AudioCraft (MusicGen) facebookresearch/audiocraft

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

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AudioCraft (MusicGen) at a glance

Checked 16 Oct 2026

AudioCraft is Meta's PyTorch library with MusicGen (300M to 3.3B parameters), MAGNeT, JASCO and AudioGen. MusicGen makes instrumental music from a text description, and the melody models can follow a reference tune. It cannot sing: the model card says it does not generate realistic vocals, so it does not replace Suno's songs. Code is MIT, but all weights are CC BY-NC 4.0, so no commercial use. It needs a GPU (16 GB recommended) and pins Python 3.9 with PyTorch 2.1.

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How much of Suno does it replace?

1 of 5 jobs. Instrumental clips only; no vocals, and the weights are non-commercial.

Full songs with vocals from a prompt or lyrics Not covered

Instrumental tracks (Instrumental mode) Partial replacement

Covers and restyles of an uploaded song (Cover) Not covered

Extending or regenerating part of a song (Extend Not covered

Splitting a song into vocal and instrument stems (Get Stems) Not covered

For 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), see other Suno alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

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Runs on my machine? Yes, Python library on a local GPU In order to use MusicGen locally you must have a GPU. github.com · MUSICGEN.md ↗ 1d ago

Code licence MIT The code in this repository is released under the MIT license github.com · audiocraft#license ↗ 1d ago

Model weights licence CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) The models weights in this repository are released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license github.com · audiocraft#license ↗ 1d ago

Commercial use No, the weights are non-commercial Code is released under MIT, model weights are released under CC-BY-NC 4.0. huggingface.co · musicgen-large ↗ 1d ago

Paid services needed? None required github.com · audiocraft#installation ↗ 1d ago

Hardware GPU required; 16 GB recommended, smaller GPUs only for short clips or the small model We recommend 16GB of memory, but smaller GPUs will be able to generate short sequences github.com · MUSICGEN.md ↗ 1d ago

Operating systems README documents apt-based ffmpeg installation on Linux; the official MusicGen FAQ links a community Windows tutorial. Native macOS support is not confirmed in the reviewed README and MusicGen guide #### I need help on Windows github.com · MUSICGEN.md ↗ today

Setup effort Medium; pip install audiocraft with PyTorch 2.1 and ffmpeg AudioCraft requires Python 3.9, PyTorch 2.1.0. github.com · audiocraft#installation ↗ 1d ago