Checked 9 Sep 2026
What AI music and voiceover cost
Every price in one table, and the question none of these pages answer: can you just pay once?
You need audio for one video. Not for a year of videos, for one video, today. So the interesting number is not the monthly fee. It is whether you can pay once and walk away.
| Tool | Cheapest monthly | Pay once? |
|---|---|---|
| Suno | $10 a month | No |
| Udio | $10 a month | Yes |
| Soundraw | $16.99 a month | No |
| ElevenLabs | $6 a month | No |
| Epidemic Sound | $9.99 a month | No |
| Artlist | $14.99 a month | No |
| Detonic | No monthly fee | Yes |
Only 1 of the 6 lets you pay once
That was the surprise when we checked. Udio sells packs with no monthly fee. Everyone else wants a card on file every month.
Two of them look like exceptions and are not. Artlist sells top-up packs, but only once you already pay monthly. Beatoven does the same. A top-up is not a way to pay once. It is an extra on top of the monthly fee.
The detail behind each row
- Suno. $8 a month if you pay for a year. The free tier gives you no commercial rights.
- Udio. The one real exception. You can buy a pack from $3 with no monthly fee at all.
- Soundraw. $11.04 a month if you pay for a year. You cannot download anything free.
- ElevenLabs. Voice, not music. Users report the cheap tiers are for testing, and real work needs the $99 tier.
- Epidemic Sound. Billed as $119.88 for the year. A library you search, not a generator.
- Artlist. $9.99 a month for a year. It sells top-up packs, but only on top of a monthly fee.
What we left out, and why
Mubert is missing because its pricing page did not show us a current number. Beatoven is missing a row for the same reason. We would rather leave a gap than print a price we cannot stand behind.
Every figure above comes from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 Sep 2026. Prices move. If you find one of these out of date, tell us and we will fix the row.
What Detonic charges
50 renders for $19, once. A render is one generated Track or one Voiceover pass. Exports are always free, including exporting the same project again for a second Destination.
Being straight with you: renders are not live yet. The pack goes on sale the day they are, and this page will say so. There is nothing to buy today and no card field anywhere on this site.
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Worried about whether AI music is safe on a monetised channel? We wrote the honest answer here.