MiniMax Music
Open model that writes full five-minute songs with vocals.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Best song quality you can download
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Linux, Windows
- License
- MiniMax-Music3 Community License
What’s good
- Best open model on the music arena
- Songs up to five minutes with lyrics and vocals
- Commercial use allowed if you show the MiniMax-Music3 name
Downsides
- 57 GB download and a 24 GB graphics card for full speed
- Companies above $20M revenue need separate permission
- Command line setup, no simple app yet
At a glance.
- Best for
- Best song quality you can download
- Price
- Free, open source
- For developers
- $0.15 per track (existing API customers only)
- Version
- Music 3.0Released 2026-08
- Works on
- Linux, Windows
- Open source
- Yes, MiniMax-Music3 Community License
- Made by
- MiniMax
- Website
- github.com
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Music Arena (vocals)#9 · 10002026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use Diffusers (Python), ComfyUI.
- You need
- NVIDIA card with 24 GB; 8 GB works with slow offloading
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBToo small
- Mac, 64 GB+Too small
- PC, 8 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 12 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 16 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns