Stable Audio 2.5
Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model for 3-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and audio inpainting with sub-two-second inference.
Get API keyWhat is Stable Audio 2.5?
Stable Audio 2.5 is Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model, released in September 2025. It generates up to three-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and music from text prompts, featuring audio inpainting and sub-two-second GPU inference. It is proprietary, closed-weight, and optimized for professional sound design, advertising, and game audio workflows.
Use Stable Audio 2.5 privately on Venice
On Venice, Stable Audio 2.5 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. You pay a flat $0.19 per generation with no subscription, making it a permissionless way to produce commercial-grade audio without Big-Tech surveillance or data retention.
What can Stable Audio 2.5 do?
- •Generates fully developed instrumental tracks up to 3 minutes with structured musical composition.
- •Sub-two-second inference on GPU for rapid iteration.
- •Audio inpainting allows editing specific sections without regenerating entire tracks.
- •Strong for sound design, ambient soundscapes, cinematic instrumentals, and electronic loops.
- •Enterprise-grade output suitable for advertising, games, and short-form video.
- •Not designed for vocal-driven pop songs from simple prompts; vocal-focused rivals lead on sung output.
- •Proprietary and closed — no open weights for self-hosting or fine-tuning.
- •Output is AI-generated audio, which may face platform screening or distribution restrictions.
- •Requires structured, detailed prompting for best results on full compositions.
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.”
How to use Stable Audio 2.5 via API
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with stable-audio-25.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "stable-audio-25",
"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.Specifications
Pricing
Flat per-image pricing on Venice: $0.19 per generation.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Stable Audio 2.5 vs alternatives
| Model | Max duration | Primary use | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Audio 2.5 | Up to 3 min | Instrumentals & SFX | No | $0.19 / track |
| ACE-Step 1.5 | — | Music | No | from $0.03 / track |
| MiniMax Music 2.5 | — | Music | No | $0.18 / track |
| ElevenLabs Music | — | Music | No | from $0.69 / track |
The only Venice-hosted option with audio inpainting and a published 3-minute max duration, built for enterprise sound design.
What is Stable Audio 2.5 good for?
- •Advertising and brand sound design.
- •Game soundtracks and sound effects.
- •Short-form video scoring.
- •Ambient and electronic music production.
- •Audio inpainting and remixing existing material.
Prompting tips
- •Start with genre, instrumentation, and mood to anchor the composition.
- •Specify tempo and duration explicitly for tighter control.
- •Use detailed musical vocabulary rather than one-line prompts for full tracks.
- •Leverage audio inpainting to fix sections instead of re-rolling entire generations.
Version history
Original text-to-audio predecessor.
CurrentCurrent enterprise release with inpainting and 3-minute generation.
Frequently asked questions
Stable Audio 2.5 is Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model, released in September 2025. It generates up to three-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and music from text and audio prompts, with features like audio inpainting and sub-two-second inference.
Venice charges a flat $0.19 per generation. There is no subscription required; you pay only for what you generate.
No. Stable Audio 2.5 is proprietary and closed-weight. Stability AI offers separate open-weights models in the Stable Audio Open line, but 2.5 itself cannot be self-hosted.
Choose Stable Audio 2.5 if you need audio inpainting, enterprise sound design, and up to 3-minute structured instrumentals. Choose MiniMax Music 2.5 for general track generation at a similar per-track price.
It is optimized for instrumentals, sound effects, and ambient music. If you need vocal-driven songs, other generators are better suited.
Audio inpainting lets you edit or regenerate a specific section of a track without changing the rest of the composition, saving time when fixing small flaws.
Venice runs it under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. There is zero retention of your generation history.
Stable Audio 2.5 focuses on instrumental precision, sound effects, and audio inpainting for enterprise workflows. Suno and Udio are optimized for vocal-driven song generation from simple prompts.
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No prompt logging. No data used for training. Free to start — no credit card.
