SOUNDRAW
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
SOUNDRAW is a generator of background music. The selection goes by genres, moods, tempo, themes and instruments; what is produced is edited bar by bar — "bar-level editing (mute, solo, intensity)". The export is to mp3, wav and by tracks: "separate WAV files for drums, bass, melody, vocals (if any), and FX". There is an API.
Separately the tool stipulates the origin of the training data: "SOUNDRAW’s AI is trained only on songs our in-house producers write and record", "uses no scraped data" (homepage, licence).
Which platforms it works with
The platforms are named one by one, but this is a list of places where the music is permitted to be used, not a list of automatic publishing: the tool publishes nothing for you.
The licence page names YouTube, social networks, live broadcasts, video games, radio and television. For the musicians' plans streaming services are added — "Distribute & monetize songs (Spotify, Apple Music...)" — and TikTok.
The output leaves as files; on the corporate plan an API is announced.
Pricing
The prices were taken from the homepage with the switch in the "Annual" position, the currency is euros. The page does not name monthly values.
With annual payment: Creator — "€5.83/mo"; Artist Starter — "€10.75/mo"; Artist Pro — "€12.42/mo"; Artist Unlimited — "€17.42/mo". Enterprise — "Ask", on request, for companies from 10 employees.
What is free
The answer is a contradictory one. The terms do define a free plan: "“Free Plan” means a plan that allows users to use a portion of the Service free of charge, specifically as set forth in the Schedule". In the contract it exists.
On the pricing page it is not there: only the paid plans ("Paid Plans") are shown, and the volume of free access is not announced.
Restrictions
What is restricted is the export of finished tracks, not the creation; and it is counted in downloads a month. Creator — "Unlimited Monthly Track Downloads", but only mp3. Artist Starter — "10 Monthly Track Downloads", mp3. Artist Pro — "20 Monthly Track Downloads", already "mp3, wav, stems". Artist Unlimited — without a limit on the number and "mp3, wav, stems". Enterprise — without a limit plus access to the API.
Rights to the output
You do not obtain rights to what has been created — you obtain a licence.
The terms say: "All Intellectual Property Rights pertaining to the Service and the programs that comprise the Service belong to the Company. The neighboring rights of producers of phonograms to the sound sources used in the Generated Music belong to the Company. The Company shall grant the Registered User a license to use the Generated Music in accordance with the plan selected by the Registered User… such license shall be non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable". The neighbouring rights to the sound sources remain with the company, while you are issued a non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to the extent of the plan chosen.
What the licence permits is on the licence page: "All Plans: Personal and commercial use in all of your projects (YouTube, UGC, product videos, tutorials, live streams, social media, video games, up to 1 physical store, client work, hold music, radio, TV)".
The boundaries. On the plans for musicians the music may be put out to streaming services only in reworked form: "you can distribute songs made with our beats to DSPs such as Spotify - but only if you modify the beats first… The final, modified song needs to sound clearly different to the original, downloaded track". Directly forbidden are "Registering content ID", "Distributing your music without modifying" and "Selling the modified beat on stock audio platforms".
And the reservation worth remembering before the others: "If you use SOUNDRAW tracks as downloaded, you can only keep your content published while your SOUNDRAW subscription is active" — a track used in the form in which it was downloaded may be kept published only while the subscription is in force.
Do they train on your data
The source does not say: the terms do not state whether what is entered is used for training, and they describe no way of opting out.
In detail the tool speaks about the opposite direction — what it is itself trained on: "SOUNDRAW is an ethical AI music generator, trained using input from our in-house music team. Since we never use stolen material for training, our tracks will always be safe from copyright strikes".
"We did not train on other people's material" and "we do not train on yours" are different statements. The first has been said, the second has not.
How you earn with it
The earning here is on the music itself: the licence of all plans includes work to order ("client work"), while the musicians' plans add "Distribute & monetize songs (Spotify, Apple Music...)" and TikTok.
The conditions at that are strict — to streaming services only reworked material, Content ID is forbidden, selling a reworked beat on audio exchanges is forbidden. And the main point: earning on a track used as downloaded is tied to the payment continuing.
What it will not do
It will not publish the music for you: the list of platforms on the licence page is places where use is permitted, not channels for export.
It does not agree to hand you the rights to what has been created: they remain with the company. And it will not leave the publication in force after the subscription is cancelled — for tracks used as downloaded.
It will not allow the music to be registered in Content ID: that is a direct prohibition of the licence. As is putting it out to streaming services without reworking and selling a reworked beat on audio exchanges.
It is not ready to give up wav and the separate tracks on the junior plans: Creator and Artist Starter — only mp3.
It puts forward no requirements to mark what has been created by AI: "watermark" and "C2PA" are neither in the terms nor on the licence page.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
a generator of royalty-free background music: selection by genre, mood, tempo, theme and instrument, bar-by-bar editing ("bar-level editing (mute, solo, intensity)"), mixing of genres, export to mp3, wav and as separate tracks ("separate WAV files for drums, bass, melody, vocals (if any), and FX"), an API; the tool makes a particular point about the origin of its training data: "SOUNDRAW’s AI is trained only on songs our in-house producers write and record", "uses no scraped data"
the description is from the home page and the licence page
source, checked 2026-08-04
the service has no language input: SOUNDRAW makes only instrumental music, verbatim from the official FAQ section «Currently, SOUNDRAW specializes in generating instrumental tracks and does not support the creation of songs with integrated vocals or lyrics»; a track is set by choosing genre, mood, tempo, length and instruments rather than by text in any language, so support for Russian, Arabic, Hindi or Chinese as input and output languages does not exist in principle; vocals and lyrics are to be added by the user in an external audio editor
this is SOUNDRAW's official help section, linked in the header of soundraw.io as «FAQ»; the robots.txt of docs.channel.io was read in full and closes only /revisions/. Support for the service in the structured data of the home page is claimed in English and Japanese, but that is the language of communication and of the interface rather than of the content processed
source, checked 2026-08-07
Platforms
on the licence page the platforms are named by name as permitted for using the music: YouTube, social networks, live streams, video games, radio, TV, and for the musicians' plans — "Distribute & monetize songs (Spotify, Apple Music...)" and TikTok; export in mp3, wav and by track; an API is announced on the corporate plan
this is a list of permitted platforms of use, not auto-publishing
source, checked 2026-08-04
Pricing
€9.99/mo — the Creator plan on monthly billing; paid yearly the same plan is €5.83/mo (the page shows the yearly option by default); then Artist Starter €10.75/mo, Artist Pro €12.42/mo and Artist Unlimited €17.42/mo on yearly billing; there is no free plan, only trial use without downloading
the prices on the page are substituted by country of request: requested from Europe, they were shown in euros; in the structured data of the same page the plans are given in yen (Creator 1650 JPY, Artist Starter 2900 JPY, Artist Pro 3590 JPY), which agrees with the monthly tier. The monthly values were taken from the page's own script (the pricingData object, the fullMonthly and fullAnnual fields), because the switch stands on «Annual» by default. The service has no separate pricing page; the plans live in the section https://soundraw.io/#pricing-section
source, checked 2026-08-07
the free plan is defined in the terms: "“Free Plan” means a plan that allows users to use a portion of the Service free of charge, specifically as set forth in the Schedule", but the pricing page shows only the paid plans ("Paid Plans"), and the volume of the free access is not announced there
the free plan is mentioned by the contract, but its volume is not described on the pricing page
source, checked 2026-08-04
with annual payment: Creator — "€5.83/mo"; Artist Starter — "€10.75/mo"; Artist Pro — "€12.42/mo"; Artist Unlimited — "€17.42/mo"; Enterprise (for companies from 10 employees) — "Ask", on request. The page has an Annual / Monthly switch
the currency is euros; the figures taken down correspond to the "Annual" position of the switch, the monthly ones are shown on the page by flipping it
source, checked 2026-08-04
Limits and restrictions
the limit is counted in downloads of finished tracks per month: Creator — "Unlimited Monthly Track Downloads", mp3 only; Artist Starter — "10 Monthly Track Downloads", mp3; Artist Pro — "20 Monthly Track Downloads", "mp3, wav, stems"; Artist Unlimited — with no limit, "mp3, wav, stems"; Enterprise — with no limit plus access to the API
what is limited is the export, not the creation
source, checked 2026-08-04
Restrictions
article 10 of the terms, «Prohibited Acts», forbids: registering generated music as Content ID on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and similar platforms; using the music outside the licence granted; using the service for a bad-faith purpose; infringing the intellectual property rights, image rights and publicity rights of other users, of the company and of third parties; defaming, insulting and invading privacy; committing fraud and other crimes; distributing viruses; modifying, adapting and reverse-engineering the service's content and software; altering and appropriating others' information; breaking the law and public morals; luring users to third-party sites; interfering with the service's operation; selling, giving away and sublicensing the generated music as such without the company's consent; downloading with third-party applications; developing a competing model on the generated music; harvesting data and music by scraping and parsing other than through the API; dealing with anti-social organisations. The licence page separately marks as «Not OK»: registering Content ID, releasing the music without reworking it, and selling a reworked beat on stock platforms
the service has no bans on political topics, disinformation or voice cloning — it does not synthesise speech and does not work with vocals. The difference between plans: releasing to streaming platforms is allowed only on the Artist plans and only after reworking the track so that the result clearly differs from the downloaded original; on the Creator plan the music is allowed only as background. The licence page: https://soundraw.io/license
source, checked 2026-08-07
Legal
the terms leave the rights with the tool outright: "All Intellectual Property Rights pertaining to the Service and the programs that comprise the Service belong to the Company. The neighboring rights of producers of phonograms to the sound sources used in the Generated Music belong to the Company. The Company shall grant the Registered User a license to use the Generated Music in accordance with the plan selected by the Registered User… such license shall be non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable". The licence page lists what is allowed: "All Plans: Personal and commercial use in all of your projects (YouTube, UGC, product videos, tutorials, live streams, social media, video games, up to 1 physical store, client work, hold music, radio, TV)"; on the plans for musicians only reworked material may be put out to streaming services: "you can distribute songs made with our beats to DSPs such as Spotify - but only if you modify the beats first… The final, modified song needs to sound clearly different to the original, downloaded track"; prohibited are "Registering content ID", "Distributing your music without modifying", "Selling the modified beat on stock audio platforms"; a separate caveat: "If you use SOUNDRAW tracks as downloaded, you can only keep your content published while your SOUNDRAW subscription is active"
the unexpected part: the user gets not the rights to what is created but a licence, and publication rests on an active subscription
source, checked 2026-08-04
the terms say nothing about training on what the user submits and describe no opt-out. The service answers a different question — about the provenance of ITS OWN training data: «SOUNDRAW is an ethical AI music generator, trained using input from our in-house music team. Since we never use stolen material for training, our tracks will always be safe from copyright strikes» (verbatim). That is an answer to a neighbouring question, not to the one asked
the provenance of the training data is stated outright; about training on user data, nothing
source, checked 2026-08-04
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