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Open-source alternatives to Suno

Suno does 5 jobs: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems). Most projects replace one or two of them, so pick the job you actually need.

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Facts checked 16 Oct 2026

Open-source alternatives to Suno that run locally, allow commercial use and need no paid API include ACE-Step 1.5 (full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend and splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems); MIT; GPU, ~4GB+), Magenta RealTime 2 (instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode); Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-4.0 weights; GPU needed), acestep.cpp (full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) and extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend; MIT; runs on CPU) and Ultimate Vocal Remover (splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems); MIT; GPU, ~6GB+). ACE-Step 1.5, ACE-Step Studio and ACE-Step UI cover all 5 Suno jobs.

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16 projects

ACE-Step 1.5

ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
★ 14k active 5d ago

Open-weight music model that writes and renders full songs with vocals locally, with covers, repainting, stem extraction and LoRA training.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend + Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) (partly)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~4GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

ACE-Step Studio

timoncool/ACE-Step-Studio
★ 412 active today

Windows desktop studio for ACE-Step 1.5 that makes full songs with vocals offline, with covers, repaints, stems, LoRA training and karaoke.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend + Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) (partly)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~4GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

ACE-Step UI

fspecii/ace-step-ui
★ 5.1k active 3mo ago

Suno-style web interface for a local ACE-Step 1.5 install, with a song library, covers, repaint, stem extraction and an audio editor.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend + Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) (partly)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Unknown: Unknown
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~4GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
6 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

acestep.cpp

ServeurpersoCom/acestep.cpp
★ 437 active 2d ago

C++/GGML port of ACE-Step 1.5 with a local web UI and API; runs quantised song models on CPU, CUDA, Metal or Vulkan without Python.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend (partly) Not: instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Partial: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Hard
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

AudioCraft (MusicGen)

facebookresearch/audiocraft
★ 24k active 7mo ago

Meta's research library for MusicGen, a text-to-music model for short instrumental clips, optionally guided by a hummed or played melody.

Replaces Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) (partly) Not: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
No: No · MIT code, CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU needed
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

ComfyUI

Comfy-Org/ComfyUI #1 TRENDING
★ 138k active today

Node-graph app for running open image, video, 3D and audio models locally, with inpainting, outpainting, upscaling and a local API.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics (partly) Not: instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~4GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

DiffRhythm

ASLP-lab/DiffRhythm
★ 2.3k active 10mo ago

Diffusion model that generates full-length songs (up to 4m45s) from timed lyrics and a text or audio style reference.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend (partly) Not: covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · Apache-2.0
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~8GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

HeartMuLa

HeartMuLa/heartlib
★ 3.8k active 8d ago

Apache-2.0 music language model (3B) that generates songs with vocals from lyrics and style tags, plus a codec and lyrics transcriber.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics (partly) Not: instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
6 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

HOT-Step CPP

scragnog/HOT-Step-CPP
★ 175 active today

Portable local music studio running ACE-Step 1.5, MiniMax-Music3 and YuE2 in one C++ engine, with covers, repaint, stems and adapter training.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend + Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) (partly) Not: instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Magenta RealTime 2

magenta/magenta-realtime
★ 1.8k active 2w ago

Google's open-weights live music model that streams instrumental music in real time from text prompts on Apple Silicon Macs.

Replaces Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) (partly) Not: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-4.0 weights
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU needed
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Audio Separator

nomadkaraoke/python-audio-separator
★ 1.4k active 2w ago

Command-line tool and Python package that splits audio into vocals, instrumental and other stems using UVR, Demucs and RoFormer models.

Replaces Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) Not: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Unknown: Unknown
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
6 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

Stable Audio Open (stable-audio-tools)

Stability-AI/stable-audio-tools
★ 3.9k active 6d ago

Stability AI's training and inference code for Stable Audio Open, which makes short instrumental music and sound clips from text.

Replaces Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) (partly) Not: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · MIT
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
6 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

Ultimate Vocal Remover

Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui
★ 27k active 9d ago

Desktop app that splits songs into vocals and instrumental or other stems using MDX-Net, VR, Demucs and MDX23C models.

Replaces Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) Not: full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics, instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~6GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

yovoice

leemysw/yovoice
★ 1.6k active today

Local desktop audio studio for macOS and Windows that makes songs and instrumentals with ACE-Step 1.5, alongside text-to-speech and voice cloning.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) (partly) Not: covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · Apache-2.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~12GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

YuE2

multimodal-art-projection/YuE
★ 12k active 10d ago

Open song model that writes an editable melody-and-chord score from lyrics and style, then sings it as a full song with accompaniment.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) (partly) Not: extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend, splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~24GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

YuE2 Studio

timoncool/YuE2-Studio
★ 731 active today

Windows desktop app for YuE2 that writes an editable score and sings it as a full song offline from 6 GB of VRAM, with covers and stems.

Replaces Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics + Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) + Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) (partly) Not: instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode), extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · MIT code, CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU, ~6GB+
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Common questions about Suno alternatives

Is there a free, open-source alternative to Suno?

Yes. ACE-Step 1.5, ACE-Step Studio, HOT-Step CPP, ACE-Step UI and YuE2 are free to download and run on your own computer without paid API keys. ACE-Step 1.5, ACE-Step Studio and ACE-Step UI cover every job we list for Suno; the others cover only part of it, so check which job you need.

Can I do full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics locally without a Suno subscription?

Yes, with ComfyUI (GPL-3.0), ACE-Step 1.5 (MIT) and YuE2 (Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights). Check the hardware notes and licence conditions on each page before you start.

Can I do instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) locally without a Suno subscription?

Yes, with ACE-Step 1.5 (MIT), YuE2 (Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-NC-4.0 weights) and yovoice (Apache-2.0). Check the hardware notes and licence conditions on each page before you start.

Which Suno alternatives can I use commercially?

Confirmed: ACE-Step 1.5, ACE-Step Studio, acestep.cpp, HeartMuLa, Magenta RealTime 2 and Ultimate Vocal Remover. With conditions: ComfyUI, DiffRhythm, HOT-Step CPP, Stable Audio Open (stable-audio-tools), yovoice, YuE2 and YuE2 Studio. Not for commercial use: AudioCraft (MusicGen), usually because the model weights are non-commercial. This is not legal advice; read each licence.

Does any open-source project replace all of Suno?

ACE-Step 1.5, ACE-Step Studio and ACE-Step UI cover every job we list for Suno.

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