Music and sound effects AIVA vs Loudly
Can you ship a game made with AIVA or Loudly? By stored vendor quotes: AIVA: "Restricted on a plan"; Loudly: "Paid plans, with caveats", cheapest verified commercial plan $8/mo (billed yearly).
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
The verified text restricts commercial use. Do not ship on the plan that restriction covers.
Paid-plan commercial use is on the record. Read the caveats before you ship.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | AIVA | Loudly |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | AIVAverified Prices on the page are annual billing, in euros, plus VAT. Standard is €11/month. Pro is €33/month. Free is €0. | Loudlyverified Personal is $8 a month billed annually ($96 a year), with 2,500 credits a month. |
| Commercial use | AIVAverified Free is for non-commercial use only. Copyright is owned by AIVA, there is no monetization, credit is required, and downloads are 3 per month in MP3 and MIDI. | Loudlyverified The Personal card lists a commercial-use license and MP3/WAV downloads; Pro lists a Pro license with commercial use. |
| Ownership of outputs | AIVAverified Pro is the plan where the page says copyright is owned by you, with full monetization, no credit requirement, 300 downloads per month, and WAV export. | Loudlyverified Loudly keeps the copyright and grants you commercial rights; you get a license, not ownership. |
| License caveat | AIVAverified On Free, the page says 'Copyright owned by AIVA' and 'No monetization'. | Loudlyverified Projects can be monetized in perpetuity only if they were completed and released during the term of the agreement, so ship the game while you are subscribed. |
| Steam disclosure | AIVAverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | Loudlyverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | AIVAverified Free and Standard list MP3 and MIDI. Pro lists all file formats and high quality WAV. Game-engine middleware is not named. | Loudlyverified Paid plans download high-quality MP3 and WAV files. There is no game-engine plugin; you import the audio files yourself. |