Commercial use means using the music to make money — monetised videos, ads, games, products or client work. Whether you can do this with AI music depends entirely on the licence attached to your plan.
Free vs paid licensing
On most tools, free-tier generations are for personal, non-commercial use, while paid plans grant a commercial licence. Autunes works a little differently: paid plans include commercial usage of everything you create, and a Free song becomes yours with commercial use once you download it for ₹9. Pay ₹99 or more in one go (a credit top-up counts) and every song you make after that downloads free.
- Free tier on most tools: personal use only. On Autunes, a ₹9 download adds commercial use for that song.
- Paid plan: commercial licence included on Autunes, 0% royalties.
- Always confirm terms before monetising.
What to double-check
Read whether the licence covers your specific use (YouTube monetisation, client delivery, paid ads) and whether attribution is required. When in doubt, keep a record of your plan and its terms.
The two questions to separate
There are two distinct issues that often get muddled: whether you are permitted to use the track commercially, and whether anyone else has a competing claim to it. The first is settled by the plan you generated it on. The second is about your inputs.
If your lyrics are original and your prompt describes a sound rather than reproducing someone else's song, there is no competing claim. If you pasted in copyrighted lyrics or tried to recreate a specific existing recording, the generation being AI-made does not clear that.
- Commercial permission comes from your plan.
- Original lyrics keep the output clean of third-party claims.
- Recreating a specific existing record is a separate problem.