Song Creator Pro is the Stable Audio alternative that writes actual songs, on your own machine
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Every track below was generated locally on a desktop GPU.
Why switch
3 reasons to choose Song Creator Pro over Stable Audio
It does not write songs with lyrics
This is the single most common reason people go looking for a Stable Audio alternative. The product has always been built around instrumentals, loops, one-shots and sound design, and the Stable Audio 3.0 family released on 20 May 2026 kept that focus: the announcement covers musicality, inpainting and on-device generation, and says nothing about singing your lyrics. If you need a verse, a chorus and a recognisable lead vocal, you are using the wrong tool and no amount of prompt engineering will fix it. Song Creator Pro ships YuE2, which generates complete structured songs with synchronised vocals directly from the lyrics you type.
No free plan on the pricing page, and the meter starts at $12
As of September 2026 the Stable Audio pricing page lists four paid tiers and no free plan: Solo at $12 a month for 660 credits, Session at $30 for 1,800, Producer at $90 for 6,000 and Studio at $199 for 14,000. A small 50-credit free allowance still appears in the site's plan data, but it is not offered on the pricing page. Unused credits do not carry over to the next month, so anything you do not spend simply evaporates. Anyone at or above $1M in annual revenue is pushed to a custom-priced Enterprise licence. Song Creator Pro is a one-time $49.99 purchase, after which the marginal cost of a track is zero and nothing expires at the end of the month.
The open models are real, but they are not a product
Stability AI genuinely does publish open weights, and that is to its credit. Stable Audio Open Small shipped with Arm on 14 May 2025 at 341 million parameters, producing up to 11 seconds of audio on a phone in under 8 seconds, and the 3.0 Small, Small SFX and Medium variants are on Hugging Face under the Stability AI Community License. What you do not get is an application. You get weights, a Python repository and your own afternoon. Song Creator Pro is the packaged version of that idea: installed models, a real interface, and a hardware detector that picks the right backend for your card.
Head to head
How Song Creator Pro compares with Stable Audio
Stable Audio is a serious piece of engineering and it wins some of the comparisons below outright. It is the best sound-design model in this list, its training data provenance is cleaner than almost anything else in AI music, and the DAW plugin it opened in beta in August 2026 fits a producer workflow better than a browser tab ever will. The question is whether the thing you actually want to make is a loop or a song.
| Feature | Song Creator Pro | Stable Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | ||
| Instrumental generation | ||
| Sound effects and foley | ||
| Loops and one-shots | Limited | |
| Full songs with vocals | ||
| Sings your own lyrics | ||
| Audio-to-audio and inpainting | Limited | |
| Remix from your own audio | ||
| Stem separation | 4 models | Experimental |
| Maximum track length | Multi-minute | Over 6 minutes |
| Vocal languages | 50+ | None |
| Batch generation | Limited | |
| Producer controls | ||
| Seed control for repeatable output | Limited | |
| Guidance scale | Limited | |
| Inference step count | Limited | |
| Choice of separation model | ||
| Generation history with metadata | ||
| DAW plugin | Beta, macOS | |
| Fine-tuning on your own library | Enterprise | |
| Output and platform | ||
| MP3 export | ||
| WAV export | ||
| FLAC export | ||
| Windows desktop app | ||
| macOS support | On the roadmap | |
| Browser access | ||
| Public API | ||
| Open weights and local use | ||
| Open model weights published | Ships open models | Small, Small SFX, Medium |
| Top model available locally | API and enterprise only | |
| Packaged installer, no Python | ||
| Automatic hardware detection | ||
| Runs on an 8 GB NVIDIA GPU | Limited | |
| Support for the local models | Community only | |
| Limits | ||
| Generations | Unlimited | Credit-metered |
| Entry allowance | No cap | 660 credits a month |
| Unused credits roll over | No credits at all | |
| Free tier | Full-feature trial | Not listed in Sept 2026 |
| Marginal cost per track | $0 | Credits per generation |
| Privacy and control | ||
| Runs fully offline | Open weights only | |
| Audio stays on your device | ||
| Account required | ||
| Uploads scanned by content recognition | ||
| Features can change under you | ||
| Cost and licensing | ||
| Pricing model | One-time purchase | Subscription credits |
| Entry price | $44.99 once | $12/mo |
| Three-year cost at entry tier | $44.99 | $432 |
| Top consumer tier | $49.99 once | $199/mo |
| Commercial rights included | ||
| Revenue ceiling before you must upgrade | None | $1M a year |
| Legal indemnification | Enterprise | |
| Training data fully licensed | ||
| Future updates included | While subscribed |
The full list
Top 10 Stable Audio alternatives of 2026
Every tool below was checked against its current pricing and terms in August 2026. Prices and limits in this category change often, so verify before you commit.
Song Creator Pro
Unlimited local AI music generation and downloads, one time payment
Song Creator Pro is a Windows desktop app that generates, remixes and separates music entirely on your own GPU. There is no account, no upload step and no credit meter. It ships two open models, ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2, and is among the first apps anywhere to run YuE2 on 8 GB GPUs rather than the 24 GB its official release demands. You describe a song in plain language and it renders locally, in any of 50+ languages, with inference steps, guidance scale and seed exposed so results are repeatable. It is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
Coming from Stable Audio? The closest thing to a packaged Stable Audio Open: real models on your own GPU, but with an installer, an interface and vocals. It does not do foley or one-shots, so it replaces the songwriting half of Stable Audio rather than the sound-design half.
Pros
- Runs 100% offline on your own machine, so prompts and audio never leave your PC
- Includes YuE2, the model that outscored Suno on WildSongBench, running on 8 GB GPUs
- One-time purchase with lifetime updates instead of a monthly subscription
- Genuinely unlimited generations with no credits, no daily caps and no download limits
- Built-in stem separation
- Producer-grade controls: seed, guidance scale, inference steps and batch generation
- Exports MP3, FLAC and WAV with full commercial rights included
Cons
- Windows only today, with macOS still on the roadmap
- A GPU (NVIDIA or AMD) is strongly recommended, and speed depends on your hardware
- No browser or mobile access, so you cannot generate from a phone
- No community feed or social sharing features
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| itch.io | $44.99 once |
| Microsoft Store | $49.99 once |
| Bundle | $72.50 once |
Suno
The most popular AI song generator
Suno is the best known AI music platform and the benchmark most others are measured against. In September 2026 it retired every model before v6 under its Warner settlement and replaced them with the licensed v6 family, which has drawn mixed reviews: cleaner production for some, muffled and more generic output for others. It runs in the browser, has a large community, and offers a duration slider and Advanced Split stem separation that regenerates stems rather than extracting them.
Coming from Stable Audio? The straightforward answer if you left Stable Audio because it would not sing. Polished vocals across mainstream genres, though downloads are now capped at 20 a month on Pro and the pre-v6 models were deleted in September 2026.
Pros
- Polished, clean vocal production across mainstream genres
- Very broad genre coverage and a large, active creator community
- Advanced Split regenerates stems from nearly 100 instrument choices
- Duration control from 10 seconds to 6 minutes in 5-second steps
- Works in any browser on any device, including phones
Cons
- From 3 September 2026 the free tier has no monthly download allowance at all, just a one-off pool of up to 7 trial downloads for personal use
- Paid plans cap downloads: Pro allows only 20 songs a month, Premier 60
- Subscription credits expire and never roll over between days or months
- All audio is processed on Suno's servers, so nothing stays private
- Every pre-v6 model was deleted in September 2026, so old songs cannot be extended or regenerated, and Sony and Universal litigation is ongoing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Pro | $10/mo ($8 annual) |
| Premier | $30/mo ($24 annual) |
ElevenLabs Music
The cleanest licensing story in AI music
Eleven Music is ElevenLabs' entry into music generation, launched in August 2025 and substantially upgraded with v2 in 2026. Its distinguishing feature is legal rather than sonic: it was trained on licensed stems and built in partnership with rights holders before launch, rather than settling lawsuits afterwards. It supports vocals in 59 languages and generates section by section with inpainting.
Coming from Stable Audio? The only other tool here that can match Stable Audio's licensing story, and it adds the vocals Stable Audio lacks, in 59 languages. If you chose Stability AI specifically for clean provenance, this is the like-for-like swap.
Pros
- Trained on licensed material from the start, giving it the clearest commercial position of any major platform
- Vocals in 59 languages, with native-quality delivery in 11
- Section-by-section building and inpainting to regenerate parts of a track
- Can generate stems, lyrics and full compositions, and shift style mid-track
- A mature, well-documented API for developers
Cons
- Credits are shared with ElevenLabs' speech products, so music competes with your voice usage
- Film, TV and large studio game rights require an Enterprise plan
- Output is capped at 44.1 kHz, and formats are MP3, PCM, Opus and telephony codecs
- Cloud-only with no offline option
- The music product is newer and less battle-tested than its voice tooling
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Starter | $6/mo ($5 annual) |
| Creator | $22/mo |
| Pro | $99/mo |
ACE-Step
The open-source model behind much of local AI music
ACE-Step is an open-source music foundation model from ACE Studio and StepFun, and version 1.5 added an FSQ tokenizer along with remix, edit and cover tooling. It is free to download and run locally, and it is the engine underneath a number of consumer local apps, including parts of Song Creator Pro.
Coming from Stable Audio? If Stable Audio Open appealed but the weights-and-Python route did not bother you, ACE-Step 1.5 is the same deal for full songs rather than loops: free, open, local, and entirely your problem to set up.
Pros
- Free and open source, with no licence fee at all
- Runs entirely on your own hardware
- Strong remix, edit and cover capabilities
Cons
- You have to set up Python 3.11 or 3.12, uv, GPU drivers and model weights yourself
- The bundled Gradio web UI is a developer tool rather than a polished app
- No support, and troubleshooting means reading GitHub issues
- Keeping up with model updates is manual work
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Open source | Free |
YuE2
Open full-song generation, if you have the VRAM
YuE2, released in September 2026, is an open-weight model that generates complete structured songs with synchronised vocals directly from lyrics, produces an editable score, and can cover existing songs in new styles. On the WildSongBench benchmark it outscored every Suno model, including the since-retired v5. It remains a research release rather than a product; Song Creator Pro packages it for Windows and is among the first apps to run it on 8 GB GPUs.
Coming from Stable Audio? The open model that does what Stable Audio will not, generating complete songs with synchronised vocals from lyrics. The official release wants Linux and roughly 24 GB of VRAM, which is the gap Song Creator Pro closes.
Pros
- Generates full songs with vocals from lyrics, entirely locally
- Outscored Suno v5 and v6 on the WildSongBench benchmark
- Editable scores and score-based covers, which no cloud tool offers
- Free, open weights with an active research community
Cons
- The official release targets Linux and wants roughly 24 GB of VRAM
- Vocals in English, Mandarin and Japanese only
- Command-line research code with no polished interface
- No commercial support of any kind
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Open source | Free |
AIVA
Orchestral and cinematic scoring with MIDI export
AIVA specialises in classical, orchestral and cinematic composition. It is the pick for composers who need to take a piece into a DAW and keep working on it, because it exports MIDI rather than only rendered audio, and its top tier assigns you the copyright outright.
Coming from Stable Audio? The pick if you were using Stable Audio for cinematic and orchestral beds. AIVA exports MIDI rather than only rendered audio, so the cue stays editable in your DAW, and its Pro tier assigns you the copyright outright.
Pros
- Best-in-class orchestral and cinematic output
- MIDI export, so compositions stay editable in a DAW
- The Pro tier gives you full copyright ownership rather than a licence
Cons
- Essentially no vocal generation
- The Pro tier is expensive at roughly 49 euros a month
- Narrow genre focus compared with general-purpose generators
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Standard | ~15 euros/mo (11 annual) |
| Pro | ~49 euros/mo (33 annual) |
Soundraw
Slider-driven royalty-free beds for video
Soundraw generates royalty-free instrumental music that you shape with genre, mood and energy sliders rather than text prompts. It is purpose-built for video editors who need a track to fit a timeline, and its licence stays valid for content published while subscribed.
Coming from Stable Audio? Instrumental only, like Stable Audio, but shaped with genre and mood sliders instead of prompts and built around cutting to a video timeline. Cheaper than Session at roughly $11 a month with unlimited downloads.
Pros
- Fast, predictable results without prompt engineering
- Length and energy controls designed for cutting to video
- Unlimited generation on paid plans
Cons
- Instrumental only, with no real vocal generation
- Less creative range than a prompt-driven model
- No plan allows releasing an unmodified track to streaming services, and WAV and stems are reserved for the Artist tiers
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Creator | ~$11/mo |
| Artist tiers | ~$19.50 to $32.50/mo |
Mubert
Royalty-free background music built from human-made samples
Mubert generates royalty-free functional music, the kind that sits behind videos, podcasts, apps and streams, by assembling tracks from a large library of samples contributed by human musicians who get paid when their loops are used. That gives it a cleaner provenance story than models trained by scraping, and it is why Mubert has avoided the lawsuits that reshaped Suno and Udio. You generate by prompt, mood, genre or activity, with tracks up to 25 minutes long, and a developer API serves the same engine to apps and games. As of September 2026 plans run from a free Ambassador tier to a $199 a month Business tier. The catch is scope: it makes background beds, not songs with vocals, and no plan allows publishing to Spotify or other streaming services.
Coming from Stable Audio? The other tool with a deliberately clean rights story, built from licensed human-made samples rather than scraped audio. Tracks run up to 25 minutes, far longer than Stable Audio's six, but no plan lets you release to streaming services.
Pros
- Built from licensed human-made samples, so its rights story is unusually clean
- Tracks up to 25 minutes long, well suited to podcasts, streams and ambient beds
- Unlimited lossless and MP3 downloads on every paid plan
- A mature API for generating music inside apps, games and products
- Stem editing on all tiers, with a full track editor for structure, BPM and key on Pro and Business
Cons
- No vocal generation, so it cannot write an actual song with lyrics
- No plan permits releasing tracks to Spotify, Apple Music or any streaming platform, or registering them with Content ID
- Commercial use for monetized content starts at Pro, $39 a month, which adds up fast against a one-time purchase
- The free and Creator tiers are non-commercial only, with the free tier requiring attribution
- Cloud-only, and payments are non-refundable on every tier
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Ambassador | $0 |
| Creator | $14/mo ($11.69 annual) |
| Pro | $39/mo ($32.49 annual) |
| Business | $199/mo ($149.29 annual) |
Mureka
Voice cloning and high song throughput
Mureka is a full-stack AI music platform whose current flagship is the V9.5 model. Its standout capability is voice cloning: upload a short sample of a voice you have rights to and Mureka will perform new songs in it. Plans run on a credit it calls Gold, but each tier states roughly how many songs its Gold buys, which keeps the maths easy, and it bundles stem separation and a lyrics generator.
Coming from Stable Audio? Worth a look if what you actually needed was a specific voice rather than a specific texture. Voice cloning with commercial rights on its Premier plan, and each plan states roughly how many songs its credits buy.
Pros
- Voice cloning for songs, included with commercial rights on the Premier plan
- Each paid plan states an approximate song count alongside its Gold allowance
- High volume allowance on paid plans, with about 500 songs a month at the entry paid tier
- Stem separation, region and melody editing, and reference audio uploads
- Exports MP3 and MP4, with WAV, MIDI and stems on Premier
Cons
- Around 10 vocal languages, far fewer than Suno or ElevenLabs
- The free plan is 50 Gold a day on the older V7.5 model, with no downloads and personal use only
- Voice cloning of a real person carries obvious rights risk if you get consent wrong
- Cloud processing, so reference audio you upload leaves your machine
- Smaller community and less third-party tooling than Suno
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Pro | $10/mo ($8 annual) |
| Premier | $30/mo ($24 annual) |
Google Flow Music
Google's AI music studio, formerly Riffusion and Producer.ai
Google Flow Music started life as Riffusion in 2022, a diffusion model that generated audio as spectrogram images, became Producer.ai in 2025, and was acquired into Google Labs in February 2026 before relaunching under its current name that April. It now runs on Lyria 3 Pro, with Gemini handling conversational editing, Veo generating matching music videos and Nano Banana producing cover art. Every track it renders carries Google's SynthID watermark.
Coming from Stable Audio? The free option Stable Audio no longer advertises, with free credits that top up daily (Google doesn't publish how many songs they cover). The trade-offs are a SynthID watermark on every output and commercial rights that its pricing page does not state.
Pros
- Free tier with daily top-up credits and the full core features
- Conversational editing through Gemini rather than prompt and reroll
- Google does not claim ownership of what you generate
- Music videos and cover art produced alongside the track
Cons
- Every output is embedded with Google's SynthID watermark
- Generation is metered by credits, and commercial rights are not stated on the pricing page
- Third name in four years, so the product keeps moving under you
- Cloud-only and tied to a Google account
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Starter | $8/mo ($6 annual) |
| Plus | $24/mo ($18 annual) |
| Member | $64/mo ($48 annual) |
Round by round
Song Creator Pro vs Stable Audio
Six categories, each with a winner.
Sound design, loops and one-shots
Winner: Stable AudioStable Audio wins this comfortably and it is not close. It was built for exactly this: drum loops, foley, risers, ambient textures and instrument riffs, generated from a text prompt at lengths from one second upwards. Stable Audio 2.5, released on 10 September 2025, generates up to three minutes in under two seconds on a GPU, and the 3.0 family added inpainting across single and multiple segments plus causal continuation. Song Creator Pro generates songs, not sample packs. If your job is filling a sample folder, stay where you are.
Licensed training data and commercial safety
Winner: Stable AudioStability AI trains Stable Audio on a fully licensed dataset, runs content recognition on uploads, and announced partnerships with Universal Music Group on 30 October 2025 and Warner Music Group on 19 November 2025. Its Enterprise licence carries legal indemnification. That is a stronger provenance position than Song Creator Pro can claim: our commercial licence covers the software and its output, but the open models we ship do not publish the same dataset documentation. If your client's legal team asks where the training data came from, Stable Audio and ElevenLabs Music have the better answers.
Songs with lyrics and vocals
Winner: Song Creator ProStable Audio does not sing. Not badly, not approximately: it is not a feature of the product, and four model releases across two years have not changed that. Song Creator Pro ships YuE2, which builds full structured songs with synchronised vocals straight from your lyrics and scored 6.96 on WildSongBench, ahead of Suno v5 at 6.87 and v6 at 6.56, plus ACE-Step 1.5 for vocals in more than 50 languages. If the track needs a topline, Stable Audio cannot get you there from any starting point.
Actually running the model yourself
Winner: Song Creator ProStability AI publishes open weights for Stable Audio 3.0 Small, Small SFX and Medium, which is more than Suno, Udio or ElevenLabs will ever do. But Large, the model behind the hosted product, is API and enterprise only, and the open variants arrive as Hugging Face checkpoints and a Python repository rather than software. Song Creator Pro is an installer. It detects your hardware, picks a backend, and runs YuE2 on 8 GB NVIDIA cards when the official release asks for roughly 24 GB, with int8 quantization and CPU offloading for machines below that.
Cost at volume
Winner: Song Creator ProStable Audio's cheapest plan is Solo at $12 a month for 660 credits, rising through Session at $30, Producer at $90 and Studio at $199. Credits reset monthly and do not carry over, so light months are wasted and heavy months mean an upgrade. Three years on Solo alone comes to $432, and a year on Producer is $1,080. Song Creator Pro is $49.99 once on the Microsoft Store or $44.99 on itch.io, with unlimited generation, every export format and lifetime updates. Four months on Solo costs $48, so the one-time purchase has paid for itself before the fifth invoice lands.
Privacy and working offline
Winner: Song Creator ProThe hosted Stable Audio product requires an account, processes everything on Stability AI's servers, and applies content recognition to audio you upload for audio-to-audio work. That is a sensible policy on their side and a genuine constraint on yours if the material is a client's unreleased stems or something under NDA. Song Creator Pro generates, remixes and separates entirely on your own GPU with no account and no network connection, so nothing you feed it is ever transmitted anywhere.
The verdict
Conclusion
Stable Audio is the best sound-design model in this comparison and the most defensible one legally. Stable Audio 3.0, released on 20 May 2026, spans four variants from an on-device Small SFX model up to a Large model that runs the hosted service, it is trained on a fully licensed dataset, and the August 2026 DAW plugin, currently a macOS beta, finally puts generation on a track in Ableton or Logic instead of in a browser tab. For loops, foley, beds and brand sound design, it deserves its reputation.
The reasons people leave are narrow and consistent. It does not write songs with vocals, and no release has suggested it ever will. The pricing page as of September 2026 lists no free tier, starting instead at $12 a month for 660 credits that expire if unused and climbing to $199. Crossing $1M in annual revenue moves you onto a custom-priced Enterprise licence. And while the open-weight variants are a real gift to the community, they are weights and a Python repo, not an application you can install and use on a Tuesday evening.
Song Creator Pro answers the second and third of those directly. It is a Windows application that installs ACE-Step 1.5 and YuE2 locally, generates full songs with vocals in more than 50 languages, exposes seed, guidance scale and inference steps, separates stems with a choice of four models, and exports MP3, FLAC and WAV with a commercial licence included. It costs $49.99 once and runs offline. It will not make you a foley library, and if that is what you came for, Stable Audio remains the right tool. The two are not really competing for the same job.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends which half of Stable Audio you were using. For full songs with vocals generated locally at a one-time price, Song Creator Pro. For cloud-generated vocal songs, Suno or ElevenLabs Music, with ElevenLabs matching Stable Audio's licensed training data story. For cinematic and orchestral instrumentals with MIDI export, AIVA. For royalty-free beds cut to video, Soundraw or Mubert.
As of September 2026 the Stable Audio pricing page lists four subscription tiers: Solo at $12 a month for 660 credits, Session at $30 for 1,800, Producer at $90 for 6,000 and Studio at $199 for 14,000. Unused credits do not roll over into the following month. Organisations above $1M in annual revenue need a custom-priced Enterprise licence.
The hosted product at stableaudio.com is not free as of September 2026; its pricing page lists paid tiers starting at $12 a month with no free plan among them. The open-weight models are a separate matter: Stable Audio 3.0 Small, Small SFX and Medium can be downloaded from Hugging Face and used at no cost under the Stability AI Community License, which permits commercial use below $1M in annual revenue.
No. Stable Audio is built for instrumental music, loops, sound effects and production elements. Vocal-like sounds can appear as texture, but there is no feature for supplying lyrics and getting a sung lead back. For that you need a song model such as YuE2, Suno, ElevenLabs Music or Mureka.
Yes. Stability AI trains Stable Audio on fully licensed data and states that you own your outputs and can distribute them freely. Separately, the open-weight models fall under the Stability AI Community License, which allows commercial use for individuals and organisations under $1M in annual revenue; above that threshold an Enterprise licence is required.
Partly. Stability AI publishes open weights for the Stable Audio 3.0 Small, Small SFX and Medium models on Hugging Face, and Stable Audio Open Small, released with Arm in May 2025, is a 341 million parameter model that produces up to 11 seconds of audio on a phone in under 8 seconds. The Large model behind the hosted service is API and enterprise only. Running any of them means installing Python, PyTorch and the model weights yourself.
Song Creator Pro runs entirely on your own Windows PC and needs no internet connection after installation, with no account and no upload step. ACE-Step and YuE2 are free open models you can run locally if you are comfortable with Python and CUDA, and Stable Audio's own open variants can be run offline the same way.
Song Creator Pro is a one-time purchase of $49.99 on the Microsoft Store or $44.99 on itch.io, with lifetime updates and unlimited generation. MiniMax Music bills existing API customers per song, but has been closed to new users since 20 August 2026. ACE-Step and YuE2 are free and open source if you are prepared to set them up yourself.
Stable Audio for instrumentals, loops and sound design, where it is clearly the stronger model and its DAW plugin fits a production workflow. Suno for songs with vocals, which Stable Audio does not do at all. Note that Suno retired every model before v6 in September 2026 under its Warner settlement and now caps downloads at 20 a month on Pro and 60 on Premier.
Stability AI has not published a reason, and the change is visible only in the pricing page itself, which as of September 2026 lists four paid tiers and no free plan. It follows a clear repositioning: Stable Audio 2.5 in September 2025 was announced as an enterprise sound production model, and the current licence structure pushes anyone above $1M in annual revenue to a custom Enterprise agreement.
A GPU (NVIDIA or AMD) is recommended for speed, and Song Creator Pro is among the first applications to run YuE2 on 8 GB cards when the official release targets roughly 24 GB. It detects your hardware and suggests the best backend, and supports CPU-only processing, int8 quantization and CPU offloading for weaker machines, which work but take longer.
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