Song Creator Pro is the Soundraw alternative that makes actual songs and never bills you again
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Every track below was generated locally on a desktop GPU.
Why switch
3 reasons to choose Song Creator Pro over Soundraw
Soundraw has never made vocals, and still does not
This is the single most common reason people go looking for a Soundraw alternative. Soundraw is an instrumental engine by design. You pick genre, mood, length and energy, and it returns a bed. There is no lyric field, no vocal line, no singer. That is fine if you only ever need something under a voiceover, and useless the moment a client asks for a hook. Song Creator Pro generates complete songs with synchronised vocals from lyrics you write, in more than 50 languages, and has an instrumental-only mode when you want the bed instead.
The plan that is affordable is the plan that cannot do much
Soundraw's Creator plan, around $11.04 a month, gives you unlimited downloads, but MP3 only, and it is not the tier for selling standalone music on Spotify or Apple Music. WAV and stems start at Artist Pro, around $23.39 a month, and that tier still caps you at 20 downloads. Artist Starter, around $19.49, allows 10 downloads a month and no stems. Unlimited WAV and stem downloads mean Artist Unlimited at around $32.50 a month. Song Creator Pro exports MP3, WAV and FLAC from day one, with stem separation built in, for a single $49.99 payment.
Some of your published work does depend on staying subscribed
Soundraw is better than most here and deserves credit: tracks you downloaded while subscribed stay licensed after you cancel. But the licence carves out exceptions, and they hit exactly the people most likely to hit the paywall. Unmodified tracks used for lo-fi channels, meditation content and music channels have to come down when the subscription lapses, registering anything with Content ID is prohibited, and unmodified beats cannot go to streaming services at all. Song Creator Pro's commercial licence comes with the purchase and does not expire, because there is nothing to cancel.
Head to head
How Song Creator Pro compares with Soundraw
Soundraw is good at a specific job and honest about what it is. If you are a video editor who needs a bed that hits the right energy at the right second, its sliders beat prompt engineering. The comparison below is about what happens when the job changes: when you need a vocal, when you need stems, when the client wants the track on streaming, or when the monthly bill stops making sense against how often you actually use it.
| Feature | Song Creator Pro | Soundraw |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | ||
| Instrumental beds | ||
| Songs with vocals | ||
| Custom lyrics | ||
| Text prompt input | ||
| Genre, mood and energy sliders | Limited | |
| Length fitted to a video | Limited | |
| Section-level energy editing | ||
| Remix from your own audio | ||
| Stem separation of existing tracks | ||
| Vocal languages | 50+ | None |
| Maximum track length | Model dependent | About 5 minutes |
| Producer controls | ||
| Seed control for repeatable output | ||
| Guidance scale | ||
| Inference step count | ||
| Batch generation | Limited | |
| Choice of separation model | 4 models | |
| Generation history with metadata | Limited | |
| Stems of generated tracks | Artist Pro and above | |
| Output and platform | ||
| MP3 export | ||
| WAV export | Artist Pro and above | |
| FLAC export | ||
| Windows desktop app | ||
| Browser access | ||
| API access | Enterprise only | |
| Limits | ||
| Generations | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Downloads | Unlimited | 10 or 20 a month on Artist tiers |
| Marginal cost per track | $0 | Subscription dependent |
| Free tier you can download from | Full-feature trial | |
| Works without an internet connection | ||
| Rights and publishing | ||
| Release an unmodified track to Spotify | ||
| Register with YouTube Content ID | ||
| Lo-fi and meditation channels after cancelling | ||
| Licence survives cancellation | Nothing to cancel | Mostly, with exceptions |
| Training data provenance stated | Limited | |
| Sell finished tracks on stock platforms | ||
| Privacy and control | ||
| Runs fully offline | ||
| Audio stays on your device | ||
| Account required | ||
| Model stored locally | ||
| Keeps working if the company shuts down | ||
| Cost and licensing | ||
| Pricing model | One-time purchase | Subscription |
| Entry price | $44.99 once | About $11.04/mo |
| Cheapest tier with WAV and stems | $44.99 once | Artist Pro, about $23.39/mo |
| Three-year cost at the WAV tier | $44.99 | About $842 at Artist Pro |
| Per-track cost after purchase | $0 | Capped downloads on Artist tiers |
| Commercial rights included | Paid plans only | |
| Future updates included | While subscribed |
The full list
Top 10 Soundraw alternatives of 2026
Every tool below was checked against its current pricing and terms in August 2026. Prices and limits in this category change often, so verify before you commit.
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 Soundraw? The closest thing to the opposite of a Soundraw subscription: you buy the generator once and run it locally, with vocals, stems and every export format included. The trade is real, though. It is Windows only, it wants an NVIDIA or AMD GPU, and it has no timeline scrubber to match music to a cut the way Soundraw does.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| itch.io | $44.99 once |
| Microsoft Store | $49.99 once |
| Bundle | $72.50 once |
Mubert
Royalty-free background music built from human-made samples
Mubert generates royalty-free functional music, the kind that sits behind videos, podcasts, apps and streams, by assembling tracks from a large library of samples contributed by human musicians who get paid when their loops are used. That gives it a cleaner provenance story than models trained by scraping, and it is why Mubert has avoided the lawsuits that reshaped Suno and Udio. You generate by prompt, mood, genre or activity, with tracks up to 25 minutes long, and a developer API serves the same engine to apps and games. As of September 2026 plans run from a free Ambassador tier to a $199 a month Business tier. The catch is scope: it makes background beds, not songs with vocals, and no plan allows publishing to Spotify or other streaming services.
Coming from Soundraw? The most direct like-for-like swap if you only ever wanted royalty-free beds. It is also instrumental only, but tracks run up to 25 minutes against Soundraw's five, and its samples come from paid human musicians. Check the restrictions first: no Mubert plan lets you publish to Spotify either, and commercial use starts at $39 a month.
Pros
- Built from licensed human-made samples, so its rights story is unusually clean
- Tracks up to 25 minutes long, well suited to podcasts, streams and ambient beds
- Unlimited lossless and MP3 downloads on every paid plan
- A mature API for generating music inside apps, games and products
- Stem editing on all tiers, with a full track editor for structure, BPM and key on Pro and Business
Cons
- No vocal generation, so it cannot write an actual song with lyrics
- No plan permits releasing tracks to Spotify, Apple Music or any streaming platform, or registering them with Content ID
- Commercial use for monetized content starts at Pro, $39 a month, which adds up fast against a one-time purchase
- The free and Creator tiers are non-commercial only, with the free tier requiring attribution
- Cloud-only, and payments are non-refundable on every tier
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Ambassador | $0 |
| Creator | $14/mo ($11.69 annual) |
| Pro | $39/mo ($32.49 annual) |
| Business | $199/mo ($149.29 annual) |
Beatoven.ai
Mood-driven background music for content
Beatoven.ai composes royalty-free background music built around mood and scene changes, aimed at podcasters, YouTubers and marketers who need a bed that follows the emotional arc of their content rather than a standalone song.
Coming from Soundraw? Worth a look if the Soundraw bill was the problem and you only need background music. It maps mood and scene changes to a timeline much as Soundraw does, starts at $10 a month for 30 minutes of downloads with commercial rights, and undercuts Soundraw's Artist tiers. No vocals, and the output is functional rather than memorable.
Pros
- Affordable entry pricing with commercial rights
- Scene and mood editing that maps music to a timeline
- Simple enough for non-musicians
Cons
- No vocal generation
- Output is functional background music rather than finished songs
- Higher tiers get expensive quickly
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Creator | $10/mo ($100/yr) |
| Visionary | $20/mo ($200/yr) |
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 Soundraw? The obvious move if you left Soundraw because you needed a vocal. It writes and sings complete songs in the browser. Read the download caps before you commit: Pro at $10 a month allows only 20 downloads a month, Premier 60, and the free tier lost its monthly allowance in September 2026.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Pro | $10/mo ($8 annual) |
| Premier | $30/mo ($24 annual) |
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 Soundraw? Instrumental like Soundraw, but prompt driven rather than slider driven, and noticeably stronger on sound design, loops and texture. Good if Soundraw's output had started to feel formulaic and you wanted something less template shaped.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Solo | $12/mo |
| Session | $30/mo |
| Producer | $90/mo |
| Studio | $199/mo |
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 Soundraw? The pick if you chose Soundraw partly for its clean rights story and now need vocals as well. It was trained on licensed stems in partnership with rights holders before launch, sings in 59 languages, and its Starter tier at $6 a month is the first with a commercial licence.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Starter | $6/mo ($5 annual) |
| Creator | $22/mo |
| Pro | $99/mo |
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 Soundraw? For anyone using Soundraw to score video rather than fill it. AIVA is built for orchestral and cinematic work, exports MIDI so a composition stays editable in a DAW, and is the only tool here that assigns you copyright outright on its top tier.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Standard | ~15 euros/mo (11 annual) |
| Pro | ~49 euros/mo (33 annual) |
Google Flow Music
Google's AI music studio, formerly Riffusion and Producer.ai
Google Flow Music started life as Riffusion in 2022, a diffusion model that generated audio as spectrogram images, became Producer.ai in 2025, and was acquired into Google Labs in February 2026 before relaunching under its current name that April. It now runs on Lyria 3 Pro, with Gemini handling conversational editing, Veo generating matching music videos and Nano Banana producing cover art. Every track it renders carries Google's SynthID watermark.
Coming from Soundraw? The answer to Soundraw having no free downloads at all. Flow Music gives you daily top-up credits for nothing (Google doesn't publish how many songs they cover), and it does vocals. Commercial terms are not stated on its pricing page, and every output carries Google's SynthID watermark.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Starter | $8/mo ($6 annual) |
| Plus | $24/mo ($18 annual) |
| Member | $64/mo ($48 annual) |
Tad AI
Cheap browser suite for songs, covers and stems
Tad AI is a browser-based music suite from Innovate AI Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company, that bundles text-to-song generation, AI covers, a stem splitter, a vocal remover, text-to-speech voices and even music video generation behind one credit meter. Its generator builds structured songs with verses, choruses and bridges from a prompt, and paid users can upload reference audio, use premium voice models and remix tracks into new styles. As of September 2026 it undercuts most rivals on price, with a Standard plan at $7.99 a month for around 50 songs and a commercial license included from the first paid tier. The free plan is thin, roughly 2 songs a month, and everything runs on Tad's servers with output quality that trails the front-rank models.
Coming from Soundraw? A cheap browser suite that covers more ground than Soundraw for less money: songs, covers, stem splitting and vocal removal from $7.99 a month with a commercial licence. Quality trails the front-rank models, and the free tier is barely usable at about two songs a month.
Pros
- Cheap entry point, with a commercial license included from $7.99 a month
- Unusually broad toolkit: songs, AI covers, stem splitting, vocal removal, TTS and music videos in one place
- Reference audio upload and premium voices on paid plans
- Runs in any browser with nothing to install
Cons
- The free tier is nearly unusable at 21 credits, roughly 2 songs a month, with no commercial use
- Output quality and vocal realism trail Suno, ElevenLabs Music and YuE2
- Credit-metered like every cloud tool, so heavy use means upgrading tiers
- Cloud-only, so prompts, reference audio and finished tracks all pass through Tad's servers
- A young product with a small community and little third-party documentation
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Standard | $7.99/mo |
| Pro | $23.99/mo |
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 Soundraw? Free and open source, and the closest thing to escaping subscriptions entirely if you are comfortable with Python, CUDA and model weights. It generates vocals, which Soundraw never has, and it costs nothing forever. You supply the GPU, the setup and the troubleshooting.
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
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Open source | Free |
Round by round
Song Creator Pro vs Soundraw
Six categories, each with a winner.
Fitting music to a video timeline
Winner: SoundrawThis is what Soundraw was built for and it is genuinely good at it. You set a length, drag energy up for the reveal and down for the outro, and the arrangement follows. No prompt to tune, no reroll lottery, and the result lines up with your cut on the first try. Song Creator Pro gives you far more control over the music itself, but it has no timeline, no section energy curve and no length slider tied to a video edit. If your whole job is dropping a bed under footage before a deadline, Soundraw is still the faster tool.
Provenance of the training data
Winner: SoundrawSoundraw states that it uses no scraped data and that its algorithms are built on material from in-house musicians, which is why it has sat out the lawsuits that reshaped Suno and Udio. That is a defensible position and it is worth something to anyone doing client work. Song Creator Pro ships ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2, open models from research groups whose training corpora are not documented to the same standard. Running them locally with a commercial licence removes the platform risk, but it does not give you Soundraw's provenance story.
Anything that needs a voice
Winner: Song Creator ProSoundraw has never generated vocals and, as of September 2026, still does not. There is no lyric input and no singer, so a jingle with a hook, a song for a wedding video, a rap verse or a chorus in Spanish are all simply out of scope. Song Creator Pro writes and sings full songs from lyrics you supply, in over 50 languages through ACE-Step and in English, Mandarin and Japanese through YuE2, and drops to instrumental-only when you want the bed instead.
What you are actually allowed to publish
Winner: Song Creator ProSoundraw's Creator plan cannot be used for standalone tracks on Spotify or Apple Music without extra licensing. The Artist plans can, but only after you have added your own vocals or melodies, since distributing an unmodified beat is prohibited. Content ID registration is off limits on every tier. Lo-fi, meditation and music channels using unmodified tracks have to come down when the subscription ends. Song Creator Pro's commercial licence is included in the purchase, covers release and monetisation, and has no renewal date attached to it.
Cost once you need WAV and stems
Winner: Song Creator ProCreator is the affordable Soundraw plan, around $11.04 a month, and it is MP3 only. Stems and WAV begin at Artist Pro at around $23.39 a month, and that tier still caps you at 20 downloads a month. Removing the cap means Artist Unlimited at around $32.50 a month. Song Creator Pro costs $49.99 once, so it pays for itself against Artist Pro in a little over two months and against Artist Unlimited in under two, and it includes WAV, FLAC, unlimited downloads and four stem separation models. Soundraw runs regional pricing and frequent discounts, so check the figure you are actually quoted before doing the sum.
Working offline and keeping what you bought
Winner: Song Creator ProSoundraw is a website. No connection means no music, every prompt and download passes through its servers, and if the company changes its plans or disappears the tool goes with it. Song Creator Pro installs the models on your disk and runs them on your GPU with no account and no network call, so it works on a plane, inside a locked-down studio network, and in five years when the pricing pages of 2026 are all dead links.
The verdict
Conclusion
Soundraw earns its place for one specific workflow. If you cut video for a living and need a royalty-free bed that hits the right energy at the right second, the slider interface beats prompting, the results are predictable, and the company's claim to train on in-house musician material rather than scraped audio is a cleaner rights story than most of the category can offer. Nobody should switch away from that if that is genuinely the job.
The reasons people leave are just as specific. Soundraw does not make vocals and never has, so it cannot write a song. The cheap Creator tier is MP3 only and is not the plan for putting a standalone track on streaming services. WAV and stems start at Artist Pro, where downloads are capped at 20 a month unless you move up to Artist Unlimited. Content ID is prohibited across the board, unmodified beats cannot be distributed on any plan, lo-fi and meditation content using unmodified tracks has to come down if you cancel, and there is no free tier you can download a usable file from.
Song Creator Pro answers the second list rather than the first. It is a Windows app that runs ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2 on your own GPU for $49.99 once, generating complete songs with vocals in more than 50 languages, exporting MP3, WAV and FLAC, separating stems with four selectable models, and including a commercial licence that does not lapse. It needs a reasonably modern NVIDIA or AMD card, it is Windows only for now, and it will not slide a track to fit your timeline. If you want beds under footage, keep Soundraw. If you want to own the thing that makes the music, stop renting it.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on why you are leaving. For songs with vocals at a one-time price, Song Creator Pro at $49.99 runs locally on Windows with no subscription. For a like-for-like instrumental service, Mubert or Beatoven.ai cover the same background-music job, with Beatoven starting at $10 a month. For vocals in the browser, Suno or ElevenLabs Music. For free, Google Flow Music tops up its credits daily.
No. Soundraw generates instrumental music only. There is no lyric input, no vocal synthesis and no singer, and that has not changed as of September 2026. The Artist plans are designed on the assumption that you will record your own vocals over a Soundraw beat. If you need the AI to sing, you need a different tool such as Song Creator Pro, Suno or ElevenLabs Music.
As of mid 2026 the Creator plan is around $11.04 a month and gives unlimited MP3 downloads for use inside videos and other projects. The Artist tiers are Starter at around $19.49 a month with 10 downloads, Pro at around $23.39 with 20 downloads plus WAV and stems, and Unlimited at around $32.50 with the cap removed. There is also an enterprise tier priced on request. Soundraw uses regional pricing and runs discounts often, so check the figure shown in your own currency.
No. Soundraw has no permanent free tier you can publish from. You can generate and preview tracks without paying, and the site offers a free trial, but usable downloads require an active paid subscription, and anything watermarked is a demo you are not licensed to release in any form. Among the alternatives, Google Flow Music has a free tier with daily top-up credits, and ACE-Step and YuE2 are free open-source models you can run yourself.
Mostly, yes. Soundraw states that tracks you downloaded while subscribed stay licensed for life, so you do not have to pull existing videos down. The exceptions matter, though: content on music channels, and lo-fi or meditation content that uses unmodified Soundraw tracks, has to be removed when your subscription ends. Soundraw's marketing copy and its detailed licence terms read differently on this point, so check the terms against your specific use before you cancel. Even with the carve-outs, Soundraw is clearer and more generous here than services that revoke everything on cancellation.
Yes, on paid plans. Creator covers commercial and personal use in videos, podcasts, games, social media, TV, radio, film and ads. It does not cover selling the music as a standalone track on Spotify or Apple Music, which needs an Artist plan and requires you to modify the beat by adding your own vocals or melodies first. Registering Soundraw music with YouTube Content ID is prohibited on every tier.
Not as they come. Distributing an unmodified Soundraw beat to streaming services is not permitted on any plan. The Artist plans allow distribution only after you have made the track substantively your own, typically by adding original vocals or melodies, and in that case you keep 100 percent of the recording royalties. If you want to release a finished AI track directly, Song Creator Pro's included commercial licence and Boomy's built-in distribution are both more direct routes.
Soundraw builds tracks from genre, mood and energy presets rather than open text prompts, which is what makes it fast and predictable. The same design makes output converge on familiar shapes once you have generated a few hundred tracks, a complaint that recurs across 2026 reviews. Prompt-driven models such as Stable Audio, Suno or the ACE-Step and YuE2 models inside Song Creator Pro give more variety in exchange for less predictability.
Song Creator Pro is a one-time purchase of $49.99 on the Microsoft Store or $44.99 on itch.io, with lifetime updates, unlimited generation and a commercial licence included. MiniMax Music bills existing API customers per song, but has been closed to new users since 20 August 2026. ACE-Step and YuE2 are free and open source if you are willing to set up Python, CUDA and model weights yourself.
Not on the Creator plan, which is MP3 only. WAV and stem downloads start at Artist Pro, which also caps you at 20 downloads a month. Artist Unlimited removes the cap. Song Creator Pro exports MP3, WAV and FLAC with no download limit, and separates any track into stems using a choice of four models, all included in the one-time purchase.
A GPU (NVIDIA or AMD) is recommended for the best speed, and Song Creator Pro is among the first apps to run YuE2 on 8 GB cards rather than the roughly 24 GB its official release expects. The app detects your hardware and suggests a backend, and supports CPU-only processing along with int8 quantization and CPU offloading. It works on modest machines, just more slowly.
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