Suno

Type "a jazz song about watering my plants" and Suno writes the lyrics, the melody, the arrangement and the vocals, then hands you a finished track. That's the pitch, and it explains why Suno gets so much attention.

The basic prompt box is only the starting point now. Suno's v6 model, the newest at the time of writing, sits next to a set of tools for people who want more control:

• Suno Studio, a browser-based DAW for arranging, editing and mixing. On Premier it adds MIDI, effects and automation.
• Voices: record a few seconds of yourself and have that voice sing whatever you write.
• Stem separation, which splits a song into time-aligned stems you can take into another DAW.
• Remix for changing style, rewriting lyrics or rebuilding a track around your own recording, and custom models trained on your own music.

There are also style sliders (one is literally called "weirdness"), vocal gender, exclusions and a public library where you can browse what others have made.

Plans and what they cost

Checked on suno.com/pricing in October 2026:

Free gives you 50 credits a day on the free model (v6-mini), a shared queue, and no commercial rights. You also can't download songs monthly, buy extra credits or separate stems on this tier.

Pro is $8 a month on yearly billing; Suno says yearly saves $24 compared with paying monthly. You get 2,500 credits a month, 20 song downloads, the v6 and v6-wild models, two kinds of stem separation, a priority queue and commercial use rights. Suno's homepage puts that at up to 500 custom songs a month.

Premier is $24 a month on yearly billing (saving $72 a year). It raises the allowance to 10,000 credits and 60 downloads, adds full Suno Studio, a third stem type and audio uploads up to 30 minutes.

Plan credits don't carry over from one month to the next. Top-up credits never expire, but you need an active subscription to spend them.

Who should use it

Content creators who need custom background tracks, songwriters sketching ideas, and hobbyists who just want to hear a lyric sung. If you plan to publish or monetise, the free tier is out, because only paid subscribers get commercial rights.

Pros: complete songs with vocals from one prompt; a real editing path through Studio and stems; low entry price for commercial use.
Cons: daily free credits run out fast; monthly credits expire; the rules on commercial use have limits set out in Suno's terms, which are worth reading before you release anything.

Alternatives

Udio is the closest match for full songs with vocals. For instrumental and royalty-free background music, try Soundraw, AIVA or Beatoven.ai.