MusicGen
by Meta AI · free · Last verified 2026-03-17
MusicGen is an open-source text-to-music model from Meta AI that generates high-quality instrumental music from text descriptions. It can also be conditioned on a melody reference, providing a strong, controllable baseline for both research and commercial applications, trained on 20K hours of licensed music.
https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/musicgen.html ↗B
B—Above Average
Adoption: B+Quality: AFreshness: BCitations: AEngagement: F
Specifications
- License
- CC-BY-NC 4.0
- Pricing
- free
- Capabilities
- Text-to-music generation, Melody-conditioned music generation, High-quality instrumental track creation, Stereo audio output (32kHz), Fine-tuning on custom datasets, Controllable generation parameters, Open-weights for research and commercial use, Single-stage auto-regressive transformer architecture
- Integrations
- Use Cases
- [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]
- API Available
- Yes
- Parameters
- 3.3B
- Context Window
- N/A
- Modalities
- text, audio
- Training Cutoff
- 2023
- Tags
- music-generation, text-to-music, open-source, meta-ai, instrumental, generative-ai, transformer-model, audio-generation, creative-ai, melody-conditioning
- Added
- 2026-03-17
- Completeness
- 0.9%
Index Score
64.5Adoption
70
Quality
80
Freshness
68
Citations
82
Engagement
0