Stable Audio 3.0
Stability’s licensed-data music & sound-effects family; open Medium/Small checkpoints for local use.
PricePrice not published
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
6newer music generation models since its release
- Eleven Music v2.511 Sep 2026
- Suno v6 (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini)9 Sep 2026
- YuE2-3B9 Sep 2026
- Lyria 3.529 Jul 2026
- MiniMax Music 3.016 Jul 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All music generation models
- Weights
- Weights are public. Licence: Stable Audio Community License; Large is API/enterprise only. See the licence for commercial terms.
How to call it
5 ways to use Stable Audio 3.0.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stability AI API (Large) | platform.stability.ai | ||
| Hugging Face (Medium) | huggingface.co | ||
| Hugging Face (Small music) | huggingface.co | ||
| Hugging Face (Small SFX) | huggingface.co | ||
| Web app | stableaudio.com |
Pricing
Price not published.
No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and audio
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- Stable Audio Community License (Small SFX / Small / Medium); Large is API/enterprise only
- Released
- 20 May 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Music generation
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Tracks over 6 minutes
Medium generates music up to 6:20; Large aimed at high-volume, low-latency platform use.
Fully licensed training data
Model family trained on fully licensed data; users own outputs under the Community License.
On-device small models
Small (459M) music and Small SFX models designed to run on phones and consumer laptops.
Notes
Family of 4: Small SFX, Small, Medium (open weights, HF) and Large (API via Stability and fal.ai, or enterprise self-hosting). Price per The Rundown tool review (says it checked the official pricing page 2026-08-31, secondary): 26 API credits = $0.26 per successful Large generation (1 credit = $0.01).
Sources: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models , https://huggingface.co/collections/stabilityai/stable-audio-3 , https://github.com/Stability-AI/stable-audio-3
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: added secondary-source Large API price (26 credits/$0.26 per generation, https://www.therundown.ai/tools/stable-audio-3-0); model id still unverified
Not yet checked against an official source: Exact API model id/endpoint for Large not verified (Stability pricing/docs pages are JS-rendered).