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 "slug": "ace-step",
 "name": "ACE-Step",
 "type": "model",
 "type_label": "Model",
 "summary": "A free, downloadable model that writes whole songs, with or without vocals, from a text description and lyrics. It can also remix or re-sing parts of a track. You need a decent graphics card and some technical setup.",
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   "label": "Music and sound, a full song with vocals",
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   "id": "make.music.edit_song",
   "label": "Music and sound, a changed, longer or remixed version of a song",
   "main": false
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  {
   "id": "make.music.background",
   "label": "Music and sound, background music",
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  }
 ],
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  "text_to_audio",
  "audio_to_audio"
 ],
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  "label": "Fully open",
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  "open_source": true
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  "family": "permissive",
  "family_label": "Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT)",
  "name": "Apache License 2.0",
  "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B"
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  "headline": "yes",
  "label": "Yes",
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  "free_tier": true,
  "free_tier_includes": "Free to download and run on your own computer",
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  "plans_complete": null,
  "estimates": [],
  "note": "Prices as published by the maker. Anything in estimates is Plainly's own rough comparison, not a maker price."
 },
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   {
    "id": "run_locally",
    "label": "On your own computer"
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  "id": "technical",
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 "made_by": {
  "name": "ACE Studio and StepFun"
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  "id": "active",
  "label": "Available"
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  "watermark": null,
  "copies_real_faces_or_voices": null,
  "limits": {
   "note": "No hard length limit; maker says songs over 5 minutes may lose structure. About 20 seconds to make a 4-minute song on an A100."
  }
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  "uses_models_not_listed": [],
  "available_on": [
   {
    "slug": "hugging-face",
    "name": "Hugging Face",
    "type": "host",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/hugging-face.json"
   }
  ],
  "hosts_models": [],
  "replaced_by": []
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   {
    "slug": "comfyui",
    "name": "ComfyUI",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/comfyui.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "elevenlabs-music",
    "name": "Eleven Music",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/elevenlabs-music.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "google-flow-music",
    "name": "Google Flow Music",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/google-flow-music.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "google-musicfx",
    "name": "Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX)",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/google-musicfx.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "riffusion",
    "name": "Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion)",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/riffusion.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "loudly",
    "name": "Loudly",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/loudly.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "lyria-3-5",
    "name": "Lyria 3.5",
    "type": "model",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/lyria-3-5.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "minimax-audio",
    "name": "MiniMax Audio",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/minimax-audio.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "mureka",
    "name": "Mureka",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/mureka.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "myedit",
    "name": "MyEdit",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/myedit.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "replicate",
    "name": "Replicate",
    "type": "host",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/replicate.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "soundverse",
    "name": "Soundverse",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/soundverse.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "suno",
    "name": "Suno",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/suno.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "udio",
    "name": "Udio",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/udio.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "wavespeed-ai",
    "name": "WaveSpeedAI",
    "type": "host",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/wavespeed-ai.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "yue",
    "name": "YuE",
    "type": "model",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/yue.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "yue-2",
    "name": "YuE2",
    "type": "model",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/yue-2.json"
   }
  ]
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 "last_updated": "2026-10-12",
 "entry_status": "draft",
 "sources": [
  {
   "field": "access",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Third-party hosts and finetunes exist but were not verified from the maker's pages."
  },
  {
   "field": "commercial_use",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Apache 2.0 allows commercial use of the model. The model card says nothing specific about generated music; avoid copying real artists or songs."
  },
  {
   "field": "licence",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "lifecycle",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Weights still published; the model card mentions no successor. Newer versions may exist but were not checked (fetch budget)."
  },
  {
   "field": "limits",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "made_by",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "Model card names ACE Studio and StepFun as joint makers; no country stated."
  },
  {
   "field": "modalities",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "openness",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "Weights and code released under Apache 2.0."
  },
  {
   "field": "pricing",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "skill_level",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "tasks",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "Full-song generation from a description and lyrics; remixing, style transfer, lyric editing, repainting and extending. Vocals described by the maker as coarse."
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://plainly.guide/tools/ace-step/",
  "website": "https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B",
  "affiliate": null,
  "translations": {
   "es": "https://plainly.guide/es/tools/ace-step/",
   "fr": "https://plainly.guide/fr/tools/ace-step/"
  }
 },
 "attribution": "Data from Plainly Guide (https://plainly.guide). Please credit Plainly with a link to the entry page when you use it."
}