ElevenLabs Music
ElevenLabs Music generates studio-grade instrumental or vocal tracks from natural language prompts, with commercial rights cleared through industry partnerships.
Overview
What is ElevenLabs Music
ElevenLabs Music is a text-to-music AI model released in August 2025 that generates high-fidelity, studio-grade music from natural language prompts. It supports both instrumental and vocal tracks across multiple genres and languages, with granular control over structure and style, and is cleared for broad commercial use through agreements with rights holders.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, you generate music with ElevenLabs Music without your prompts being stored or linked to your identity. The model runs under Venice's anonymized privacy tier, ensuring your creative inputs remain private and uncensored. Pay per track with no subscription, making it ideal for creators who value both sovereignty and commercial safety.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Commercially safe output: cleared for use through partnerships with Merlin, Kobalt, and other rights holders, reducing legal risk for creators and enterprises.
- High-quality, studio-grade audio generation with support for both instrumental and vocal tracks in multiple languages.
- Granular prompt control and post-generation editing allow fine-tuning of structure, mood, instrumentation, and lyrics.
- Audio Reference feature lets users upload a 30-second clip to guide style and production characteristics.
- Available via API and integrates seamlessly with ElevenLabs' voice and TTS tools for multimedia workflows.
- Proprietary model: no open weights, so self-hosting or fine-tuning is not possible.
- Higher per-track cost compared to some rivals, especially for longer compositions.
- No support for real-time generation or streaming; output is delivered as complete MP3 files.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
“An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings, warm brass, and a hopeful resolution.”
“A mellow lo-fi hip-hop beat with a soft jazzy piano loop, vinyl crackle, and a relaxed late-night mood.”
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- ElevenLabs
- Released
- August 5, 2025
- Modality
- Text-to-music generation
- Max length
- Up to 6 minutes
- Vocals support
- Yes — lyrics in multiple languages
- Audio reference
- Supported (up to 30s)
- Post-generation editing
- Yes — edit sections and lyrics
- Output format
- MP3
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Feb 2026
- License
- Proprietary
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "elevenlabs-music",
"prompt": "An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/retrieve.
# Call /audio/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Pay per track on Venice — price scales with length, from $0.69.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Music | — | Commercial safety & integration | No | from $0.69 / track |
| MiniMax Music 2.6 | — | Cost efficiency | No | $0.18 / track |
| Lyria 3 Pro | — | High-fidelity output | No | $0.10 / track |
| Suno | — | Vocal realism & community | — | — |
The license-clean choice for agencies and commercial creators.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Creating original background music for YouTube videos, podcasts, and social media content with full commercial rights.
- 02Generating jingles, ad music, or branding audio with custom lyrics and multilingual support.
- 03Prototyping film or game scores using natural language prompts and audio references.
- 04Producing royalty-free tracks for agencies and client projects where license compliance is critical.
- 05Combining with ElevenLabs TTS to build synchronized voiceover and music experiences.
Prompting
Getting better results
Be specific about genre, mood, tempo, and instrumentation — e.g., 'upbeat jazz with upright bass and brushed drums'.
Include lyrical themes or language preferences if vocals are desired — e.g., 'Spanish-language ballad about lost love'.
Use Audio Reference to lock in a particular sound or production style from an existing track.
Break longer compositions into sections using composition plans for more narrative control.
Start with shorter clips (60s) to test ideas before scaling to full-length tracks.
Version history
Internal or beta version
Public launch — music_v2 model
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
ElevenLabs Music is an AI model that generates high-fidelity, studio-grade music from text prompts. Released in August 2025, it supports both instrumental and vocal tracks across genres and languages, with commercial rights cleared through partnerships with music rights organizations.
On Venice, pricing starts at $0.69 per 60-second track, scaling linearly with length — $1.38 for 120 seconds, $2.08 for 180 seconds, and so on up to $4.15 for a 360-second track.
No. ElevenLabs Music is a proprietary model with no open weights. It is not free to use, though limited access may be available through trial credits on some platforms.
Yes. ElevenLabs Music can generate tracks with AI-sung vocals and lyrics in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, German, and Japanese, with editable sections post-generation.
Yes. The model was developed in collaboration with labels, publishers, and artists, and outputs are cleared for broad commercial use, including in ads, podcasts, film, and social media.
Yes. ElevenLabs Music is available via API for all paid subscribers, allowing integration into automated workflows, apps, and multimedia production pipelines.
ElevenLabs Music is safer for commercial use due to its rights-holder agreements, while Suno is known for higher vocal realism and community features. Choose ElevenLabs for agency-safe licensing, Suno for creative experimentation.
You can generate tracks up to 6 minutes long. The output is delivered as a high-quality MP3 file, with pricing scaling based on duration.
Yes. You can upload a reference audio clip of up to 30 seconds to guide the style, instrumentation, and production quality of the generated track.
Run ElevenLabs Music privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.