AIVA

What is AIVA?

AI composition engine focused on instrumental and orchestral score generation, with editable MIDI output and, uniquely in this group, full copyright ownership transferred to the user on its top tier.

Main features

• Composition from a chosen style, mood or influence track
• 250+ preset styles including cinematic, orchestral, ambient, electronic and jazz
• MIDI export for full DAW editing
• multi-track editor within AIVA for adjusting individual instruments
• upload an influence audio file to guide style
• chord progression and key control
• duration and structure control
• full copyright ownership on the Pro tier.

Practical use cases

• Generating a cinematic score bed for a film or trailer
• producing adaptive game music
• creating royalty-free background music with owned copyright
• generating a MIDI starting point for a composer to develop
• ambient music for apps.

Who is it for?

• Film and game composers, video producers, advertising agencies, and anyone needing instrumental score with clean rights.

Pricing, free access & limits

Freemium subscription with tiered rights

Plans described in the source

Free with roughly 3 downloads per month, no commercial use, AIVA retains copyright and attribution required. Standard around EUR 15/mo (roughly EUR 11/mo annually) with 15 downloads/month, monetisation allowed on some platforms, AIVA retains copyright. Pro around EUR 49/mo (roughly EUR 33/mo annually) with 300 downloads/month and full copyright ownership transferred to the user. Enterprise custom.

Usage limits to consider

Download-metered per month rather than credit-metered. Track length caps apply on lower tiers (historically 3 minutes on Free/Standard, 5:30 on Pro). Copyright ownership only transfers on the Pro tier - this is the single most important limitation to understand.

Strengths & tradeoffs

These points summarize the supplied research, rather than hands-on test results.

Strengths noted in the source

• MIDI export is the decisive advantage - it makes AIVA a composer's tool rather than a vending machine, since every note can be edited
• full copyright ownership on Pro removes the legal uncertainty that clouds Suno and Udio
• trained substantially on public-domain classical repertoire, which materially reduces litigation risk
• genuinely good at orchestral and cinematic work.

Limitations to consider

• No vocals at all - instrumental only, which rules out a large share of use cases
• output is less immediately impressive than Suno for casual listening
• the copyright-on-Pro-only structure is a trap for users who monetise on a lower tier
• EUR pricing adds FX exposure for non-European buyers
• smaller and less actively marketed than competitors.

Platforms, languages & integrations

Platforms

• Web
• desktop editor
• MIDI/MP3/WAV export

Languages

• Instrumental focus so language is largely irrelevant; interface in English and French

API access

Limited - enterprise API on request

Integrations and exports

• MIDI export to any DAW (Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase)
• WAV/MP3 export
• no native plugin

Evaluation notes

Read the rights tier carefully - monetising output created on the Standard tier does not give you copyright, and this catches people out. For film and game work where a composer will edit the result, the MIDI export makes AIVA the most professionally useful tool in this music group.

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Sources & editorial notes

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