Stable Audio

Stability AI
class A live

Open-weight + API music/SFX generator trained on fully licensed data; you own your outputs, tracks up to ~6 minutes.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price public · $0.20/generation secondary source ↗ 2026-07-04
Max length ~6 min 20 sec (Medium/Large) official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Vocals instrumental only secondary source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights open · Stability Community License (Small/Medium open; Large API-only) official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier open self-host official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Commercial rights You own outputs; free under Community License; orgs >$1M revenue need Enterprise License official source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

No independent measure yet. We publish a quality figure only when a named external benchmark ranks this model — we don’t invent one.

Eligible for Best freeBest for APIOpen-weights

Open-weight + API music/SFX generator trained on fully licensed data; you own your outputs, tracks up to ~6 minutes.

Data as of 2026-07-04 · verified 2026-07-04. One ruler for all tools. How we measure ↗