Best AI music for scoring and soundtracks (2026)
AI music for picture: generate or compose score, background tracks and songs you can license for film, TV, ads and video. We list 15 tools for scoring and soundtracks below, each with a link-checked page, pricing as the maker states it and alternatives.
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15 tools: 3 open source, 6 free or freemium, 2 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 4 pricing on the maker's site.
Spleeter
Deezer's source separation library with pretrained models for splitting songs into stems.
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YuE
Open song-generation model (YuE2) with lyrics-to-song, zero-shot covers and agentic music editing.
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ACE-Step
Open music generation foundation model for fast full-song generation and editing.
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AIVA
AI composition assistant for soundtrack and score music in many styles, with MIDI export and editing.
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Audio Design Desk
Audio workstation for video editors. AI search finds sound effects from its library, it syncs sound to picture and can generate background music.
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Beatoven.ai
Royalty-free AI background music and sound effects for videos, podcasts and games, with an API.
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Boomy
Make generative songs with AI and release them to streaming services.
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Google Flow Music
Google's AI music platform (formerly Riffusion). Create, remix and edit songs by chatting with it, direct music videos and build new instruments.
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Kits AI
AI vocal tools for producers: voice conversion, cloning and royalty-free AI voices.
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Loudly
AI music platform to generate, remix, master and split stems of royalty-free tracks.
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Mubert
Generate royalty-free music from text prompts for videos, streams and apps.
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Soundful
AI music generator for royalty-free tracks and beats for creators.
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Soundraw
AI music generator for royalty-free tracks. Customize instruments, structure and length and download stems.
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Suno
AI song generator. Write or prompt a song and get full tracks with vocals, plus stems and a studio editor.
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Udio
AI music generator for songs with vocals. Since its deal with Universal Music Group, downloads are disabled and tracks stay on the platform.
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3 repos. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.
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