AIVA
Generate original instrumental music in 250+ styles from a text or style prompt, producing and licensing custom soundtracks in seconds instead of composing from scratch.
The verdict on AIVA: Video and game creators who need original, royalty-free background music instead of a recognizable stock track AIVA is for video producers, game developers, and content creators who need original background music and want to avoid the recognition problem that comes with stock library tracks. Pricing: Free (3 downloads) / €15/mo Standard / €49/mo Pro.
Best For
Video and game creators who need original, royalty-free background music instead of a recognizable stock track
Standout Feature
MIDI export lets a musician refine an AI-generated composition further in their own DAW
TL;DR
A genuine step up from stock libraries for commercial use, the free tier is too limited for real production work.
Alternatives
Fit Score: use-case reference
How this is scoredAIVA scored 1 to 5 on five dimensions for the named use cases below. Part of our catalog-wide use-case reference, not a product-quality review rating.
Original video and game background music
3.6/5- Capability
- 4/5
- Reliability
- 3/5
- Value
- 3/5
- Ease
- 4/5
- Compatibility
- 4/5
Style and mood controls, custom length, and MIDI export support original background music that can be refined in a DAW. Highly specific briefs still face a narrower stylistic range than a human composer. Budget for Pro when you need unrestricted commercial game or soundtrack use, since the free tier is too limited for production and Standard has narrower monetization terms.
Editorial judgment grounded in this tool's own published pricing, features, and our existing pros and cons, not a certification or a measured benchmark. Product quality is assessed separately under our review methodology.
Overview
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AIVA composes original background music from style and mood parameters, orchestral scores, electronic tracks, jazz, cinematic ambient, and dozens of other genres, for videos, games, podcasts, and interactive experiences. Select a style, specify duration and mood, and AIVA generates a fully produced, royalty-free composition you can export and use commercially. Unlike generic stock music, every AIVA composition is unique to your project. Game developers, indie filmmakers, and content creators use it to produce custom soundtrack-quality music without hiring a composer or licensing generic stock tracks.
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- • Original compositions eliminate stock music library recognition problems
- • Pro plan grants full commercial ownership and monetization rights (Standard allows limited social-platform monetization only; Free is non-commercial)
- • MIDI export lets you refine in a DAW if needed
- • Less stylistic range than human composers for highly specific briefs
- • Free tier is too limited for production use
Key Features
- Style and mood parameters
- Orchestral and electronic genres
- Tiered commercial-use rights (Standard: limited social-platform monetization; Pro: full commercial ownership)
- MIDI export
- Custom length
- Influence tracks
Trust & Data
Verified 2026-09
- Training on your data
- YesAIVA's EULA grants it a worldwide, perpetual license to train its AI systems on any audio or MIDI file a user uploads via the Upload Influence feature. Its separate 2019 privacy policy does not address AI training and covers only device and purchase data.
- Compliance
- Not published
- Retention
- Order and payment information is retained until the user requests deletion; no retention period is stated for generated compositions or uploaded influence files.
- Export
- Not published
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Our Take
It composes from style and mood parameters across 250-plus styles, and the MIDI export option means a musician can take the output further in their own DAW rather than treating it as final. Commercial rights differ sharply by tier: Free is non-commercial and requires attribution credit, Standard permits limited monetization on platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram while AIVA retains copyright, and only Pro grants full monetization rights and user ownership, the tier needed for something like unrestricted use in a distributed game or commercial soundtrack. The free tier's three-download limit is also genuinely too tight for production work, so realistic commercial use starts at the Pro plan, not Standard.