Updated October 2026 · Sonilo makes one of the tools on this list, so every claim about the others links to that tool's own page.
TL;DR
- Fewest steps from a video to a finished video: Sonilo (we make it). 3 steps, music written from the cut, sound effects and dubbing from the same upload.
- Best audio models and an API for every kind of audio: ElevenLabs. Its video to music gives you audio synced to the video.
- Most control over the music: ACE Studio’s Video Composer, on a desktop production timeline.
- A sung soundtrack on a short clip: Mureka’s Soundtrack tab, videos up to 3 minutes.
- Making the video itself from a script: Fliki.
- Songs with vocals, not tied to a video: Suno.
- Background tracks you shape by settings: Soundraw or Beatoven.ai; long beds and an API for apps: Mubert.
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Comparison table
| Tool | Takes your video | Downloaded video with music | Price | Commercial licence | Vocals | Sound effects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonilo | Yes, MP4, MOV or M4V; music is written from the video | Yes, 3 steps; Free exports carry a watermark at up to 720p | Free 2,000 credits every two weeks; Pro $14.99 a month ($5.99 the first month) | Pro and Premium | Instrumental | Yes, from the video or a description |
| ElevenLabs | Yes, MP4, MOV, AVI or WebM up to 100 MB on the web tool | Audio synced to your video; putting it on the video is a separate step | Free 10k credits; Starter $6 a month; Creator $22 a month | Paid plans, with limits by plan (Starter excludes streaming) | Yes | Yes, from a description, clips up to 30 seconds |
| ACE Studio | Yes; web tool up to 4 minutes, desktop Video Composer up to 45 minutes | Yes, Export Video in the desktop app; 6 steps in its docs | Artist $16.58 a month billed yearly (rent to own) | Video Composer music for any commercial use, per its docs | AI singing voices in the app; for Video Composer, not stated | Yes, from the video |
| Mureka | Yes, Soundtrack tab, up to 3 minutes and 300 MB | Yes, Download Video merges it; 6 steps in its guide | Subscription only; yearly plans average $7.17 and $21.59 a month | Pro | Yes, or instrumental | Not stated |
| Fliki | Upload to its editor; music is written from a description or lyrics | Yes, export MP4 from its editor; 5 steps from its pages | Free 3 credits a month; Standard $28 a month | Paid plans | Yes, or instrumental | Yes |
| Beatoven.ai | Yes, alongside text and reference audio | Not stated; downloads are MP3 or WAV | Pay per track or subscribe (its pricing page did not load on the day we checked) | Perpetual licence to monetise; plans not stated | Not stated | Yes |
| Soundraw | A video preview for fitting a track; music is made from settings | Not stated; downloads are MP3, WAV or stems | Creator $16.99 a month | All paid plans, as background music | Mostly instrumental | Not stated |
| Mubert | Its plan table lists text and image as inputs | Not stated; download the audio | Free 5 downloads a month; Creator $14 a month; Pro $39 a month | Pro or Business; Creator is non commercial | Not stated | Not stated |
| Suno | Yes, as a reference input for a song | Not stated | Free 50 credits a day; Pro $8 a month billed yearly | Pro and Premier; Free has none | Yes | Suno Sounds, in beta |
Checked October 2026 against each vendor's own product, pricing and help pages, linked under each tool. "Not stated" means we did not find it on those pages, not that the tool lacks it.
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How we ranked
Sonilo is first because this list ranks tools for one job, a finished video that needs music, and two things back that place.
- Steps. Of the tools whose flow we could count from their own pages, Sonilo takes the fewest from a video file to a downloaded video with music: 3, against 5 for Fliki, 6 for Mureka and 6 for ACE Studio.
- Measured audio quality. audio_eval, an open source evaluation toolkit (MIT license; its citation file lists authors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong), publishes automatic metric results that include Sonilo models:
- Text to music on MusicCaps: Sonilo Music v1.1 against Suno v5.5. Sonilo comes out ahead on 10 of 13 metrics, including text match (CLAP), KL divergence and all four Fréchet distances. Suno is ahead on three Audiobox aesthetics measures: content usefulness, production complexity and production quality.
- Sound effects from video: Sonilo Sound Effects 1.0 against Mirelo v1.6, ahead on 12 of 15 metrics on Movie Gen Audio Bench and on all 15 on CineBench, which the repository describes as an internal eval set.
- Sound effects from text: Sonilo Sound Effects 1.0 against ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2 and Mirelo v1.6, best on 9 of 12 metrics on Clotho and on 7 of 12 on AudioCaps (one of them tied with ElevenLabs). ElevenLabs is best on the other 3 Clotho metrics and on 4 AudioCaps metrics, Mirelo on 2.
What this does not show: audio_eval does not test music written from video, and it does not include ElevenLabs Music, ACE Studio, Mureka, Fliki, Beatoven.ai, Soundraw or Mubert. Automatic metrics are not listening tests. After Sonilo, tools that write music from the video come before tools that work from a description; beyond that the order is our editorial judgement, not measured quality.
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1. Sonilo
Best for: A finished video that needs music, sound effects or a dub, with the fewest steps.
Good
- Upload, Generate, Export video: 3 steps, with the prompt optional
- Music follows the pacing and scene changes and ends on the last frame
- Sound effects, voiceover and dubbing from the same upload
- Original music, never muted on any platform
Watch out
- Instrumental only: no songs with vocals
- Free cannot download the audio file, and commercial use starts on Pro
- Video length by plan: 3 minutes on Free, 8 on Pro, 30 on Premium
- Not a music editor: no clip by clip timeline
Sources: Sonilo video to music · Sonilo plans
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2. ElevenLabs
Best for: High quality music, voice and sound effects models, and an API that covers all of them.
Good
- Video to music on the web and through the API
- Songs with vocals as well as instrumentals
- Low starting price
Watch out
- Video to music downloads audio, not the video with music on it
- Free is for personal use only
- Its video to sound effects tool is marked unavailable on its own blog
Sources: ElevenLabs video to music · ElevenLabs music · ElevenLabs pricing · ElevenLabs sound effects · Full comparison with Sonilo
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3. ACE Studio
Best for: Musicians and editors who want to shape the music clip by clip.
Good
- Reads the video scene by scene
- Full production timeline to edit the result
- Long videos in the desktop app
Watch out
- Video Composer is a beta feature of a desktop app
- More steps to a finished video
- Billed yearly
Sources: ACE Studio video to music · ACE Studio docs: Video Composer · ACE Studio pricing · ACE Studio docs: license · Full comparison with Sonilo
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4. Mureka
Best for: Songs with vocals, and a sung soundtrack on a short clip.
Good
- Video in, merged video out
- Vocal or instrumental soundtracks
- Strong at lyrics and songs
Watch out
- Videos up to 3 minutes
- Downloads need an active membership after a subscription ends
Sources: Mureka guide · Mureka FAQ · Full comparison with Sonilo
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5. Fliki
Best for: Making the whole video from a script, with music, voiceover and captions.
Good
- Track lands on the timeline at the right length, ducked under voiceover
- Full AI video maker around it
Watch out
- Free output is non commercial, 720p with a watermark
- Its pages disagree on which plans get the API
Sources: Fliki AI music generator · Fliki video editor · Fliki pricing · Full comparison with Sonilo
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6. Beatoven.ai
Best for: Background music from text, reference audio or video, from a Fairly Trained certified model.
Good
- Takes a video as input
- Says it is Fairly Trained certified
- API available
Watch out
- No video export found on its pages
- Pricing could not be checked on the day
Sources: Beatoven.ai AI music generator · Beatoven.ai · Full comparison with Sonilo
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7. Soundraw
Best for: Instrumental tracks you shape by mood, genre, length and stems.
Good
- Bar by bar editing and stems
- Says it trains only on music made in house
- API plans
Watch out
- We found no music written from the video on its pages
- No video export found on its pages
Sources: Soundraw · Soundraw blog: AI music for video · Full comparison with Sonilo
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8. Mubert
Best for: Long background beds and a music API for apps and streams.
Good
- Tracks up to 25 minutes on paid plans
- Music API
Watch out
- Commercial use needs Pro at $39 a month
- Tracks cannot be used in new projects after the subscription ends
Sources: Mubert pricing · Full comparison with Sonilo
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9. Suno
Best for: Full songs with vocals and strong songwriting.
Good
- The best known song generator
- Takes video, images and audio as references
Watch out
- Free has no song downloads and no commercial rights
- No guide that ends in a downloaded video with the song on it
Sources: Suno help: v6 FAQ · Suno pricing · Suno help: Sounds · Full comparison with Sonilo
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How we checked
On October 3, 2026 we read each vendor’s own product, pricing and help pages. For "Downloaded video with music" we counted the steps from a video file to a downloaded video using the same rule for every tool: every step the vendor’s guide lists is counted, a step is optional only where the product says so, and opening the tool is not counted. Where a vendor documents no path that ends in a downloaded video, we say what it does document and give no number. Prices are as listed that day in US dollars; where a vendor shows only yearly billing, the cell says so.
"Not stated" means we did not find it on the vendor’s pages, not that the tool lacks it. Sonilo is our product; its row comes from the product as it works today, including its limits.
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