AIVA

Freemium

By AI Bookmarks Editorial Team, Directory editors Last reviewed 2026-10-23

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AI composition tool that writes original instrumental scores and grants full ownership on paid plans.

Quick facts

Pricing	Freemium
Free tier	Yes — free tier with attribution and restricted commercial use
Platforms	Web, desktop
Developer	AIVA Technologies
Launched	2016
Website	https://www.aiva.ai/

What AIVA is

AIVA is an AI composition tool rather than a text-to-song generator. You choose a style — cinematic, electronic, classical, pop — set a duration and a mood, and it writes an original piece, which you can then edit in a piano-roll style editor: change instrumentation, adjust a section, extend the arrangement. It also accepts MIDI and audio uploads as style references and can produce variations on material you already have. Output is instrumental by default, which suits soundtracks, trailers, games and background music more than vocal pop. The important distinction is licensing: the free tier generally requires attribution and restricts commercial use, while paid plans grant ownership of the compositions you generate, which is why teams needing clean rights pick it over free generators. It is a composition assistant, not a mixing or mastering tool. Where the plan allows, finished cues can be exported as audio or MIDI for further work in a DAW.

Best for

Soundtracks for trailers, games and video backgrounds
Original cues that must be cleared for commercial use
Composers who want variations on an existing theme

Not ideal for

Songs with sung vocals and lyrics
Final mixing and mastering work

Pros

Paid plans grant ownership of generated compositions
Piano-roll editing gives more control than prompt-only tools
Accepts MIDI and audio as style references

Cons

Instrumental output only, no vocals
Free tier requires attribution and limits commercial use
Not a mixing or mastering environment

Pricing in detail

The free tier allows personal and non-commercial use with attribution, and the download is limited. Paid plans are billed monthly or annually, grant ownership of the compositions you generate and remove the attribution requirement; higher tiers add more concurrent downloads and stem exports. Enterprise licensing is quoted separately. Because the licence is the product here, compare the ownership terms rather than the credit count when choosing a tier.