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24 alternatives to MusicLM by Google
A text to music AI model by Google
MusicLM is an AI model by Google that generates high-fidelity music from text descriptions. Users can input detailed prompts like "a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff" to create original music… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MusicLM by Google launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: https://maroofy.com You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music. Demo: https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554 How does it work? I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music. My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output. I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic…
2023 · maroofy.com · its alternatives →
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Eleven Music▲535First Music API trained on licensed data, commercial-ready
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Brev.ai▲262Create quality music from text instantly, free & online
2024 · brev.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec (https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal…
2024 · sonauto.ai · its alternatives →
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Google AI Studio▲492Made using Google’s Lyria music model — an image → music translator. I’m a designer at Google, doing a self-initiated 30 days with Gemini experiment. This is technically a promo, but honestly just pleased with how this one turned out. I don’t write code — this was entirely vibecoded.
2025 · accounts.google.com · its alternatives →
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Lyrical Labs▲117Generate AI music melodies and lyrics - DALL-E for music
2024 · lyricallabs.io · its alternatives →
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LALAL.AI▲268Use AI to split any song into vocal and instrumental tracks
2020 · lalal.ai · its alternatives →
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Moises AI Studio▲154Introducing the first instrument-based AI music model
2025 · moises.ai · its alternatives →
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Music.AI▲137The single source for multiple state-of-the-art AI models
2023 · music.ai · its alternatives →
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2017 · blog.buildo.io · its alternatives →
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AI Music Generator, Custom Melody AI, Instrumental Mode AI
Oct 2025 · textmusic.net · its alternatives →
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Turn plain text into your own unique music by AI Technology.
2023 · its alternatives →
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AI that turns your melody into a full arrangement
Feb 2026 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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ElevenMusic▲102Hi HN! I could never find the right sample for my music, so we built Sounds. A collaborative catalog of free samples and loops, generated with our music model. Everything is free to browse and download, but the most fun part is to generate your own. Every generation joins the public library, so the catalog grows from what people couldn't find.
Apr 2026 · elevenmusic.io · its alternatives →
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A look into songwriting with an AI
2017 · its alternatives →
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