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Stable Audio 3 Medium Apple Silicon Benchmarks

The 1.4 billion parameter music model. It gives better results for the same brief, but takes roughly three times as long and needs 4.6 GB more disk. It is a separate download and is not yet installed on the reference Mac.

5.2 GBStable Audio 3stabilityai/stable-audio-3-optimized

Who makes it

Three checkpoints from one repo: a small model for sound effects, a small one for music, and a medium one for better music. GroundSlate runs the MLX conversions from Stability's own optimized-runtime repo.

Maker
Stability AI
Line
Stable Audio 3
Size
5.2 GB
Weights
stabilityai/stable-audio-3-optimized

Made with Stable Audio 3 Medium

Made on the reference Mac from the brief shown with each one. Every sample has its own page, and you can run each prompt on any model that accepts it.

Speed

One music bed
8.14s
7.86× realtime
64.00s of audio
Range 4.81s to 3m 15s
7 runs

MacBook Pro, Apple M3 Max, 64 GB unified memory. 2026-09-03.