Modality console · /music/
Music Music and audio generation. Open axes, cited sources, trust flags. Quality is metered only from an independent benchmark — no benchmark, no meter. No single composite score.
11 toolsclasses A·B·C data as of 2026-07-04 refresh · monthly
Filter · in-page Best free Best for API Open-weights With vocals 11 shown
A ACE-Step ACE Studio & StepFun A live
API & price no (community-hosted; no official API) secondary
Max length up to ~4 min official
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights open · Apache-2.0 official
Free tier open self-host official
Commercial rights Commercial use permitted (Apache-2.0); disclose AI involvement official Quality no independent measure
EM Eleven Music ElevenLabs B live
API & price public · $0.15/min secondary
Max length 5 minutes (min 3s) secondary
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights closed official
Free tier limited secondary
Commercial rights Outputs cleared for broad commercial use (Merlin/Kobalt); film & TV needs Enterprise official Quality no independent measure
GL Google Lyria / Magenta Google DeepMind B live
API & price public · Vertex AI (Lyria 2 $0.06/30s; Lyria 3 undisclosed) secondary
Max length up to 3 min (Lyria 3) official
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights closed (Lyria); open · Apache-2.0 (Magenta RealTime 2) official
Free tier limited secondary
Commercial rights Vertex outputs under Google Cloud terms (commercial OK); all carry SynthID watermark secondary Quality no independent measure
MM Meta MusicGen Meta AI (FAIR) B live
API & price public via Replicate (community; price unverified) secondary
Max length ~8-30s clips, longer via continuation secondary
Vocals instrumental only official
Weights open · CC-BY-NC 4.0 (weights); MIT (code) official
Free tier open self-host official
Commercial rights NON-COMMERCIAL — CC-BY-NC 4.0 weights forbid selling generated music; MIT code forkable official Quality no independent measure
M Mureka Kunlun Tech (Skywork AI) C live
API & price public · from ~$1000/mo, ~3¢/song (third-party) secondary
Max length ~5 min, extendable secondary
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights closed official
Free tier limited secondary
Commercial rights Full commercial use on paid output; explicit ownership clause not stated official Quality no independent measure
RO Riffusion (open model) Riffusion, Inc. A defunct
API & price no secondary
Max length ~5s spectrogram clips, loopable/extendable unverified
Vocals instrumental only secondary
Weights open · CreativeML OpenRAIL-M official
Free tier open self-host official
Commercial rights OpenRAIL-M behavioural use-restrictions; self-hosted outputs commercially usable secondary Quality no independent measure
SA Stable Audio Stability AI A live
API & price public · $0.20/generation secondary
Max length ~6 min 20 sec (Medium/Large) official
Vocals instrumental only secondary
Weights open · Stability Community License (Small/Medium open; Large API-only) official
Free tier open self-host official
Commercial rights You own outputs; free under Community License; orgs >$1M revenue need Enterprise License official Quality no independent measure
S Suno Suno, Inc. C live
API & price no secondary
Max length 8 minutes official
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights closed secondary
Free tier limited official
Commercial rights Pro/Premier: you own the output; Free: personal non-commercial, must credit Suno official Quality no independent measure
TS Tencent SongGeneration (LeVo 2) Tencent AI Lab B live
API & price public via third-party WaveSpeed ~$0.05/run (no confirmed official API) secondary
Max length up to 4 min 30 sec secondary
Vocals vocals + instrumental (also a cappella, dual-track) secondary
Weights open · licence conflict (GitHub custom terms vs HF Apache-2.0) unverified
Free tier open self-host secondary
Commercial rights Unverified — governed by unresolved weight licence; review Tencent terms first unverified Quality no independent measure
U Udio Uncharted Labs, Inc. C live
API & price no official
Max length ~130s per generation, extendable official
Vocals vocals + instrumental secondary
Weights closed secondary
Free tier limited secondary
Commercial rights In transition post-UMG/Warner settlements: downloads/stems disabled, tracks confined to walled-garden unverified Quality no independent measure
Y YuE HKUST & M-A-P A live
API & price no (community-hosted; no official API) secondary
Max length full-song, multi-minute official
Vocals vocals + instrumental official
Weights open · Apache-2.0 official
Free tier open self-host official
Commercial rights Commercial use permitted (Apache-2.0); attribution encouraged official Quality no independent measure
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