YuE
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Plans and prices
From YuE's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free hosted demo | Free | NOIZ-hosted browser demo; page shows 3 generations left |
| YuE2 open-source model and hosted demo | Free | local inference requires Linux, Python 3.12 and NVIDIA GPU with BF16 support · online demo requires no installation |
The facts
Each one read from YuE's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Academic origin
- The YuE paper describes a family of open foundation models based on LLaMA2 for lyrics-to-song generation of up to five minutes, with style transfer and bidirectional generation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Agent editing
- The repository provides an agent skill for song generation, instrumental creation, transcription, ABC-score editing and listening comparisons.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Agent workflow
- The repository includes a yue2-music agent skill for song generation, instrumental music, transcription, covers, and score editing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audio output
- The documented pipeline produces 48 kHz stereo audio and saves FLAC plus scores, tokens, latents, settings and model identities.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audio upload
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Benchmark claim
- The Hugging Face model card reports YuE2 best-of-8 SongBench average 6.9632 on 192 WildSongBench prompts, above the listed Suno v5 and v6 results.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Code licence
- The repository code is released under the Apache License 2.0.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Covers
- YuE2 can use a transcribed song melody to create a new interpretation in a target style.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The repository includes quick start, creation, cover, editing, agent-skill, benchmark and generation-guide materials with runnable Python and command-line examples.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Editable composition
- The system creates an explicit melody-and-chord plan that users or agents can inspect and change before audio rendering.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Editing
- Users can edit an ABC score’s harmony, melody, tempo, or form and generate a new complete recording.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Generation API
- The staged Python interface exposes plan(), generate_semantic(), synthesize() and decode() operations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosted demo
- The NOIZ demo accepts song descriptions and lyrics, and its cover studio accepts audio uploads up to 100 MB in listed formats including MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, and OGG.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Independent rating availability
- Capterra lists a YuE AI product page with a displayed 0.0 rating and no visible review count in the search result.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Inference availability
- Hugging Face states that YuE2-3B is not deployed by any Inference Provider.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official materials document Hugging Face model loading, ComfyUI native nodes, a NOIZ-hosted demo, Maestro and the SheetSage2 transcription model.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The repository describes personal users, content creators, and musicians as permitted to use YuE2 and monetize generated outputs without fees or royalties payable to the authors.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- The repository says code, agent skill, and documentation use Apache 2.0, while model weights use CC BY-NC 4.0 with additional creator permission; commercial use by companies requires contacting the authors about a model-weights license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limit: audio quality
- Tom's Guide said low-VRAM versions reduce audio quality and can generate extremely slowly.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: commercial use
- MrKeyoor notes that the code is Apache-2.0 while the model weights are CC BY-NC 4.0, restricting commercial products that cannot accept noncommercial terms.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: editing behavior
- MrKeyoor reports that editing a score renders a new complete recording and can change singing, timbre or other waveform regions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: low-VRAM workflows
- Elma says quantized or offloaded configurations can be slower, more fragile and more prone to out-of-memory failures.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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