Grain alternatives

12 audio tools in the same lane as Grain, ranked by editorial score.

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ElevenLabs

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Audio · ElevenLabs Multilingual v2

9.4

The gold standard for AI voice cloning and TTS.

Freemium· Free 10k chars/mo; from $5/mo Starter; up to $1320/mo ScaleTTSvoice cloning

Suno

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Audio · Suno v4

9.2

Text-to-song AI — full vocal tracks from a prompt.

Freemium· Free credits; Pro $10/mo; Premier $30/mosongwritingdemos

Udio

Audio · Udio (proprietary)

8.8

Suno's main rival for AI-generated full songs.

Freemium· Free; Standard $10/mo; Pro $30/mofull songsmusic demos

AssemblyAI

Audio · Universal / Slam-1

8.7

Speech-to-text API with diarisation, summarisation, and topic detection.

Freemium· Free credits; pay-per-use from $0.37/hrtranscriptiondiarisation

Chorus by ZoomInfo

Audio · In-house speech and NLP models (patented Chorus ML stack)

8.7

Enterprise conversation intelligence bundled with ZoomInfo's B2B data graph

Enterprise· No public pricing. Third-party sources put entry deals around $8,000/year for 3 seats, then roughly $1,200 per additional seat/year; typical 10-rep teams land near $16K-$25K/year. Usually bundled with ZoomInfo's Sales/Copilot suite, billed annually, quote-only.Sales call recording and transcriptionRep coaching and scorecards

Whisper

Audio · Whisper large-v3

8.6

OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text — the de-facto baseline.

Free· Free open weights; $0.006/min via OpenAI APItranscriptionself-hosted

Gong

Audio · In-house speech and language models, with additional agentic features reportedly built on frontier LLMs

8.5

Revenue AI platform that captures, transcribes, and analyzes customer conversations to drive sales outcomes.

Enterprise· Custom pricing based on per-user licenses plus a platform fee scaled to team size; no public tier pricing. Prospects request a quote via a demo form.Sales call recording and transcriptionDeal risk and pipeline inspection

Mubert

Audio · Proprietary sample-based generative engine

8.3

AI music generator that spits out royalty-free background tracks for video, podcast, and app use.

Freemium· Free tier; paid plans for commercial use; API via sales demobackground-musicroyalty-free-soundtracks

AudioCraft

Audio · MusicGen, AudioGen, EnCodec

8.2

Meta's open-source research toolkit for generating music and sound effects from text via a single autoregressive language model.

Free· Free and open source; self-hostedtext-to-musicsound-effects

Fireflies.ai

Audio · Multi-model (proprietary ASR + LLM layer)

8.2

AI meeting assistant that joins calls, transcribes them, and turns the talk into searchable notes and action items.

Freemium· Free tier; paid plans roughly $10-$39/user/mo, Enterprise on requestmeeting transcriptioncall summaries

Soundraw

Audio · Proprietary in-house model

8.2

AI music generator that spits out royalty-free, customizable tracks by genre and mood.

Freemium· Free trial; Creator $5.99/mo; Artist Pro $12.59/mo; Unlimited $17.49/mo; Enterprise custombackground musicvideo soundtracks

AIVA

Audio · Proprietary (AIVA)

8.1

AI music composition tool that generates royalty-friendly tracks in 250+ styles with editable MIDI output.

Freemium· Free; Standard ~â‚¬11/mo, Pro ~â‚¬33/mo (billed yearly)music-generationsoundtrack-composition