ACE-Step

Open-source music generation foundation model

Open sourceArtificial Intelligence+2Listed Oct 23, 2026

About ACE-Step

ACE-Step is an open-source foundation model for music generation. It turns text prompts and lyrics into complete songs with fast, controllable generation, covering vocals, instrumentals and multiple genres. Built for musicians, developers and researchers who need a flexible music-generation engine they can self-host, fine-tune and integrate via API. Official site: https://ace-step.club/

What ACE-Step does

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Generates complete songs with vocals and instrumentals from text prompts and lyrics.

Best for: MusiciansDevelopersResearchers
Use it to: Generating songs from text prompts and lyrics
Creating instrumental tracks
Generating vocals in multiple genres
Fine-tuning a music generation model
Integrating music generation into other software via API

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