YuE
Open-source lyrics-to-song model generating full five-minute tracks.
About
YuE is an open-source lyrics-to-song foundation model from the Multimodal Art Projection community and HKUST that generates complete songs — vocals and accompaniment — up to five minutes long from lyrics and style prompts. Built on a LLaMA-2 architecture with track-decoupled next-token prediction, it is released under Apache 2.0 and was the first open lyrics-to-song model with quality near commercial systems at its January 2025 release.
Full-length songs need serious GPU muscle (80GB+ VRAM recommended), and output is mono.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: first open lyrics-to-song model near commercial quality; active ecosystem; Apache 2.0; heavy GPU requirements; mono output. License: Apache 2.0 per the GitHub repo and press coverage..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · first open lyrics-to-song model near commercial quality; active ecosystem
- · Apache 2.0
- · heavy GPU requirements; mono output