AI music generators for Australian creators
AI music generators produce songs, instrumentals and background tracks from text prompts, lyrics, moods or reference audio. Suno and Udio create complete songs with vocals, AIVA focuses on composition and scoring, and Soundraw and Mubert generate royalty-free background music for videos, podcasts, games and venues.
The legal landscape shifted in late 2025. After major labels sued Suno and Udio in 2024, Universal Music Group settled with Udio in October 2025 and Warner Music Group settled with Suno in November 2025, with both companies moving towards models trained on licensed music and new limits on downloads and usage. Expect terms and features to keep changing as these licensing arrangements roll out.
Australian users include video creators and agencies needing music cleared for social and paid ads, game and app developers, hospitality venues wanting background playlists, and musicians using AI for demos, stems and ideas. Professional songwriters are watching closely, given the debate over how creators should be paid for training data.
Last reviewed October 2026
AI Music Generators compared
Suno
Free plan + paidMusic
An AI music generator that writes and performs complete songs, with vocals and instruments, from a text prompt or your own lyrics. Paid plans add commercial rights and stem splitting, and the top plan adds a studio for editing arrangements and working with uploaded audio.
Best for: Content creators needing background music for social video
Suno review →Udio
Free plan + paidMusic
An AI music generator that creates songs with vocals from text prompts and lyrics. Following settlements and licensing deals with record labels, it is moving to a licensed platform that keeps songs inside the app, and audio downloads have been switched off since late 2025.
Best for: Hobbyists exploring musical ideas without commercial plans
Udio review →AIVA
Free plan + paidMusic Comp
An AI music composer that creates original instrumental pieces in styles from orchestral and cinematic to electronic and pop. You can generate from presets or your own influences, then edit the composition and download audio or MIDI files.
Best for: Video and game creators needing cinematic or orchestral scores
AIVA review →Soundraw
Free plan + paidMusic
An AI music generator that creates royalty-free tracks you can customise by genre, mood, length, tempo and instrumentation. The company says its model is trained only on music produced in-house, and plans cover both content creators and artists releasing music.
Best for: Content creators fitting music precisely to a video edit
Soundraw review →Mubert
Free plan + paidBackground Audio
An AI music generator that produces royalty-free background tracks from a prompt, mood, genre or duration. It is aimed at video creators, streamers and app developers, with a track editor and a music API for embedding generation in products.
Best for: Video creators needing background music sized to an edit
Mubert review →Lalals
Free plan + paidMusic/Voice
An online AI audio toolkit for musicians and creators. It offers a voice library with voice conversion and cloning, text to speech, stem splitting to separate vocals and instruments, AI song and lyrics generation, audio clean-up and automated mastering.
Best for: Independent musicians making demos and remixes of their own songs
Lalals review →
How to choose
Full songs or background tracks
Songs with vocals suit demos, personal projects and some social content. Background music for ads, corporate video and podcasts is often safer from dedicated royalty-free generators with clear licences and editing controls for length, intensity and loops.
Licence for your actual use
Check whether your plan permits commercial use, paid advertising, broadcast, streaming distribution and use in client work. Free tiers frequently prohibit commercial use, and rights can differ between tracks made before and after a plan change.
Distribution and content ID
If you plan to release music on streaming services, check the generator's terms on distribution and whether platforms will accept it. Content ID systems can flag AI tracks that resemble existing works, which can disrupt monetisation of your videos.
Editing and stems
Producers should look for stem export, extending or replacing sections, tempo and key control, and the ability to upload their own melodies. These features matter more than one-click quality once you start shaping tracks rather than accepting the first output.
What Australian businesses should check
Australian copyright protects works with a human author, so a track generated entirely by AI may not be protected, while a song you write or substantially arrange with AI help can be. APRA AMCOS registration is based on human authorship, so only register the parts you wrote. The Government ruled out a text and data mining exception in October 2025 and is consulting on paid licensing for AI training. Playing music in a business still needs the right public performance licences unless the provider's terms cover it. Imitating a real artist's voice can raise passing off and consumer law issues. Generators bill in US dollars and store files offshore.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use Suno music commercially in Australia?
On a paid plan, Suno's terms have allowed commercial use of songs created while subscribed, while free-tier songs are for non-commercial use. Its licensing settlement with Warner Music means terms are changing, so check the current terms at the time you create a track and keep a record of your plan and the date.
Can I register an AI-generated song with APRA AMCOS?
Only the human-written parts of a work can be registered. APRA AMCOS registration is based on human authorship, so a song generated entirely by a prompt is unlikely to qualify, while lyrics or melodies you wrote yourself can be registered even if AI helped produce the recording.
What is the safest AI music for YouTube and ads?
Royalty-free generators such as Soundraw and Mubert are designed for this use, with licences covering commercial video. Keep the licence certificate or download record for each track, because content ID claims do happen and you may need to show your rights to a platform or client.
Can AI copy an Australian artist's voice?
Reputable generators block prompts naming real artists, but voice conversion tools can still imitate singers. Releasing music that imitates a recognisable artist without permission risks passing off and misleading conduct claims, and breaches most platforms' terms. Use original or properly licensed voices.
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