8 Best AI Music Generators Compared
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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.
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 of a sudden I can be a man. Ok, just sound like one, but this is the closest I will get to it.
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 Beyoncé 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".
Restrictions: 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 added the videos 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.
It was only logical for Elevenlabs to make its own AI music generator as they are the experts for AI generated voices and music is only a stone throw and huge target audience away.
They have just recently launched this application and I'm positively surprised by the quality of it.
Song and lyrics quality are both 3 out of 5, I'd say, nothing amazing but also not silly.
Eleven Music will create a timeline divided by song parts such as Verse 1, Pre-Chorus, Bridge etc. which is super handy and allows changing only certain parts.
But my free 10.000 credits are used up pretty quickly (one song generation cost me about 3000 credits) and I can't download the generated music without signing up.
Also if you don't change it, it will automatically create 2 variations of the song at once.
Soundraw is more of a beatmaker for musicians than a tool that creates the end music product. Here we have to choose the genre from a catalog instead of prompting it. You can add various genres to merge into one song, and a producer dashboard below the track allows you to make changes to each section of the song. Since I couldn't prompt the Beyonce song, I gave it quite a challenge with mixing House with Dancehall, which it really didn't do well. Another genre mix with R&B and Tropical House did much better. I think this is a good tool for people starting out with music production who want to take their first steps on a small budget. Real musicians will outgrow it before even starting.
Bandlab is like a midjourney for music producers, simply because it seems very community based. You set up a profile and can contact other musicians through the platform for collaborations. The AI music generator is actually an idea generator or let's say a starting point. Its approach is completely different to the other tools and much more professional. You can e.g. adjust the beats per minute (bpm) and you can modify the key. Pretty cool, although more for advanced musicians. Also, I gave fewer points for onboarding because you have to go through a series of questions before getting started (which probably make a lot of sense for professionals).
AI Music Generator is a positive surprise. Judging by the simple interface, I thought the music generation would be rather clunky too. But no, the songs generated with this tool are definitely among my favorites. I should have added more lyrics, because this tool doesn't add more to the chorus unless you let AI completely generate them. Elevenlab for example just filled in the rest. So overall, not too much choice here, choose male or female voice, add lyrics, keywords for style, but great results!
I remember when I was a kid I would often sing along English songs, but since I didn't speak the language yet I made gibberish lyrics up. And that is also kind of how Udio sounds. Which is a pity, because otherwise it's a great tool! Where others had glitches (Suno) or simply created terrible music (Beathoven), Udio delivered. And I have to say, not all vocals sounded completely silly. What also confused me is that even though I had prompted a female vocalist (Udio automatically turns Beyonce into various keywords describing her), it generated half of the songs with a male vocalist. Still, I will keep an eye on Udio, I think they will improve a lot in the next few months.
Suno is probably the most famous AI music generator, at least the one I have heard most of. Let's you download every song layer separately and similar to Midjourneys character consistency, you can create a voice persona and use it throughout various tracks (on the pro version). User experience is not as smooth as with Eleven Music, for example I wanted to copy my prompt in but it was too long. Instead of just indicating why it wouldn't copy, nothing happened. There are a few glitches like that. What bums me the most is that I've created a super nice version but I only received 3 seconds of it, then it had a bug and they refunded the credits. I tried 4 times, every time it was the same. And according to perplexity this happens a lot with Suno, so I have to deduct quite a few points, even though I really liked the beginning of the song and would have loved to listen to the full thing.
I'll say it short: I'm not a fan because the music is terrible. I asked for an R&B song and there is absolutely no rythm no blues in there. It's so cheesy it hurts. And this wasn't my only generation, they all are this bad. Which secretly makes me happy: Google didn't suceed in conquering yet another AI category.
I've also requested full songs, but on the free plan you can only get 30 second snippets of this AI slop.
Mubert, I'm not sure what to do with you. On one side I love your fresh approach, for example you can upload an image instead of using a prompt to generate a picture (image-to-music). Also I love that you would let me generate a jingle for free, when I was looking for this for my podcast KI Plausch, I couldn't find this feature anywhere and just cut out a piece of an ai-generated song. I haven't seen this anywhere else. But then your core product doesn't convince me: the AI-generated music track. The Beyonce song was complete crap as you can see in the video above. And let's not even speak about the Image-to-Music track...
On Beathoven's homepage they say that they create background music for your projects, so it looks like the R'n'B song I prompted will be a challenge for the tool. And indeed, not just that, but in general generating a song that is a pleasant experience to listen to is a challenge in itself. Check out the video above to see what I mean, its creation is simply terrible.
