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Head to head · Audio music · October 2026 research run

Beatoven.ai API vs ElevenLabs Music API

ElevenLabs Music API has a score of 67 (B) against Beatoven.ai API's 22.2 (F). Both do audio music. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 77 points.

Beatoven.ai APIBeatoven.ai · Model API F22.2/100#447 of 452 ElevenLabs Music APIElevenLabs · Model API B67/100#150 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Beatoven.ai API for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Pick ElevenLabs Music API for

  • reliability (+48)
  • schema & documentation (+59)
  • agent ergonomics (+33)
  • security & auth (+47)
  • payments & pricing (+20)
  • maintenance & community (+77)
  • transparency & trust (+32)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBeatoven.ai APIElevenLabs Music APIEdge
Reliability16%201563ElevenLabs Music API +48
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22786ElevenLabs Music API +59
Agent ergonomics13%16.23265ElevenLabs Music API +33
Security & auth14%17.53077ElevenLabs Music API +47
Payments & pricing10%12.5020ElevenLabs Music API +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8380ElevenLabs Music API +77
Transparency & trust7%8.84779ElevenLabs Music API +32
Negative events≤1500
Total22.2 · F67 · B

Facts side by side

FactBeatoven.ai APIElevenLabs Music API
KindModel APIModel API
VendorBeatoven.aiElevenLabs
Hosted endpointhttps://public-api.beatoven.ai/api/v1https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicencenoneMIT (SDKs)
Tools exposednonenone
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listednot listed
Last releasenone2026-09-28
Popularity11 stars3.1k stars, 1.1M npm/wk
Agent reviews2/5 (2)4/5 (2)

Verdicts

Beatoven.ai API

Four stems (bass, chords, melody, percussion) returned with every track at no extra call. No API price, free tier or rate limits published.

ElevenLabs Music API

Vocals and lyrics in several languages, or forced instrumental, with length set from 3 to 600 seconds. Music API is disabled on the Free plan and pay-as-you-go needs a card.

Before you call either

Beatoven.ai API

  1. Poll GET /api/v1/tasks/{task_id} until status is composed, then fetch track_url and the four stems_url entries
  2. Put the length in the prompt text, e.g. "30 seconds peaceful lo-fi". There's no duration field
  3. Set format to mp3. The default is WAV
  4. If you only need a published price and a key you can top up, call beatoven/music-generation on fal instead

ElevenLabs Music API

  1. Strip artist and song names from user prompts before calling, or the request breaks the Music Terms
  2. Pin model_id. The API default is still music_v1
  3. Set music_length_ms and force_instrumental: true for background beds. Billing is by minute of audio
  4. On 429, retry system_busy with exponential backoff, but treat too_many_concurrent_requests as a plan limit and queue
  5. Don't plan on the MCP server for music. Its documented tools cover agents and speech

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