What it does

ElevenLabs Music generates full tracks from prompts, with one big differentiator: it's trained on licensed data only, through deals with Merlin Network and Kobalt. That means the commercial license you get on paid plans is actually clean — no training-data lawsuit hanging over your release. Same company as the voice AI, same credit system.

Pricing that matters

Free gives you 10,000 credits a month (about 11 minutes of music), but it's preview only — no downloads, no commercial use. Starter at $6 a month unlocks commercial licensing with 30,000 credits. Music costs 900 credits a minute, and the credits are shared with the whole ElevenLabs stack — a music-heavy month shrinks your voice budget. Note: self-serve plans exclude film, TV, and studio games (Enterprise only). As of Oct 2026.

Best for

Creators and businesses that need AI music with licensing they can defend. If "where was this trained" is a question your legal team would ask, this is the answer.

The honest take

The cleanest licensing story in AI music, and that's worth real money to commercial users. The trade-offs: vocals can sound robotic next to Suno's emotional range, lyrics skew generic, and the shared credit pool means you're subsidizing products you might not use. Pick it for the license, not the vocals.

Alternatives

Suno: pick this instead if song quality matters most and you're comfortable with the evolving licensing picture. AIVA: pick this instead if you need instrumental and cinematic tracks with MIDI export for DAW work.