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AI Audio and Music APIs
Guides to speech, music, stems, sound effects, and audio export APIs with current controls and pricing.
This collection covers API choices for speech, music, sound effects, stems, transcription, and audio cleanup. The articles focus on practical inputs and outputs, supported formats, controllable parameters, usage costs, and integration constraints. Compare billing on the same unit, such as a generated minute or finished track, and check duration limits before estimating production cost. Voice, music, and sound-effect models solve different jobs, so the guides separate those workflows instead of treating audio generation as one category. Use them to determine whether a model fits an automated media pipeline, then check the linked API pages for the current request format and available capabilities.
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Articles about audio APIs

MiniMax Music 3.0 vs Suno API: Pricing, Which to Use (2026)
MiniMax Music 3.0 is open weights with 5-minute songs. The Suno API is pay per song with stems and WAV export. Specs, pricing, and which to pick.

Suno Studio 2.0: MIDI, Chat Bar, and What It Costs (2026)
Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI, a chat bar, advanced stem separation, custom plugins, and automation to the browser DAW. Premier-only; the API stays pay-per-use.

ElevenLabs API Pricing: TTS From $0.024 per 1K Chars (2026)
ElevenLabs API pricing: TTS from $0.024 per 1K characters on UnificAlly, plus sound effects, dialogue and STT costs. Pay per use, no subscription.

Suno Pricing 2026: Plans, Download Limits, API From $0.06
Suno pricing in 2026: credits per plan, the new 20 and 60 monthly download limits, commercial rights, and Suno API cost from $0.06 per request.