Which AI music generators let you release songs commercially? Free plans first (tracker)

Short answer: among the generators we checked, only ElevenLabs Music gives commercial use on a free plan, and that plan bans putting the track on streaming services and makes you credit Eleven Music. To release on Spotify or Apple Music you need a paid plan: Suno Pro or Premier, or ElevenLabs Creator and up.

Key facts

• Suno free is personal, non-commercial use only. Pro ($8 a month billed yearly, about $10 monthly) and Premier ($24 a month billed yearly, about $30 monthly) list "commercial use rights" (Suno pricing, Suno terms, read 29 Oct 2026).
• ElevenLabs Music free allows "all online and offline commercial use … except film, TV, radio, and Studio Games", but attribution is required and streaming distribution is prohibited (Eleven Music terms, read 29 Oct 2026).
• Stable Audio, self-hosted: the Stability AI Community License is free for commercial use under USD 1M annual revenue and lists Stable Audio 3.0 (Stability AI license, read 29 Oct 2026).
• Udio: we could not open Udio's terms or pricing page on 29 Oct 2026, so it has no verified row.

The table: free plan first, then paid

What the fine print actually says

Suno. The terms split by tier. If you are on Pro or Premier, Suno "assigns to you all of its right, title and interest" in the output. On the free or basic tier you agree to use outputs "only … for your lawful, personal and non-commercial purposes." Two traps sit under that: you may commercially exploit only output "obtained a permitted download" of, and any remix made with another user's song is "personal and non-commercial … regardless of your subscription tier." Suno also says it makes "no representation or warranty … that any copyright will vest in any Output" (Suno terms).

ElevenLabs Music. The Exhibit A table is the clearest of any vendor we read. Every plan below Enterprise excludes film, TV, radio and studio games. The free plan needs a credit line and cannot go to streaming services; Starter drops the credit but still cannot stream; Creator and above can. Section 2.2 says "you retain any and all rights in and to your Input and Output" (Eleven Music terms). The pricing page lists "Music commercial use" from Starter (ElevenLabs pricing).

Stability AI. The Community License covers "research, non-commercial, and commercial use of the Core Models for individuals or organizations that generate under $1M" in annual revenue, and its list includes Stable Audio 3.0 (Stability AI license). That is about running the open model on your own machine, not the hosted Stable Audio app.

What we think

If you want a genuinely free route to a release, there isn't a clean one yet among the hosted apps: ElevenLabs free is the most generous, but its streaming ban rules out the release most musicians mean. The cheapest honest path we found to Spotify is a paid month on Suno Pro or ElevenLabs Creator, made and downloaded while subscribed. Self-hosting Stable Audio is free and commercial under the revenue cap, but you trade money for setup time.

Commercial rights from a vendor are not copyright. A licence lets you use the track; it doesn't make it protectable, and your distributor may still ask about AI use. Read whether AI music can be copyrighted and how to disclose AI use through your distributor before you upload, and how AI music generators work for the background.

How we checked

We read each vendor's own terms and pricing pages on 29 Oct 2026 and quote them directly. We did not test exports or upload anything. Pages we could not load (Udio, stableaudio.com) get no verified row rather than a guess from third-party blogs.

FAQ

Can I sell songs made on Suno's free plan? No. The terms limit free-tier outputs to personal, non-commercial use.

Which free AI music generator allows commercial use? ElevenLabs Music's free plan allows commercial use outside film, TV, radio and studio games, with attribution, but not streaming distribution.

Do I own the copyright if I pay? Suno assigns its rights to paid users but warns no copyright may exist; ElevenLabs says you retain rights in your output. Whether copyright exists is a legal question the vendor can't settle.