If you have used stock music before, you are probably used to attribution rules: free tracks that require a line like music by so-and-so in every video description. It is natural to ask whether AI music works the same way. On Autunes it does not, but there are two related questions people often mix up with attribution, and those do matter.
Three separate questions
It helps to keep these apart, because each has a different answer.
- Attribution: do you have to name Autunes or the AI? No.
- Licence: are you allowed to use the song the way you plan to? That depends on your plan.
- Disclosure: do you have to tell the platform or the audience that AI was involved? That depends on the platform, and you must never claim the music is human-made.
What Autunes requires: no credit line
The Autunes Terms of Service say it plainly: Autunes takes no royalty, revenue share or credit requirement on songs you own. Songs you own are those made while you hold a Pro or Creator pass, songs in your account when you buy a pass (including earlier Free-plan songs), and any song you licensed with the ₹9 single-song licence.
For those songs you can publish on YouTube, Instagram and other platforms, run them in ads, use them in client work, films, podcasts and events, and release them on Spotify, JioSaavn and other stores through any distributor, without mentioning Autunes anywhere. A credit is welcome if you want to give one, but it is never a condition.
What a credit line does not fix
A credit is not a licence. Songs made on the Free plan without a licence are for personal use only, and adding a Made with Autunes line under a monetised video does not change that. If you plan any commercial use, from a monetised channel to a shop's Instagram reel, get the ₹9 licence for that song or make it on a paid plan.
In India the licence is ₹9 per song; elsewhere it is US$1.79 or €1.59. And if you have paid ₹99 or more in a single purchase, every song you make after that payment downloads free.
The line you cannot cross: claiming it is human-made
While you never have to credit Autunes, the Terms prohibit two things that sit close to attribution: impersonating artists, and claiming AI music as human-created. In practice that means do not list a famous singer as featured on your track, do not describe the vocals as performed by a named human singer who did not sing them, and do not tell a client or a label that a session musician recorded something an AI produced.
You can still be the credited artist and songwriter. If you wrote the lyrics, you are their author. You can release under your own name or a project name. You just cannot misrepresent how the recording was made.
Platform disclosure rules
Separately from Autunes, many platforms now have their own rules on AI content. YouTube, for example, asks creators to disclose content that is meaningfully altered or synthetically generated when it looks or sounds realistic, through a setting in the upload flow. Meta's apps can label content as AI-made. Many music distributors ask during upload whether a track was made with AI tools.
These rules change often, so check the current help pages of each platform you use and answer their questions honestly. The Autunes Terms also say you are responsible for following each platform's rules on AI-generated content. Disclosing AI use to a platform is not the same as crediting Autunes; you can do the first without naming any tool.
If you want to give a credit, how to word it
Some creators like to mention their tools, and audiences often appreciate the honesty. Keep it short and accurate. A few plain-text options that work in a video description, podcast notes or a wedding video's end card:
- Music made with Autunes.
- Lyrics by Priya Sharma. Music and vocals generated with Autunes.
- Original song created with AI on Autunes.
- For client work: a line in your invoice or handover note saying the music was AI-generated, so the client knows what they are licensing.
A worked example
Karan runs a small Marathi cooking channel and wants an intro song. He writes four lines of lyrics, makes the song on Pro with Zori5.5 XL for 15 credits, and uses it in every video. He does not have to mention Autunes anywhere. He does turn on YouTube's altered or synthetic content setting if the upload flow asks about realistic AI content, and in his About section he says the theme song was made with AI. That keeps him within the Terms and honest with his audience, without any credit requirement.
Had he made the same song on the Free plan, he would first buy its ₹9 licence, because a monetised channel is commercial use.
Common mistakes
Most problems come from treating attribution as if it settled everything.
- Using a Free-plan song in a monetised video and assuming a credit line covers it.
- Naming a real singer in the title, such as in the style of or featuring, in a way that suggests they performed.
- Skipping a platform's AI disclosure question to avoid a label.
- Telling a client the track was recorded by musicians.
- Assuming you need Autunes's permission to release on Spotify. You do not, for songs you own.