Suno

Type "a house song about quitting your job" and a minute later you have one. It has a chorus, a singer and a beat you could actually dance to. That's still the magic of Suno. What changed is what you can do with the result. Since late 2025, free songs stay on Suno's site. To download a track, or use it in anything you earn money from, you need to pay.

Free plan: listen and share, don't download

The free plan is generous for experimenting. You get 50 credits a day on v6-mini, Suno's best free model, and can upload up to eight minutes of your own audio. You share a creation queue with other free users, four songs at a time.

The limits sit around the output. Free songs can't be downloaded, they carry no commercial rights, and there's no stem separation. You can play them on Suno and share links. This is the result of Suno's November 2025 settlement and licensing deal with Warner Music Group, which also brought monthly download caps for paid users and a new generation of licensed models in 2026.

Pro or Premier

The euro version, captured October 2, 2026. Taxes are added at checkout.

Both paid plans move you to a priority queue with ten songs at once. They let you record or upload your own voice, build custom models and buy extra credits. Premier adds Suno Studio and the option to add new vocals or instruments to existing songs.

Web prices depend on where you are. App store prices can differ from the website, so check both before subscribing.

Credits and downloads are separate meters

It helps to think of two budgets. Credits pay for generating, and Pro's 2,500 a month allow plenty of attempts at a song. Downloads are counted separately: 20 a month on Pro, 60 on Premier. A creator who makes ten finished tracks a week will hit the download cap long before running out of credits. Extra downloads can be bought, and the iPhone app prices single download credits from $2.99.

If credits run out mid-month, Suno gives subscribers 50 bonus credits a day until renewal, and top-ups can be bought at any time. Plan credits don't roll over. Purchased top-ups don't expire, but they only work while you have a subscription.

Getting more from each credit

Most wasted credits come from vague prompts. Name a genre and a mood, mention one or two instruments you want to hear, and say whether you want vocals. If you have lyrics, paste them in; Suno follows your words far more closely than it follows a description of them.

When a song is almost right, don't start over. Extending it, making a cover in another style or adjusting the speed keeps the parts you liked, which usually takes fewer attempts than starting over. Save downloads for finished versions, since on Pro they run out faster than credits do.

Suno Studio, for people who produce

Premier's Studio turns Suno from a song generator into something closer to music software. You get MIDI and effects, automation, even plugins you design yourself, and stem separation pulls vocals apart from the instruments. For producers, the appeal is editing AI material into a track of their own, instead of rolling the dice for a new version each time.

Rights and real-world use

Paid plans include commercial use rights, which covers what most YouTubers and independent artists need, from a soundtrack in a CapCut edit to a self-released single. Suno's terms set the limits, so read them before using a song in advertising, film or broadcast, where clearance matters most. Distributors and streaming services set their own AI-content policies too.

Udio is the best-known alternative for AI songs. ElevenLabs also makes music alongside voices, and stock libraries remain the safe choice for broadcast work.