What Is Suno? Pricing, Credits and Limits Explained
What Suno does, what the Free, Pro and Premier plans actually cost and include, how credits work, and the legal situation you should know about before building on it.
Suno is an AI music generator: you describe a song in text, optionally supply lyrics, and it returns a finished recording with vocals in about a minute. It's the most widely used tool in the category, which is why most questions about AI music end up being questions about Suno.
Disclosure: Rewave, whose site you're on, is a competing product. This page is written to be accurate about Suno rather than flattering to us — the comparison is further down, and the numbers here are Suno's, not spun.
The short version
- Text prompt or lyrics in, finished song with vocals out, roughly a minute.
- Free tier exists with a daily credit allowance and no commercial rights.
- Pro is $10/month ($8 annual), 2,500 credits, up to ~500 songs a month.
- Premier is $30/month ($24 annual), 10,000 credits, up to ~2,000 songs, plus Suno Studio.
- A song costs roughly 5 credits.
- Pro and Premier grant identical commercial rights — you're paying for volume and Studio.
- All three major labels are currently in active litigation against Suno.
What it actually does
Three input modes, and knowing which one you're in explains most confusion:
Simple. You write a description — "80s synthwave, female vocal, driving bassline" — and Suno writes lyrics, composes, and performs. Fastest, least control.
Custom. You supply your own lyrics plus a style description, and optionally structure tags
like [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge]. This is where most serious use happens, because you
control the words and the sections.
Audio input. You upload audio and extend, cover, or build from it. Pro allows uploads up to 30 minutes.
Beyond generation, the feature set includes stem separation (up to 12 stems on Pro), section-level editing, extension, personas (reusing a voice and style across tracks), covers, and remastering.
Pricing, precisely
Verified as of mid-2026. Suno changes plans periodically, so check before committing.
| Free | Pro | Premier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price (monthly) | $0 | $10 | $30 |
| Price (annual, per month) | — | $8 | $24 |
| Credits per month | Daily allowance | 2,500 | 10,000 |
| Songs per month (approx.) | ~10/day | ~500 | ~2,000 |
| Commercial use | No | Yes | Yes |
| Download format | MP3 | MP3, WAV | MP3, WAV |
| Stems | — | Up to 12 | Up to 12 |
| Suno Studio | — | — | Yes |
| MIDI export | — | — | Yes |
| Priority queue | — | Up to 10 at once | Yes |
The two things people get wrong about this table:
The Free tier has no commercial rights. You can generate and listen, but you cannot release, monetize, or use the output in client work. This trips up a lot of people who built something they liked on Free and then wanted to publish it.
Pro and Premier have the same rights. Premier is not "more commercial" — it's more volume plus Studio. If you're generating under ~500 songs a month and don't need a DAW, Pro is the whole product.
How credits work
A generation costs roughly 5 credits, and Suno returns two variations per generation, so your practical rate is about 5 credits per attempt rather than per keeper.
That matters more than it sounds. Good results come from generating a batch and discarding most of it — realistically 8–12 attempts to get one track you'd release. So budget more like 40–60 credits per finished song, not 5. On Pro's 2,500 credits that's still roughly 40–60 finished tracks a month, which is far more than most people need.
Other credit facts worth knowing:
- Extensions, covers and remasters consume credits too.
- Credits reset monthly on Pro; they don't accumulate indefinitely.
- Failed or rejected generations generally still consume credits.
Suno Studio
Suno Studio is Premier-only and is the biggest functional difference between the tiers. It's an AI-native DAW rather than a generation box: multi-track editing, batch generation, MIDI export, and arranging generated material on a timeline.
Whether it justifies $30 over $10 depends entirely on whether you arrange. If you generate a track and release it, Studio does nothing for you. If you generate parts and assemble them, it replaces a chunk of what you'd otherwise do in a conventional DAW.
The legal situation
This is the part most Suno explainers skip, and it's material if you're building anything on it.
All three major labels — Universal, Warner and Sony — remain in active litigation against Suno over training data. That's ongoing as of mid-2026.
For contrast, Udio, Suno's closest competitor, settled with Universal and Warner and is moving to a fully licensed model, with a new licensed platform announced for 2026. Sony is still litigating against Udio.
What this means practically, stated carefully:
- Your existing generations aren't at risk from a label lawsuit; these cases are about whether training on copyrighted recordings was lawful, not about revoking user output.
- The product's future is less certain than a licensed competitor's. An adverse ruling or a settlement could change the model, the terms, or the pricing.
- If you're building a business that depends on one generator's continued availability on current terms, that's concentration risk regardless of which one you pick.
I'm not telling you to avoid Suno over this — it's the strongest tool in the category by most measures. I'm telling you the risk exists, because plenty of comparison pages don't.
Common questions people actually search
Grouping the practical ones, since they're most of the search volume around Suno:
Cancelling. Subscription management is in account settings; cancelling ends renewal but you keep access until the period ends. Songs you generated under a paid plan keep their commercial licence.
Deleting your account. Handled through Suno's help centre rather than a self-serve button in settings.
API access. Suno does not offer a general public API. Several third-party services advertise "Suno APIs" — these are unofficial wrappers, and building on them means depending on something Suno hasn't sanctioned and could break.
Remaster. Re-renders an existing track at higher quality using a newer model. Useful on older generations; costs credits.
Prompting. Specify tempo, instrumentation and vocal type rather than mood adjectives. The general principles are in how to make AI music and apply to any generator.
Who Suno is right for
Being straightforward about it:
Strong fit: high-volume generation, anyone who wants the largest feature surface in the category, people who arrange generated material (Premier + Studio), anyone who cares most about cost per song — at roughly $0.02 per generation on Pro, Suno's volume economics are the best in the category by a wide margin.
Weaker fit: anyone who needs the free tier to be commercially usable, anyone uncomfortable with the litigation exposure, anyone who wants a licensed-training guarantee, and anyone who finds the feature surface more than they need.
FAQ
What is Suno?
An AI music generator that turns a text description or your lyrics into a finished song with vocals in about a minute. It's the most widely used tool in the category.
How much does Suno cost?
Free with limits and no commercial rights; Pro $10/month ($8 annual); Premier $30/month ($24 annual). Pro and Premier grant identical commercial rights.
How many credits does a Suno song use?
About 5 credits per generation, and each generation returns two variations. Budget 40–60 credits per finished, releasable track, since good results come from batches.
Can I use Suno music commercially?
On Pro and Premier, yes. On the Free tier, no — free output is not licensed for commercial use.
What is Suno Studio?
A Premier-only AI-native DAW with multi-track editing, MIDI export and batch generation. It matters if you arrange; it does nothing if you generate and release.
Does Suno have an API?
Not an official public one. Third-party "Suno API" services are unofficial wrappers and carry the risk that comes with that.
Is Suno being sued?
Yes — Universal, Warner and Sony all have active litigation against Suno over training data as of mid-2026. Udio, by contrast, settled with Universal and Warner.
Is Suno better than the alternatives?
On feature depth and cost per song, it leads. On licensed training, free-tier commercial rights and legal certainty, others do better. See best Suno alternatives.
Want to compare before committing? Rewave takes a written idea to a finished song in about a minute — try text to song or open the Studio. Commercial licence is included from the Pro plan up.
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