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Battle of the Bands III: Riffusion vs. Suno vs. Udio

AI music models can create entire songs now, but which one does it best?

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Daniel Nest
Feb 20, 2025
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Man, it’s been a hot minute since the second Battle of the Bands. Almost exactly one year, if you’re the kind of person who knows how to read a calendar.

Back then, AI music still sounded like someone threw random MIDI effects into a blender.

But things have changed.

Udio came out, Suno kept improving, and Riffusion re-entered the game with its brand-new FUZZ model.

I already had a Sunday Showdown between earlier versions of Suno and Udio, but it’s clearly time for a rematch.

So let’s prompt us some AI songs and see what happens!

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The contestants

Ladies and gentlemen…

For the third round of our music battle, I bring you three song-writing hopefuls:

  • Riffusion, reinventing itself for the third time. It started with a unique “spectrogram” approach, moved on to 12-second jingles, and finally launched the FUZZ model that writes entire songs in one sitting. But is it en…

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