No minutes counter, no plan to pick, no subscription. Upload a song and StemGrab splits it into seven stems free — the tenth song this month works exactly like the first. A LALAL AI alternative free of minute-based pricing, not just a different interface.
Full-quality stems. No account, no per-track fee. Same model and same 192 kbps (or lossless WAV) as the paid tier — tracks up to 15 minutes.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: 2 October 2026
LALAL.AI is priced by the minute. Its free Starter plan gives 10 minutes in total in the slower Relaxed Queue, with a 200 MB limit per file, and its own comparison table marks result downloads as not included on Starter: you can hear the result, but downloading it needs a paid plan. Minutes count as file length times the number of stem types you pick, so one 4-minute song split two ways uses 8 minutes. Lite and Pro add 90 and 250 Fast Queue minutes a month plus unlimited Relaxed Queue; unused Fast Queue minutes do not roll over. Source: lalal.ai/pricing, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| LALAL.AI (free Starter) | StemGrab (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Free limit | 10 minutes in total, counted per stem type, 200 MB per file (source) | 10 splits a day, 15 minutes and 2 GB per file, no minute counter |
| Download the result free | No, result downloads are not included on Starter (source) | Yes, MP3 192 kbps or WAV, plus a zip |
| Account needed | Not stated on the pricing page; paid plans are tied to an account (source) | No |
| Watermark | Not stated on the pricing page | No |
| Price to go further | Lite €81 or Pro €162 a year, or top-ups from $50 (source) | Optional one-time pass: €5 for 30 days or €3 for 24 hours |
| Platform | Web, desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux), iOS, Android (source) | Any browser; processing runs on our servers |
| How long files are kept | Not stated on the pricing page | Upload deleted after processing; results kept 45 minutes (24 hours with a pass) |
LALAL.AI column checked 2 Oct 2026 on lalal.ai/pricing. StemGrab column: our own service settings on the same day.
There's no meter running here. Open the tool, drop in a song, and it separates. The one limit is 10 songs a day, which resets at midnight, so your fiftieth upload this week works the same as your first. No plan to pick, no balance to watch, nothing that runs out at the end of the month.
Both tools use AI separation rather than the old phase-cancel trick. We have not measured the two against each other on a fair test set, so we make no quality claim either way; see how AI stem separation works if you want the mechanics. Want just the voice out? Vocal remover and karaoke maker cover that from the same upload. Publishing something you make from someone else's track still needs permission — see stems & the law.
LALAL.AI also has a voice changer, voice cloning and a lead-and-backing vocal split. StemGrab has none of those: it splits songs into stems, and backing vocals stay with the lead in one vocal stem. Is LALAL AI free? Only for its 10 free minutes; after that it's paid plans or minute packs, and it has its own app and download. So is LALAL AI free in practice? For hearing what it does, yes; for downloading the stems, no, because Starter doesn't include result downloads. Among LALAL AI alternatives, StemGrab is one without minute-based pricing, and as a LALAL AI stem splitter replacement it splits the same kind of stems: what LALAL AI does, minus the meter.
Yes — there's no minutes pool at all. Ten tracks a day, one at a time; ads around the tool cover the GPU, not a subscription.
It raises the per-track limit from 15 to 60 minutes and keeps your files for 24 hours instead of 45 minutes. It's a one-time, 30-day pass, not a recurring subscription, and it changes nothing about the separation itself — free and paid tracks come out the same quality.
Seven per song: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other, and a mixed instrumental (everything except the vocals), all as 192 kbps MP3 plus a zip of the lot.
That depends on what you need. As a free alternative, StemGrab is free per song, with no minute counter and no account. LALAL.AI's free plan is 10 minutes in total, and its paid plans add extras such as an API and a VST plugin that StemGrab doesn't have.
No. LALAL.AI runs in the browser too, but its free tier is minute-limited; nothing here needs downloading and there's no minute counter to watch.
No. LALAL.AI's voice changer uses the same minute balance as the rest of the site; StemGrab doesn't change voices, but its vocal and stem separation is free with no minute limit.
No. StemGrab is a free hosted tool, not open-source software; there's no code published to self-host.
The tool is free to use, but the rights to the recording stay with whoever owns them. Practising privately is always fine; for anything you publish — a remix, cover or mashup — get permission first. See stems & the law.
No. Your upload is deleted the moment it's processed and the stems are wiped from the server within 45 minutes (24 hours with any pass, paid or free — that longer window is part of what the pass is for). Nothing is shared or used to train anything — see privacy.
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