ElevenLabs' Music v2.5 ships with lossless downloads on the free plan
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, calling it the best version of its music generation model yet — and paired the model upgrade with a rights change that matters as much as the sound. Every track made in ElevenMusic can now be downloaded losslessly and kept, with five downloads a day on the Free plan and 400 per month on Pro, and the company says the rights to what you make attach the moment you create a track, surviving cancellation or a plan downgrade.
ElevenLabs shipped Music v2.5 today, and the quieter headline is ownership. The model itself is an iterative step: in the company's blind test — 47,885 prompt-matched pairs with two takes each, one from v2 and one from v2.5 — listeners preferred the new take the majority of the time, with the widest gains in vocal-led and acoustic-heavy genres like R&B, soul, hip hop, rock, metal, orchestral and cinematic. Music v2.5 is now the default in ElevenMusic, live in ElevenCreative and the API, and v2 isn't going anywhere for people attached to the old sound.
The commercial terms are the sharper move in a market still fighting over training data. Tracks are downloadable as lossless files, commercial use on the Free plan requires crediting ElevenMusic, and the company commits that future terms changes apply only to tracks made after the change — the songs you already made stay yours. There is one hard limit: downloads are blocked on tracks built on another artist's song, the same rule that protects the artists, labels and publishers ElevenMusic was built with — the deal structure we covered when Universal Music and ElevenLabs sign first major-label AI music deal landed last month.
The take: after a year of AI music companies treating output rights as fine print, a market leader putting "yours, commercially, on the free plan" into the default experience is a competitive statement — and a shot at every rival still hiding downloads behind paid tiers. It also quietly answers the licensing question: permission is bundled with the model, not litigated after.
What to watch: whether Suno and other rivals match the free-tier download rights, and whether the artist-reference download block holds up as the catalog of derivative prompts grows.
If AI music platforms gave you full commercial rights tomorrow, would you actually ship a track? Tell us in the comments.
Sources: ElevenLabs · ElevenMusic · Digg
