Model · Stability AI · Audio-Gen
Stable Audio 3.0
Stability AI's open-weight audio model. Generates music tracks, sound effects, and audio loops from text prompts — the open alternative to Suno/Udio. (Small/medium tiers open-weighted; large is API-only.)
- Modality
- Audio-Gen
- License
- Stability AI Community License (Open weights)
- Released
- May 20, 2026
- Last verified
- October 28, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
What you need to run it
- Mac
- Yes. Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with at least 16 GB (24 GB recommended) of memory. Newer chips are faster, but memory is what decides whether it runs.
- Windows / Linux PC
- NVIDIA works best. A graphics card with at least 8 GB (12 GB recommended) of video memory.
- No graphics card
- Works. Runs on a normal computer's processor, just slower.
Stability ships an MLX version for Apple Silicon and quotes a few seconds per track on a MacBook Pro M4; the small tier even runs on a plain CPU.
Numbers are for: Stable Audio 3 medium; the small tier needs far less. Based on the maker’s own figures; where the maker gives only a graphics-card figure, the Mac memory is our estimate.
Strengths
- Open weights — runs offline on capable hardware
- Good sound-effect generation, not just music
- Community License allows free commercial use under thresholds
Weaknesses
- Vocal generation weaker than Suno/Udio
- Community License has revenue thresholds for commercial use
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | weights | Stability Community License |
| Stable Audio Studio | product | Web UI |
Official sources
- Model card model
Change log
- — Added hardware requirements (Mac support, memory, NVIDIA). Source: the Stability stable-audio-3 README (peak memory about 6.5 GB for medium; Mac memory is estimated).
- — Verified current against Stability's news page. No Stable Audio release newer than 3.0; the 2026-08-18 post adds new ways to use 3.0 (a DAW plugin and a more advanced generation experience), not a new model.
- — Verified current against Stability's news page, which dates Stable Audio 3.0 to 2026-05-20 — matching this entry exactly.
- — Updated from Stable Audio 2.5 to Stable Audio 3.0 (released 2026-05-20). Prior release date (2024-04-03) belonged to the 2.0 line.
- — Initial entry.
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