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Eleven Music

Studio-grade music generation from ElevenLabs.

text → audio
elevenlabs/eleven-music/sound-effects

Capabilities

Best for

  • •Voiceover and narration
  • •Sound design beds
  • •Quick music sketches

Not for

  • •Real-time streaming synthesis
  • •Studio mastering
  • •Forensic audio

Authentication

api key header

The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Keyheader. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.

header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Endpoint

asynchronous · poll for the result

POSThttps://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-music/sound-effectsgenerate endpoint
GEThttps://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentget the result URL

REST Setup

plain HTTPS

Audio generation runs through the REST endpoint shown above. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, so any HTTP client works. No provider-specific SDK is required.

Generate

POST /v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-music/sound-effects

Request

curl -X POST https://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-music/sound-effects \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "prompt": "The holographic butterfly wings catch light and shimmer with iridescent color shifts; the model breathes slowly, flowers around her swaying ever so slightly.",
  "music_length_ms": 3000
}'

Response

{
  "id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
  "status": "queued"
}

Request body

promptstringrequired
Text describing the music to generate.
music_length_msinteger3000 – 600000required
Length of the track in milliseconds.
force_instrumentalboolean
Whether to force an instrumental track with no vocals.
seedinteger0 – 2147483647
Seed for reproducible output. Defaults to a random seed.

Returns

Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.

Poll status

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}

Request

curl https://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
  "status": "running"
}

Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed.

The job object

idstring
Unique identifier for the job.
statusenum
The status of the job.One of:
object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.
errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.

Get result

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content

Request

curl https://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "url": "https://089e99349ace.pikalabs.app/v1/files/audio_8f3a2c91.mp3"
}

Once the job completes, fetch a download URL for the generated media.

Returns

urlstring
Download URL for the generated file.

Errors

shared across calls

Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. The one exception is validation: a request body that fails validation returns 422 with a plain-text body.

StatusWhenBody
401 UnauthorizedThe API key is missing or invalid.{"message":"Invalid API key"}
403 ForbiddenThe key is not active, or the org balance cannot cover the request.{"message":"Insufficient org balance"}
404 Not FoundNo job with that id exists in your org.{"message":"media job not found"}
409 ConflictThe result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body.{"message":"media job is not ready"}
422 Unprocessable EntityThe request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. Returned as plain text, not JSON. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced returns the same status with a JSON message.Unprocessable entity
429 Too Many RequestsOrg limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Check the Retry-After header.{"message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}
503 Service UnavailableThe model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Retry with backoff.{"message":"media dispatch unavailable"}

Pricing

only successful runs are charged

TierPrice
default$0.16 / minute

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