AIVA vs Suno
Suno makes finished songs with vocals and lyrics from a prompt (paid plans from about $10/mo with downloads and commercial rights). AIVA composes instrumental music across 250+ styles with MIDI export and per-plan copyright terms (full copyright only on Pro at about EUR 33/mo billed annually); it has no vocals. If the project needs a sung song, Suno is the only one of the two that does it. If you need an editable instrumental score you can rebuild in a DAW, AIVA is the practical pick. There is no measured quality winner in this review.
| Decision point | AIVA | Suno |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Beginners, content creators, and composers who want to generate complete songs in many styles in seconds and export them as audio or MIDI. | 需要把想法快速变成完整歌曲的人：短视频创作者找背景音乐或主题曲、独立音乐人做 demo 小样、播客/品牌方定制片头曲、给朋友写生日歌的普通用户。尤其是需要导出音频文件、发到 Spotify/YouTube 等平台并商用的人，Suno 是目前同类里链路最完整的（下载、分轨、商用授权都可用）。 |
| Plans and cost | Prices are published in euros. The Free plan is €0 with no credit card required, 3 downloads per month, and tracks up to 3 minutes for non-commercial use. Standard is €11 per month plus VAT billed annually, with 15 downloads per month and tracks up to 5 minutes. Pro is €33 per month plus VAT billed annually, with 300 downloads per month, durations up to 5 mins 30 secs, and all file formats including high quality WAV. | 免费版 $0：每天 50 点数（约 10 首歌），无商用权，下载仅少量试用额度。Pro $10/月（年付约 $8/月，$96/年）：每月 2500 点数（约 500 首）、每月 20 次歌曲下载、商用授权。Premier $30/月（年付约 $24/月，$288/年）：每月 10000 点数（约 2000 首）、每月 60 次下载、商用授权+Suno Studio。订阅点数不结转。以上为 2026 年 10 月官网定价页口径，税费与地区差异以结账页为准。 |
| Limitations | The free plan is non-commercial only: AIVA keeps the copyright, attribution is required, downloads are capped at 3 per month, and tracks are limited to 3 minutes. Standard keeps copyright with AIVA and limits monetization to YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram; full copyright ownership comes only with Pro. | 免费版无商用权且歌曲默认公开：免费计划生成的歌曲版权归 Suno 所有、不可盈利（包括 YouTube 广告分成），发布前必须升级到 Pro/Premier |
Use the same input
Make a 45-second cinematic theme for a documentary trailer. Generate on both, then try to download the result and confirm commercial terms for festival use.
What a successful result must preserve
Output must be downloadable and usable commercially, and the brief must be achievable with the tool's feature set.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Plan prices, allowances, download rules and license terms below come from the vendors' official pricing and documentation pages plus independent reviews, re-checked October 2026. We did not run a scored quality comparison; no quality ranking is claimed.
- AIVA — AIVA, the AI Music Generation Assistant ↗
- Suno — Official website ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-24)