Comparisons / Verified 19 August 2026
Every model, side by side
eight music models shipped, updated, or repositioned in the last year, and most of the comparisons written about them are out of date within a month. these pages are dated, sourced, and use the same spec table every time, so nothing gets quietly reworded to win an argument.
four of them are selectable in Sonura songs mode, so you can stop reading and just run the same prompt through each one.
MiniMax Music 3.0 / Stable Audio 3 / ElevenLabs Music v2 / Google Lyria, in one studio
01 / The field
Where each one stands today
Suno
the market leader, and the one most released tracks actually come from.
Only inside SunoMiniMax Music 3.0
the newest open-weights song model, and the first you can run on your own hardware end to end.
In Sonura songs modeElevenLabs Music v2
the licensing-first model, with a rights story built before the product shipped.
In Sonura songs modeStable Audio 3
a sound-design toolkit first and a song model second, trained only on data it is allowed to use.
In Sonura songs modeGoogle Lyria 3.5
the cloud-native option: strong structural control, wrapped in google cloud terms and a watermark.
In Sonura songs modeUdio
the cleanest licensing story in the space, on a platform you currently cannot export from.
Only inside UdioMureka O2
lyrics-first, and the most complete post-generation toolkit of the closed platforms.
Only inside Mureka02 / Head to head
Pick a matchup
Suno vs Udio
the market leader against the licensed walled garden Read 02Mureka O2 vs Suno
the deepest edit toolkit against the best vocals Read 03ElevenLabs Music v2 vs Suno
a clean rights story against the highest ceiling Read 04Google Lyria 3.5 vs Suno
a cloud building block against a consumer studio Read03 / In Sonura
Stop comparing, start switching
every page here ends the same way: it depends on what you are making. that is a real answer and it is a useless one when you just want to hear the difference.
so Sonura songs mode lets you pick the model. run the same prompt through MiniMax Music 3.0, Stable Audio 3, ElevenLabs Music v2, and Google Lyria, keep the take that wins, then split it into stems and finish it inside Ableton, Logic, or FL Studio through the AU and VST3 plugin. exclusive commercial rights on every paid plan, with no royalty splits, whichever model made it.
- MiniMax Music 3.0the newest open-weights song model, and the first you can run on your own hardware end to end.
- Stable Audio 3a sound-design toolkit first and a song model second, trained only on data it is allowed to use.
- ElevenLabs Music v2the licensing-first model, with a rights story built before the product shipped.
- Google Lyria 3.5the cloud-native option: strong structural control, wrapped in google cloud terms and a watermark.
also worth reading: how sonura compares to each tool directly, how we work with artists, and what stem export actually gives you.
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