Benchmark Almanac

Music Arena Vocal

Riffusion FUZZ v1.0 1,132 tops its leaderboard Lyria 3 Pro 1,107 leads the models we track
Not in model cards

Models generate music with vocals. Listeners compare anonymous tracks, and separate vocal preference votes determine the Arena score.

Vocal votes form a separate pool from the instrumental leaderboard.

Released
July 2025
Kind
Audio understanding and voice
Level
Everyday
Scored
Ranked by votes
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Last model added
March 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
9
Entries on its own leaderboard, 2 models we track

Riffusion FUZZ v1.0 tops the leaderboard with 1,132

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders. The best model we track is Lyria 3 Pro, at 1,107.

Bars start at 600.

  1. 1 Riffusion FUZZ v1.0 1,132
  2. 2 Lyria 3 Pro 1,107
  3. 3 Riffusion FUZZ v1.1 1,103
  4. 4 Sonauto v3 Preview 1,102
  5. 5 Lyria 3 Clip 1,019
  6. 6 ElevenLabs Music v1 998
  7. 7 Sonauto v2.2 944
  8. 8 ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo (1.7B) 939
  9. 9 ACE-Step 656

Source: Official Music Arena Vocal leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 Riffusion FUZZ v1.0 1,132 Official leaderboard
2 Lyria 3 Pro 1,107 Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Riffusion FUZZ v1.1 1,103 Official leaderboard
4 Sonauto v3 Preview 1,102 Official leaderboard
5 Lyria 3 Clip 1,019 Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
6 ElevenLabs Music v1 998 Official leaderboard
7 Sonauto v2.2 944 Official leaderboard
8 ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo (1.7B) 939 Official leaderboard
9 ACE-Step 656 Official leaderboard

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard
1,000 1,025 1,050 1,075 1,100 2026 1,000 1,025 1,050 1,075 1,100 2026

Source: Official Music Arena Vocal leaderboard

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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