TL;DR
- AI music generators split into two categories—full music creation A-Z with vocals, instruments, and beats (Eleven Music, Udio, Suno) versus beat makers without vocals (Soundraw, BandLab, Beatoven.ai)—with quality ranging from highly professional tools like ElevenLabs to experimental ones like Beatoven.ai that sound like "a mad professor on a drum machine."
- The technology enables complete song creation from text prompts, image-to-music generation (though not working well yet), and podcast jingles with Mubert.
- Tools refuse to generate direct copies of famous artists like Beyonce (but will instead suggest similar keyword descriptions). Common issues are generation glitches causing songs to stop after a few seconds (Suno).
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Are AI Music Generators the future of music production?
If you haven't heard about the huge success of "Dust On The Wind" from The Velvet Sundown, your summer of 2025 must have been very busy. This viral Spotify hit was created by generative AI and made it to 1.5 million plays within the first few weeks. AI music generator Suno was the only production team involved.
Like it or not, this will be part of the future of music: We will be swamped by AI-generated music on all platforms. So of course, I had to test this new category and create my list of best AI music generators. As I'm writing this, ElevenLabs (known to offer the most advanced
voice generator) has just released Eleven Music, their own text to music tool this week, perfect timing!
I've tested 8 tools and I will add more along the way as other tools get better.
The Different AI Music Generator Types
You can divide song generators into two buckets:
- Music creation from A-Z - including vocals, all instruments, beats etc. (such as Eleven Music, Udio, Suno)
- Beat makers - without vocals (such as Soundraw, BandLab, Beatoven.ai)
Of the 8 music creators only Mubert explicitly offers jingles for podcasts and image-to-music generation, but the latter didn't work too well yet.
The quality ranged widely — from highly professional tools like ElevenLabs to ones like Beatoven.ai, which sounded more like a mad professor on a drum machine.
Speech to speech: Various tools let you re-create your own into a different voice and keep its unique speech melody. I think this is pretty cool, all the sudden I can be a man. Ok, just sound like one, but this is the closest I will get to it
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Which AI Music Generator to Use in a Nutshell
If you are a beginner
- Use Soundraw for making beats
- Use Eleven Music for generating full tracks
If you are a pro or musician
- Use BandLab for creating beats and helping you get started with a new idea
- Use an AI music generator if you already have your song lyrics
The AI Music Generation Test
And since I like to compare AI tool directly, I always use the same prompt. This time it was:
Create a song that sounds like a Beyonce song. It is about her having a good time with her girlfriends. It's upbeat and danceable and has a nice R&B groove. The hook says "Cause we need to bounce, we need to dance, this is your last chance".
I wanted to keep it light and easy, but as I'm a huge Beyonce fan (I even have a little shrine at home, of course for fun, but you get my point) my expectations were very high. Understandably many of the tools didn't allow generating a direct copy of Queen Bee and suggested prompts that would rather describe her with a few keywords than mention her name.
And since music is a question of taste, I recorded the songs and put them in the video below for you. Maybe you prefer using Suno over Udio's unique music. Or you actually like a crazy professor's background music generated by beatoven.ai. Completely up to you, I, for my part, have decided that the overall best AI music generators come from Eleven Music, Soundraw and Bandlab (the last two are beat makers though).
Infamous Suno's creations were a pity: I wasn't able to create even one full song this time, literally every generation stopped at a few seconds due to some glitch. I had used Suno before to create my podcast jingle for KI Plausch (my German podcast on AI). But this time we just couldn't become friendly collaborators making music together. My free credits were refunded every time, but I really liked the groove of those first seconds and would have loved to hear how they would have continued.