Song Creator Pro is the Google Lyria alternative that runs on your own GPU, unwatermarked and unmetered

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

Pros

• Free tier with daily top-up credits and the full core features
• Conversational editing through Gemini rather than prompt and reroll
• Google does not claim ownership of what you generate
• Music videos and cover art produced alongside the track

Cons

• Every output is embedded with Google's SynthID watermark
• Generation is metered by credits, and commercial rights are not stated on the pricing page
• Third name in four years, so the product keeps moving under you
• Cloud-only and tied to a Google account

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

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

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

Pros

• Generates full songs with vocals from lyrics, entirely locally
• Outscored Suno v5 and v6 on the WildSongBench benchmark
• Editable scores and score-based covers, which no cloud tool offers
• Free, open weights with an active research community

Cons

• The official release targets Linux and wants roughly 24 GB of VRAM
• Official samples cover English and Mandarin vocals only
• Command-line research code with no polished interface
• No commercial support of any kind

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

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

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 MP3 downloads only 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