Stable Audio
an open-weight model with a licence you can audit, attached to a hosted product whose terms you can't read.
the only vendor here publishing a real open-weight licence for music — and the only one where the hosted product's own terms were completely unreadable.
the community licence is a genuine document you can read: commercial use free below $1m in annual revenue, an enterprise licence required above it, no using the model or its outputs to build a competing foundation model, and a requirement to display 'powered by stability ai'. that is more restrictive than ace-step's mit and far clearer than the vendors publishing nothing.
the hosted product at stableaudio.com is the opposite. both its pricing and terms pages are javascript-rendered and returned only their titles across repeated attempts, so the consumer product's price, ownership terms and rights after cancellation are all unverified. the community licence governs the open weights, not necessarily the hosted service.
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
- free under $1m revenue
- website
- stability.ai
the only vendor here publishing a real open-weight licence for music — and the only one where the hosted product's own terms were completely unreadable.
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.