Suno
Listed at https://suno.com
💰 Token Pricing
| Type | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Free: $0 (10 songs/day, non-commercial); Pro: $10/mo (500 songs, commercial rights); Premier: $30/mo (2,000 songs, Studio) | per million tokens |
| Output | Annual: Pro $96/yr (20% off), Premier $288/yr (20% off); credit top-ups available as add-ons | per million tokens |
🤖 Supported Models (7)
✨ Pros
- ✓#1 AI music generator by market share - 4.9 stars on iOS with 363k+ reviews
- ✓v5.5 flagship model with broadcast-quality output and 8-minute max song length
- ✓Suno Studio: industry-first web-native generative DAW with MIDI / multitrack / Persona voices
- ✓Generous free tier: 10 songs/day (non-commercial), no credit card to start
- ✓Full commercial rights from Pro plan - usable on YouTube, podcasts, ads, and albums
- ✓Stem separation into vocals / drums / bass / other - drop straight into Ableton or Logic
- ✓Audio upload + Cover + Extend: complete remixing and re-arrangement workflow
⚠️ Cons
- ×China access requires stable overseas proxy; high latency from mainland
- ×Credit-based pricing, not token-based - direct cost comparison with LLM APIs is non-trivial
- ×No function calling / tool use - pure generation API, not suited for agent orchestration
- ×Generation is non-deterministic (no seed control) - commercial consistency requires prompt engineering
- ×Strict content moderation; certain themes (explicit lyrics, named artists) are rejected
- ×Free tier is non-commercial - 10 songs/day is for personal experimentation only
🎯 Best For
Creators who need AI-generated original music (podcast background tracks, YouTube BGM, short-video soundtracks, indie music production); commercial projects (ads, short films) require Pro tier; non-text AI workloads, complementary to LLM APIs
💰 Pricing & Plans
| Plan | Monthly Price | Annual Price | Songs / month | Commercial Rights | Key Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 10 songs / day | ❌ non-commercial only | Basic generation, no studio, v4-era quality |
| Pro | $10 | $96 (save 20%) | 500 songs | ✅ full commercial rights | v5 + v5.5 access, Song Editor, stem separation, audio upload up to 8 min |
| Premier | $30 | $288 (save 20%) | 2,000 songs | ✅ full commercial rights | Suno Studio multitrack, MIDI export, Persona voices, priority generation, early access |
| Credit Top-ups | varies | - | + credits | ✅ as subscriber | Add-on credits for high-volume months; do not expire while subscription is active |
🔧 API & Developer Experience
- •API Surface: Suno exposes a REST API at api.suno.ai (and studio.suno.com) for music generation, upload, lyric rewriting, and stem separation. Generation is asynchronous - POST to start a clip, poll a clip_id until status is 'complete', then download the WAV/MP3 from the returned audio_url.
- •Generation Modes: Two primary modes: (1) simple-mode takes a single prompt and returns a full song; (2) custom-mode accepts separate prompt + lyrics + title fields, giving precise control over structure (intro/verse/chorus/bridge) and vocal style. instrumental=true returns a no-vocals stem.
- •Models: v5.5 is the current flagship (Pro+ required); v5 is the previous flagship; v4 is legacy. Model selection is via the model parameter in the generation request. v5.5 has the highest fidelity, longest coherent song length (up to 8 min), and best vocal realism.
- •Output Formats: Returns audio_url links to WAV stems (44.1 kHz / 16-bit). You can also request MP3 variants. Stem separation exposes vocals, drums, bass, and 'other' as four separate WAV files, ready to import into Ableton, Logic, or any DAW.
- •Audio Upload & Cover: Upload your own audio (up to 8 min on Pro) to use as the seed for a Cover - Suno regenerates vocals and instrumentation while preserving the original melody or structure. Combine with Extend to chain generations longer than 8 minutes.
- •Rate Limits: API rate limits are tiered by subscription: Free tier is heavily throttled (10 songs/day cap); Pro subscribers get a higher per-minute rate; Premier subscribers get priority queues and the highest per-minute ceiling. Limits are documented in the API dashboard.
- •SDKs & Tooling: Official Python and Node/TypeScript SDKs are available; the community has built thin wrappers for Go, Ruby, and Rust. Suno's API is not OpenAI-compatible - it has its own request/response shape, so OpenAI SDKs cannot be pointed at it without an adapter.
🎵 Music Generation Capabilities
Suno's defining capability is end-to-end song generation from a text prompt - lyrics, melody, instrumentation, and vocal performance are all produced by the model, not stitched from pre-built loops. Custom-mode generation accepts separate prompt + lyrics + title inputs, giving producers granular control over song structure (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro) and vocal style (gender, tone, language). The v5.5 flagship supports coherent songs up to 8 minutes long, a meaningful jump from the 4-minute ceiling of older models.
🎵 Music Generation Capabilities (cont.)
Beyond first-time generation, Suno's Cover and Extend features enable a complete re-arrangement workflow: upload an audio clip as a Cover seed to keep the original melody or rhythm while regenerating vocals and instrumentation, or chain Extend calls to build longer compositions from shorter segments. Stem separation exports vocals, drums, bass, and 'other' as four separate WAV stems, so a generated track can drop straight into Ableton or Logic for further mixing. Persona voices (Premier tier) let subscribers train a consistent vocal identity across multiple generations, addressing the historical complaint that 'every Suno song sounds different from the last one by the same user.'
🌐 Regional Availability & Latency
Suno's infrastructure is US-based (Cambridge, MA headquarters; primary cloud regions in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2). The api.suno.ai endpoint is not directly reachable from mainland China; production access from China requires a stable overseas proxy, VPN, or an aggregator that fronts the Suno API. Latency from China with a well-configured proxy is typically 1-3 seconds for generation request acknowledgment, with full song completion (a 3-minute clip) taking 30-90 seconds depending on Pro/Premier queue depth.
🌐 Regional Availability & Latency (cont.)
For production workloads serving China-based end users, two practical paths exist: (1) a proxy-based integration with Suno directly, accepting the latency penalty; or (2) routing through a domestic music-generation API such as MiniMax Music-01, ByteDance Doubao audio models, or NetEase / Tencent music LLM offerings. Suno does not currently publish a regional endpoint map or an enterprise China access program, so teams planning to serve Chinese users should budget for both proxy infrastructure and a backup domestic fallback for the months when overseas connectivity is degraded.