Eleven Music

Eleven Music is the scoring model: one prompt, one minute of instrumental music, at a fixed high-quality MP3. Where MiniMax Music 2.6 decides its own length and will sing, this one runs exactly sixty seconds every time and never puts a voice on the track, which is most of what a bed under a cut actually needs, and the reason the price is a flat figure rather than an estimate.

The distinction worth knowing is the training data. ElevenLabs licensed the catalogue behind this model, and the deals with Merlin and Kobalt are public. It states that generated tracks are cleared for commercial use, which is not a claim every music generator makes. The clearance is theirs, not ours, and it comes with their conditions: the model is not a way to fill a stock-music library, and artist, song, album or label names do not belong in the prompt. If a track is going into something that ships, read [their music terms](https://elevenlabs.io/music-terms) rather than taking this paragraph as the last word.

Prompt it the way you would brief a composer: instrumentation, tempo, mood, and the thing it should stay out of the way of. "Muted upright piano, slow, no percussion, room tone" gets you a bed; "cinematic" gets you something that will fight your voice-over. Because every take is a minute, the useful workflow is to generate two or three against the same brief and pick, rather than to iterate on one.

Reach for MiniMax instead when the piece needs lyrics, a specific encoding, or a length this model's fixed minute cannot cover.