KEY POINTS
- ACE Music v1 scored 1,160 Elo on the AA-Music-Vocal v1.1 leaderboard, ahead of Suno v6 at 1,144.
- The lead is narrow, the confidence intervals overlap, and Suno still leads the instrumental ranking.
- ACE Studio plans to open-source a lighter model, ACE Music v1 Flash, in late 2026.
A model from ACE Studio called ACE Music v1 has taken first place on the Artificial Analysis vocal music leaderboard, overtaking Suno v6, one of the best-known names in AI music generation. Decrypt reported that ACE scored 1,160 Elo points against 1,144 for Suno.