Stable Audio
Open instrumental music and sound effects, even on a laptop.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Background music and sound effects
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux, API
- License
- Stability AI Community License
What’s good
- Trained on licensed and Creative Commons audio
- Small model runs on a normal laptop CPU or Mac
- Tracks up to six minutes with the Medium model
Downsides
- No vocals or lyrics
- Companies over $1M revenue need a paid license
- Download needs a Hugging Face account and form
The details.
- Version
- Stable Audio 3.0Released 2026-05
- Open source
- Yes, Stability AI Community License
- Made by
- Stability AI
- Website
- stability.ai
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Music Arena (instrumental, 3 Medium)#14 · score 9962026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use Official web UI (MLX on Mac, LiteRT on PC).
- You need
- Small runs on a laptop CPU; Medium wants an 8 GB GPU
- 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 GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns