ElevenLabs Music is a licensed text-to-music generator that writes a full song — vocals and instrumentation — from a prompt, marketed as cleared for commercial use.
Last verified · 2026-10-23 · by Moe Ameen
Published 2026-09-10 · Updated
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ElevenLabs Music, launched as Eleven Music on August 5, 2025, is ElevenLabs' text-to-music generator. It writes full songs, with vocals or instrumental only, from a prompt. ElevenLabs says it was built with labels, publishers, and artists, including Merlin and Kobalt deals, and is cleared for nearly all commercial uses. Self-serve plans exclude film, TV, radio, and studio games.
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ElevenLabs Music is the text-to-music generator from ElevenLabs, the AI-audio company best known for voice cloning, text-to-speech, and dubbing. Launched in August 2025 as Eleven Music, it produces a complete song — vocals and instrumentation — from a text prompt, with optional lyrics and structure, across many styles and languages.
Its headline feature is licensing. ElevenLabs says the model was developed in collaboration with labels, publishers, and artists, and that generated tracks are cleared for nearly all commercial uses. It launched with licensing agreements with the Merlin Network and Kobalt Music Group. On September 10, 2026 the company announced a multi-year deal with Universal Music Group to build a separate licensed AI music platform — starting with fan features to remix and reinterpret participating artists' tracks — and to co-develop AI audio tools for artists, a signal that its licensed approach is deepening.
The tool lives inside ElevenLabs' broader audio suite and API, so music sits next to voice and sound effects in one account. Two boundaries to plan around: commercial clearance on self-serve plans has historically excluded uses like film, TV, and games (full coverage on Enterprise — check the terms), and it is an audio tool only. It generates no video, images, captions, or posts, and it publishes nowhere.
ElevenLabs Music hands you a great, rights-safe track. The problem is that a track is not content — nobody scrolls a feed to hear an audio file. Kompozy is the production layer that wraps your ElevenLabs song in the thing people actually watch. Export the track and Kompozy scores net-new video around it: a Persona Short with a face-locked HeyGen avatar delivering your script over the bed, a Clipped Short cut from long footage, a Listicle or Naturalistic Video, or a Persona Frames composite where your avatar sits inside a brand-exact template. Captions get burned in word-by-word and every cut is reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 — the assembly ElevenLabs was never built to do.
The on-screen words matter as much as the audio, and that's the other half Kompozy owns: the Persona Brief governs the hook, caption, and description so the copy sounds like you, not like a generator, across every format. Then one idea fans into a carousel, quote graphics, photo posts, a blog, and a newsletter, and Autopilot publishes the set across eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review pass. ElevenLabs makes the sound; Kompozy makes — and ships — the content that sound rides on.
An actual Kompozy output in the persona short format. It was made for a different subject than ElevenLabs Music, and it shows the finished format you would get.
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ElevenLabs Music (Eleven Music) is a text-to-music generator from the AI-audio company ElevenLabs. From a prompt, with optional lyrics and structure, it produces a full song — vocals and instrumentation — across many styles and languages. Its defining feature is that it is marketed as built with licensed partners and cleared for commercial use.
ElevenLabs markets it as cleared for commercial use, backed by licensing deals with Merlin and Kobalt. The nuance: self-serve plans have historically excluded uses like film, TV, and games, with full commercial coverage on Enterprise. Confirm the current terms for your exact use before publishing.
On September 10, 2026, ElevenLabs and Universal Music Group announced a multi-year deal to build a licensed AI music platform, starting with fan features to remix, mash up, and reinterpret tracks from participating artists. It was described as in development, with no launch date or pricing disclosed.
Export the track and bring it into Kompozy, which scores net-new video around it — Persona Shorts, Clipped Shorts, Listicle or Naturalistic Video — burns in captions, reframes per feed, and publishes across eight social platforms plus blog and email. ElevenLabs makes the audio; Kompozy makes and ships the content it rides on.
ElevenLabs Music leads on licensing clarity: it launched with Merlin and Kobalt deals and sits inside a broader audio suite with voice, dubbing, and sound effects. Suno is a standalone song generator. Test both on your genre and read each one's commercial terms before you choose.
We checked every figure and product claim on this page against the sources listed below on 2026-10-23, and removed or corrected anything they did not support. Kompozy plan and platform details come from kompozy.io/pricing and kompozy.io.
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