AudioShake vs Music AI

AudioShake — Infrastructure · Private · Early-stage · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Music AI — Application · Private · Early-stage · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

AudioShake's own benchmarks page ranks its stem separation ahead of Moises / Music.ai in Meta's SAM Audio listening tests.

1 shared capabilityShared product typeSourced competitorPull the vocals or the music out of a track

1 shared capability — Across all their products, both list audio editing.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship API service and application.

Ludbee product records

Sourced competitor — “AudioShake was the highest-performing discriminative model on perceptual quality, ahead of Moises / Music.ai, FADR, Lalal and MossFormer.”

audioshake.ai · checked 2026-10-09

Pull the vocals or the music out of a track — Rivals on this job — Split an existing song, recording or video soundtrack into its parts — vocals, instruments, background music — to make a karaoke or instrumental version, an a cappella, or a voice-only clip, rather than generate new audio.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldAudioShakeMusic AI
StageEarly-stageEarly-stage match
Founded20212019 2 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerAPI service, Application, Data serviceAPI service, Application, Developer tool
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASalt Lake City, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 1

Audio editing

Not verified for Music AI · 1

Speech to text

Recorded for AudioShake. Music AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for AudioShake · 2

Music generationVoice conversion

Recorded for Music AI. AudioShake’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

AudioShake

Application

AudioShake LiveApplication

AudioShake Live provides a web platform for separating dialogue, music, and effects from uploaded recordings.

AudioShake StudioApplication

Web app that separates a recording into vocal and instrument stems, splits dialogue, music and effects, gives each speaker a labelled track of its own, recovers speech from noisy or reverberant audio and transcribes and aligns lyrics word by word.

API service

AudioShake APIAPI service

REST API and SDK for AI source separation — vocals and instrumental, dialogue versus music and effects, and per-speaker tracks — billed in credits.

AudioShake Copyright Compliance SystemAPI service

AudioShake Copyright Compliance System detects, identifies, and removes music and generates cue sheet data.

Music AI

Application

MoisesApplication

AI practice app for musicians that removes vocals and separates a song into instrument stems so a player can mute or solo parts, with web and mobile apps.

Moises LiveApplication

Desktop app for Mac and Windows that separates whatever audio the computer is playing -- dialogue, effects, vocals, instruments -- in real time on the device, so a listener can turn individual elements up or down in any app, offline.

Moises Stems PluginApplication

VST plug-in that brings Moises' AI stem separation into a DAW such as Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic Pro or Reaper, splitting a track dropped on it into up to seven stems -- vocals, keys, drums, guitar, bass, strings and other -- processed in the cloud.

Moises StudioApplication

Browser-based collaborative music workspace where bandmates record, edit and mix on one shared timeline, with AI that separates songs into up to 30-plus stems, generates drum, bass, keys and other parts matched to the project's key and tempo, recasts vocals in licensed or privately trained voices, and auto-mixes and masters the result.

API service

Music AI PlatformAPI service

Pay-as-you-go API platform of audio and music models for businesses, led by vocal and instrument source separation, from the company behind the Moises app.

No counterpart

AudioShake sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Music AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Data service

AudioShake RefineryData service

AudioShake Refinery separates overlapping voices into labeled audio tracks.

Music AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for AudioShake yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

Music AI Embedded SDKDeveloper tool

Licensable collection of on-device AI audio models that product teams build into PCs, phones, speakers, in-car audio and other hardware to run stem separation and other audio processing locally in real time, with or without an internet connection.