Tool · Music and sound

Stable Audio

Stability AI's browser app for making music and sound effects from a written description, or reworking audio you upload. Tracks can be up to three minutes and can be used commercially, even on free credits.

Go to Stable Audio’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
The app is closed; Stable Audio Open is the separate downloadable model.
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Licence: Stability AI Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy (The maker's own terms)
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes (from the Free (sign-up credits) plan)
Commercial use permitted on all plans and the API, including standalone tracks, stock music and streaming releases, subject to the Terms and AUP. Ownership and Content ID not addressed.
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Cost: Free option: 50 credits once, at sign-up
Plans below.
How you use it: In your browser, Inside another tool, Maker's own API
Knowledge base lists a DAW plugin guide and multitrack editor (titles only). The model is also on Stability's API.
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Skill needed: No setup
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Made by: Stability AI
No company location stated on the pages read.
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Status: Available
Knowledge base has a 'Legacy Subscribers & Existing Accounts' article, suggesting a recent plan change; not read (fetch budget ran out).
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What you can make with it

Music and sound, background music (main use)
Music and sound, sound effects
Music and sound, a changed, longer or remixed version of a song

text to audioaudio to audio

Announcement: text-to-audio, audio-to-audio and inpainting (continue an uploaded track) via StableAudio.com. Vocals not mentioned.

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	Free	50 credits Commercial use: Yes
Creator	$12 a month	660 credits a month Credit cost per track not stated; depends on number of tracks and process (see stableaudio.com/docs#credits). Credits don't roll over. Commercial use: Yes
Pro	$30 a month	1,800 credits a month Credit cost per track not stated; depends on number of tracks and process (see stableaudio.com/docs#credits). Credits don't roll over. Commercial use: Yes
Studio	$90 a month	6,000 credits a month Credit cost per track not stated; depends on number of tracks and process (see stableaudio.com/docs#credits). Credits don't roll over. Commercial use: Yes
Max	$199 a month	14,000 credits a month Credit cost per track not stated; depends on number of tracks and process (see stableaudio.com/docs#credits). Credits don't roll over. Commercial use: Yes

Prices shown with '$' only; USD assumed. No annual prices listed. Top-up credit packs available and never expire. Pricing page itself rendered by script.

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Rights and safety

Limits: max audio seconds: 180
Stable Audio 2.5 makes tracks up to three minutes.
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Models it uses

Stable Audio 2.5

Other options for “Music and sound, background music”

ACE-Step, Adobe Firefly, AIVA, BandLab SongStarter, Beatoven.ai, Boomy, Captions, DeeVid AI, Eleven Music, Filmora, FlexClip, getimg.ai, Google Flow Music, Google Flow Music (formerly MusicFX), Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion), ImagineArt, Loudly, Lyria 2, Magic Hour, Mubert, Mureka, MusicGen, MyEdit, Picsart

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.