AIVA plans: 3, 15 or 300 downloads vs Sume per-generation price

AIVA's page lists three plans: Free (3 downloads a month, tracks up to 3 minutes, non-commercial), Standard at 11 euros a month billed annually (15 downloads, up to 5 minutes), and Pro at 33 euros a month billed annually (300 downloads, up to 5 minutes 30 seconds, and you own the copyright). Sume's Music 1.0 charges a fixed $0.125 per accepted generation, with no download quota and no monthly plan for music alone. The two meter different things, so the cheaper one depends on how many takes you throw away.

AIVA's numbers come from its home page, read on 2026-10-02. Sume's come from the Music 1.0 and Music Router docs.

What does each AIVA plan include?

The page also says you can upload audio or MIDI as influences, make custom style models and edit a generated track before downloading it.

How does Sume meter music?

A Music 1.0 generation is a fixed $0.125 USD per accepted generation, and the docs say the price does not vary by prompt length or by optional image conditioning. Every Music Router model charges the same fixed Music price per audio generation, and the catalog lists each provider's list price for reference. There is no download counter: a job that completes returns an audio artifact on media.sume.com and you can fetch it again from the job result.

The difference is what counts as the unit. AIVA counts the tracks you export. Sume counts the generations that were accepted, whether or not you keep them.

What does a heavy month look like on each?

At AIVA's Pro limit of 300 downloads, 33 euros comes to about 0.11 euros a download, if you use every one and ignore the exchange rate. At Sume, 300 generations at $0.125 is $37.50. If you keep one take in three, 300 kept tracks means about 900 generations, or $112.50 on Sume, while AIVA's count stays at 300 downloads because you only download what you keep.

The comparison flips for a small month. A project that needs ten tracks and tries three prompts each is 30 generations, $3.75 on Sume, against a 11 euro subscription at AIVA. Neither vendor's page lets you compare audio quality, so listen to both before choosing on cost.

Does the Sume price change with track length?

No. The Music docs state the fixed per-generation price does not vary by prompt length or image conditioning, and length itself is only a request in the prompt. AIVA's tiers instead cap track length at 3, 5 and 5 minutes 30 seconds, so a long piece is a plan decision there and a prompt decision here.

Whether a Sume generation actually reaches the length you asked for is something to check on the result; the docs list no duration field to enforce it. A trim or loop afterwards is a separate timeline step.

What do you get at AIVA that Sume does not offer?

The reverse also holds: Sume gives you a durable URL, a webhook mode and the same job envelope as the rest of the API, which matters if music is generated inside a larger pipeline.

• MIDI export; Sume's Music docs list audio artifacts only.
• Custom style models and audio or MIDI influences; Sume takes text and an optional image.
• Editing a track before download; Sume has no editor, and a new prompt is a new paid generation.
• A plan tier that states copyright ownership; check Sume's own terms for rights language, since the Music docs pages say nothing about it.