Music generation

Music models ranked by blind listening arenas, the apps that turn a prompt or lyrics into full songs, and open models you can run in local pipelines.

Models are ranked by Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1), Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1), Music Arena Leaderboard: Vocal, then Music Arena Leaderboard: Instrumental for models without a result on the first. Tools inherit the tier of the best model they offer. How we rank.

Best overallSSuno v61,146 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)
Best valueNo qualifying option yet
Best free startSSunoFree tier · from $10/mo · via Suno v6
Best local (≤24 GB GPU)BMiniMax Music 3.0~24 GB VRAM · 1,000 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)

Tier: how close to the best result on the task's main public benchmark
Outlined: a tool inherits the tier of the best model it offers
No public result yet
Cloud · Local: runs on your own hardware

Models

The engines themselves. Use them through an API or inside the apps on the right.

Cloud

Suno v6Suno1,146 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)S

Suno v6-miniSuno1,130 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)S

Mureka V9.5Kunlun Tech (Mureka)1,107 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)A

Lyria 3.5Google DeepMind1,052 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)B

Eleven Music v2.5ElevenLabs · $0.15/min of audio1,012 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)$B

Stable Audio 3 LargeStability AI1,014 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)B

Melodia v3Treblo (formerly Sonauto)972 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)–

HappyShrimp 1.0 (beta)Alibaba (Alibaba Token Hub)No public result yet

Local

MiniMax Music 3.0MiniMax · ~24 GB VRAM1,000 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)$B

Stable Audio 3 MediumStability AI · Open weights996 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)C

MusicGenMeta · Open weights868 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)–

ACE-Step 1.5ACE Studio and StepFun · ~8 GB VRAMNo public result yet –

AudioX-TurboHKUST (HKUSTAudio) and NoizAI · Open weightsNo public result yet –

DiffRhythm 2ASLP-lab (Northwestern Polytechnical University) · Open weightsNo public result yet –

HeartMuLa-oss-3B-happy-new-yearHeartMuLa Team · Open weightsNo public result yet –

Magenta RealTime 2Google DeepMind · Open weightsNo public result yet –

YuE2 (3B)M-A-P (Multimodal Art Projection) · ~24 GB VRAMNo public result yet

Apps

Ready-made apps with a UI: sign in or install, then start.

Cloud

SunoSuno · Free tier · $10/movia Suno v6$S

MurekaKunlun Tech · $8/movia Mureka V9.5$S

TuneeQustar Technology Pte. Ltd. · Free tiervia Mureka V9.5 A

Flow Music (formerly ProducerAI)Google · Free tiervia Lyria 3.5 A

GeminiGoogle · Free tier · $4.99/movia Lyria 3.5$B

ElevenLabsElevenLabs · Free tier · $6/movia Eleven Music v2.5 B

Treblo (formerly Sonauto)Treblo (Sonauto, Inc.)via Melodia v3 –

ACE MusicACE Studio (ACE-Step team) · FreeNo public result yet –

Adobe FireflyAdobe · $9.99/moNo public result yet –

AIVAAIVA Technologies · Free tierNo public result yet –

Beatoven.aiBeatoven.ai · Free tier · $10/moNo public result yet –

HappyShrimpAlibaba (Alibaba Token Hub)No public result yet –

LoudlyLoudly GmbH · Free tierNo public result yet –

MireloMirelo AI · Free tierNo public result yet –

MubertMubert Inc. · Free tier · $12/moNo public result yet –

SoundfulSoundful · Free tierNo public result yet –

SOUNDRAWSOUNDRAWNo public result yet –

SoundverseSoundverse AI · Free tierNo public result yet –

Stable AudioStability AINo public result yet –

UdioUdio · Free tier · $10/moNo public result yet –

WubbleWubble AI · Free tier · $4.99/moNo public result yet

Local

WanGP (Wan2GP)deepbeepmeep (community project) · Freevia MiniMax Music 3.0$–

ACE-Step UIfspecii (community) · FreeNo public result yet –

yovoiceleemysw (community) · FreeNo public result yet

Workflow platforms

Node and canvas tools that chain several models into one pipeline.

Cloud

Nothing tracked yet

Local

ComfyUIComfy Org · Freevia MiniMax Music 3.0$

Runtimes & APIs

Run open models on your own machine, or reach models and services through an API.

Cloud

Nothing tracked yet

Local

audio.cpp0xShug0 (community) · Freevia MiniMax Music 3.0$C

TTS WebUIrsxdalv (open source) · Freevia MusicGen

Everything, in order

All music generation options in quality order
Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill
S	Suno v6 Suno	Models	Cloud	1,146 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	—	—
S	Suno v6-mini Suno	Models	Cloud	1,130 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	—	—
S	Mureka V9.5 Kunlun Tech (Mureka)	Models	Cloud	1,107 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	—	—
S	Suno Suno	Apps	Cloud	via Suno v6	Free tier · $10/mo	beginner
S	Mureka Kunlun Tech	Apps	Cloud	via Mureka V9.5	$8/mo	beginner
S	Tunee Qustar Technology Pte. Ltd.	Apps	Cloud	via Mureka V9.5	Free tier	beginner
A	Lyria 3.5 Google DeepMind	Models	Cloud	1,052 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	—	—
A	Flow Music (formerly ProducerAI) Google	Apps	Cloud	via Lyria 3.5	Free tier	beginner
A	Gemini Google	Apps	Cloud	via Lyria 3.5	Free tier · $4.99/mo	beginner
B	Eleven Music v2.5 ElevenLabs	Models	Cloud	1,012 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	$0.15/min of audio	—
B	Stable Audio 3 Large Stability AI	Models	Cloud	1,014 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)	—	—
B	MiniMax Music 3.0 MiniMax	Models	Local	1,000 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	~24 GB VRAM	—
B	Stable Audio 3 Medium Stability AI	Models	Local	996 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)	Open weights	—
B	Melodia v3 Treblo (formerly Sonauto)	Models	Cloud	972 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1)	—	—
B	ElevenLabs ElevenLabs	Apps	Cloud	via Eleven Music v2.5	Free tier · $6/mo	beginner
B	ComfyUI Comfy Org	Workflow platforms	Local	via MiniMax Music 3.0	Free	advanced
B	WanGP (Wan2GP) deepbeepmeep (community project)	Apps	Local	via MiniMax Music 3.0	Free	intermediate
B	audio.cpp 0xShug0 (community)	Runtimes & APIs	Local	via MiniMax Music 3.0	Free	advanced
B	Treblo (formerly Sonauto) Treblo (Sonauto, Inc.)	Apps	Cloud	via Melodia v3	—	beginner
C	MusicGen Meta	Models	Local	868 on Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1)	Open weights	—
C	TTS WebUI rsxdalv (open source)	Runtimes & APIs	Local	via MusicGen	Free	intermediate
–	ACE-Step UI fspecii (community)	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free	intermediate
–	yovoice leemysw (community)	Apps	Local	No public result yet	Free	beginner
–	ACE Music ACE Studio (ACE-Step team)	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free	beginner
–	ACE-Step 1.5 ACE Studio and StepFun	Models	Local	No public result yet	~8 GB VRAM	—
–	Adobe Firefly Adobe	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	$9.99/mo	beginner
–	AIVA AIVA Technologies	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	AudioX-Turbo HKUST (HKUSTAudio) and NoizAI	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Beatoven.ai Beatoven.ai	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $10/mo	beginner
–	DiffRhythm 2 ASLP-lab (Northwestern Polytechnical University)	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	HappyShrimp Alibaba (Alibaba Token Hub)	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	—	beginner
–	HappyShrimp 1.0 (beta) Alibaba (Alibaba Token Hub)	Models	Cloud	No public result yet	—	—
–	HeartMuLa-oss-3B-happy-new-year HeartMuLa Team	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Loudly Loudly GmbH	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Magenta RealTime 2 Google DeepMind	Models	Local	No public result yet	Open weights	—
–	Mirelo Mirelo AI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Mubert Mubert Inc.	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $12/mo	beginner
–	Soundful Soundful	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	SOUNDRAW SOUNDRAW	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	—	beginner
–	Soundverse Soundverse AI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier	beginner
–	Stable Audio Stability AI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	—	beginner
–	Udio Udio	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $10/mo	beginner
–	Wubble Wubble AI	Apps	Cloud	No public result yet	Free tier · $4.99/mo	beginner
–	YuE2 (3B) M-A-P (Multimodal Art Projection)	Models	Local	No public result yet	~24 GB VRAM	—

Benchmarks used

Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Vocals (AA-Music-Vocal v1.1) by Artificial Analysis (blind human votes, Elo (pairwise human preference, Bradley-Terry)) · snapshot 19 Oct 2026
Songs with sung or spoken vocals. v1.1: 1,000 new prompts, only votes from a recruited blind evaluator panel count; MiniMax Music 3.0 anchored at 1000 (also lists MiniMax Music 2.6 at 998 and 2.5+ at 985). Udio, YuE, ACE-Step and other open models are not listed. No 'last updated' date shown; as_of = date read.
Artificial Analysis Music Arena: Instrumental (AA-Music-Instrumental v1.1) by Artificial Analysis (blind human votes, Elo (pairwise human preference, Bradley-Terry)) · snapshot 19 Oct 2026
Instrumental tracks; superset of the vocal board plus instrumental-only models. v1.1: recruited blind evaluator panel only; MiniMax Music 3.0 anchored at 1000 (MiniMax Music 2.5+ 1007 and 2.6 1001 also listed). No 'last updated' date shown; as_of = date read.
Music Arena Leaderboard: Vocal by Music Arena (Generative Creativity Lab, Carnegie Mellon University) (blind human votes, Arena Score (Bradley-Terry, pairwise human preference)) · snapshot 31 Jul 2026
Crowdsourced public votes; the leaderboard tab states 'votes through 2026-07-31' (unchanged on 2026-10-19); models with 30+ votes only. Nine entries (Riffusion FUZZ v1.0/v1.1, Lyria 3 Pro/Clip, Sonauto v3 Preview/v2.2, ElevenLabs Music v1, ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo, ACE-Step); no Suno, Mureka, Udio or MiniMax. The project is active (code repo added Eleven Music V2 and MiniMax Music on 2026-08-09 and Lyria 3.5 on 2026-09-11; monthly vote data on Hugging Face, last release 2026-08-09) but the board has not been regenerated since. Leader is a discontinued model (FUZZ was replaced after Google acquired Producer.ai).
Music Arena Leaderboard: Instrumental by Music Arena (Generative Creativity Lab, Carnegie Mellon University) (blind human votes, Arena Score (Bradley-Terry, pairwise human preference)) · snapshot 31 Jul 2026
Crowdsourced public votes; leaderboard tab states 'votes through 2026-07-31' (unchanged on 2026-10-19); only models with 30+ votes shown, so CIs are wide (+/-26 to +/-95). Covers open models (Stable Audio 3 Medium, ACE-Step 1.5, Magenta RealTime 2, MusicGen) but not Suno, Mureka, Udio or MiniMax; several entries are superseded versions (Lyria 3 Pro, Riffusion FUZZ, ElevenLabs Music v1). Lyria 3.5, Eleven Music V2 and MiniMax Music were added to the arena in Aug-Sep 2026 but have no leaderboard row yet. The site redirects to beta.music-arena.org (Gradio app; data read from its /config).

Music generation

Quality vs. setup

Everything, in order

Benchmarks used