Udio

What is Udio?

Udio, operated by Uncharted Labs, Inc., is a web service (and official iOS app) that turns a text prompt into songs. The official site, checked November 13, 2026, still shows a Beta mark on the logo. A free plan and paid Standard and Pro plans are listed on udio.com/pricing. Official help says downloading of audio, video and stems has been disabled. AppFor.ai has not created an account.

What you can use Udio for

Udio, operated by Uncharted Labs, Inc., describes itself as a way to create music from simple text prompts: topics, genres and other descriptors that it says are turned into tracks. The official homepage, checked November 13, 2026, leads with "Make your music" and "Create any song. Just imagine it." The About page says the company builds AI tools for music creators and lists backers including a16z, will.i.am, Common, Tay Keith, Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters, Mike Krieger, Kevin Wall, the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, and Oriol Vinyals, among others.

On the official pricing page, free users can generate songs with a limited daily quota, extend and remix tracks, generate cover art, and use styles as a musical reference, with a cap of three 130-second songs a day. Standard and Pro unlock Voice Control, music and lyrics editing, generations from uploaded audio, existing songs as a style reference, Udio's library of Voices, saving your own Voices, premium Artist Styles, blend and reduce styles, and custom cover art. Pro alone is listed as able to adjust song access permissions. Official help says each Create, Extend, Remix, Inpaint or Edit produces two new songs, and that a set of two 32-second songs costs two credits, while a set of two 130-second songs costs four credits.

A first workflow to try

Suggested workflow, not a recorded run, from Udio's official "Create Your First Song" help article: open udio.com, create an account if you need one, and on the Home page type a short prompt that names a style, mood or theme (the help examples include "Song about New York, jazz"). Choose a clip length; the help article says the default is 32 seconds and suggests selecting "2 minutes" for a first song, then click Create. Udio generates two songs from the prompt. Before you rely on being able to take a file offline or use a song commercially, read the current Terms of Service and the help article on changes associated with the UMG partnership, because official materials say downloads are disabled and that Output is for personal, non-commercial use. AppFor.ai has not created an account or generated a song.

Plans, trials, downloads and terms

The live pricing page on November 13, 2026, lists the Free, Standard and Pro prices and credit limits in the pricing field above, with a Monthly or Annually toggle and USD, GBP and EUR. Paid plan credits are monthly limits with no rollover; purchased a-la-carte credits do not expire. A pricing FAQ says one credit corresponds to one roughly 30-second audio track, that each generation produces two tracks and therefore costs two credits, and that the 2-minute model costs correspondingly more (the credits help article specifies four credits per pair of 130-second songs). If you run out of credits, the FAQ says you cannot generate new tracks or cover art until you buy more or your limits refresh.

All creators get a one-time Standard trial of up to 7 days, cancelable at udio.com/account. During the trial you get some Standard features (including up to six songs at once, Voice Control, editing, audio-upload guidance, style references and custom cover art) but you stay on free-tier credit limits and the three 2-minute songs a day cap. If you do not cancel, Udio says it will charge the full annual subscription price unless you previously toggled the period to monthly; an official example quotes $96 plus tax in the U.S. There is no Pro trial. Students at accredited universities can get 50% off for 6 months, with the school-email match described in Udio's help article.

An official help article dated February 17, 2026, titled "Changes associated with the Universal Music Group ("UMG") partnership," says that as part of that partnership Udio raised Standard and Pro monthly credit limits to 2400 and 6000, raised the Pro simultaneous-generation cap, granted subscribers a one-time 1000 non-expiring credits, and that downloading of audio, video and stems has been disabled. The Terms of Service published on November 13, 2026 (last revised November 12, 2025) state that you may use Output solely for personal and non-commercial purposes and that you may not download copies of Output from the app. That is the official license language we verified; it is not legal advice.

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