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# Stable Audio 3.0

Stability AI, Stable Audio family. Status: current. Type: music generation. Released: 2026-05-20.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stability AI API (Large) |  |  | https://platform.stability.ai |
| Hugging Face (Medium) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-3-medium |
| Hugging Face (Small music) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-3-small-music |
| Hugging Face (Small SFX) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-3-small-sfx |
| Web app |  |  | https://stableaudio.com |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, 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

## Where it stands

- Newer music generation models in the registry since its release: 6. The 5 newest:
  - Eleven Music v2.5 (2026-09-11) https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-music-v2-5/
  - Suno v6 (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini) (2026-09-09) https://postcutoff.com/m/suno-v6/
  - YuE2-3B (2026-09-09) https://postcutoff.com/m/yue2/
  - Lyria 3.5 (2026-07-29) https://postcutoff.com/m/lyria-3-5/
  - MiniMax Music 3.0 (2026-07-16) https://postcutoff.com/m/minimax-music-3/
- Weights are public. Licence: Stable Audio Community License; Large is API/enterprise only. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- Tracks over 6 minutes: Medium generates music up to 6:20; Large aimed at high-volume, low-latency platform use. Source: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models
- Fully licensed training data: Model family trained on fully licensed data; users own outputs under the Community License. Source: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models
- On-device small models: Small (459M) music and Small SFX models designed to run on phones and consumer laptops. Source: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models

## Notes

Family of 4: Small SFX, Small, Medium (open weights, HF) and Large (API via Stability and fal.ai, or enterprise self-hosting). Exact API model id/endpoint for Large not verified (Stability pricing/docs pages are JS-rendered). 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).

Stability's licensed-data music & sound-effects family; open Medium/Small checkpoints for local use.

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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/stable-audio-3/