What Beatoven.ai does

Beatoven.ai is an AI music generation platform founded in 2021 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with a recently established operating presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company builds proprietary generative audio models, led by its Maestro foundation model trained on more than 100,000 ethically-sourced samples contributed by hundreds of musicians under a Fairly Trained-certified framework. In October 2025 the company extended the platform with Maestro Sound Effects, a text-to-foley model, and offers three published developer APIs (Composition, Music Intelligence, AI Music Search) plus a Make.com integration.

The product targets individual content creators, filmmakers, game developers, and podcasters, providing prompt-based generation of royalty-free background music and sound effects with non-exclusive perpetual licensing for monetization. Pricing combines a free tier with subscription plans starting at $6/month and a pay-per-track option; users can customize mood, genre, instruments, sections, tempo, and stems, and download in MP3 or WAV. Distribution is product-led through a self-serve web platform, with the company reporting more than 2 million creators having generated over 15 million tracks.

The company is venture-backed, having raised approximately $1 million in seed funding in March 2022 from Redstart Labs (an Info Edge subsidiary) and Entrepreneur First, followed by an estimated $1.33 million in March 2024 from Capital 2B, IvyCap Ventures, Rukam Capital, Upsparks, and Entrepreneur First. The team is small (~13 listed members), and the company was selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator AI First Class in 2024. Revenue has not been disclosed.

Name

Beatoven.ai

Legal name

Beatoven Private Limited

Website

https://beatoven.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Beatoven.ai is a Bengaluru-based AI music generation platform that uses proprietary Maestro foundation models to let content creators, filmmakers, game developers, and podcasters generate royalty-free background music and sound effects from text prompts on a freemium, subscription, and API basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Music Generation Software

NAICS

Record Production and Distribution (512250), Sound Recording Industries (5122), Other Sound Recording Industries (512290)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Music Creation & Assistive Tools (Generation, Separation, Mastering) (MPAIAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Game Music Licensing & Interactive/Adaptive Music Providers (MPAIALAI), Creator Music/SFX Asset Libraries & Licensing Platforms (MPACABAM)

Keywords

• AI music generation
• Royalty-free music
• Generative audio software
• AI sound effects
• Background music platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Bengaluru

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Monthly and annual subscription plans providing additional download minutes beyond the free tier. Subscription tiers offer access to advanced features and stem downloads.
2. Pay-per-track: Users can pay for individual tracks they like without committing to a subscription. One-time purchase model for track downloads.
3. Free Tier: Free plan available allowing users to generate and download music with limited minutes. Provides access to basic music generation capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Beatoven.ai provides an AI music generation platform that lets content creators produce royalty-free background music and sound effects from text prompts using its proprietary Maestro foundation model. Users can customize mood, genre, tempo, instruments, and sections, then download tracks in MP3 or WAV with a perpetual monetization license. It also exposes Composition, Music Intelligence, and AI Music Search APIs for developer and enterprise integration.

Product overview

Beatoven.ai is an AI music generation platform consisting of a core web application and multiple AI-powered products. The flagship product is Maestro Music, a foundation model for generating customizable background music from text prompts. In October 2025, the company launched Maestro Sound Effects for AI-generated sound effects. The platform also offers three API products (Composition API, Music Intelligence API, and AI Music Search API) for developer integrations, available through direct API access and no-code automation platforms like Make.com. Users can generate music, download in MP3/WAV formats, and receive perpetual licenses for monetization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Beatoven.ai Platform Self-serve AI music generation web application that lets individual content creators generate royalty-free background music and sound effects for videos, podcasts, games, and other content without musical expertise.
• Maestro Music Proprietary AI foundation model that generates unique, customizable background music from text prompts, with controls for mood, emotion, genre, instruments, and sections.
• Maestro Sound Effects Generative AI sound effects product that creates high-fidelity, fully licensed foley and sound effects from text prompts for video, film, and game projects.
• Composition API REST API endpoint that lets developers programmatically generate AI-composed music through the Maestro model for integration into third-party applications.
• Music Intelligence API API endpoint providing AI-powered music intelligence capabilities, including music analysis and tagging, for integration into third-party platforms.
• AI Music Search API AI-powered music search API that enables semantic and similarity-based music discovery for integration into third-party applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2 million+ creators have generated over 15 million tracks
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Suno: Direct competitor in AI music generation from text prompts. Suno targets the same content creator and musician segments with a similar freemium-to-subscription model, but with substantially more capital ($125M+ raised) and broader genre/model capability.
• Udio: Direct competitor in AI music generation, focused on high-fidelity full-song creation. Udio competes for the same content creator base and has raised significant funding from Andreessen Horowitz, making it a primary head-to-head rival.
• AIVA: AI music composition assistant targeting content creators, game developers, and filmmakers. Closely comparable to Beatoven.ai in use case and target segment, with similar prompt-based generation and subscription pricing model.
• Soundraw: AI music generator specifically built for content creators (YouTubers, streamers, podcasters). Competes head-to-head with Beatoven.ai in the royalty-free background music category with a similar customization and licensing model.
• Loudly: AI music generation platform for creators and brands, offering API access for enterprise integration. Directly comparable in target customer (content creators, video producers) and API-first business model.
• Mubert: AI-generated royalty-free music platform with both creator tools and a developer API. Comparable business model and customer overlap, with additional strength in real-time generative music for apps and livestreams.
• Boomy: AI music generation platform enabling anyone to create songs and distribute to streaming services. Comparable creator target market and freemium model, with a unique angle on distribution monetization.

Broad incumbents

• Stability AI (Stable Audio): Major AI foundation model company with Stable Audio as its music generation product. Operates as a broader incumbent in generative AI with substantially more capital and infrastructure, competing in the same AI music generation category from a horizontal platform position.
• Epidemic Sound: Established royalty-free music licensing platform for content creators and brands. Not an AI generator but competes in the same workflow — providing music for YouTube/creator use cases — and is a potential acquirer or competitor as it integrates AI tools.
• Artlist: Subscription-based royalty-free music and sound effects library for video creators. Competes in adjacent category (licensed stock vs. AI-generated) and could represent both a competitive threat and a strategic acquirer as AI music matures.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/beatovenai
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC7g8H9kQDvSska-H2tg0Y7A
• Facebookfacebook.com/BeatovenAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beatovenai
• Instagraminstagram.com/beatovenai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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