Beatoven AI is the royalty-free music composer for YouTubers, podcasters, game developers, and filmmakers. Type a prompt, drop in reference audio, or upload a whole video — Maestro, our homegrown AI model, scores the music to fit it. Every download ships with a perpetual commercial licence.
Most AI music tools accept only text prompts. Beatoven is multimodal — you can describe the music, hum a reference, or hand it a finished video and let Maestro compose to fit. Each input goes through the same model, with the same licence.
Describe what you need in plain English. Mood, instruments, tempo, scene context — Maestro reads the prompt and generates three to four variations.
Drop in a reference track, a hummed melody, or a rough demo. Beatoven analyzes the energy, key, and mood — then composes original music in the same vibe.
Upload an unfinished video. Beatoven watches the pacing, scene cuts, and mood shifts — and scores music that lands on the right beats automatically.
Pick from sixteen emotion presets — happy, sad, motivational, scary, relaxing, dramatic, romantic, dark, mysterious, energetic, peaceful, and more. Each emotion has dozens of sub-genre variations Maestro can pull from.
Download separate instrument tracks. Re-mix in Ableton, Logic, FL Studio.
Split a track into sections. Retime transitions to land on intro / midroll / outro.
Type "glass shattering in slow motion" or "footsteps on gravel" — Maestro generates a high-fidelity SFX clip. Useful for filmmakers, game devs, podcasters who'd otherwise license effects from a library.
Indian classical, K-pop textures, Latin percussion, Middle Eastern strings — Maestro covers regional palettes Western models often miss.
Text-to-music API for fitness apps, games, AI agents, video editors. Same Maestro model, same commercial rights, programmatic access.
Beatoven is built for creators who need licensed background music — fast, mood-appropriate, and copyright-clean. Here's the work it does in different hands.
Generate intros, outros, and bed music that fits each episode's mood. Zero copyright claims on monetized uploads.
Score levels, menus, and cutscenes. Generate mood transitions per scene without licensing per-track from libraries.
Score short films, trailers, and ads. Video-to-music input automatically times the score to your cuts.
Generate on-brand audio at scale. API tier gives agencies programmatic access for recurring client work.
In a market where Suno and Udio are fighting copyright lawsuits over scraped training data, Beatoven is among the small group of AI music companies that earned the Fairly Trained certification. Every musician whose work informs Maestro is compensated when their contributions are used.
The Fairly Trained certification is independent. It requires AI companies to prove — through audit — that every piece of training data was licensed at the source, with consent from the rights holder. Most generative AI companies don't pass this audit.
Beatoven goes a step further: contributing musicians receive ongoing payouts when the Maestro model uses their work. The more your samples shape generated tracks, the more you earn — a feedback loop the rest of the AI music industry hasn't built.
For you as a creator, this matters for two reasons. First, the commercial licence on every Beatoven download is legally clean — there's no lurking lawsuit that could later void your rights. Second, the music itself sounds more human, because the corpus is curated rather than scraped.
Three ways to pay, scaled to how much music you actually download. Plans are based on download minutes — generation itself is unlimited while your credits are active.
Indicative pricing as of 2026. Higher Visionary & Agency tiers available — confirm current rates on beatoven.ai before subscribing.
Three different bets on what AI music should be. Suno makes vocal songs you'd release. Soundraw is the Spotify-friendly beatmaker. Beatoven is the only one with multimodal inputs (text, audio, video) and Fairly Trained certification.
| Capability | Beatoven AI | Suno | Soundraw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text-to-music input | ✓ Core | ✓ Core | ✗ UI-based |
| Audio-to-music input (reference) | ✓ Yes | ✗ | ✗ |
| Video-to-music (upload video) | ✓ Yes | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI Foley / sound effects | ✓ Yes | ✗ | ✗ |
| Fairly Trained certified | ✓ Yes | ✗ In litigation | In-house data |
| Stem export | ✓ Yes | Pro only | ✓ Yes |
| Release on Spotify / Apple Music | ✗ Not permitted | Pro tier · disputed | ✓ Yes |
| Public developer API | ✓ Yes | ✗ | Limited |
| Free tier | ✓ 5 generations | ✓ Limited | ✓ Preview |
| Best for | Video, podcast, game scoring | Songwriting | Beatmakers who release |
Comparison reflects publicly available product info as of 2026. Features and licensing may change — verify in each product before subscribing.
I make 4-minute history vlogs on YouTube and Beatoven became my default music source within a week. The video-to-music feature is genuinely magical — I upload a rough cut and Maestro times the score to my scene transitions.
For our indie game we needed level scoring on a tiny budget. Beatoven covered the entire 18-track soundtrack for $40/mo. Honest review: the editing UI takes practice and the AI Foley is hit-or-miss for niche effects — but the licence side is bulletproof.
I score short documentaries and the Fairly Trained certification mattered for client legal approval. We integrate Beatoven across all our docs now. The regional sound palette (Indian classical, Middle Eastern) is rare for an AI tool.
Beatoven was founded in 2021 by a team building AI music technology with an explicit ethical framework. The bet: rather than scraping the internet for training data and hoping for the best, Beatoven would license every sample at source, build long-term relationships with contributing musicians, and pay them when their work shaped generated output.
The result is Maestro — Beatoven's homegrown music model, tuned specifically for background music in content production. It accepts text, audio, and video as input. It outputs three to four variations per prompt so creators can pick the right one. It's the only major AI music model with a Fairly Trained certification from the independent audit body.
Beatoven's product surface goes beyond music: AI Foley generates licensed sound effects, the public API lets developers embed the model inside their own apps, and the recent Music Intelligence and Music Search tools help creators find the right reference and style faster. The platform now serves 1.5 million creators who've generated more than 6 million tracks.
One trade-off worth knowing: Beatoven's commercial licence covers music used inside content — videos, podcasts, games, ads, audiobooks — but not direct distribution to Spotify, Apple Music, or stock-music libraries. If streaming release is the goal, Soundraw is built for that. For everything else — the work most creators actually do — Beatoven is the cleanest option. Visit beatoven.ai for the full platform.
Beatoven AI is a royalty-free AI music generator built for content creators. It uses Maestro, Beatoven's homegrown AI music model, to generate mood-driven background music from text prompts, reference audio, or video uploads. Used by 1.5+ million creators across YouTube, podcasts, games, films, and brand campaigns. Beatoven is Fairly Trained certified — meaning the model is trained on music from real artists who are compensated when their contributions are used.
Yes. Every downloaded track comes with a non-exclusive perpetual commercial licence delivered to your inbox. You can monetize videos, podcasts, games, ads, audiobooks, and livestreams without worrying about copyright claims. Note: Beatoven retains ownership of the underlying composition, so you cannot resell tracks or register them on stock-music sites.
No. Beatoven music is licensed for use as background music inside your content — videos, podcasts, games, films, ads. Direct distribution on streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, or stock-music libraries is not permitted under the standard licence. If your project requires streaming release, Soundraw is the AI music tool built for that use case.
Beatoven generates mood-driven background music across 16 emotional presets — happy, sad, motivational, scary, relaxing, dramatic, romantic, dark, and more. You can choose tempo, instruments, regional sound flavors, and length. The model is tuned specifically for background music that complements voiceover, gameplay, video, and ads — not for full vocal songs you'd release as singles.
Suno generates full vocal songs from a prompt — designed for music release. Mubert offers a developer API for streaming background music inside apps. Beatoven is purpose-built for content creators who need licensed background music for video, podcast, and game projects: multimodal inputs (text/audio/video), 16 mood presets, AI Foley for sound effects, and a transparent Fairly Trained model.
Maestro is Beatoven's proprietary AI music generation model. Unlike general-purpose audio models, Maestro is trained specifically on mood-driven instrumental music contributed by real musicians under fair licensing terms. The model interprets text, reference audio, and video prompts to produce background tracks tuned for content-creation workflows — short, mood-coherent, and instantly downloadable.
Yes. Beatoven AI includes an AI Foley feature — type a prompt like "glass shattering in slow motion" or "footsteps on gravel" and the model generates a matching high-fidelity SFX clip. Useful for filmmakers, game developers, and podcasters who need quick effects without licensing libraries.
Beatoven offers a free trial that includes 5 generations so you can test the workflow. Paid plans are based on monthly download minutes — pay-per-minute starts around $3, subscriptions start near $20 per month, and the Visionary tier offers exclusive licences for agency and brand use. You keep the commercial licence on any track downloaded while subscribed.
Free trial. No card required. Your first composition takes about thirty seconds.