ElevenLabs releases Music v2.5
Confirmed
The takeaway
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 (music_v2_5) on 2026-09-11, its most advanced text-to-music model.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra134 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.573 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen164 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7103 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 73 days before it.
Key facts
- API model id music_v2_5; $0.15 per minute of generated music
- Blind test on 47,885 paired samples: v2.5 preferred in the majority; largest gains in R&B/soul, hip hop/trap, rock/metal, orchestral/cinematic
- New default for prompted and reference-audio generation in ElevenCreative
- Commercial use allowed; lossless downloads: Free 5/day, Pro 400/month; tracks based on other artists’ songs cannot be downloaded
- API support with 6,132-character composition chunks rolled out 2026-09-14
What happened
ElevenLabs shipped Music v2.5 as the new default music model across ElevenMusic (elevenmusic.io), ElevenCreative and the API. Model file: data/models/elevenlabs-music-v2-5.md.
Why it matters
It is a licensed-by-design competitor to Suno and Udio. The download protections were built with labels and publishers.
Sources
4 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 3 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- ElevenLabs blog: Music v2.5elevenlabs.io, official
- Docs: Modelselevenlabs.io, docs
- Changelog 2026-09-14elevenlabs.io, docs
Reactions
- YouTube (ElevenLabs): Introducing Music v2.5youtube.com, video
Changes
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