Stable Audio 2.5
Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model for 3-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and audio inpainting with sub-two-second inference.
Overview
What is Stable Audio 2.5
Stable Audio 2.5 is Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model, released in September 2025. It generates up to three-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and music from text prompts, featuring audio inpainting and sub-two-second GPU inference. It is proprietary, closed-weight, and optimized for professional sound design, advertising, and game audio workflows.
Using it anonymously on Venice
On Venice, Stable Audio 2.5 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. You pay a flat $0.19 per generation with no subscription, making it a permissionless way to produce commercial-grade audio without Big-Tech surveillance or data retention.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Generates fully developed instrumental tracks up to 3 minutes with structured musical composition.
- Sub-two-second inference on GPU for rapid iteration.
- Audio inpainting allows editing specific sections without regenerating entire tracks.
- Strong for sound design, ambient soundscapes, cinematic instrumentals, and electronic loops.
- Enterprise-grade output suitable for advertising, games, and short-form video.
- Not designed for vocal-driven pop songs from simple prompts; vocal-focused rivals lead on sung output.
- Proprietary and closed: no open weights for self-hosting or fine-tuning.
- Output is AI-generated audio, which may face platform screening or distribution restrictions.
- Requires structured, detailed prompting for best results on full compositions.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
“An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings, warm brass, and a hopeful resolution.”
“A mellow lo-fi hip-hop beat with a soft jazzy piano loop, vinyl crackle, and a relaxed late-night mood.”
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Stability AI
- Released
- September 10, 2025
- Modality
- Text-to-audio, audio-to-audio, audio inpainting
- Max duration
- Up to 3 minutes
- Architecture
- Not disclosed
- Parameters
- Not disclosed
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Feb 2026
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "stable-audio-25",
"prompt": "An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/retrieve.
# Call /audio/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Flat per-image pricing on Venice: $0.19 per generation.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Max duration | Primary use | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Audio 2.5 | The only Venice-hosted option with audio inpainting and a published 3-minute max duration, built for enterprise sound design. | Up to 3 min | Instrumentals & SFX | No | $0.19 / track |
| ACE-Step 1.5 | The most budget-friendly music generator on Venice for quick track generation. | — | Music | No | from $0.03 / track |
| MiniMax Music 2.5 | Similar per-track pricing to Stable Audio 2.5; a general-purpose music generation alternative. | — | Music | No | $0.18 / track |
| ElevenLabs Music | Premium-tier pricing; best for producers needing vocal-forward or voice-centric music. | — | Music | No | from $0.69 / track |
The only Venice-hosted option with audio inpainting and a published 3-minute max duration, built for enterprise sound design.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Advertising and brand sound design.
- 02Game soundtracks and sound effects.
- 03Short-form video scoring.
- 04Ambient and electronic music production.
- 05Audio inpainting and remixing existing material.
Prompting
Getting better results
Start with genre, instrumentation, and mood to anchor the composition.
Specify tempo and duration explicitly for tighter control.
Use detailed musical vocabulary rather than one-line prompts for full tracks.
Leverage audio inpainting to fix sections instead of re-rolling entire generations.
Version history
Original text-to-audio predecessor.
Current enterprise release with inpainting and 3-minute generation.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Stable Audio 2.5 is Stability AI's enterprise text-to-audio model, released in September 2025. It generates up to three-minute instrumental tracks, sound effects, and music from text and audio prompts, with features like audio inpainting and sub-two-second inference.
Venice charges a flat $0.19 per generation. There is no subscription required; you pay only for what you generate.
No. Stable Audio 2.5 is proprietary and closed-weight. Stability AI offers separate open-weights models in the Stable Audio Open line, but 2.5 itself cannot be self-hosted.
Choose Stable Audio 2.5 if you need audio inpainting, enterprise sound design, and up to 3-minute structured instrumentals. Choose MiniMax Music 2.5 for general track generation at a similar per-track price.
It is optimized for instrumentals, sound effects, and ambient music. If you need vocal-driven songs, other generators are better suited.
Audio inpainting lets you edit or regenerate a specific section of a track without changing the rest of the composition, saving time when fixing small flaws.
Venice runs it under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. There is zero retention of your generation history.
Stable Audio 2.5 focuses on instrumental precision, sound effects, and audio inpainting for enterprise workflows. Suno and Udio are optimized for vocal-driven song generation from simple prompts.
Use Stable Audio 2.5 anonymously
Venice does not store your prompts. Chat history stays in your browser.