ElevenMusic, ElevenCreative Music, and ElevenAPI: Understanding the Difference

ElevenLabs offers music generation through three products - ElevenMusic, ElevenCreative Music, and ElevenAPI - all powered by the same underlying model, Music v2.

ElevenMusic is our consumer app for creating, discovering, remixing, and sharing music. ElevenCreative Music is designed for creators and businesses who need to create, manage, publish, license, and download AI-generated music. The ElevenAPI provides programmatic access to the same music generation capabilities, allowing developers to build music generation directly into their products and workflows.

While all three use the same underlying technology, they're designed for different audiences and use cases. This article explains what each product does and when to use each one.

ElevenMusic is a consumer app for making music

ElevenMusic is a standalone app available on iOS and web at elevenmusic.io. It is built for anyone who wants to create, discover, remix, and earn from music.

On ElevenMusic, describe what you want to hear - a genre, a mood, a style - and the app generates a full track from your prompt. From there, you can develop it further, remix an existing track from the community, publish your own work, and earn when others listen to or remix it.

ElevenMusic is a product in its own right, separate from the main ElevenLabs platform. It has its own website, its own iOS app, and its own growing community of independent artists.

ElevenCreative Music and the ElevenAPI are built for professional use

The same Music v2 model that powers ElevenMusic is also available through ElevenCreative Music and the ElevenAPI for professional and commercial use.

ElevenCreative Music provides a UI for creating, managing, publishing, licensing, and downloading AI-generated music. Creators can also publish tracks to the ElevenCreative Music Marketplace, where others can license and download them.

The ElevenAPI provides programmatic access to the same music generation capabilities, allowing developers and businesses to build music and audio generation directly into their products, workflows, and applications.

These tools are designed for commercial use cases, including:

• Licensing background music for video content.
• Generating music and sound effects.
• Building audio generation into applications.
• Producing AI-generated audio at scale.

Tracks generated through ElevenCreative Music and the ElevenAPI are trained on licensed data and cleared for commercial use.

Together, ElevenCreative Music and the ElevenAPI provide the professional side of ElevenLabs' music platform, serving creators, developers, and businesses that need commercially usable AI-generated audio through either a UI or an API.

One model, three ways to access it

All three products are powered by Music v2. The difference is who they're built for and how they're used.

If you want to create music, build an audience, and participate in a music community, ElevenMusic is the right place to start.

If you need commercially usable music for videos, content, or production workflows, use ElevenCreative Music.

If you're building products that require music generation, use the ElevenAPI to integrate Music v2 directly into your application.