ElevenLabs Music creates songs and instrumentals from a written music brief or a section-by-section composition plan. Use text to describe genre, mood, instruments and musical development, or define global style and ordered sections with their own lyrics, arrangement directions and durations. Text requests can choose instrumental mode and 3–600 seconds; planned sections each use 3–120 seconds and a section-timing control. Select the audio encoding, listen to the complete result and review the started-minute estimate for the intended request.
ElevenLabs Music is developed by ElevenLabs. Vidgo provides access to the model. Model names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.Use the text path when one written brief can describe the music, its requested length and instrumental choice. Use composition_plan when the song needs explicit sections, global and local style directions, lyrics and section durations. Both paths use the same existing music task and card; open it to prepare the chosen fields and review the full estimate.
Each request uses either text or composition_plan. Text carries the written brief with optional duration and is_instrumental. A composition plan carries global style arrays and at least one ordered section, each with a name, local style arrays, duration and lyric lines; respect_sections_durations controls adherence to the section timing. Choose the input method around how much of the song structure you have prepared.
| Model / task | Input and workflow |
|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Music | Create songs and instrumentals from text or section-by-section composition plans, with style, lyrics, and timing controls. |
Existing recordings include a bilingual rooftop-garden song planned in four sections, an instrumental jazz cue for a clockmaker scene and a nature-documentary score. Inspect their actual lyrics, requests and settings while listening to the separate results. The examples use recorded MP3 output and provide concrete ways to describe arrangement and musical progression.
Provide global styles and ordered sections with their own directions, lyric lines and durations. The rooftop song uses an eight-second introduction, sixteen-second Mandarin verse, sixteen-second English chorus and eight-second resolution, so you can listen for transitions and the planned vocal entries.
Write the genre, mood, rhythm, instruments and musical progression, then set duration and instrumental mode. The clockmaker request asks for a thirty-second jazz cue with vibraphone, muted trumpet, bass and brushes; review motif development and the ending in its result.
Describe how the music begins, expands and resolves. The kelp-forest record starts with sparse felt piano, gradually adds harp and strings, and settles into a peaceful chord. Listen for changing texture, dynamics and the final decay against the original brief.
把春天种在屋顶上 等风翻过旧砖墙 Little seeds above the street Find the sunlight, find the beat
Use each section’s lines array for the words to sing and describe language and vocal direction in its styles. The displayed rooftop lyrics preserve the two original Mandarin lines and two English lines in their planned order, providing an input to compare with the recording.
{
"duration": 30,
"is_instrumental": true,
"output_format": "mp3_44100_128"
}For text requests, choose the requested duration and instrumental flag; for plans, use section durations and the section-timing option. Select a supported output_format for the next workflow step. The displayed instrumental settings preserve the actual thirty-second MP3 configuration used in that record.
The rooftop request provides a complete composition plan for an indie-folk song with Mandarin and English lyrics. The clockmaker request provides a written thirty-second instrumental brief with a four-note vibraphone motif and muted-trumpet response. Read the complete original plan or text, its meaning translation and recorded inputs, then listen for lyrics, instruments, section changes and the ending in each result.
Original composition request: { "composition_plan": { "positive_global_styles": [ "indie folk with subtle organic electronica", "96 BPM, 4/4", "warm clear female lead vocal", "acoustic guitar, rounded bass, delicate electronic percussion", "hopeful intimate song about planting a rooftop garden", "clean spacious studio mix, clear Mandarin and English diction" ], "negative_global_styles": [ "harsh distortion", "crowded arrangement", "spoken narration", "abrupt cut off" ], "sections": [ { "section_name": "Acoustic introduction", "duration": 8, "positive_local_styles": [ "instrumental only", "fingerpicked acoustic guitar introduces a memorable gentle motif", "soft airy pad, no drums" ], "negative_local_styles": [], "lines": [] }, { "section_name": "Mandarin verse", "duration": 16, "positive_local_styles": [ "sing the supplied Mandarin lyrics clearly", "intimate gentle lead vocal", "fingerpicked guitar and soft bass, restrained percussion" ], "negative_local_styles": [], "lines": [ "把春天种在屋顶上", "等风翻过旧砖墙" ] }, { "section_name": "English chorus", "duration": 16, "positive_local_styles": [ "sing the supplied English lyrics clearly", "open uplifting melody", "full warm drums and bass enter", "layered backing vocal harmonies, retain the acoustic motif" ], "negative_local_styles": [], "lines": [ "Little seeds above the street", "Find the sunlight, find the beat" ] }, { "section_name": "Instrumental resolution", "duration": 8, "positive_local_styles": [ "instrumental only, no vocals", "return to fingerpicked guitar motif", "drums fall away, warm sustained final chord with natural decay" ], "negative_local_styles": [], "lines": [] } ] }, "respect_sections_durations": true, "output_format": "mp3_44100_128" } English meaning of the supplied Mandarin verse: Plant spring on the rooftop Wait for the wind to cross the old brick wall
把春天种在屋顶上 等风翻过旧砖墙 Little seeds above the street Find the sunlight, find the beat
Create a 30-second instrumental jazz cue for a puzzle scene in a clockmaker's workshop. 104 BPM, lightly swinging 4/4, playful curiosity with a hint of mystery. Use plucked upright bass, brushed drums, muted trumpet and vibraphone, each clearly separated in a warm intimate acoustic mix. Begin with a distinctive four-note vibraphone motif over bass; let muted trumpet answer and develop that motif in the middle, while brush accents subtly increase the momentum. Resolve with a short, clean ensemble cadence and allow the last note to decay naturally. No vocals, choir, spoken words, ticking sound effects or abrupt cutoff.
{
"duration": 30,
"is_instrumental": true,
"output_format": "mp3_44100_128"
}Prepare a written music concept or an ordered plan with styles, lyrics and durations. Choose the corresponding input path and audio format, then generate and review the full track. Results can support song demos, narrative scene scores, documentary music, arrangement studies, bilingual song concepts and music-creation features in applications.
Prepare the global sound and an ordered introduction, verse, chorus and ending with their lyrics and durations. Listen to the generated song for section transitions, vocal delivery and arrangement before developing the composition further.
Describe the setting, emotional arc, instruments and desired motif in a text brief. Choose instrumental mode and duration, then compare musical development and the ending with the intended story scene.
Prepare a natural scene and describe how instrumentation should enter and recede. Generate an instrumental track and listen for dynamics, space and a suitable ending alongside the planned footage.
Write how a motif passes between instruments or assign different styles to planned sections. Review the resulting texture, transitions and balance to explore an arrangement direction for a larger piece.
Place original lyrics in their intended language within the relevant sections and describe vocal diction and arrangement. Listen to both language sections for delivery and musical continuity while developing a song prototype.
Collect a text brief or complete composition plan and output preset, then submit the documented request. Track the returned task ID, retrieve finished audio and let the application play or save it with the creation settings.
ElevenLabs Music uses the current rate per started minute. For text, the estimate uses the requested duration, defaulting to 60 seconds. For a composition plan, it sums the section durations, then rounds the total up to a whole minute. A thirty-second request uses one billed minute; a request just over sixty seconds uses two. The dynamic table shows the current unit rate. Configure the complete duration or plan in the task to review the full estimate before submitting.
| Model | Provider | Workflow | Input material | Audio encoding | Starting rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Music | ElevenLabs | Text to Audio | Text brief / composition plan | MP3 / PCM / ULAW / ALAW / OPUS | $0.64 / started minute |
Test your creative brief online, then bring the verified request into your application.
Open the music task and enter the text brief or complete plan. Set the controls belonging to that path, choose output_format and review the started-minute estimate. Generate and listen to the full track for words, instrumentation, development, section transitions and the ending before using it in a project.
Choose a task, inspect its settings and cost, and follow the result from an online test to an authenticated API request.
Choose the text path for a written music brief with duration and optional instrumental mode. Choose the plan path for global styles and ordered sections with names, local styles, duration and lyrics. Set section-timing adherence when using a plan, choose an output preset and review the duration-based estimate.
Open the music task and enter the text brief or complete plan. Set the controls belonging to that path, choose output_format and review the started-minute estimate. Generate and listen to the full track for words, instrumentation, development, section transitions and the ending before using it in a project.
Use the text request’s duration or the composition plan’s total section duration, round it up to billed minutes and apply the current rate. Review the complete estimate for each planned variation so changes across a minute boundary are included in the budget.
Read the actual musical brief, supplied lyrics and mode settings while listening to the result. Use the recorded examples to understand how genre, instruments, vocal direction and song structure are expressed in a request.
Retain the task ID returned by the API to query status and retrieve completed file URLs. Use your online generation history to review earlier results and the creative direction you tested.
Use the documentation linked from each task for its exact model identifier, accepted inputs, authentication and response format. Integrate the same task you tested online so its media and settings match the request.
ElevenLabs Music is a music-generation model on Vidgo for songs and instrumentals. One task accepts either a written brief or a structured composition plan, with musical styles, lyrics, timing and audio-output controls appropriate to the chosen input path.
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