AIVA

Say you're putting out two YouTube videos a week and you need background music that won't get a copyright claim. You don't want to dig through stock libraries for something that almost fits. AIVA is built for that job: you pick a style from more than 250 options, it generates a track in seconds, and on the €11/month Standard plan you can monetize it on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram without crediting AIVA. For a creator who just needs music that fits the mood and won't cause licensing trouble, that's the core appeal.

It also does more than a one-click generator. AIVA lets you create your own style models, upload an audio or MIDI file as an influence, edit the tracks it generates, and export in multiple formats, including MIDI. MIDI export matters if you want to pull a generated idea into your DAW and rework it, rather than treating the output as a finished file. The company's showcase of 150+ tracks is described as "generated by AIVA, and arranged by humans," which tells you how they expect serious users to work: AI for the draft, a person for the polish.

The catch is in the licensing tiers, and you should read them closely before you pay. On the Free and Standard plans, AIVA owns the copyright to your compositions. Standard's monetization is limited to those four social platforms. If you want to own the copyright and monetize anywhere, such as games, ads or client work, you need Pro at €33/month (billed annually, plus VAT), which also adds WAV export and 300 downloads a month. The model is clear, but it means the cheap plan is really only for social video creators. Anyone doing commercial work for clients should budget for Pro from the start.