Eleven Music (music_v2)
Generates songs with vocals or instrumentals from a natural-language prompt, from user lyrics, or from a structured JSON 'composition plan' that specifies sections, timing and arrangement.
- Up to
- 600 seconds
- Resolution
- Up to 48 kHz; default output mp3_48000_192 for v2 models (mp3_44100_128 for v1); PCM up to 48 kHz and Opus also available. High-fidelity export is limited to Pro, Scale, Business and Enterprise tiers; lower tiers get MP3 44.1 kHz at 128-192 kbps.
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- Permitted subject to conditions
Sections can be added, removed, reordered and re-prompted after generation, and tracks can be remixed. Available in the web app on all tiers and via API on paid plans; models are music_v1 and music_v2.
ElevenLabs states you retain rights in your output, but a Music Commercial Rights table caps use per plan. Self-serve tiers are not suitable for broadcast or theatrical delivery.
- The free tier is non-commercial. Free users may use the service only for non-commercial purposes.
- Attribution required. Free Music users must give appropriate credit to ElevenLabs wherever the output is displayed, distributed or published.
- Depends on your plan tier. Self-serve plans permit commercial use except for film, TV and Studio Games; those require an enterprise plan.
Specification
- What it takes in
- text, lyrics, audio
- What it makes
- audio
- Maximum duration
- 600 seconds
- Maximum resolution
- Up to 48 kHz; default output mp3_48000_192 for v2 models (mp3_44100_128 for v1); PCM up to 48 kHz and Opus also available. High-fidelity export is limited to Pro, Scale, Business and Enterprise tiers; lower tiers get MP3 44.1 kHz at 128-192 kbps.
- Controls
- lyrics-input, style-prompting, instrumental-only, extend, inpainting-remix, reference-audio
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Pricing
- Credit subscription. Free: $0 with 10,000 credits/month (web only, non-commercial). Starter: $6/month. Creator: $22/month (first month $11). Pro: $99/month with 600,000 credits/month. API access requires a paid plan.
- Released or updated
- 2026-05-26
Strengths
- Composition plans give unusually precise structural and lyric-timing control
- Up to 10 minutes per API request
- 48 kHz output on higher tiers
- Section-level editing and re-prompting after generation
- Licensed-data training claim
Weaknesses
- Self-serve plans appear to exclude film, TV and multi-platform commercial games - a serious limit for video production
- No distribution to music streaming platforms on any self-serve plan
- Free tier is non-commercial and requires visible ElevenLabs credit
- Stem export is referenced in marketing but not documented in the API or product guide
- Actual per-plan rights live in a 'Music Commercial Rights table' that is not published as fetchable text
- API is paid-only
Best for
- Online video, social and podcast beds on paid self-serve plans
- Programmatic scoring where section timing must be controlled
- Teams already on ElevenLabs for voice
Where the sources disagree
Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.
- Maximum length: the API reference says music_length_ms 'Must be between 3000ms and 600000ms' (10 minutes), while the product guide says the platform supports tracks 'between 3 seconds and 5 minutes' with longer songs built by adding sections. 600 seconds is recorded from the API reference.
- The marketing claim 'Every track you generate is cleared for commercial use' conflicts with the Model-Specific Terms' restricted categories and the free tier's non-commercial limitation.
- The Music Terms document does not itself state output ownership; the general Terms of Use do.
What to understand before using it
Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.
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