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Suno's song model: full tracks with vocals and lyrics from a prompt
8.6/10
What it is Suno's models generate complete songs, with vocals, lyrics and arrangement, from a text prompt or your own lyrics. Suno v6 launched on 9 September 2026. Suno presented it as a new generation built in partnership with the music industry, after licensing deals with Warner Music Group (November 2025) and BMG (August 2026) and a distribution partnership with… Read more →
Pros
- Complete songs with vocals and lyrics
- Label licensing deals (WMG, BMG)
- Browser DAW with stems on Premier
- Commercial rights from $8/month
Cons
- Monthly download caps
- Free plan: 7 lifetime downloads, no commercial rights
- No public API
- Terms changed in September 2026
Pricing: Free plan, paid from $8/mo · text-to-music vocals songwriting lyrics suno
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ElevenLabs' music model: songs up to 5 minutes with vocals, cleared for most uses
7.9/10
What it is Eleven Music is ElevenLabs' music generation model. Music v2 launched in May 2026, a month after the ElevenMusic consumer app. Music v2.5 (model ID music_v2_5) reached the API on 14 September 2026 with better audio quality and prompt adherence. ElevenLabs announced a partnership with Universal Music Group on 10 September 2026. Key features - Songs from 3… Read more →
Pros
- Cleared for most commercial uses
- Vocals in several languages
- Section inpainting and fine-tunes
- Same account as ElevenLabs voices
Cons
- Film/TV/game use excluded on self-serve plans
- Free plan not commercial
- Music API needs a paid plan
Pricing: Free plan, paid from $6/mo · text-to-music vocals licensed api elevenlabs
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Stability AI's licensed-data audio models up to six minutes, with open-weight tiers
★ 0 · Stability AI Community License · archived
7.5/10
What it is Stable Audio is Stability AI's music and sound-effects family. Stable Audio 3.0, announced on 20 May 2026, is a model family trained on fully licensed data. Large is an enterprise model. Medium, for full songs, and Small / Small SFX, for mobile and sound effects, are released as open weights. Stability's investors now include Warner Music Group,… Read more →
Pros
- Trained on fully licensed data
- Open Small and Medium weights
- Up to six-minute tracks
- Fast, runs on a laptop
Cons
- Not built for sung vocals
- Community licence, not OSI open source
- App pricing not verified
Pricing: Open source · text-to-music sound-effects open-weights licensed-data stability-ai
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MIT-licensed open music model that makes full songs with vocals locally in seconds
★ 13k · MIT · updated 2026-09-03
7.4/10
What it is ACE-Step is an open-source music generation model. ACE-Step 1.5, released on 2 April 2026, generates songs from 10 seconds to 10 minutes long, with vocals and lyrics in 50+ languages. It is published under the MIT licence. An XL variant with a 4B-parameter decoder improves quality for users with bigger GPUs. Key features - Songs from 10… Read more →
Pros
- MIT licence
- Vocals and lyrics in 50+ languages
- Very fast generation
- Runs on modest GPUs
Cons
- Vocals behind Suno/Lyria
- Technical setup
- No hosted consumer app from the makers
Pricing: Open source · open-source text-to-music vocals comfyui local
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Meta's open research model for short instrumental music from text or a melody
★ 24k · MIT · updated 2026-03-03
6.2/10
What it is MusicGen is Meta's text-to-music model, part of the AudioCraft research library. It generates instrumental music from a text description, optionally guided by a melody you hum or upload. AudioCraft also includes MusicGen Style, MAGNeT and JASCO, a model that takes chords, melodies and drums as conditions. MusicGen was first released in 2023 and is now older than… Read more →
Pros
- Easy to run locally
- Melody conditioning
- Training code included
- MIT-licensed code
Cons
- Weights are non-commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
- No vocals
- Dated quality next to 2026 models
Pricing: Open source · open-source text-to-music research meta non-commercial