A new AI music model just beat Suno in blind listening tests

ACE Music v1, developed by ACE Studio, has surpassed Suno v6 on Artificial Analysis' vocal music leaderboard, scoring 1,160 Elo points versus Suno's 1,144. The benchmark uses blind listening tests where evaluators compare songs generated from identical prompts without knowing which AI created them, favoring ACE's output for vocal quality and coherence.

In practical tests, ACE Music produced stronger melodies, more natural-sounding voices with fewer synthetic artifacts, and cleaner song endings compared to Suno's occasional abrupt changes or strange sounds. While Suno still leads in instrumental music and excels in some niche genres, this marks a significant challenge to the current market leader. The achievement shows rapid progress in AI music generation, with the most advanced model remaining proprietary while an open-source version is already available.