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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.
The same dimensions for both, one per row. Each fact about either product carries its source and the date we checked it.
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| What it is | 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. | 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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| Price of paid plans | Pro 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year; Premier 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year Source: mureka.aichecked | Pro 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year; Premier 30 USD a month or 288 USD a yearThe pricing page shows the yearly rate as 8 and 24 USD a month. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Free plan | 4 songs a day on the older v7.5-all model; the plan table locks audio downloads and commercial rights Source: mureka.aichecked | 50 credits a day, about 10 songs, on v6-mini; no monthly downloads and no commercial rightsA generation makes two songs for 10 credits (Suno's v6 FAQ). Free users who joined before September 3, 2026 keep up to 7 lifetime trial downloads for personal use. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Songs and cost per song on the 10 USD plan | Up to 500 songs a month (5,000 Gold), all downloadable: about 0.02 USD a song Source: mureka.aichecked | About 500 songs a month (2,500 credits at 10 credits per two songs), but 20 downloads: about 0.50 USD per downloaded songPro's 2,500 monthly credits and 20 downloads are listed on Suno's pricing page; extra downloads can be bought. Source: help.suno.comchecked |
| Downloads, stems and MIDI on paid plans | No monthly cap. Pro: MP3. Premier: MP3 and WAV, up to 12 stems, MIDI and DAW session filesThe plan page FAQ says there are no download limits. Source: mureka.aichecked | 20 downloads a month on Pro, 60 on Premier; stem separation with 2 methods on Pro, 3 on PremierSuno's help centre says work in Suno Studio is not subject to the download limits. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Who owns the songs | Paid or Gold users own their songs; free-plan songs belong to Mureka, usable only internally and non-commercially with a creditThe plan page FAQ adds that during an active subscription, songs made before subscribing also get full commercial rights. Source: mureka.aichecked | Pro and Premier: Suno assigns its rights to you, and songs downloaded within the allowance may be used commercially; Free: personal, non-commercial use onlySuno does not promise copyright exists in AI output. Rights in songs downloaded on a paid plan survive cancelling (Suno, August 10, 2026). Source: suno.comchecked |
| What the company may do with your songs | Every user gives Mureka an irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use their songs for any purpose, including commercially; model training is not mentionedMureka's privacy policy says uploaded voice recordings may be used to create AI music that other users can use. Source: mureka.aichecked | Suno may use your content to improve its products, including its AI and machine-learning models Source: suno.comchecked |
| Models | V9.5 (in Mureka since August 13, 2026), V9, V8, O2 and V7.6 on paid plans; v7.5-all on the free plan Source: mureka.aichecked | v6 and v6-wild on paid plans, v6-mini for everyone, all released September 9, 2026Suno retired its earlier models the same day, per Music Business Worldwide. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Artificial Analysis blind test (v1.1, read October 18, 2026) | Vocals: V9.5 3rd, Elo 1107 (V9 4th, 1057). Instrumentals: V9.5 1084 and V9 1083, tied for 3rd to 6th with Google's Lyria 3 Pro and Lyria 3.5 Source: artificialanalysis.aichecked | Vocals: v6 1st, Elo 1146; v6-mini 2nd, 1130. Instrumentals: v6 1st, 1148; v6-mini 2nd, 1114Each score has a 95% interval of about ±20 Elo. The instrumental board is at artificialanalysis.ai/music/leaderboard/instrumental. Source: artificialanalysis.aichecked |
| Lawsuits and label licences | No label or publisher licence reported. Independent musicians filed a proposed class action on December 17, 2025 (N.D. Illinois, case 1:25-cv-15354); no ruling found Source: news.bloomberglaw.comchecked | Licences from Warner (settled November 2025), BMG and Believe. Universal and Sony are still suing over training (Boston, June 2024); GEMA won its case in Munich on July 31, 2026 Source: musicbusinessworldwide.comchecked |
| Refunds | Refunds must be requested from Apple, Google, Stripe or PayPal; Mureka accepts no liability for refunds except where the law requires Source: mureka.aichecked | Payments are final and non-refundable unless Suno decides otherwise; statutory rights still apply, and prepaid fees are refunded pro rata if Suno discontinues the service Source: suno.comchecked |
| Chinese users and access from mainland China | A separate Chinese service at mureka.cn, run by Kunlun Tech: phone sign-in, Pro 68 CNY a month or 650 CNY a year, Premier 204 CNY or 1,950 CNY, no auto-renewalMureka has supported Chinese among 10 song languages since its V6 model in 2025, per Music Business Worldwide. Source: mureka.cnchecked | No mainland-China service or CNY pricing published; Suno's terms guarantee availability in no particular locationA Chinese review on Woshipm (March 27, 2026) says mainland users may need network workarounds to reach suno.com. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Website visits, September 2026 (AICPB) | mureka.ai: 5.2 million (+54.1% on August); 2nd of 10 on AICPB's AI music generators list Source: mp.weixin.qq.comchecked | suno.com: 83.3 million (+5.1% on August); 1st of 10 on AICPB's AI music generators list Source: mp.weixin.qq.comchecked |
The situations in which each one is the better choice.
Stated plainly, with where each one comes from and when we last looked.
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| QbitAI reported on March 25, 2026 that Mureka V8 had taken first place on both Artificial Analysis music boards, vocals and instrumentals, ahead of Suno V4.5. | Source: qbitai.comchecked | |
| On July 31, 2026, AlphaSignal reported Mureka V9 one Elo point behind Suno V5.5 on the Artificial Analysis instrumental board (1193 against 1194) and about one point behind on vocals. | Source: alphasignal.aichecked | |
| On September 18, 2026, Universal and Sony filed a second suit against Suno in federal court in Massachusetts, aimed at the v6 models and covering 60,202 recordings. | Source: thenextweb.comchecked | |
| On October 14, 2026, Universal and Sony asked a federal court in Manhattan to make DistroKid disclose how many AI-generated songs it distributes each month, for their case against Suno. | Source: lawcommentary.comchecked | |
| Kunlun Tech has offered Mureka models to developers through an open API since March 2025, starting with V6 and the O1 reasoning model. | Source: musicbusinessworldwide.comchecked | |
| Suno's chief product officer opened an intake form for a developer API on July 1, 2026, starting with a curated group of partners; no API prices have been published. | Source: musicbusinessworldwide.comchecked |
What each does badly, with the evidence, and what no public test has settled yet.
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Mureka trails Suno on sound in the largest blind test.
Evidence: On the Artificial Analysis vocal board Mureka V9.5 scores 1107 Elo against 1146 for Suno v6 and 1130 for v6-mini. In Mureka's own 100-song test, only 28.0% of V9.5 songs were judged fully usable.
Mureka's free plan gives you nothing to publish.
Evidence: The plan table locks downloads and commercial rights on Free, and Mureka's terms say free-plan songs belong to Mureka.
Suno rations the files that carry your rights.
Evidence: Pro allows 20 downloads a month and Premier 60, and only songs downloaded within that allowance may be used commercially.
Suno exposed about 55.3 million accounts in a November 2025 breach.
Evidence: Have I Been Pwned lists names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial card data; TechCrunch reported on July 21, 2026 that Suno had not notified users.
No licence has been reported behind Mureka's models.
Evidence: No label or publisher deal has been announced, and the December 2025 class action in Illinois alleges Mureka copied independent musicians' recordings to train its models.
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Whether Mureka's commercial rights outlast your subscription.
Why unsure: The plan page FAQ ties commercial rights to an active subscription, while the terms say paid users own their output. Suno states that rights in downloaded songs survive cancelling.
Which one sings Chinese better today.
Why unsure: The only head-to-head Chinese-song test found, by AIX Caijing in June 2026, used Mureka V9 and Suno V5.5, one prompt and a handful of listeners. No public test yet compares V9.5 and v6 on Chinese lyrics.
Whether either model was trained on clean data.
Why unsure: Universal and Sony allege Suno v6 descends from models trained on their recordings; the Illinois suit alleges Mureka copied independent musicians' work. No court has ruled in either case.
Whether machine scores agree with listeners.
Why unsure: WildSongBench, an automatic benchmark with results dated September 12, 2026 from the team behind the rival YuE2 model, puts Mureka 9 above Suno v6 on its main average, the opposite of the Artificial Analysis panel.
Few independent tests put Mureka and Suno side by side. Many pages that come up for "Mureka vs Suno" are published by other AI music apps, so this page leaves their verdicts aside and uses the sources below. Our Mureka and Suno pages cover each product in full; Udio, which no longer allows downloads, has its own page.
Artificial Analysis runs the largest public blind test of music models. A recruited panel hears two tracks made from the same prompt and picks one, and the results become Elo scores. Version 1.1 launched in October 2026 with 1,000 new prompts across 17 genres and more than 37,000 votes (AlphaSignal).
On the board as read on October 18, 2026, Suno v6 leads vocals with 1146 and v6-mini follows with 1130. Mureka V9.5 is third with 1107, 39 points behind v6 and ahead of every model from Google, ElevenLabs and MiniMax (Artificial Analysis). On instrumentals Suno v6 scores 1148, while Mureka V9.5 (1084) and V9 (1083) sit in a statistical tie with Google's Lyria 3 Pro and Lyria 3.5 (Artificial Analysis).
The lead has changed hands. QbitAI reported in March 2026 that Mureka V8 had taken first place on both boards (QbitAI). On July 31, 2026, AlphaSignal had Mureka V9 one point behind Suno V5.5 on instrumentals (AlphaSignal), and a snapshot from September 2, 2026 shows V9 11 points behind V5.5 on vocals (BenchmarkList). Suno v6, released on September 9, opened the gap again.
No public test yet compares Mureka V9.5 with Suno v6 on Chinese lyrics. Kunlun Tech says V9.5 sharpened Chinese pronunciation (Kunlun Tech), and a Chinese review from March 2026 says Suno's Chinese lyrics still trail its English ones (Woshipm), but neither claim comes from a listening test.
No published test measures how often each tool produces a song worth releasing either. Mureka's own figure, 28.0% of V9.5 songs fully usable in a 100-song internal test, has no Suno equivalent (Mureka).
Audience size is lopsided: AICPB counted 83.3 million visits to suno.com and 5.2 million to mureka.ai in September 2026, though Mureka grew 54.1% in a month (AI music generators ranking).
Suno is the better-sounding tool in the largest blind test and has licences from Warner, BMG and Believe, though Universal and Sony are still suing; in exchange it rations downloads to 20 or 60 a month, and every commercial use depends on them. Mureka costs the same, lets paid users download everything and adds stems, MIDI, a self-serve API and a Chinese service, but it trails v6 by 39 Elo on vocals, has no reported licence and faces a class action in Illinois. If sound and licensing matter more, pick Suno; if files, volume or access from China matter more, pick Mureka.
Answer first, then why, an example, the limits and what to do next.
Suno sounds better in blind tests, and Mureka is better for downloads and production files. On Artificial Analysis's vocal board Suno v6 scores 1146 Elo and Mureka V9.5 1107. At the same 10 USD a month, Mureka Pro has no download cap while Suno Pro allows 20 downloads, and Mureka Premier adds 12 stems, MIDI and DAW session files.
Mureka is far cheaper per downloadable song, although both list the same prices: 10 USD a month for Pro and 30 USD for Premier. Mureka Pro allows up to 500 songs a month, all downloadable, about 0.02 USD each. Suno Pro makes about 500 songs but allows 20 downloads, about 0.50 USD per downloaded song. In China, mureka.cn charges 68 CNY a month for Pro.
Paid plans on both allow commercial use, and free plans on both do not. Mureka's terms give paid users ownership of their songs; Suno assigns its rights to Pro and Premier users, but only songs downloaded within the monthly allowance may be used commercially. Neither promises that you can register copyright, and Mureka keeps a royalty-free licence to use every song.
Mureka has a free plan with 4 songs a day on its older v7.5-all model, but downloads and commercial rights are locked. Under Mureka's terms, songs made on the free plan belong to Mureka. Suno's free plan gives about 10 songs a day on v6-mini, also without monthly downloads or commercial rights.
Mureka runs a Chinese service at mureka.cn, with phone sign-in and prices in CNY, while Suno publishes no service for mainland China. A Chinese review from March 2026 says reaching suno.com from the mainland may need network workarounds, and Suno's terms guarantee availability in no particular location.
Suno v6 beats Mureka V9.5 in the Artificial Analysis blind test, by 39 Elo on vocals (1146 to 1107) and 64 on instrumentals (1148 to 1084). Mureka V9.5 is still the highest-ranked vocal model from any maker other than Suno. An automatic benchmark from a rival team ranks Mureka 9 above v6, but that is machine scoring, not listeners.
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Mureka is the closest Suno alternative for most people: its V9.5 model ranks third in blind listening tests, just behind Suno's own, and its $10 Pro plan has no download cap. Google Flow Music has the most Suno-like editing for $8, Eleven Music the plainest rights from a licensed model, and MiniMax Music is cheapest at $5.
Suno is the pick for anyone who needs the audio: paid plans download 20 or 60 songs a month with commercial rights, and v6 leads Artificial Analysis's blind tests. Udio suits only people who make songs for fun inside its app, because it has blocked downloads since October 29, 2025 and owns every song made there.
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