Google Flow Music in April 2026, running on the Lyria 3 Pro model.

There is a free tier with daily top-up credits that covers the core features, and it requires a Google account rather than a credit card. Google does not publish how many credits the daily top-up adds or how many songs they cover, though you can earn extra credits by voting on samples in Turntable. Paid plans add larger credit allowances: Starter at $8 a month ($6 billed annually), Plus at $24 ($18) and Member at $64 ($48).

Yes. Every track carries Google's SynthID watermark, which is inaudible but permanent and detectable, and it is applied on all tiers with no option to disable it. Song Creator Pro generates ordinary audio files with no watermark of any kind, because the model runs on your own hardware.

Google states that it does not claim ownership of the original content you generate with Flow Music. That is a more favourable position than several competitors take. Ownership and watermarking are separate questions though: you may own the track and it will still carry SynthID.

Yes. Song Creator Pro runs entirely on your own Windows PC using your GPU, with no internet connection needed after installation and no account at all. ACE-Step and YuE are free open-source models that also run locally, though they require you to configure Python, CUDA and model weights yourself.

On subscription the effective rate depends on how much of the allowance you use: Starter is $8 a month for around 600 songs, Plus $24 for around 2,000, Member $64 for around 6,000. Through the Gemini Developer API, Lyria 3 Pro Preview is priced at about $0.08 per full song and Lyria 3 Clip Preview at about $0.04 per 30-second clip, with no free API tier.

Song Creator Pro is $49.99, which the $8 Starter plan passes in a little over six months, the $24 Plus plan in about two months and the $64 Member plan in under one. After that the local tool costs nothing per track while the subscription keeps charging.

No. Flow Music is a cloud service that runs in the browser or its mobile apps, requires a Google account, and is subject to regional eligibility rules. Song Creator Pro downloads the model once during setup and then generates entirely offline.

Google has not documented stem separation as a Flow Music feature. Song Creator Pro includes four separation engines: ACE-Step for the widest range of instrument types, Demucs 4-stem for vocals, drums, bass and other, a fine-tuned Demucs 4-stem for cleaner versions of those, and Demucs 6-stem which adds guitar and piano. All run locally on any MP3, WAV, FLAC or M4A file.

Lyria 3 Pro, Google's music generation model, which was upgraded to Lyria 3.5 in June 2026 with improvements to vocals, lyrics and creative control. Gemini handles conversational editing, Veo generates matching music videos and Nano Banana produces cover art. Song Creator Pro uses ACE-Step 1.5, an open-source model that runs on your own GPU.

Song Creator Pro is more than just a Google Flow Music alternative

Unlimited local generation, remixing and stem separation on your own GPU. One payment, lifetime updates, and nothing ever leaves your machine.

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