# ACE-Step 1.5

6 Hacker News commenters recommended ACE-Step 1.5 and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source music model, cheap to run locally and fine-tunable on your own songs. Caveat: critics say its musicality trails commercial services.

## Why people recommend it

- Open source and cheap to run (2 comments): "the results were actually good with it being opensource and for how cheap the model is to run" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676448)) "only 1.5b params so very easy to run locally" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051106))
- Runs locally and can be fine-tuned (2 comments): "run locally, own it, fine-tune with your songs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873893)) "only 1.5b params so very easy to run locally" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051106))
- Good for music creation pipelines (2 comments): "All great for creation pipelines." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225567)) "very good music generation model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073181))

## What people warn about

- Quality around Stable Diffusion 1.0 level (1 comments): "Currently its quality is at about the Stable Diffusion 1.0 level" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352317))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Suno](https://hackerapproved.com/p/suno.md): 107 recommend
- [ElevenLabs Music](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elevenlabs-music-v2-5.md): 10 recommend
- [Google Flow Music](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-flow-music.md): 9 recommend
- [Lyria](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lyria-3.md): 8 recommend
- [Stable Audio 3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stable-audio-3.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ACE-Step 1.5", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ace-step-1-5/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).