
Full songs with vocals
Models that write, arrange and perform in one pass — the category most people mean by "AI music".
The best music model changes every few weeks, so being locked to one is a bad position to be in. These are the 28 models we track — what each is genuinely good at, where it falls down, and what its licence lets you do with the output.
Two of the best-known open models cannot be used to make anything you sell. MusicGen is CC BY-NC — the restriction attaches to the output, so self-hosting it changes nothing — and Stable Audio Open ships under a community licence that is not a general commercial grant. Teams find this out late, after building on them. ACE-Step and YuE are Apache 2.0, which is a different situation. Model licence and training-data provenance are separate questions, and none of this is legal advice.

The vocal benchmark every other song model gets measured against.
Licence: Per Suno plan terms
Lyrics, melody, arrangement and a sung performance in one pass.
Suno
The vocal benchmark every other song model gets measured against.
Udio
The song model that lets you keep editing after the first take.
Google DeepMind
DeepMind's song model, distributed through Google rather than sold directly.
ElevenLabs
The song model that lets you specify the structure before it writes.
MiniMax
Full songs at a fraction of the premium tier's cost per generation.
MiniMax
Style conditioning from a reference clip rather than a text description.
MiniMax
The draft model — fast and cheap enough to think out loud with.
Kunlun Tech
API-first song generation with an unusually fast release cadence.
Riffusion
The spectrogram experiment that turned into a song platform.
Music without vocals — beds, loops, textures and effects.
Downloadable models you can self-host. Licence terms vary sharply.
ACE Studio & StepFun
The open song model with a licence you can actually build a business on.
Multimodal Art Projection
The open model that actually sings the words you gave it.
ASLP Lab
Full-length songs generated in a fraction of the usual time.
Stability AI
The open model with a training set it can actually name.
Meta AI
Hum an idea and get it arranged — the original melody-conditioned model.
Meta AI
Meta's fast model — the same quality without the sequential wait.
Splitting a finished mix back into stems.
Consumer and creator tools built on top of generation models.
Musicfy
A vocal-transformation platform rather than a song generator.
Soundful
Template-driven tracks for creators who want predictable, not surprising.
Loudly
Generation plus a library, for when generation alone misses.
Soundraw
Edit the arrangement section by section instead of regenerating.
Boomy
The shortest path from nothing to a track on a streaming service.
Mubert
Continuous, never-repeating music built to be embedded.
AIVA Technologies
The one that hands you MIDI instead of a finished file.
LALAL.AI
Stem separation for people who do not want to install anything.
MusicGenerate is built to route between models rather than bet on one. The catalogue above is what we track and evaluate; which models are wired into the product at any moment is a separate question, and the answer changes as the field does. Figures on each page carry the date they were verified, because a benchmark in this category is stale within a quarter.
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Compared on what they output, how much you steer, and what the licence allows.

Models that write, arrange and perform in one pass — the category most people mean by "AI music".
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Why this exists
Output quality is easy to hear. The terms are what actually decide whether you can ship.
Generate music for freeTwo models can sound alike and differ completely in whether you may publish the result. That is the first question, not the last.
A downloadable model can still carry a non-commercial clause. Self-hosting does not change what the licence permits.
Every entry carries the date its facts were checked, because a page that looks current and is not is worse than one that admits its age.
A model page with no limitations section is a brochure. The limits are the part people search for.
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It depends on the job. Suno leads on vocal realism, Udio on editing after generation, ElevenLabs on structural control, Stable Audio on instrumental texture and self-hosting, and AIVA on editable MIDI.
Stable Audio Open, ACE-Step, YuE, MusicGen, MAGNeT and DiffRhythm all ship open weights. Their licences differ sharply — ACE-Step and YuE are Apache 2.0, while others restrict commercial deployment.
A model is the system that generates audio; a platform is the product wrapped around one. Suno and Udio are platforms with closed models; MusicGen is a model you can run yourself.
Only some. Apache 2.0 models permit it outright; several research licences do not. The licence covers the weights and says nothing about the data they were trained on, which is a separate risk.
Suno v5 currently sets the benchmark — breath, vibrato and dynamic phrasing are performed rather than approximated, and it is the clearest single advantage any model in this directory holds.
Each entry carries the date its facts were last verified. The field moves quickly, so treat any specification older than a few months as worth re-checking against the vendor.
Describe what you want — we handle which model runs.