Artlist AI puts image, video, music and voiceover generation into a single credit-based workspace running on 100+ external models, paired with a 900,000-asset royalty-free catalogue and one commercial licence covering both.
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Artlist bundles four generative capabilities — image, video, music and voiceover — into a single credit-based workspace that sits alongside a royalty-free stock catalogue. The workspace is called the AI Toolkit; a separate product, Artlist Studio, extends the same account into end-to-end video production.
The company did not start here. Artlist began as a music licensing service and repositioned around generative AI, and the scale of that pivot is documented outside the vendor's own pages. Independent reporting put annual recurring revenue at $260 million for 2025, growing around 50% year on year with roughly 500 staff. This is an established subscription business adding AI, not an AI startup adding a catalogue, and the licensing machinery reflects that history.
Two working styles are available inside the Toolkit. Standard mode leaves model and settings selection to the user, while Agent mode takes a plain-language brief and picks those itself. The first suits someone with a clear idea of which model handles a given shot; the second suits someone who would rather describe the outcome.
The platform is primarily an aggregator: the generation itself runs on externally built models, with Artlist supplying the workspace, the licence and the billing layer around them. The named models span the current field — Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 1.5, FLUX.2, Lyria 3 and ElevenLabs voices — and new releases appear automatically rather than requiring a plan change.
The consequence is clear: output quality tracks whatever the underlying model does, so evaluating Artlist means evaluating the workspace, the licence and the credit economics rather than the generation quality of any one engine.
The exception is in-house work. Independent reporting describes Artlist Original 1.0 as a cinematic image model trained on the company's own catalogue, with four visual styles aimed at professional production. Two smaller in-house tools round this out: the Agent that selects models for you, and Auto-Prompt, which expands a short idea into a fuller prompt.
More than seventy ready-made Apps package a specific transformation rather than a blank prompt box — Smart Resize for aspect ratio, UGC Product Ad for building an ad from reference images, Bullet Time for an orbiting freeze, AI Headshot Generator for turning selfies into portraits. Several are marked free. For repetitive commercial work these are the fastest path, because the prompt engineering is already done.
More than 900,000 stock assets sit behind the same subscription, spanning music, sound effects, footage, templates and LUTs. This part predates the AI pivot and changes the comparison set: weighing Artlist against a pure generation tool also means weighing it against a stock library, and the single licence covering both is the actual differentiator.
The mode decision is worth making deliberately rather than by default.
A typical sequence uses more than one generator. Images come first as reference or opening frames, video generation builds the shots, AI Music supplies a track and AI Voiceover adds narration. Because all four draw on the same credit pool, sequencing is really budgeting — heavy spending on video iterations leaves less for the music and voice passes that finish the piece.
This step is easy to skip and expensive to skip. Channels have to be added to the clearlist before monetisation works, and skipping that step is what produces copyright claims against your own uploads. The clearlist sits in account settings; adding a channel or video URL clears claims and restores monetisation. For client work an invite link lets a client add their own videos.
The licence structure answers this question more precisely than any description of features. The Social licence covers one channel per platform; the Pro and Business licence raises that to three and adds client work, paid promotion and broadcast. Read that first, because it determines whether the subscription legally covers the work you actually do.
For someone posting to one or two of their own channels, the entry plans and the Social licence line up well, and generation across four media types plus a catalogue removes several subscriptions. The daily ceiling sits at 40 songs, 100 sound effects, 40 templates and 100 clips, which is generous for one person and restrictive for an automated pipeline.
Client work requires the Pro or Business licence — the Social tier does not cover it. Agencies also gain from higher credit tiers and Unlimited on selected models, since campaign work involves many discarded iterations. The clearlist invite mechanism exists specifically for handing monetisation clearance to a client.
Businesses with 50 or more employees are steered toward Max Business, and Enterprise adds legal indemnification, SSO and a dedicated account manager. The SOC 2 Type II claim and the no-training commitment are the two facts most likely to matter in a security review.
Anyone whose need is a single best-in-class generator will find that model available directly from its own vendor, often cheaper. Anyone building an automated pipeline runs into the fair-use rule forbidding automation and scraping. And anyone needing to register output in Content ID cannot use this catalogue at all.
Beyond the web workspace, generation reaches two other surfaces: an editing-timeline plugin and an MCP connection that exposes the tools inside an assistant. The plugin targets editors who would rather not leave their NLE to fetch an asset. The MCP connection is the more unusual of the two — connecting it once makes the generation tools callable from inside Claude, which suits people who already work conversationally.
One structural note: the licence describes the plugins and the Hub Manager as add-ons that operate inside third-party editing software rather than standalone products, and the licence to install them covers up to two devices.
Credits are the shared currency across every generator, which means an image, a video, a song and a voiceover all draw from the same monthly pool. The published self-serve tiers look like this, with the annual-billing rate and the rolling monthly rate side by side.
| Plan | Monthly (billed annually) | Monthly (rolling) | Credits per month | Approx. images | Approx. videos | Voiceover | Songs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Starter | $11.99 | $19.99 | 16,500 | up to 1,650 | up to 206 | up to 3 hours | up to 110 |
| AI Core | $23.99 | $39.99 | 40,000 | up to 4,000 | up to 500 | up to 8 hours | up to 266 |
| AI Creator | $41.67 | $69.99 | 80,000 | up to 8,000 | up to 1,000 | up to 16 hours | up to 533 |
| Custom Business | Contact sales | Contact sales | Custom | — | — | — | — |
Those conversion figures are the vendor's own and represent single-media maximums; generating video and images from one allowance necessarily reduces both.
Unlimited is scoped rather than absolute: it covers selected models and settings and remains subject to plan features, technical capacity and a fair-use rule. There is a second layer to understand as well. Each plan includes a set number of fast, priority generations per month; once those are used, Unlimited generation continues at standard speed rather than stopping. If speed matters more than volume, the recommended move is to switch Unlimited off and spend credits instead. Automation, scraping and account sharing are excluded outright.
The pricing cards and the home-page FAQ list different plan names, and no third page reconciles them. The cards show AI Starter, AI Core, AI Creator and Custom Business. The FAQ describes AI Starter, AI Creator, AI Professional, AI Pro Plus, Max and Music & SFX. Both are official pages on the same site. Anyone comparing a quote against a published tier should confirm which naming the checkout actually uses.
A free account can generate across all four media types, but everything it produces or downloads arrives watermarked. That makes it a genuine evaluation path for output quality while leaving the paid step as the only route to usable files.
Against alternatives, the comparison depends on what is being replaced. Music licensing services compete on price for that one function, general stock libraries on catalogue breadth at lower cost, individual model vendors on depth for one generator. What Artlist offers is one licence spanning generated and stock material together — worth most to someone paying for both separately, least to someone needing only one.
A refund exists only inside a fourteen-day window and only if nothing was downloaded, generated or exported during it, so a single trial generation forfeits the money. This is the single most consequential clause in the terms, because the natural way to evaluate a paid plan — subscribing and generating something — is precisely what voids eligibility. Trial accounts are excluded from refunds entirely.
Renewal follows a similar shape. Subscriptions renew automatically unless notice is given at least fourteen calendar days before the next billing cycle begins, which means a cancellation decided on renewal day arrives too late.
The licence restricts what finished work can be. Assets must be integrated into something larger and cannot be republished, resold or remixed as standalone pieces. That rules out lyric videos over a track, looping animations built around music, and any use where the asset is effectively the product. Registering anything built from the catalogue into YouTube Content ID or Facebook Rights Manager is prohibited, because a licence is a right to use and not ownership. The same clause blocks incorporating assets into a logo or trademark.
"Unlimited downloads" carries a daily ceiling of 40 songs, 100 sound effects, 40 templates and 100 clips, and automated downloading is prohibited regardless of volume.
Assets can be fed into other AI services only under conditions: not for training or fine-tuning, not into services that claim ownership of their output, and not into shared or community services where outputs are visible to others. Separately, the terms forbid using voices from the Voice Over tool to create or train voice models or clones anywhere.
Finally, service is not available everywhere. The company states it will not trade with or provide services to sanctioned countries or to individuals and entities on a sanctions list, so availability depends on jurisdiction.
Prompts, uploads and outputs are declared off-limits for model training, and the statement covers Artlist and its partners rather than the platform alone. That scope matters, which matters given that most generation runs on third-party models.
Ownership of what you generate is not claimed by the vendor, and commercial use is permitted within the licence and the usual third-party rights. The caveats are the ordinary ones: trademarks, intellectual property and personal likeness remain the user's responsibility. Note the asymmetry between generated output and catalogue assets — AI output comes with full rights, while stock assets remain licensed rather than owned, and editing an asset does not convert it into output.
On security posture, the vendor states SOC 2 Type II certification with the full report available on request. Since only the claim and not the report is public, a security review should ask for it rather than treat the statement as verified. The terms were last updated on 2 July 2026.
Images, video, music and voiceovers, all from the same workspace and credit pool. Video covers text-to-video, image-to-video and talking-avatar output with lip-sync; voiceover covers text-to-voice, voice-to-voice conversion and voice cloning; image generation covers text-to-image and image-to-image editing.
Over a hundred, sourced externally and named on the site — Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 1.5, FLUX.2, Lyria 3 and ElevenLabs voices among them. New model releases are added automatically. The exception is Artlist Original 1.0, an in-house cinematic image model trained on the company's own catalogue.
The vendor states it makes no ownership claim over AI outputs and that you may use, adapt, distribute and monetise them, bounded by the licence and terms. You remain responsible for third-party rights such as trademarks and personal likeness. Stock catalogue assets are different — those stay licensed, not owned.
No, according to the vendor. Artlist and its partners are stated never to use prompts, uploads or outputs for AI model training. The platform also holds a SOC 2 Type II certification, with the full report supplied on request rather than published.
Selected models and settings only, and subject to plan features, model availability, technical capacity and fair use. Each plan carries a monthly quota of fast, priority generations; after that, Unlimited continues at standard speed. Automation, scraping and account sharing are not permitted.
Only within fourteen calendar days of purchase or renewal, and only if you downloaded nothing, generated nothing and exported nothing with the tools during that period. Trial accounts are excluded. Consumers in jurisdictions with mandatory cancellation rights are directed to contact support.
Most likely because the channel was not added to the clearlist. Until a channel or video URL is registered there, claims from Artlist Ltd can appear and monetisation stays blocked; once registered, existing claims are cleared and monetisation is restored.
No. Assets may be used as inputs to AI services but not to train or fine-tune models, not with services that claim rights over their output, and not with shared or community services where outputs are visible to others. Using Voice Over voices to build voice models or clones is prohibited on any platform.
