Eleven Music
the only one that licensed its training data before launching instead of after being sued.
the cleanest legal position in the category by a wide margin, and you retain rights to what you make — the catch is what 'commercial use' excludes.
elevenlabs signed licensing deals with merlin network and kobalt music group before launching the product, with artists opting in and sharing revenue, and states the model is trained on licensed data only. no copyright suit has been brought against it. every other major vendor here either has been sued or trained on undisclosed data, so this is a genuinely different risk profile rather than a marketing difference.
the terms say you retain all rights in your output. elevenlabs also takes a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to that output to operate and improve the service — worth knowing, though it does not remove your rights. importantly, those rights are not stated to lapse when you stop paying, which several rivals leave ambiguous.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai music models
- pricing
- $6/mo
- website
- elevenlabs.io
the cleanest legal position in the category by a wide margin, and you retain rights to what you make — the catch is what 'commercial use' excludes.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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