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About this site
One subject, one rubric, and every subscription paid for out of my own pocket.
Casey Lindstrom
bestaimusicgenerator.com is a small independent site about one narrow subject: software that generates music, and whether any of it is worth paying for. It exists because the first page of results for "best AI music generator" is mostly lists assembled by people who have not opened the tools.
Who writes it
Casey Lindstrom. I have written about music software since 2014, first for a regional print weekly and since 2019 on the web. I pay for every subscription on this site out of my own pocket, run each tool through the same brief before I write a word about it, and keep the raw exports so I can go back and check myself.
What I take from vendors
Nothing. No vendor reviewed here has paid for placement, seen a review before publication, or been given a free account. There are no advertisements on this site and no affiliate links: the tools are named in plain text and not linked, so nothing on this page can earn money from a click. Subscriptions used for testing are paid for by this site.
The one thing I am not independent of
One entry on this site is not a vendor I approached. CustomSongwriter, the written-to-order song service that sits at the end of the best AI music generator list, is run by the same people who run this site. That is the whole of the commercial interest here, and it is the reason this paragraph exists.
What I do about it: it is scored against the same five criteria as the other seven, with the reasoning for every number written out, and the score left where the rubric put it. It is named in plain text and not linked to, exactly like the seven tools, so there is nothing to click and nothing to earn. And if you would rather not take a scored review from an interested party, that is the right instinct: the other seven reviews are the ones where I have no interest at all.
The scoring rubric is published in full on how I test so that any ranking on this site can be checked against it.
Why this site exists
I started it after an afternoon of reading the first page of results for "best AI music generator" and recognising almost none of it as testing. There were rankings whose top pick had a licensing position the writer clearly had not opened, and free-tier recommendations for commercial work that no free tier in this market permits.
So the rule here is narrow and boring: I only write about tools I have paid for and used against the same briefs, and I publish the briefs and the weights so that anybody can disagree with me on the evidence rather than on vibes.
What this site is not
It is not a news site and it does not cover funding rounds, model releases or roadmaps. It is not legal advice, particularly on the rights guide, which describes what vendors grant and what the Copyright Office has said, not what you should do.
And it is not a link farm. There is no advertisement anywhere on it, no affiliate link, and no outbound link to any vendor named on it, including the one I have an interest in. Tools are named in plain text so the claim stays checkable without sending anybody anywhere. The links that do leave this site go to the sources under each article: courts, copyright offices, and the music trade press. Where the only primary source is a vendor’s own terms page, it is quoted by name and not linked.
Contact
Corrections, vendor updates and complaints about a score: editor@bestaimusicgenerator.com. Price corrections are the most useful thing you can send. They get fixed with the date of the change noted on the page.
Casey Lindstrom
Writes and tests everything on this site
I have written about music software since 2014, first for a regional print weekly and since 2019 on the web. I pay for every subscription on this site out of my own pocket, run each tool through the same brief before I write a word about it, and keep the raw exports so I can go back and check myself.