Eleven Music, the ElevenLabs music model
Eleven Music turns a prompt into up to five minutes of music, and the vendor states the output is cleared for nearly all commercial uses, from television to advertising. It is the cheapest way into this category, and it finishes below Suno on both leaderboards.
- up to five minutes
- from $5 a month
- commercially cleared
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What it makes
You write a prompt and get a track, with vocals or purely instrumental, and you can select one section and regenerate only that part while the rest stays put. The minimum is three seconds and the maximum five minutes. Languages are not enumerated: the docs say English, Spanish, German, Japanese and more, so there is no precise list for us to print.
Two features here are rare in this category: an audio reference, where a short clip guides the style of a new generation, and Music Finetunes, which trains the model on tracks you own. Both are paid plan features.
What it really costs, per minute
Pricing runs on credits and they publish the rate: 900 credits per minute of music. The Starter plan carries 30,000 credits a month, so roughly 33 minutes; Creator carries 121,000, so roughly 134 minutes.
The prices: Starter is $6 a month, or $5 a month billed annually, which they describe as paying for ten months and getting two free. Creator is $22. One difference that runs the other way from both rivals: unused credits roll over for up to two months here, while at Suno and Udio they burn at the end of the cycle.
One constraint to know before signing up: the free plan makes no music at all. In their own limits table the music concurrency for Free is zero, and the Music API is open to paid subscribers only. So even trying it costs money, unlike Suno, Udio and Flow Music.
Rights, where this one is clearest
The documentation says Eleven Music was created in collaboration with labels, publishers and artists and is cleared for nearly all commercial uses: film and television, podcasts, social video, advertising and gaming. That is the plainest sentence any vendor in this category has written about rights. Suno grants commercial rights only with a paid plan, and for Udio and Flow Music we found nothing at all.
Where it falls short
Singing. It scores 1,069 on the vocals board against Suno 1,171, and 1,063 instrumental against 1,188. So if the song itself is the deliverable, this is not the first choice. Where it shines is music under picture: five minutes, clean rights, and an API you can wire into your own software.
From Iran
This is the only vendor in the category that writes the word Iran. The export-control clause in its terms makes you warrant that you are not located in a country under US sanctions, and Iran is on the list it names. That means no official signup and no official payment from Iran. We sell no accounts and recommend no circumvention.
Using it from Iran
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- Free tier
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How we checked: The only tool in this category whose vendor writes the word Iran. The export-control clause in the ElevenLabs terms has the user warrant that they are not located in a country under US sanctions, and it names Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria and the annexed regions of Ukraine. That is a document, not a network test; we have measured nothing from inside Iran.
What it is good at
- Commercial clearance stated by the vendor itself, more explicitly than by any of the three rivals
- Unused credits roll over for up to two months
- A real API, so it plugs into your own software and workflow
- Audio reference input, plus fine-tuning the model on tracks you own
Where it falls short
- The free plan makes no music at all; its music concurrency is zero.
- It sits below Suno on both boards, with the wider gap on vocals.
- Five minutes maximum, against eight for Suno.
- The full language list is unpublished and Persian is named nowhere.
- Separated stems appear nowhere in the documentation.
- Its terms name Iran explicitly, so there is no official route.
Our take
For music under video and under podcasts, where you may later have to show you had the right to broadcast it, this is the cleanest option in the table. For a song that is itself the product, Suno sings better, and that is the numbers talking rather than our taste.
Questions people actually ask
Is Eleven Music free
Not for music. ElevenLabs has a free plan, but its music concurrency is zero and the Music API is open to paid subscribers only. The cheapest plan that makes music is $6 a month.
Can ElevenLabs music be used commercially
The vendor states it is cleared for nearly all commercial uses, from film and television to advertising and gaming, and points at its music terms for what each plan allows.
How long a track does it generate
From three seconds to five minutes in one generation. It costs 900 credits per minute, so the $6 plan works out at roughly 33 minutes a month.
How much this tool is searched for
"elevenlabs" is searched 246,000 times a month in the United States and 49,500 times in Turkey. That is a 5x gap between two markets this site publishes in.
| Market | Query | Searches a month | Cost per click | Difficulty | Intent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | elevenlabs | 49,500 | $0.17 | 71 | Navigational |
| Saudi Arabia | elevenlabs | 74,000 | $0.19 | 74 | Navigational |
| United States | elevenlabs | 246,000 | $0.74 | 83 | Navigational |
Source: Semrush, TR, SA, US databases, pulled 27 August 2026. Volumes age; treat anything older than a quarter as a direction, not a number.