SongForgeAI writes and scores lyrics for Suno and Udio with a 12-metric rubric. Free tier with 5 songs a month, paid plans from $29/month. See the review.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
SongForgeAI is a web-based AI songwriting tool that writes, refines and scores lyrics. It is aimed at people who make songs with AI music generators such as Suno and Udio and want stronger words before they render audio. The company calls itself the lyric quality and fidelity layer for those tools.
The product does not generate music. It produces finished lyrics and a Suno-ready style prompt. Its founder, Todd Nigro, says he began building it after making hundreds of songs in Suno and finding the lyrics fluent but forgettable. The site describes it as a solo operation built around a public scoring standard.
Every song runs through a 10-stage forge pipeline. A writing room of prompted expert voices drafts the lyric, and a blind judge compares complete drafts head to head in both orders. The song is then scored, and a targeted repair runs only when the system names a specific weakness. A style prompt for the music tool is created at the end.
Scoring uses the Lyric Scoring Standard, a 12-metric rubric weighted Craft 25%, Expression 40% and Impact 35%. A second grade, a 7-component fidelity audit, checks whether the lyric served the original brief. Scores carry a reproducibility seal, and the rubric is published under CC BY 4.0.
Refine Mode lets writers paste their own draft, lock the lines they want to keep and set a preservation level between 60 and 100 percent. The Crucible, which is free, runs a pasted lyric past eight critics. A banned-terms scan removes 362 known AI cliches, and nine genre modules apply their own audit rules, from rap and country to worship and folk.
Professional users get Song Surgery, which turns every flagged problem into a per-line repair item with Accept, Edit, Reject or Skip choices. They also get a 36-section Release Dossier, Persona Forge for describing a vocal sound, Chain of Title for human-authorship percentage, and a scoring API limited to 60 requests per hour per key.
SongForgeAI is a web-based AI lyric generator and scoring tool. A multi-voice writing room drafts or refines lyrics, and each song is scored against a published 12-metric rubric. It outputs finished lyrics and a Suno-ready style prompt.
A free tier gives 5 songs per month. Creator is $29 per month ($279 annually) for 10 songs, and Professional is $69 per month ($599 annually) for 25 songs. One-time credit packs start at $19 for 5 songs.
Yes. The free tier gives 5 songs per month on the full 10-stage forge pipeline, 12-metric scoring, Refine Mode and a Suno-ready style prompt. It requires no credit card and the site says it never expires.
No. It produces finished lyrics and a style prompt that can be used in Suno, Udio or another music-generation tool. The site says music generation is not included yet.
The user does. The site states that users keep full rights to lyrics created or refined with the tool and can record, release, license or sync them with no royalty split or attribution to SongForgeAI.
According to the FAQ, no. Lyrics are sent to Anthropic's Claude API under a commercial agreement that excludes training use, and are stored in the user's private account. Users can delete songs from their dashboard.
Yes. SongForgeAI offers a 30-day refund on any tier. Users email support within 30 days of the charge and the site says the refund is processed within 48 hours without a survey or retention call.
According to the company, a general chatbot returns one draft from one model. SongForgeAI uses a multi-voice writing room, scores every song on a published rubric, scans for 362 banned cliches and revises the weakest lines.