What is Udio?
Udio is a web-based AI music generator for creating songs from text descriptions. A user can describe a musical idea, mood, or occasion, and Udio turns that prompt into music. It supports projects ranging from personalized birthday songs and romantic ballads to lo-fi meditation tracks and production ideas for professional musicians.
The platform also provides tools for developing existing material. Creators can extend or remix songs, edit music and lyrics on paid plans, and work from uploaded audio. Finished tracks can be published on Udio, where listeners can discover music and follow creators.
Key Features
- Text-to-music generation: Creates original songs from written descriptions of the desired genre, mood, theme, or use case.
- Song development tools: Lets creators extend and remix tracks, while paid plans add editing controls for music and lyrics.
- Audio uploads: Standard and Pro subscribers can upload audio files and generate songs from their own source material.
- Voices and style references: Paid features include Voice Control, saved custom voices, Udio's voice library, and the ability to use existing songs as style references.
- Cover art and sharing: Users can generate cover art, publish music on Udio, and adjust song access permissions; paid subscribers can upload custom artwork.
- Music discovery: Udio includes a community area for listening to published tracks and following artists and other creators.
Use Cases
- Create personalized songs for birthdays, dates, nights out, meditation, and other occasions.
- Draft musical ideas for songwriting, production, or creative experimentation.
- Extend, remix, or edit an existing Udio track into a more developed song.
- Upload original audio and use AI tools to explore new arrangements or directions.
- Publish completed tracks for listeners and other Udio creators to discover.
Pricing
Udio has a free plan with 10 daily credits, 100 monthly credits, and up to three 130-second song generations per day. It does not require a credit card.
Standard costs $10 per month, or $8 per month when billed annually at $96. It includes 2,400 monthly credits, up to six songs generated at the same time, audio uploads, Voice Control, editing, style references, and custom cover art.
Pro costs $30 per month, or $24 per month when billed annually at $288. It includes 6,000 monthly credits, up to ten songs generated at once, and the features from the other plans. Student discounts, free trials, and additional credit purchases are also listed.
Who Is It For?
Udio is intended for songwriters, producers, musicians, and casual creators who want to turn written ideas into music. It can serve experienced professionals testing production concepts as well as people making their first personalized song without traditional recording tools.
