232 APPS TRACKED · 227 CLAUSES ON FILE · 38 WITH NO CLAUSE TO QUOTE
RECORD OPENED 5 OCT 2026 · 1 CLAUSES ON FILE
design

Does Udio train on your data?

Udio's terms say it may use your Input Content and any Output to train its models, and take a licence to do so. The way out is not named anywhere in the terms or the privacy policy.

LAST CHECKED
5 Oct 2026 · 5 days ago
CONFIDENCE
high
RIGHT OF REPLY
Declined to comment
Verdict
F
Trains on you by default
No opt-out found in this policy

Evidence 1 — All accounts (free and paid)
Terms of Service · All accounts (free and paid)
EVIDENCE 01 OF 01
"You acknowledge and agree that we may use your Input Content and any Output to train or otherwise improve our Services, including our artificial intelligence and machine learnings model(s) related to the Services."
CHECKED
10 Sept 2026
STILL LIVE AS OF
5 Oct 2026
APPLIES TO
All accounts (free and paid)
JURISDICTION
global
HOW IT WAS TAKEN
Fetched, browser-rendered
SHA-256
76DA91A4…31DC

How we read it: Re-graded from UNCLEAR on the terms of service, last revised 12 November 2025, read in a browser because the page renders nothing to a plain fetch; the privacy policy of 19 May 2025 still says nothing about training. The terms say it twice, in section 1.1 and again in the content licence, which grants Udio the right to use Your Content "to train or otherwise improve or modify our artificial intelligence and machine learnings model(s)". Inputs are the prompts and uploads, outputs the music generated. Nothing on human review or de-identification.

CONTROLS SEARCHED FOR · 10 Sept 2026

opt out, opt-out, object, consent, settings, train, default

What the document does offer

  • in the terms: nine "opt out" and "opt-out" occurrences, none about training — the arbitration opt-out and marketing and cookie choices
  • in the terms: "train" four times, the clause quoted, the licence that repeats it, and the definitions around them
  • in the privacy policy (captured 2026-09-10): "train": 0 matches
  • "default": two matches, both the legal sense of a breach

Why none of it applies: No route is stated. Every opt-out in the terms is about something else, arbitration first among them, and the privacy policy does not use the word train at all. A licence to train, granted by using the service, with no control named, scores as no opt-out.

What Udio said when we showed them this

Declined to comment21 Sept 2026
“We’re not able to provide commentary or interpretation regarding Udio’s Terms of Service or privacy policies through the Support team. The published terms and policies are the appropriate source for information about how content and data may be used. [Asked for a legal or privacy contact:] We don’t have a legal or privacy contact that Support can provide for this type of inquiry. We appreciate you reaching out, but we’re not able to offer additional commentary beyond our published Terms of Service and privacy policies.”

Printed exactly as it was sent, and unedited except where […] marks a cut.

What each plan can refuse

The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.

All accounts (free and paid)TRAINS: YES
OPT-OUT
None offered
RETENTION
Not stated
EXPOSURE
89 / 100
DE-IDENTIFIED
Not stated
HUMAN REVIEW
Unknown

How to opt out of Udio AI training

Plan by plan, from what Udio's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.

All accounts (free and paid)

No opt-out is stated in the policy on file for Udio.

Each step's source and archived copy →

What this policy has done since we started watching

3 CAPTURES SINCE 30 AUG 2026

No change detected. We've held a copy of Udio's documents since 30 Aug 2026 and re-read them since, across 3 captures of 2 documents. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the documents, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.

Everything we read

DOCUMENT
CHECKED
SNAPSHOT
Privacy Policy
7 Sept 2026
Terms of Servicequoted
10 Sept 2026

Vendor response

From the company? What a reply does and what moves a grade.

Declined to comment21 Sept 2026

Their reply is quoted in full at the top of this page.

We wrote back on 19 Sept 2026, and they answered.

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