Music Arena (CMU) — leaderboard
CMU human-preference arena for music generation models, ranking instrumental and vocal tracks with Bradley-Terry arena scores from blind listener battles.
Metric: Average Arena Score. Source: gclef-cmu.org. 9 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | riffusion-fuzz-1-0 | 1172.5 |
| 2 | riffusion-fuzz-1-1 | 1169 |
| 3 | magenta-rt-large | 1113.6 |
| 4 | preview-ocelot | 1045.7 |
| 5 | preview-jerboa | 1034.4 |
| 6 | musicgen-small | 928.5 |
| 7 | sao | 924.7 |
| 8 | sao-small | 782.4 |
| 9 | acestep | 660.1 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=music-arena-cmu · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.