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Mar 2026Public commentary highlighted legal/IP risk around soundalike generation, weak guardrails, and uncertainty around commercial use of AI-generated music.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Treblo (formerly Sonauto) is a San Francisco-based YC W24 AI music company that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs and offers both a free consumer music generator and a paid developer API.
Primary product
Melodia-powered AI music generator/editor for creating full songs from prompts, lyrics, or melodies
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI music generation / synthetic media
Offices
246 28th Street, Apartment 1, San Francisco, CA 94131, United States
555 Mission Rock St, San Francisco, CA 94158-2119, United States
Business model
free consumer web app
freemium
developer API subscription
usage-based credits / pay-as-you-go
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed Round · Feb 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Feb 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Small four-person team; the company says it is a frontier audio AI lab, in Discord every day, debating sound quality in the same room, and building for music fans rather than trying to replace musicians.
Compensation
Public compensation signals include an ML Engineer/Researcher role posted at $120K-$230K plus 0.25%-2.00% equity, and an intern role posted at $6K-$9K per month. The developer API is also publicly priced, starting at $11/month for 20,000 credits.
Product & market
Pricing
Consumer web app appears free/unlimited publicly; developer API is subscription plus credits/pay-as-you-go.
Differentiators
- —Free unlimited consumer generation publicly advertised
- —Melodia latent diffusion model
- —Prompt / lyrics / melody inputs
- —Inpainting, extension, and stem separation tools
- —Streaming generation in the API
- —Broad download/export formats
- —User-owned outputs language in the terms
- —Developer API with transparent credit pricing
Technology
Melodia v3
Melodia v2
latent diffusion
PyTorch
React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
streaming generation API
webhooks
OGG / MP3 / WAV / FLAC / M4A exports
Customers
music fans and hobbyists
people with little or no music-production experience
musicians
content creators
developers building with the Melodia API
Competitors
Suno
Udio
Riffusion
Soundraw
AIVA
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$330K estimated annual revenue (third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
1.2M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Treblo Blog · Jun 2026
Official rebrand announcement: Sonauto became Treblo, the domain moved to treblo.com, and the team said it is the same four people, same account, and same products.
Medium · Mar 2026
A 2026 review arguing that Sonauto/Treblo allowed more permissive prompting than competitors and highlighting legal/IP risk around commercial use and soundalike generation.
Hacker News · Apr 2024
Launch discussion where the founders described the model architecture, controllability features, free/unlimited generation, and early product direction.
Music Ally · Apr 2024
Industry coverage of Sonauto’s launch and early positioning as a generative audio playground and Y Combinator-backed AI music startup.
Y Combinator · Mar 2024
Launch post describing Sonauto as an AI music editor and introducing the Melodia music foundation model, prompt/lyrics/melody generation, and sharing/remixing features.
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