ElevenLabs has shipped Music v2.5 and made it the default ElevenMusic model. The update zeroes in on melody, arrangement depth, and how real the instruments sound. To make its case, the company had v2 and v2.5 generate tracks from identical prompts and ran them through 47,885 blind tests — v2.5 came out ahead in most of them. The biggest gaps showed up in R&B, soul, hip-hop, rock, metal, orchestral, and film-score work.
Licensing loosened too. Free users can now download five lossless tracks a day, and anything they generate is cleared for commercial use as long as it's labeled "Made with ElevenMusic." Pro subscribers get 400 lossless downloads a month, no label required, and can push their songs out to streaming platforms. The rights you get when a track is created won't change later if you downgrade or cancel. Tracks adapted from other artists' songs are the exception — those can't be downloaded or released.
ElevenLabs also made clear that Music v2 isn't going anywhere. Suno, by contrast, launched v6 recently and retired all of its older models at the same time, which didn't sit well with long-time users. One commenter on Hacker News who tried v2.5 called the audio quality better but still preferred Suno v5 on musicality.
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