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.
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.