Suno

At a glance

Official website

https://suno.com

Category

AI Voice & Music

Free plan

$0; 50 credits/day, reset daily (UTC); one generation (10 credits) returns 2 song versions, so ~10 songs/day; v6-mini model only.

Free plan limits

No monthly song downloads on Free since 3 Sep 2026 — free songs can be played/shared as a link, but audio files are not downloadable (pre-3-Sep-2026 accounts have up to 7 lifetime trial downloads). Best models (v6, v6-wild) paid-only. No option to buy extra credits on Free. Commercial use NOT allowed; Suno owns free-plan songs, and upgrading later does NOT retroactively licence them.

Paid plans from

From $10/month billed monthly ($8/month billed annually) — Pro plan (2,500 credits/month).

Best for

Songwriters sketching ideas and hobbyists making songs for fun or for friends.

Suno review: what the free plan really gives you

Suno turns a text prompt into a finished song, vocals and instruments included, in a minute or two. Describe a genre, a mood, and a few lyrics, or let it write the words, and you get a track back that sounds like a real recording rather than a demo. For a songwriter testing an idea, a video maker who needs a custom backing track, or anyone who has ever wondered what their lyrics would sound like sung, it is the most immediately delightful tool in this hub. The free plan is generous in one direction and strict in another, and understanding both halves is the key to using it well.

The free allowance is 50 credits a day, resetting daily in UTC, and credits do not roll over. One generation costs 10 credits and returns two versions of the song, so the daily allowance buys about ten songs a day by Suno's own estimate. You get the v6-mini model only; the best models, v6 and v6-wild, are paid-only. Generations share a queue, up to four songs at once, and audio uploads run up to eight minutes. Ten songs a day is a lot of music to experiment with, and for pure fun or practice, the free plan is genuinely enjoyable.

The strict half is about ownership and downloads, and it has changed recently. Since 3 September 2026, there are no monthly song downloads on the free plan: free songs can be played and shared as a link, but the audio files themselves are not downloadable, except for accounts created before that date, which have up to seven lifetime trial downloads. There is also no option to buy extra credits on the free plan. And the rights are the tightest in this hub: free use is personal and non-commercial only, Suno owns the songs made on the free plan, and upgrading later does not retroactively give those songs a commercial licence. A song you make for free stays non-commercial even after you pay.

Against ElevenLabs, Suno is the music half of the pair — songs here, speech there. Against any other music tool, it wins on how complete the output sounds and loses on what you can do with it afterwards. It suits a songwriter sketching ideas, a hobbyist making songs for friends, or a creator testing whether AI music fits a project, as long as the songs stay personal and streamed rather than downloaded and sold. The Pro plan starts at $10 a month, or $8 a month billed annually, with 2,500 credits a month, the v6 and v6-wild models, commercial rights, and 20 downloads a month.

Pros and cons

Alternatives to Suno

If Suno does not fit, these tools in the same category are also listed on AI Free List:

• ElevenLabs

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