Is AIVA worth it in 2026?

Only Pro hands you the copyright. The Free and Standard cards both say “Copyright owned by AIVA”, and the Pro card says “Copyright owned by YOU”. The monetization line then splits three ways: Free says “No monetization”, Standard says “Limited monetization” and Pro says “Full monetization”.

“Limited” comes with a list. Standard’s card recommends it for content creators who want to “monetize compositions only on Youtube, Twitch, Tik Tok and Instagram”. AIVA’s agreement defines the matching Limited Commercial License as a commercial license to monetize on “a limited set of third-party websites: Youtube, Twitch, Tik Tok and Instagram”. No other platform is named, so selling tracks on a store or streaming service falls outside what the Standard rows list.

Free is for trying the tool. Its card says “Credit must be given to AIVA”, and AIVA’s license help article allows Free tracks for non-commercial purposes, which it describes as “ANY use cases that are meant to be non-for-profit” and that do not promote any commercial activity. A monetized channel therefore starts at Standard. The agreement lists the territory as “the World” and the term as “perpetuity”. This page quotes AIVA’s wording and is not legal advice, so read the agreement before you monetize.

Take a YouTuber who keeps ten original tracks a month, so 120 a year, first on a monetized channel and then also to sell elsewhere. Free cannot serve either case, with 3 downloads a month and no monetization. Standard fits the YouTube-only case, and its 15 downloads leave five spare. Pro is the plan the license rows allow once the tracks are sold beyond the four named platforms, and its 300 downloads are thirty times the need.

The arithmetic, once. Standard billed monthly is €15 × 12 = €180 a year, or €1.50 per kept track, and billed yearly it is €11 × 12 = €132, or €1.10 per track. Pro billed monthly is €49 × 12 = €588, or €4.90 per track, and billed yearly it is €33 × 12 = €396, or €3.30 per track. Yearly billing takes €48 off a Standard year and €192 off a Pro year. VAT is added where it applies.

The step from Standard to Pro therefore costs €34 a month more on monthly billing and €22 more on yearly billing, which is €408 or €264 a year, or €3.40 or €2.20 more per track. AIVA prints only a per-month figure for yearly plans, so the yearly totals are our multiplication: check the amount on AIVA’s billing page before you pay.

How downloads are counted. The Download Composition window in AIVA’s app words the quota in compositions: it says how many more compositions you can download this month and that “Downloading the same composition multiple times will only count as one download”. A track you already downloaded shows “Downloading again won't count towards your quota”, and the window offers a zip of MP3 and MIDI as well as single files. AIVA does not spell out whether a separate MP3 download and a separate MIDI download of one track both count. If they count twice, ten tracks use twenty downloads, which is over Standard’s allowance and far under Pro’s.

Full monetization is not unlimited use. Section 6 of the agreement bars using the music in a large-scale upload or licensing to a third party, with large-scale licensing of compositions “that have not been modified or curated” as its example. It also bars using compositions in a training dataset, to set up a competing service, or in a large database of music beyond individual use. The agreement does not say how many tracks make a large scale, so anyone planning to bulk-license raw output should read section 6 first.

All three plans are written for Individuals. The agreement says Individuals are eligible for Free, Standard and Pro, and defines an Individual as “a physical person OR a small business with less than 3 employees OR a small business with less than $300k of revenues generated in the past year”, and an Enterprise as “a business with 3 or more employees AND that generated more than $300k of revenues in the past year”. Enterprises are told to contact AIVA for a custom plan, and the Enterprises tab shows no price. The threshold is printed in dollars while the plans are priced in euros, and both are quoted as printed.

Uploading your own file comes with a license to AIVA. The agreement says that when you upload a MIDI or audio influence, you give AIVA a worldwide, non-exclusive, commercial and transferable license to train its AI systems on it, in perpetuity. On the plan cards of AIVA’s in-app billing page, Standard and Pro add the line “With influences: up to 3 mins 30 secs”, so a track built from an uploaded influence has a shorter cap than the 5 minutes and 5 minutes 30 seconds on the pricing page. The agreement also caps each user at 5 compositions at one time, 100 an hour, 400 every 24 hours and 4,000 stored; a ten-track month is unlikely to reach those, though that depends on how many compositions you generate to find the ten you keep.

AIVA’s help articles say that on upgrading to Pro Monthly or Pro Annually, you own the copyright of the compositions created before the subscription started and during it, and that if you cancel Pro you keep the copyright of the compositions you already owned. The two articles were last updated on 15 December 2020 and 22 February 2021.

Treat that as a point to confirm. The agreement says the license you get is granted when you download, and depends on the plan you are subscribed to at that moment. A creator relying on an upgrade to cover older Free tracks should check the license AIVA shows for each composition on its download view, which the help article says displays the one that applies.

The money side has its own rules. A help article updated on 23 June 2026 says you can downgrade to Free at any time, costs already paid are not refunded, and the membership runs until it ends and then converts to Free. The agreement allows a refund only if you have not used any premium feature of the plan, and tells you to use Free to judge whether paid plans suit you.

Free costs €0, with no credit card required, 3 downloads a month, tracks up to 3 minutes and MP3 and MIDI downloads. It is the place to hear what AIVA produces, not a plan for a channel that earns money.

Students & Schools is a contact-form tab: AIVA says students and schools can get a 30% discount on annual plans and 15% on monthly plans. No discounted euro price is printed. Enterprises is also a contact tab, for creative companies that “intend to heavily commercialise the music created with AIVA”, with no price shown.

AIVA calls itself an AI music generation assistant that makes songs in more than 250 styles. Its user manual, updated on 24 September 2025, describes building a track from a Style, a chord progression or an uploaded MIDI, MP3 or WAV influence, then editing it in a note-level editor. The pricing page and the manual do not mention vocals or lyrics.

Our Suno review and Udio review cover vocal-song generators with plans and limits of their own. AIVA sells fixed monthly download counts, a track-length cap and a per-plan license; Suno’s and Udio’s own limits are in their reviews, and no Suno or Udio price is quoted here.

The Suno prompts show how a style description is written for a vocal-song generator. For tutorials on writing, social media, video and design around a channel, browse the AI for Content Creation collection, or return to all AI tool reviews.