MusicGen
Meta's old open music model, still widely mentioned.
FreeOpenRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Short instrumental experiments
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Windows, Linux
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
What’s good
- Small version runs on smaller graphics cards
- Lots of guides and community apps
Downsides
- From 2023; last place on today's instrumental arena
- No vocals; weights are non-commercial only
At a glance.
- Best for
- Short instrumental experiments
- Price
- Free, open source
- Version
- MusicGen (AudioCraft)Released 2023-06
- Works on
- Windows, Linux
- Open source
- Yes, CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Made by
- Meta
- Website
- github.com
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Music Arena (instrumental)#19 · 8682026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use AudioCraft (Python), Pinokio.
- You need
- NVIDIA GPU needed; 16 GB for the medium model
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBToo small
- Mac, 64 GB+Too small
- PC, 8 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 12 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns