Suno

Suno turns a sentence into a finished song — verse, chorus, vocals, mix. It is the clear leader in AI music, with more than 100 million users and around 2 million paying subscribers, and in 2026 it became something more unusual: a generative music company with a major-label licensing deal behind it. Suno's current model is v5.5.

What is Suno?

Suno generates complete music from text prompts, including sung vocals with intelligible lyrics, arrangement and structure. Commercially it has been a runaway success — roughly $300M ARR reported in February 2026 and a $400M Series D at a $5.4 billion valuation. The bigger story is legal. On 25 November 2025, Warner Music Group and Suno announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that simultaneously settled WMG's copyright suit — reported at around $500 million — and committed Suno to launching fully licensed models in 2026. As part of the deal, Suno agreed to deprecate every model trained on unlicensed music, restrict downloads to paid accounts with monthly caps, and bar free-tier songs from commercial use entirely. Universal and Sony litigation continues separately. Suno v5.5, released 26 March 2026, remains the newest named model; v6 has not shipped, and the roadmap is now shaped by the Warner agreement.

Key Features

• Full song generation: Vocals, instrumentation, arrangement and structure from a single prompt.
• Suno v5.5: The current model, released March 2026, with licensed successors committed under the Warner deal.
• Suno Studio: An in-browser DAW on the Premier plan for editing and arranging generated stems.
• Custom lyrics and styles: Supply your own lyrics or let Suno write them, and steer genre, mood and vocal character.
• Licensed model roadmap: New models trained on the WMG catalogue under licence rather than scraped audio.

Who Should Use Suno?

Suno is for content creators who need original music without licensing headaches, songwriters using it for ideation, and video and podcast producers who need a bed track now. The licensing rules matter: free-tier songs cannot be used commercially, and downloads require a paid account with monthly caps, so anyone publishing needs at least the Pro plan. Pro at $8/month billed annually is the sweet spot for solo creators; Premier at $24 is worth it only if you will genuinely use Suno Studio. Professional musicians will still want a real DAW for final production.

Pricing

The free tier includes daily credits, but free-tier songs are barred from commercial use and downloads are restricted to paid accounts with monthly caps — both direct consequences of the Warner settlement. Pro is $8/month billed annually and is the practical entry point for anyone publishing. Premier is $24/month and adds Suno Studio, the in-browser DAW. Generation consumes credits, so heavy experimentation pushes you up the tiers.

Pros and Cons

Bottom Line

Suno is still the best AI music generator, and the Warner deal makes it the most legally defensible one — which, for anyone publishing commercially, is now the deciding factor. Pay for at least Pro if the music is going anywhere public; the free tier is for experimenting only. Watch the v6 timeline, since the licensed-model roadmap is what determines how much of the catalogue Suno can legitimately draw on.