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ElevenMusic

ElevenLabs' text-to-song generator trained on licensed catalogs, with commercial indemnity, section-level editing and a first-party music API.

Updated 2026-08-10

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Not settled here. This entry does not record a confirmed free tier for ElevenMusic.

Listed pricing: Free tier + Pro $9.99/mo.

Pricing verified 2026-08-10 Is it free? Pricing Is it worth it?
Best for
Agencies, video editors and app developers who need original background music cleared for commercial use, and who want one vendor handling the score, voiceover and sound effects together.

Overview

<p>ElevenMusic is ElevenLabs' AI music generator: describe a genre, mood, and structure in a prompt and it returns a finished track with vocals and instrumentation, or an instrumental bed if you'd rather drop your own voiceover on top. It supports lyrics in multiple languages, and rather than forcing you to reroll an entire song when one part is wrong, it lets you regenerate individual sections by prompt — a meaningful workflow difference once you're trying to hit a specific length or fix a chorus that didn't land.</p><p>The entry's original pitch needs updating for 2026. ElevenLabs built the model on licensed catalogs through agreements with rights bodies including Merlin and Kobalt and marketed the output as cleared, indemnified commercial use, at a time when Suno and Udio were both being sued by the major labels over training data. That gap has largely closed: Suno struck a deal with Warner Music and Udio settled with Universal in late 2025, so "the one you can legally put in a client deliverable" is no longer a differentiator that stands alone. What survives is that ElevenLabs licensed first rather than litigating first, and that its indemnification is written into the product terms — worth something to a risk-averse agency, but no longer the whole argument.</p><p>The sharper remaining edge is the developer surface. ElevenMusic exposes a first-party generation API, and it shares an account and credit pool with ElevenLabs' text-to-speech, dubbing, and sound-effects products — so if you're scoring video at volume or generating music inside your own app, you get music, narration, and SFX from one vendor and one bill. Note this is a separate product from the ElevenLabs voice platform already in this directory, and it should be judged against Suno and Udio, not against TTS tools.</p>

Is ElevenMusic free?

Not settled here. This entry does not record a confirmed free tier for ElevenMusic.

What the entry records: Roughly 7 songs per day at no cost, with limited styles and storage. Plan structure last confirmed June 2026 — check the site for current figures.

Listed pricing: Free tier + Pro $9.99/mo.

No figure is estimated here for what is not published. Check ElevenMusic's own site for the current terms.

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ElevenMusic pricing

Free Free

Roughly 7 songs per day, limited styles and storage

Pro $9.99/mo

Around 500 tracks per month, more styles, expanded storage

Pro (annual) $95.90/yr

Same as Pro, billed yearly (about 20% off)

Via ElevenLabs platform $5/mo Starter to $330/mo Scale

Music generation shares the credit pool with ElevenLabs TTS, dubbing and sound effects; API access is usage-based on the same credits

Pricing verified . That is the date the plans were last re-checked against the vendor's own pages, not today's date. Confirm on the official site before you pay.

Is ElevenMusic worth it?

Worth it for Agencies, video editors and app developers who need original background music cleared for commercial use, and who want one vendor handling the score, voiceover and sound effects together.

There is no free tier to test it on, so the plans above are the entry cost. The recorded trade-offs are listed below, and any one of them can settle the question on its own.

The 7.5/10 AI Score is an editorial read of published capability, price and shipping pace. Nobody here has hands-on hours with ElevenMusic. How we verify.

Worth it if

The strengths recorded against this entry.

  • Licensed via actual rights-holder agreements (Merlin, Kobalt) with commercial indemnification written into the product terms, not just a usage promise
  • First-party generation API makes it the practical choice for embedding music in an app or batch-scoring video, where Suno and Udio are weaker
  • Section-level prompt editing beats rerolling an entire track when one part is wrong
  • Shares an account and credit pool with ElevenLabs TTS, dubbing and sound effects — one vendor for score plus narration
  • Instrumental-only output and multi-language lyrics broaden it beyond English pop pastiche

Not worth it if

Any one of these blocks your use case.

  • The legal moat has largely closed — Suno's Warner deal and Udio's Universal settlement in late 2025 mean rivals now offer licensed output too
  • Audio quality and vocal realism are generally rated behind Suno's best model, and there is no credible independent A/B benchmark either way
  • Much smaller community, catalog and discovery layer than Suno, so less shared prompt craft to learn from
  • Credit-pool pricing shared across ElevenLabs products makes per-song cost harder to predict than a flat track quota

What sets ElevenMusic apart

  • Licensed its training catalogue up front through Merlin and Kobalt agreements, where Suno and Udio arrived at label deals through litigation and settlement
  • Documented first-party music-generation API alongside the consumer app, not just a web interface
  • Same account and credit pool as ElevenLabs TTS, dubbing and sound effects, so a full soundtrack plus narration comes from one vendor
  • Section-level prompt editing rather than whole-track regeneration

Key features

Prompt-to-Song

Generates a complete track — vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation — from a text prompt describing genre, mood, and structure, with instrumental-only output and lyrics in multiple languages.

Section-Level Editing

Regenerate or replace a specific part of a track by prompt instead of rerolling the whole song, which is what makes it usable when you need a precise runtime or a fixed chorus.

First-Party Music API

A documented generation API alongside the consumer app, so music can be produced inside your own product or batch pipeline. This is the clearest remaining advantage over rivals built primarily as web apps.

Licensed Catalog & Indemnity

Trained via agreements with rights organizations including Merlin and Kobalt, with commercial indemnification in the product terms rather than a bare terms-of-service assurance.

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