Mubert
Mubert is an AI music generator that turns a text prompt, an image or a reference link into royalty-free tracks lasting from 15 seconds to 25 minutes, for videos, podcasts, live streams, games and apps.
What is Mubert?
Mubert is an AI music generator built on a deliberate compromise: the raw material is human, the assembly is algorithmic. The homepage calls it a Human and AI Music Generator, and the about page puts numbers behind the claim — more than one million samples contributed by over 4,000 musicians, recombined into tracks the company presents as royalty-free and cleared for monetisation. More than 200 million tracks have been generated to date, across 150+ genres and over 50 moods and themes.
The product is really a family. Mubert Render is the creator-facing generator: describe what you want in a text prompt, upload an image, paste a YouTube reference link or simply pick a genre and a mood, then choose a format — track, jingle, loop or mix — and a duration anywhere from fifteen seconds to twenty-five minutes. A Quick Remix layer regenerates or strips four stem groups, drums, bass, lead and FX, while leaving the original untouched. Mubert API exposes the same engine to developers over REST, with webhooks, lossless output, a 12,000-track curated library and sub-second WebRTC streaming; Picsart, Canva and Restream already ship it inside their own products. Mubert Studio runs the supply side, paying musicians for the loops and sample packs the models draw on, and Mubert Play is the listening app on iOS and Android. Around them sit Mubert for Streamers, Mubert Business, and free utilities: Fuse for short-form sound effects, Cast for podcast intros and audio branding, and copyright checkers for YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram.
The catch is ownership. Mubert Inc., a Delaware corporation registered in January 2017, keeps the copyright on everything the platform generates; what you buy is a licence scoped to your plan and evidenced by a certificate attached to each download. Releasing that music on Spotify or a stock library, or registering it under Content ID, is prohibited on every tier. Mubert is a supplier of background music for content, not a distribution route for records.
What it does
- Generate a royalty-free track from a text prompt
- Turn an uploaded image into music, or match the style of a YouTube reference link
- Choose a track, jingle, loop or mix, from 15 seconds to 25 minutes
- Remix a track by regenerating or removing its drums, bass, lead or FX stems
- Stream endlessly generated music across 150+ genres and 50+ moods, including live WebRTC
- Browse a curated library of 12,000 tracks filtered by genre, mood, activity or BPM
- Embed music generation in an app or a game through the REST API
When to use Mubert / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Mubert is the right fit.
When to use Mubert
- Video creators who need background music cleared for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Reels
- Podcasters after intros, outros and long-form beds of up to 25 minutes
- Twitch and IRL streamers who want a continuous, DMCA-free soundtrack
- Indie game developers scoring their titles under a Pro or Business licence
- Product teams and agencies embedding music generation in an app through the API
When not to use Mubert
- Artists who want to release generated tracks on Spotify, Apple Music or stock music libraries, which no plan allows
- Anyone who needs to register a track under a Content ID system
- Producers expecting stem or MIDI exports to finish the work elsewhere
- Sound designers looking for standalone sound effects, which Render does not generate
- Organisations with strict EU data requirements: the site never mentions the GDPR, a DPA or a hosting jurisdiction
How to use Mubert
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the Render generator on mubert.com — a first track can be created without paying
- Choose your input: a text prompt, a mood and genre, an uploaded image, or a YouTube reference link
- Pick the format: track for classic lengths, jingle for short complete pieces, loop for repeating content, mix for long sessions
- Set the duration, up to 25 minutes; the free plan is capped to shorter tracks
- Click Generate and wait — the delay depends on the length requested and on server load
- Listen back, then run a Quick Remix if needed: select drums, bass, lead or FX to regenerate or remove
- Download the track; the watermark is stripped on download, MP3 on the free plan, lossless WAV on paid ones
- Keep the licence certificate that comes with the file — it is what proves your rights against a false copyright claim
- Upgrade to Creator, Pro or Business according to how the music will actually be used
- For a product, buy an API plan, collect the customer-id and access-token headers, and call the v3 music API endpoint
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A permanent free plan: 25 tracks and 5 downloads a month, no card required
- Royalty-free, DMCA-free output with a licence certificate attached to every download
- Several ways in — text, image or a reference link — rather than a single prompt box
- An unusually wide duration range, from 15-second jingles to 25-minute mixes
- A mature API with real deployments behind it: Picsart, Canva and Restream
- Musicians are paid: samples come from more than 4,000 contributors through Mubert Studio
- Annual billing cuts the subscription price by 25%
Cons
- The pricing page renders in JavaScript and shows no amounts; the readable grid sits on the licence page
- Copyright stays with Mubert — you hold a revocable licence, never the track
- Cancelling the subscription forbids using previously generated tracks in new projects
- Purchases are non-refundable: access is instant and the stated policy is zero refunds
- No stem or MIDI export, and genres cannot be blended
- No GDPR statement, no DPA, no subprocessor list and no disclosed hosting jurisdiction
- The free plan demands public credit: a link plus the #mubert hashtag on every use
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available at no cost, limited to 25 tracks and 5 downloads per month in MP3 quality. The cheapest paid tier is the Creator plan at USD 14 per month; annual billing reduces the subscription by 25%. Payment is accepted by Visa, MasterCard and American Express; PayPal is not supported.
- 25 tracks per month
- limited duration
- MP3 quality
- 5 downloads per month
- the FAQ calls this tier Ambassador
- 500 tracks per month
- up to 25 minutes
- lossless quality
- unlimited downloads
- personal content including promoted posts
- 500 tracks per month
- 25 minutes
- lossless quality
- commercial use
- freelance and agency work
- 1
- 000 tracks per month
- 25 minutes
- lossless quality
- apps and services
- account manager support
- Custom plan for Render — on request from the Mubert team
- 100 generations and 100 streaming minutes per month
- 5
- 000 generations and 5
- 000 streaming minutes
- webhooks
- lossless quality
- 12
- 000+ curated library
- 30
- 000 generations and 30
- 000 streaming minutes
- vocals
- custom music stems
- audio branding
- music schedules
- advertising
- Annual billing applies a 25% discount to the Render grid
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Mubert handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site. A search across every page collected — homepage, terms of use, privacy policy, DMCA policy, FAQ, product and pricing pages — returns no occurrence of the regulation. The privacy policy places itself squarely under US law, citing CalOPPA, the CCPA, Shine the Light and the Eraser Law, and the terms of use are governed by the law of the State of California. No EU representative under Article 27 is designated, no data protection officer is named, no data processing agreement is published and no list of subprocessors exists. Two rights that overlap with the GDPR are nonetheless offered: users may request an export of the personal data held about them and ask for its erasure, subject to records Mubert must keep for administrative, legal or security reasons.
Who owns the data?
Mubert Inc. keeps ownership. The FAQ is explicit: all copyright in tracks generated on the platform belongs to Mubert Inc., which licenses them per use case, and the terms of use add that Mubert owns the site content, trademarks and designs. Users receive a licence, not the work. Every download ships with a licence certificate tied to the plan in force, and cancelling a subscription ends the right to use those tracks in new projects, although material already published may stay online and keep earning. Personal data is treated separately: the privacy policy lets users export the data held about them and request its erasure, apart from records kept for administrative, legal or security reasons.
Reuse rights
What you may do with a track depends entirely on the plan. The free Ambassador tier covers personal projects with no ad spend and no monetisation, and makes credit mandatory: a link to Mubert Render and the #mubert hashtag wherever the music is used. Creator adds promoted and boosted posts, Pro covers commercial and monetised content such as long-form YouTube channels or an indie game, and Business extends to client work, agencies, apps and games. Using tracks as in-app background music, or sublicensing them to your own users, requires a Business plan or an API subscription. Three uses are barred on every tier: registering the music under Content ID, releasing it standalone on streaming platforms, and uploading it to stock music sites. Each download carries its own licence certificate, and that certificate is what you submit if a platform raises a false copyright claim.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Mubert publishes no hosting information at all. No country, no region, no data centre and no cloud provider is named in the privacy policy, the terms of use or any product page. What is documented is the jurisdiction around the data rather than the place under it: Mubert Inc. is a Delaware corporation with a registered office at 8 The Green, Suite #6542, Dover, DE 19901, an operating address of 908 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133 in its terms, and a privacy policy that simply states “Country: USA”. Those terms are governed by the law of the State of California and disputes go to US courts. Payment details are held by third-party processors such as Stripe rather than by Mubert itself. On the network side the domain resolves to a Cloudflare address geolocated in San Francisco, but that identifies a CDN edge node, not where user data actually lives. Anyone with a data residency requirement should treat hosting location as unanswered and ask the company directly.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Mubert.
- You never own the music: Mubert Inc. holds the copyright and grants a revocable licence
- Cancelling ends the right to use existing tracks in new projects, which can strand a campaign mid-flight
- Purchases are non-refundable — access is instant and the stated policy is zero refunds
- False copyright claims do happen; without the licence certificate from the download, proving your rights is hard
- On the free plan, forgetting the mandatory credit and #mubert hashtag puts your use outside the licence
- No GDPR statement, no DPA, no subprocessor list and no hosting jurisdiction: a compliance blind spot for EU teams
- Leaning on instant generation can flatten a project's sound and quietly displace work with human composers
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for the web tool. Mubert Render runs in a browser with nothing to install, and a first track can be generated before creating an account; the how-it-works page reduces the flow to four steps — pick an input, choose a format, set a duration, generate. An account is needed to download and to subscribe. The API is a developer task rather than a hard one: buy a plan, then send customer-id and access-token headers to the v3 endpoints, with webhooks available. Legacy access through a Google Colab interface requires an active Pro or Business plan.
Deployment
Apps stores
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Mubert
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
Is the music really royalty-free?
Can I use Mubert for free?
Who owns the tracks I generate?
Which plan do I need to monetise my content?
Can I release Mubert tracks on Spotify or a stock music site?
How long can a generated track be?
What happens if I cancel my subscription?
Can I export stems or MIDI files?
How do I get API access?
Which payment methods are accepted?
Should you pick Mubert?
Mubert is one of the older names in AI music, and it shows in the breadth of the offer rather than in any single flashy feature. A Delaware company registered in January 2017, it has generated more than 200 million tracks and now serves four audiences at once: creators through Render, developers through an API that Picsart, Canva and Restream have already shipped, musicians through Studio, which pays for the samples the models feed on, and listeners through the Play app. The generation itself is flexible — text, image or reference link in, jingles to twenty-five-minute mixes out, with a stem-level remix pass on top.
Two reservations deserve attention before signing up. The first is licensing. Mubert Inc. keeps the copyright; you rent a right of use scoped to your plan, and that right stops applying to new projects the day you cancel. Releasing tracks on streaming services or stock libraries, and registering them under Content ID, are barred on every tier, so this is a source of background music for content, not a route to a catalogue of your own. The second is transparency. The pricing page renders in JavaScript and displays no figures at all; the real grid — free, then USD 14, 39 and 199 a month — only appears on the licence page. And the privacy framework is purely American: no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site, no data processing agreement, no list of subprocessors, no stated hosting jurisdiction.
For a creator who needs safe background music quickly, the free tier answers the question in a few clicks and the paid entry point stays modest. For a European organisation with compliance obligations, the missing documentation is the thing to settle first.
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