LALAL.AI vs Chat Video Pro

For stem work that happens inside an edit, yes. The Chat Video Pro Audio Expansion splits a mixed track into vocals, drums, bass, piano and more, and every stem returns as a real clip on your Premiere sequence — no upload, no download, no re-sync. What it is not is a better separation engine than LALAL.AI. They are a dedicated separation vendor with ten stem types and a purpose-built network, and if raw separation quality on a hard track is the whole job, that is what they are for.

On the evidence available, LALAL.AI. Separation is their entire product: Andromeda for instruments, Lynx for speech, ten selectable stem types including electric and acoustic guitar as separate parts, and inclusion in Meta’s SAM Audio comparison of separation models. We publish no benchmark of our own and will not claim to beat them.

The Audio Expansion is built for the job an editor actually has — kill the music and keep the dialogue, or pull the vocal off a bed — done on the timeline in the time it takes to describe it. Pick on which of those two problems you have.

Not as a panel. As of July 2026 LALAL.AI ships a web app, desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux, mobile apps, a VST3 plugin and an API — their apps-and-plugins page lists no Adobe extension. The VST3 plugin is aimed at DAWs; the page notes AU support is in beta and there is no AAX build, so Pro Tools is unsupported. For a Premiere editor that means the usual round-trip: export or upload the audio, separate, download, re-import, re-sync.

It depends entirely on how many audio jobs you have. If stems are the only one, LALAL.AI is cheaper to start: Lite is $9.99/mo or $90/yr, Pro is $19.99/mo or $180/yr list, and one-time minute packs start at $100 for 750 minutes. The Audio Expansion is $69.99 one-time and requires the $149.99 base license, so buying it purely to split tracks means paying for three workflows you would not use.

The maths inverts once voiceover, sound effects and score are also on your list. Those are three more subscriptions next to the LALAL.AI plan, where the expansion covers all four in one $69.99 purchase — $199.99 for the Creator Bundle if you do not own the panel yet, or included while a $24.99/mo Creator Pass is active. Generation itself is billed by your own provider account at published rates rather than resold as credits.

LALAL.AI does. Their Lyra-powered VST3 plugin and desktop app process on-device, which they market as no uploads and no server queues — a genuine advantage on NDA, legal or medical audio. The Audio Expansion is bring-your-own-key and runs generation and separation through your provider account in the cloud, so it needs a connection.

No, and it does not try to. Their six products — Stem Splitter, Voice Cleaner, Voice Changer, Voice Cloner, Echo and Reverb Remover, Lead/Back Splitter — all operate on audio you already have. Voice Cloner is worth calling out precisely: it is speech-to-speech, so it re-voices a recording rather than reading a typed script. There is no text-to-speech, no sound-effect generation and no music generation in their line-up as of July 2026.

Yes. Many editors use Descript for podcast recording, screen capture, or quick transcript drafts, then finish cinematic work inside Premiere with Chat Video Pro. They solve different parts of the pipeline — Descript is a standalone editor; Chat Video Pro is an AI layer inside Premiere.