Mubert API
An API that generates royalty-free background music on demand from a prompt, mood, or genre, for apps, games, and video tools.
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Description
Licensing music for an app is a legal headache most developers would rather skip entirely: rights clear for one region but not another, a track works until the label changes its mind, and per-track licensing doesn't scale to millions of users. Mubert's API sidesteps all of that by generating music on the fly instead of licensing pre-made tracks.
Developers call the Mubert API to generate original tracks from a text prompt, an image, or parameters like BPM, activity, genre and mood, spanning 150+ genres and 50+ moods, with individual stems (drums, bass, leads, vocals, pads and more) swappable inside a track. Tracks run from 15 seconds to 25 minutes, and a real-time streaming mode over WebRTC delivers sub-second latency with 3-second buffering for instant playback — alongside a library of 12,000 pre-generated curated tracks for cases that don't need live generation. All API-generated output ships with monetization and sub-licensing rights, and the API has powered over 200 million tracks to date through partners including Picsart, Canva and Restream.
💬 Our review
The short version: Mubert's real value is the combination of generation flexibility (text, image, BPM, genre, or mood as inputs, 150+ genres and 50+ moods, tracks from 15 seconds to 25 minutes) with built-in monetization and sub-licensing rights, which is the part that actually matters for a commercial product — generated audio you can legally ship is worth more than audio that merely sounds good.
Pricing is where it gets real: the Trial tier is $49/month for just 100 generations and 100 streaming minutes, and it scales to $499/month for 30,000 of each at the Startup+ tier — reasonable for a funded product shipping music at scale, expensive to experiment with casually. Partnerships with Picsart, Canva and Restream suggest the API holds up in production at real scale, which is a meaningful trust signal versus a newer, unproven generation API. One restriction worth flagging clearly: music generated directly on mubert.com's own domains is personal-use only — commercial use requires going through the actual API with a paid plan, so don't assume the website demo output is licensed for your product. Against building on a cheaper stock-music library instead, Mubert's edge is truly on-demand, parametrically-controlled generation rather than picking from a fixed catalog — worth the price if your product genuinely needs unique, adaptive audio per user or per moment.
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Trial : 49 $/mois (100 générations, 100 minutes de streaming). Startup : 199 $/mois (5 000 générations, 5 000 minutes). Startup+ : 499 $/mois (30 000 générations, 30 000 minutes). Custom : sur devis. Droits de monétisation inclus dans tous les paliers.
Pros
Génération contrôlable par texte, image, BPM, genre ou humeur
Streaming temps réel via WebRTC, latence sub-seconde
Droits de monétisation et sous-licence inclus dans les abonnements API
Partenariats de production réels (Picsart, Canva, Restream)
Cons
Palier d'entrée cher pour tester (49 $/mois pour seulement 100 générations)
Musique générée directement sur mubert.com réservée à un usage personnel uniquement
Fonctionnalités entreprise (voix, stems personnalisés) nécessitent une négociation à part
Modèle de licence non remboursable