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In one or two sentences, before anything else.
Mureka is the AI song generator of Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维). Its V9.5 model, out since August 2026, ranks third in Artificial Analysis's blind vocal test behind two Suno models, and its paid plans promise unlimited downloads with commercial rights while Suno caps downloads and Udio has switched them off.
What it can do, one sentence each, and whether we actually tested it.
Generates full songs from a prompt or lyrics, with arrangement, vocals and emotion fitted to the prompt, Mureka says.
In Mureka's own 100-song test, vocals passed 61.0% of the time against 53.0% for the previous model.
Plans the whole song before generating audio, a method Mureka has used since its 6.0 model in March 2025.
Mureka's description.
Generates a new song in the style, mood and energy of a track you upload.
The December 2025 lawsuit objects to this feature.
Remixes a cappella takes, acoustic demos or instrumentals, with control over lyrics, style, lead instruments and structure.
Rebuilt on October 9, 2026, per Mureka.
Splits songs into up to 12 stems and edits them on a multitrack timeline.
Premier only.
A chat assistant that generates parts and controls Ableton Live or Reaper on macOS and Windows.
Included in Pro since July 8, 2026.
Turns a song, an uploaded file or a YouTube link into a music video, planned by a chat-based MV Director since September 14, 2026.
Costs 40 Gold per second of video, per Mureka.
Saves a singer character with its own voice and avatar; Premier adds professional voice cloning.
The people it helps and the problems it solves, and where it ranks.
Built for
Problems it solves
Graded in
Public tests other people ran: what they gave it and how it did.
Case 1
Input
A restrained song with soft piano, atmospheric synths, gradual strings and an intimate male vocal that builds slowly; Indian classical devotional music; a banjo country piece that turns into future bass.
What happened
The writer found V9.5 kept the quiet song restrained where V9 built to an unrequested climax, sounded less generic on the Indian piece and fused the two genres more smoothly. It is paid content, so treat it as promotion.
Case 2
Input
1,000 new prompts across 17 genres, half with vocals and half instrumental (AlphaSignal's account of the launch).
What happened
Mureka V9.5 is third on vocals with an Elo of 1107, behind Suno v6 (1146) and v6-mini (1130) and ahead of Google's Lyria 3.5 (1052). On the board captured on September 2, 2026, before Suno v6, Mureka V9 was second.
Case 3
Input
100 songs generated in the same round by V9.5 and by the previous baseline model, judged by Mureka.
What happened
Mureka reports vocals passing 61.0% against 53.0%, prompt control 97.0% against 92.0% and fully expressed genre 95.7% against 84.9%, but only 28.0% of V9.5 songs judged fully usable overall. These are the vendor's numbers, and the method is not published.
What it does badly, with the evidence, and what we could not settle.
Weak
Songs made on the free plan belong to Mureka and cannot be downloaded.
Evidence: Mureka's terms give free users only a licence for lawful, internal, non-commercial use, with a credit to Mureka, and its plan comparison, checked October 18, 2026, locks audio downloads and commercial rights on the free plan.
Mureka keeps broad rights to every song, paid or not.
Evidence: All users grant Mureka a royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use their output, including commercially, and to use their username, image, voice and likeness; Mureka does not guarantee copyright registration.
The models face a copyright class action.
Evidence: Independent musicians sued Kunlun Tech and Skywork AI in Illinois on December 17, 2025, alleging Mureka copied their recordings and compositions to train its models (Bloomberg Law).
By Mureka's own count, most V9.5 songs are not fully usable.
Evidence: In its 100-song internal test, Mureka judged 28.0% of V9.5 songs fully usable overall, against 25.0% for the previous model.
Who should not use it now: businesses that need music cleared for brands, broadcast or distribution deals.
Evidence: We found no label or publisher licence behind Mureka's models, unlike Suno and Udio, and the Illinois case is unresolved.
Uncertain
What Mureka's models were trained on.
Why unsure: Kunlun Tech has not published its training data, we found no licence with labels or publishers, and the lawsuit's claims of unlicensed copying have not been tested in court.
Whether the O3 model is available.
Why unsure: Yicai reported that Kunlun released V9.5 and O3 in July 2026, but Mureka's plan page lists V9.5, V9, V8, O2 and V7.6, not O3.
The numbers, each with its source and the date we checked it.
| Spec | Value | Note and source |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维), with its Singapore company Skywork AI | Bloomberg Law names both as operators; Mureka's terms say the service is run from Singapore. Source: kunlun.comchecked |
| Plans and prices | Free 0 USD; Pro 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year; Premier 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year | Source: mureka.aichecked |
| Free plan | 4 songs a day on the v7.5-all model, 2 tasks at a time in a shared queue; audio downloads and commercial rights are locked on the free plan | Source: mureka.aichecked |
| Downloads on paid plans | Pro: unlimited MP3; Premier: WAV, stems, MIDI and DAW sessions | Source: mureka.aichecked |
| Who owns the songs | Paid or Gold users own their output; on the free plan Mureka owns it, with internal, non-commercial use and a credit to Mureka | Terms effective October 18, 2024; every user grants Mureka a royalty-free licence to use their songs. Source: mureka.aichecked |
| Models on paid plans | V9.5, V9, V8, O2 and V7.6 | Source: mureka.aichecked |
| V9.5 release | Available in Mureka on August 13, 2026; announced by Kunlun Tech on August 18, 2026 | Source: mureka.aichecked |
| Artificial Analysis vocal board v1.1 | V9.5 3rd (Elo 1107), V9 4th (1057); Suno v6 1st (1146) | Source: artificialanalysis.aichecked |
| Copyright lawsuit | Proposed class action by independent musicians, filed December 17, 2025, Northern District of Illinois, case 1:25-cv-15354 | Source: news.bloomberglaw.comchecked |
| Website visits, September 2026 (mureka.ai) | 5.2 million (+54.1% on August); 2nd of 10 on AICPB's AI music generators list; 11th of 20 on AICPB's fastest-growing list | Source: mp.weixin.qq.comchecked |
Answer first, then why, an example, the limits and what to do next.
Mureka is made by the Chinese company Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维), whose website lists Mureka as its AI music and audio platform. Bloomberg Law names Kunlun Tech and its Singapore company Skywork AI as the operators, and Mureka's terms say the service is run from Singapore under Singapore law.
Yes, on a paid plan: Mureka's terms give paying users ownership of what they generate, and its plan page promises full commercial rights and unlimited MP3 downloads on Pro. Free users get only an internal, non-commercial licence and must credit Mureka. Mureka still keeps a royalty-free licence to use every song, and it does not guarantee you can register copyright.
Not in blind listening tests: Artificial Analysis ranks Mureka V9.5 third for vocals with an Elo of 1107, behind Suno v6 at 1146 and v6-mini at 1130. Mureka is ahead on downloads, with no monthly cap on Pro against Suno's 20, at the same 10 USD monthly price.
Mureka is the strongest option for people who need audio files: it ranks third in the blind vocal test, and its paid plans list unlimited downloads with commercial rights. Udio allows no downloads at all, and Suno caps them at 20 or 60 a month. The trade-off is legal: Suno and Udio have label licences, while we found none for Mureka, and it faces a copyright class action.
Yes, independent musicians filed a proposed class action against Kunlun Tech and Skywork AI over Mureka on December 17, 2025, in federal court in Illinois. They allege Mureka copied their recordings and compositions to train its models; their lawyers say the claims include copyright, the DMCA and Illinois's biometric privacy law. We found no ruling yet.
Mureka owns songs made on the free plan, under its terms dated October 18, 2024. Free users may use them only for lawful, internal, non-commercial purposes and must credit Mureka. Free songs cannot be downloaded: the plan comparison locks downloads and commercial rights on the free plan. Mureka's plan FAQ says commercial rights, including for songs made before you upgrade, apply only while a subscription is active.
This page is built from Mureka's plan page, terms, update log and blog, Kunlun Tech's own announcements, reporting by Yicai and Bloomberg Law, the blind listening leaderboard run by Artificial Analysis, and one sponsored comparison published by Tom's Guide. Every fact links to its source, and we checked each one on October 17, 2026.
According to AICPB's traffic rankings, mureka.ai had 5.2 million visits in September 2026, up 54.1% on August: 2nd among AI music generators and 11th on the fastest-growing list.
Mureka belongs to the Chinese company Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维), whose site lists it as its AI music and audio platform (Kunlun Tech). Kunlun runs it with its Singapore subsidiary Skywork AI (Bloomberg Law), under Singapore law (terms). It has moved up quickly in 2026: three new models in eight months, and on the Artificial Analysis vocal board it is the only maker besides Suno in the top three.
| Date | Release |
|---|---|
| February 2024 | Version 1.0, as the SkyMusic beta (Mureka) |
| March 2025 | Version 6.0 adds MusiCoT, which plans a song's structure before making audio (Mureka) |
| November 28, 2025 | Mureka V7.6 and the O2 reasoning model (Kunlun Tech) |
| January 2026 | V8 (Yicai) |
| March 2026 | V9 (Yicai) |
| July 2026 | Kunlun shows V9.5 and O3 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (Yicai) |
| August 13, 2026 | V9.5 becomes available in Mureka (update log); Kunlun announces it on August 18 (Kunlun via 10jqka) |
| August 26, 2026 | Mureka promises commercial rights and unlimited downloads for every generated song (update log) |
| Plan | Price | Songs | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 USD | 4 a day, v7.5-all model | None: downloads and commercial rights are locked |
| Pro | 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year | Up to 500 a month, models V9.5, V9, V8, O2, V7.6 | Unlimited MP3 |
| Premier | 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year | Up to 2,000 a month | WAV, stems, MIDI and DAW sessions |
Source: Mureka plan page. Under Mureka's terms, people who pay or buy Gold own what they generate; on the free plan Mureka owns the songs, and you may use them only for internal, non-commercial purposes with a credit to Mureka. Every user also gives Mureka a royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use their songs, including commercially, and Mureka does not guarantee that you can register copyright (terms). The Pro plan card says commercial rights cover "new & past creations"; the terms, dated October 18, 2024, do not say so.
| Mureka | Suno | Udio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads on paid plans | Unlimited MP3 on Pro | 20 a month on Pro, 60 on Premier since September 3, 2026 (Suno) | None since October 29, 2025 (Udio) |
| Who owns paid users' songs | The user | Assigned to the user | Udio and its licensors (Udio terms) |
| Entry paid plan | 10 USD a month | 10 USD a month (Suno) | 10 USD a month |
| Blind vocal ranking | 3rd | 1st and 2nd | Not on the board |
| Label licences | None found | Warner, BMG, Believe | Universal, Warner and others |
On December 17, 2025, independent musicians filed a proposed class action against Kunlun Tech and Skywork AI over Mureka in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, case 1:25-cv-15354 (Bloomberg Law, ChatGPT Is Eating the World). Their lawyers say the complaint claims copyright infringement, DMCA violations and breaches of Illinois's biometric privacy law, and objects to reference-track uploads that let users imitate songs (Loevy + Loevy). We found no ruling yet.
Sources
Changelog
Mureka and Suno both charge 10 USD a month, but Suno v6 ranks first in Artificial Analysis's blind listening test while Mureka V9.5 is third. Choose Mureka for uncapped downloads, stems and MIDI, a self-serve API or a Chinese service; choose Suno for the best-rated sound and licences from Warner, BMG and Believe.
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Suno is an AI song generator that capped downloads on September 3, 2026 and rebuilt its models as v6 on licensed music on September 9. TechCrunch reported in July 2026 that a November 2025 breach exposed about 55.3 million user records, and Universal and Sony sued again over v6 on September 18, 2026.
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