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ACE Music v1: The AI Music Model That Topped the Leaderboard

What ACE Music v1 is, how it ranks against Suno v6, what it costs, and how to try ACE-style song generation for free.

ACE Music v1 is a song generation model from ACE Studio, a company that started out building AI singing voice synthesis in 2018. It creates complete songs, vocals or instrumentals from a text description or your own lyrics.

AceMusic.app is an independent site. We run the open-source ACE-Step 1.5 model, not the proprietary ACE Music v1 model. You can try ACE-Step 1.5 for free on our homepage.

Leaderboard results

In November 2026, ACE Music v1 debuted at #1 on the Artificial Analysis vocal music leaderboard (AA-Music-Vocal), which is based on blind listening votes:

ModelElo
ACE Music v11160
Suno v61144
Suno v6-mini1132
Mureka V9.51101
Mureka V91063
Google Lyria 3.51050
ElevenLabs Eleven Music v2.51016

The lead over Suno v6 is 16 points. The reported confidence interval is about ±20 points, so the two models are statistically very close. In Decrypt's hands-on test, ACE Music v1 produced stronger melodies, more natural voices and cleaner endings, while Suno still handled some niche genres better.

Pricing and access

  • Hosted only, on ACE Studio's own service
  • No public API for automated generation
  • Free tier: 20 credits per day
  • Paid plans from about $7.90/month (billed annually), up to 500 songs per month on the top tier

ACE Music v1 vs ACE-Step 1.5

These are two different models from the same team:

ACE Music v1ACE-Step 1.5
LicenseProprietaryMIT open source
Where to useACE Studio's siteLocally, via APIs, or on sites like AceMusic.app
Runs on your PCNoYes, under 4 GB VRAM (Turbo)
LoRA fine-tuningNoYes

If you want the absolute top of the leaderboard, use ACE Music v1 on the official site. If you want something free and open that you can customize, ACE-Step 1.5 is the better fit. Read our ACE-Step 1.5 guide or the full ACE Music vs Suno comparison.

Try it yourself

Generate a song with ACE-Step 1.5 for free, right in your browser.

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AceMusic.app is an independent website and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ACE Studio or its ACE Music product. ACE-Step is an open-source model released under the MIT license.