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In one or two sentences, before anything else.
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.
What it can do, one sentence each, and whether we actually tested it.
v6 for controlled results and v6-wild for less predictable ones on paid plans; v6-mini, faster and simpler, for everyone.
Suno retired all earlier models on September 9, 2026, so v5.5 is no longer available.
Change one section, an instrument line or a single lyric by describing it, without regenerating the whole track.
Per Suno's v6 release notes and The Verge's hands-on.
Start a song from a text prompt, a voice memo, an image or a video.
Suno's claim.
Combine vocals, drums and new lyrics from several songs in one request.
Suno's claim.
Isolate an instrument from a song and build a new beat around it; Pro has two stem-separation types and Premier three.
Stem separation is not on the free plan.
A browser workstation on Premier with MIDI, effects, automation and plugin design; Studio exports have no download cap.
Generates spoken word over original background music.
Suno opened the beta to all users on October 1, 2026.
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
Songs asking for hyperpop or krautrock, then requests for monotone vocals, no drums, and a piano played out of tune and out of time.
What happened
v6 caught the surface hallmarks of every genre he tried, a clear step up from older models. It ignored the requests for imperfection, monotone vocals and no drums, and its vocals carried more harsh artifacts than v5's.
Case 2
Input
1,000 new prompts across 17 genres, half with vocals and half instrumental, with more than 37,000 panel votes (AlphaSignal's account of the launch).
What happened
Suno v6 ranks first on vocals with an Elo of 1146 and v6-mini second with 1130, ahead of Mureka V9.5 at 1107; AlphaSignal reports v6 first on instrumentals at launch with 1140. Udio is not on the current board.
Case 3
Input
The same styles and prompts one user had used to make two albums with v5.5, tried again in v6 during the two free days after launch.
What happened
Users described muffled mixes, buried vocals and more generic songs, and some said they were cancelling. These are user reports collected by MusicRadar, not a controlled test, and they disagree with the blind panel above.
What it does badly, with the evidence, and what we could not settle.
Weak
Downloads are capped, and free accounts no longer get monthly downloads.
Evidence: Since September 3, 2026 Pro allows 20 downloads a month and Premier 60. Free users who joined before that date get up to 7 lifetime trial downloads for personal use; extra downloads cost money (Suno, August 10, 2026).
A breach exposed about 55.3 million accounts.
Evidence: Have I Been Pwned lists names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and partial card data from a November 2025 breach. TechCrunch reported on July 21, 2026 that Suno confirmed an incident but had not notified users.
v6 sound quality divides users, and there is no way back.
Evidence: The Verge heard more harsh vocal artifacts than in v5, and users quoted by MusicRadar called v6 muffled and generic. Suno retired every older model on launch day.
Who should not use it now: free users who need audio files, and anyone releasing or licensing many songs.
Evidence: Commercial rights cover only songs downloaded on a paid plan within the monthly allowance, and the September 18, 2026 suit by Universal and Sony targets the v6 models themselves.
Uncertain
Whether v6 is free of the old training data.
Why unsure: Suno says v6 was trained from scratch on music licensed from Warner, BMG and Believe plus user data. Universal and Sony allege it descends from models trained on their recordings. No court has ruled.
Whether your songs are protected by copyright.
Why unsure: Suno's terms say it makes no promise that copyright will exist in what you generate, and remixes of other people's songs are non-commercial on every plan.
What Suno has done about the breach since July.
Why unsure: TechCrunch found no user notice as of July 21, 2026 and on September 9 mentioned a users' class action over security. We found no second source for that suit and no later notice from Suno.
The numbers, each with its source and the date we checked it.
| Spec | Value | Note and source |
|---|---|---|
| Plans and prices | Free 0 USD; Pro 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year, 2,500 credits a month; Premier 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year, 10,000 credits a month | Credits do not roll over to the next month. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Free plan | 50 credits a day, v6-mini only, no monthly downloads, no commercial rights | Source: suno.comchecked |
| Download limits from September 3, 2026 | Pro 20 a month; Premier 60 a month, no cap on Suno Studio exports; free users who joined earlier get up to 7 lifetime trial downloads | Source: suno.comchecked |
| Who owns the songs | Pro and Premier: Suno assigns its rights to you, commercial use for downloaded songs; Free: personal, non-commercial use only | Terms effective September 3, 2026; Suno does not promise copyright will exist in output. Source: suno.comchecked |
| Current models | v6 and v6-wild on paid plans, v6-mini for everyone; all older models retired September 9, 2026 | Source: musicbusinessworldwide.comchecked |
| Training data claimed for v6 | Trained from scratch on music licensed from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, plus user data (Suno's claim) | Source: theverge.comchecked |
| Data breach | November 2025, about 55.3 million email addresses; names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, partial card data | Source: haveibeenpwned.comchecked |
| Second label lawsuit | Filed September 18, 2026 by Universal and Sony in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 60,202 recordings | Source: thenextweb.comchecked |
| Artificial Analysis vocal board v1.1 | v6 1st (Elo 1146), v6-mini 2nd (1130); Mureka V9.5 3rd (1107) | Source: artificialanalysis.aichecked |
| Website visits, September 2026 (suno.com) | 83.3 million (+5.1% on August); 1st of 10 on AICPB's AI music generators list; 20th of 20 on AICPB's AI tools worldwide list | Source: mp.weixin.qq.comchecked |
| Training on your uploads and songs | You give Suno a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to your uploads and songs, including to improve its AI models; the terms offer no opt-out | Source: suno.comchecked |
| Refunds | Payments are final and non-refundable unless Suno decides otherwise | Statutory refund rights still apply, and prepaid fees are refunded pro rata if Suno discontinues the service. Source: suno.comchecked |
Answer first, then why, an example, the limits and what to do next.
Yes, but only within a monthly allowance on paid plans: 20 downloads on Pro and 60 on Premier since September 3, 2026. Free users who joined before that date get up to 7 trial downloads for personal use, newer free users may occasionally get some, and both can buy extra downloads. Songs you already made stay playable and shareable in your library.
Possibly, because the November 2025 breach exposed about 55.3 million email addresses, according to Have I Been Pwned. The data includes names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchase records and partial card details (card type, expiry and last four digits). TechCrunch reported on July 21, 2026 that Suno confirmed a security incident but had not notified users.
Next step
Check your email address on Have I Been Pwned and watch for phishing that quotes your Suno purchases.
Pro and Premier subscribers have Suno's rights in their songs assigned to them, under terms in force since September 3, 2026. Free users may use songs only for personal, non-commercial purposes. Commercial use also needs a download made within your plan's allowance, and those rights stay after you cancel. Suno does not promise that copyright exists in AI output at all.
Universal and Sony say Suno's v6 models descend from earlier models trained on their recordings without a licence. Their second suit, filed on September 18, 2026 in federal court in Massachusetts, covers 60,202 recordings and seeks up to 150,000 USD per work. The first case, filed in June 2024, is still running, and Suno says v6 was trained from scratch.
Blind listeners prefer v6, but many longtime users do not. The Artificial Analysis panel ranks v6 first among current models for vocals and instrumentals, while users quoted by MusicRadar called it muffled and generic next to v5.5. You cannot compare for yourself any more, because Suno retired v5.5 on September 9, 2026.
Mureka is the closest alternative if you need files: it ranks third in the Artificial Analysis blind vocal test and lists unlimited MP3 downloads with commercial rights on its paid plans. Udio is no option for downloads, because it switched them off on October 29, 2025. Mureka faces its own copyright class action, filed in Illinois in December 2025.
This page is built from what can be checked today: Suno's pricing page, terms and announcements, reporting by TechCrunch, Music Business Worldwide (MBW), The Next Web, The Verge and MusicRadar, the breach record at Have I Been Pwned, and the blind listening panel run by Artificial Analysis. Every fact links to its source, and we checked each one on October 17, 2026.
According to AICPB's traffic rankings, suno.com had 83.3 million visits in September 2026, up 5.1% on August: 1st among AI music generators and 20th among AI tools worldwide.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | Warner Music Group settles with Suno and licenses its music (TechCrunch, TNW) |
| November 2025 | Suno is breached; the data covers about 55.3 million email addresses (Have I Been Pwned) |
| July 21, 2026 | TechCrunch reports the breach; Suno confirms a security incident but has not told users (TechCrunch) |
| July 31, 2026 | The German collecting society GEMA wins its case against Suno in Munich (MBW, TNW) |
| August 10, 2026 | Suno announces download caps and new terms, both from September 3 (Suno) |
| September 9, 2026 | v6 launches, which Suno says was trained from scratch on licensed music; all older models are retired that day (MBW) |
| September 18, 2026 | Universal and Sony file a second suit, this time aimed at v6 (MBW, TNW) |
The breach and the training lawsuits are linked. 404 Media reported on July 15, 2026 that the hacker shared Suno code showing it had scraped YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius for training (404 Media). In the first label case, MBW reports, Suno admitted obtaining YouTube audio with the yt-dlp tool, while arguing that training is fair use.
Since September 3, 2026 a download is the thing that carries your rights, and downloads are rationed (Suno, terms).
| Plan | Price | Downloads | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 USD, 50 credits a day | No monthly downloads; up to 7 lifetime trial downloads for users who joined before September 3 | Personal, non-commercial use only |
| Pro | 10 USD a month or 96 USD a year | 20 a month | Suno assigns its rights to you; commercial use for downloaded songs |
| Premier | 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year | 60 a month; no cap on Suno Studio exports | Same as Pro |
Extra downloads can be bought. Rights in songs you downloaded on a paid plan survive cancelling. Songs you have not downloaded through Suno cannot be used commercially, remixes of other people's songs are non-commercial on every plan, and Suno says it makes no promise that copyright exists in AI output at all. Everything you made before stays playable and shareable in your library.
The panel and the users disagree.
| Suno | Udio | Mureka | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads | Capped: 20 or 60 a month on paid plans | Off since October 29, 2025 (Udio) | Unlimited MP3 on Pro; WAV, stems and MIDI on Premier (Mureka) |
| Paid plans from | 10 USD a month | 10 USD a month | 10 USD a month |
| Label licences | Warner, BMG, Believe | Universal, Warner and others | None found |
| Blind vocal ranking | 1st and 2nd | Not on the current board | 3rd |
Mureka is the obvious fallback for people who need files, but it faces its own copyright class action in Illinois. Udio now keeps every song on its own platform.
Sources
Changelog
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.
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.
Udio is an AI song generator from Uncharted Labs that switched off downloads on October 29, 2025, when it settled with Universal Music Group. Songs now stay on Udio, which owns them, behind encrypted streams, while Udio prepares a licensed fan-remix app reported as Starstruck and still faces suits from Sony.
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.
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