Suno is an AI music generator that turns text prompts, lyrics and uploaded audio into full songs, and the rights a user holds over those songs depend almost entirely on which plan they were on when each song was made. Suno is a music generation service from Suno, Inc., available on the web and mobile, whose current model generation, v6, was announced on 9 September 2026. This page sets out the facts from Suno's own pricing page, terms of service, privacy notice, help centre and blog: the models and what each plan unlocks, prices, ownership and commercial use, voice and likeness rules, data use, release history and limits. It is written for creators, marketing and content teams, and the legal, privacy and security staff who are asked whether Suno output can be used at work.
Last checked: 2026-11-15.
This is an independent reference page from NHI Mgmt Group, based on Suno's public documentation as of November 2026. It is not sponsored or reviewed by Suno. Product features change, so confirm settings and terms against Suno's current documentation.
Key takeaways
- v6 is the only generation in use. Suno lists three v6 models: v6 and v6-wild for Pro and Premier, and v6-mini for every plan, all able to generate songs of up to 8 minutes.
- Plan at creation decides ownership. Songs made on Pro or Premier are owned by the user with commercial rights; songs made on the free plan are not assigned to the user and are for non-commercial use only, and subscribing later does not give a retroactive licence.
- Downloads are metered. Commercial use applies only to songs downloaded through Suno within the plan's monthly download allowance (20 on Pro, 60 on Premier, none on Free).
- Suno takes a broad licence. Users grant Suno a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable licence to their content, including voice models and likeness, and Suno's privacy notice says submissions are used to train its models.
- Voices are your own only. The Voices feature may only be built from the user's own voice, which Suno verifies by asking the user to sing a random phrase.
What is Suno?
Suno generates complete songs, with vocals, lyrics and instrumentation, from a short description, from user-written lyrics, or from uploaded audio. Beyond generation it offers editing (extend, cover, replace a section), stem separation, a digital audio workstation called Suno Studio, and Custom Models trained on a user's own tracks. Suno describes v6 as its first model generation released in partnership with artists and producers, naming Warner Music Group (WMG) and BMG, and its v6 announcement also names Believe.
Key facts
| Field | Value (as of 2026-11-15) |
|---|---|
| Provider | Suno, Inc. |
| Modality | Music and audio (inputs: text, lyrics, audio, images, video, per the v6 announcement) |
| Current models | v6, v6-wild, v6-mini |
| Current generation announced | 9 September 2026 |
| Status | Active; models before v6 retired |
| Maximum song length | Up to 8 minutes per generation |
| Plans | Free, Pro, Premier |
| Open weights | Not stated by Suno |
| Public developer API | Not stated by Suno; the help centre lists a Suno MCP (Beta) category for connecting Suno to an AI assistant |
| Provenance marking (C2PA or watermark) | Not stated by Suno |
| Minimum age | 18, or 13 with a parent or guardian's express consent |
Models and versions
Suno's help centre lists three models in the v6 generation, chosen from a model picker at the top right of the Create form. Suno's v6 FAQ says models before v6 have been retired, but songs made with them stay in the user's library and can still be played, shared, remastered and covered.
| Model | Suno's description | Plans | Max length |
|---|---|---|---|
| v6 | Balanced, expressive core model for a wide range of styles and prompts | Pro, Premier | 8 minutes |
| v6-wild | Experimental; favours unexpected choices and genre blending and moves further from the prompt | Pro, Premier | 8 minutes |
| v6-mini | Lighter and faster, for sketches, high-volume generation and testing ideas | All plans, including Free | 8 minutes |
Tools built on v6 include Custom Models (fine-tuning on the user's own songs, up to three per Pro or Premier account, shareable with invited collaborators), Suno Sounds for custom samples and sound effects, and Remix and Edit functions such as Extend, Cover and Replace Section. The v6 announcement adds plain-language editing of part of a song, combining elements of several songs, and changing a single lyric without regenerating the track.
Pricing and plans
Prices below are as shown on suno.com/pricing on 15 November 2026, in US dollars, before tax (calculated at checkout). Paid plans auto-renew and can be cancelled at any time.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $0 | $10, or $8 a month billed $96 a year | $30, or $24 a month billed $288 a year |
| Credits | 50 a day | 2,500 a month | 10,000 a month |
| Song downloads | None | 20 a month | 60 a month |
| Models | v6-mini | v6, v6-wild | v6, v6-wild |
| Commercial rights | Not included | Included | Included |
| Concurrent generations | 4, shared queue | Up to 10, priority queue | Up to 10, priority queue |
| Audio upload length | Up to 8 minutes | Up to 30 minutes | Up to 30 minutes |
| Stem separation | Not included | 2 types | 3 types (adds Advanced split) |
| Voices, Custom Models, Inspire, editing | Not included | Included | Included |
| Suno Studio | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Add-on credits and downloads | Not available | Available to buy | Available to buy |
Credit rules: subscription credits do not carry over from day to day or month to month. Purchased top-up credits do not expire, but they can only be used with an active subscription. Suno's pricing page does not state how many songs a given number of credits produces.
Download rules: after the WMG partnership, announced on 25 November 2025, Suno said a paid account would be required to download songs, with a monthly download allowance per paid tier, while downloads from Suno Studio stay unlimited.
Who owns songs made with Suno?
Ownership follows the plan the user held at the moment a song was created, not the plan held later.
| Question | Free plan | Pro or Premier |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the output? | No assignment to the user in the terms | Suno assigns its rights in the output to the user |
| Permitted use | Lawful, personal and non-commercial | Commercial use, within the terms |
| Distribute to Spotify or Apple Music | No; free songs cannot be monetised | Yes, through any distributor |
| Effect of subscribing later | Earlier free songs stay non-commercial | Not applicable |
| Effect of cancelling | Not applicable | Commercial rights kept for songs made while subscribed |
Four details in the terms (revised 10 August 2026, effective 3 September 2026) matter for professional use:
- No copyright promise: Suno makes no representation or warranty that any copyright will vest in an output. Whether AI-generated music can be registered depends on each country's copyright office; Suno's help centre has an article on this question.
- Downloads only: commercial use covers output properly downloaded within the tier's monthly allowance. Copies captured by recording or stream ripping are prohibited.
- Remixes excluded: the terms state that nothing permits commercial use of any Remix.
- Full rights needed: Suno's distribution article says the user must be the exclusive rights holder of all the material before monetising, and warns that using someone else's lyrics can lead to takedowns or distributor blacklisting.
Suno does not require users to disclose that a song was made with AI, though disclosure rules may still apply from a platform, a distributor or a law such as the EU AI Act. See the EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Obligations Guide.
Features
- Create and co-write: generate songs from a description or custom lyrics; co-writing with Suno and remixing (extend, cover, adjust speed) are on every plan.
- Voices: introduced with v5.5 on 26 March 2026; users capture or upload their own singing voice, verified by singing a random phrase, and voices are private to their creator.
- Custom Models: a personalised model built from tracks in the user's own catalogue, up to three per account, on Pro and Premier.
- My Taste: learns a user's preferred genres and moods over time, for all users.
- Suno Studio: a workspace launched on 25 September 2025; Studio 2.0 on 13 August 2026 added, in Suno's words on the pricing page, "MIDI, effects, automation, and design-your-own-plugins". Premier only.
- Stems and uploads: stem separation (Auto, Split from mix, and Advanced split on Premier) and audio uploads of up to 8 or 30 minutes by plan.
Availability
Suno runs at suno.com and in mobile apps (the help centre has a Mobile App section). Sign-in options named in the privacy notice include Apple, Discord, Google and Microsoft accounts. A list of supported countries is not stated by Suno on the pages checked. The privacy notice names VeraSafe as Suno's data protection representative in the EU and the UK, which indicates the service is offered there.
Provenance and labelling
As of 15 November 2026, Suno's pricing page, terms, v6 announcement and v6 FAQ do not state that Suno embeds C2PA Content Credentials or an audio watermark in generated songs. The terms do reserve Suno's right to publicly identify that an output was generated through the service, and the v6 announcement says Suno offers more transparency about how AI is used in music and screens uploaded audio and lyrics for unauthorised use. Teams that must mark synthetic audio should therefore apply their own disclosure, and check the current position in the AI-Generated Media Labelling Tracker. For how signed metadata and watermarks work, see the AI Content Provenance and C2PA Guide and SynthID vs C2PA Content Credentials.
Voice, likeness and impersonation rules
The terms allow a Voice Model only of the user's own voice, prohibit uploading recordings of another person's voice to build one, and let Suno remove any Voice Model it determines is not the user's own. Users may not impersonate any person or entity, or present output as created by or associated with someone who did not create it. Under the WMG partnership, WMG artists can opt in to the use of their names, images, likenesses, voices and compositions in new AI-generated music, and the v6 announcement describes future opt-in experiences around individual artists. Voice cloning is also a fraud vector; the Voice AI Agent Security and Fraud Guide covers the defensive side.
Data and privacy
Suno's privacy notice (last modified 23 June 2026) and terms set out the following.
| Topic | What Suno states |
|---|---|
| Data collected | Account and billing data; uploaded audio, photos, video and voice recordings and the outputs made from them; prompts and chat inputs; usage, device and IP data |
| Training use | Submissions, chat information and other content are used to train and enhance Suno's models, on the basis of legitimate interests; no training opt-out is described |
| Licence to Suno | Worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and assignable; covers content, voice model and likeness; moral rights waived |
| Your inputs | The user retains rights in their own submissions |
| Voice data | Voices analyses speech characteristics and may involve biometric identifiers depending on location; biometric data kept no longer than three years after the last interaction unless law requires otherwise |
| Sale of data | Suno states it does not sell information to third parties |
| Rights | CCPA rights (know, delete, correct) and GDPR and UK GDPR rights (access, portability, restriction, objection), requested through the Privacy Center |
| Restriction on users | Output, the service and voice models may not be used to train other AI models |
| Disputes | Massachusetts law; binding individual arbitration with JAMS; intellectual property disputes excluded from arbitration |
For organisations, two points stand out. Anything an employee uploads, including unreleased audio or lyrics, falls under the perpetual licence and the training use. And a staff member's voice model is a biometric record held by a third party, which brings workplace biometric rules into play; see Biometric Data in the Workplace.
Where identity and security fit
Suno accounts are usually personal sign-ins through a social or email login, so a team using it for brand work should treat each account as a third-party SaaS identity: who holds it, which plan it was on when each asset was created, and what happens to the assets when the person leaves. Because commercial rights depend on the creating account's plan, keep the account, the plan history and the download records together as rights evidence. Connecting Suno to an AI assistant through its MCP beta creates a further delegated connection that should be inventoried and revoked when no longer used. The policy side is covered in AI Image and Video Generation at Work.
Release history
| Date | Event (from Suno's blog) |
|---|---|
| 21 May 2024 | Suno announces it has raised $125 million |
| 19 November 2024 | v4 introduced |
| 1 May 2025 | v4.5 introduced |
| 25 September 2025 | Suno Studio introduced |
| 25 November 2025 | Warner Music Group partnership; licensed models and paid-only downloads announced |
| 6 February 2026 | Suno Studio 1.2 |
| 26 March 2026 | v5.5 with Voices, Custom Models and My Taste |
| 12 August 2026 | Global partnership with BMG |
| 13 August 2026 | Suno Studio 2.0 |
| 8 September 2026 | Partnership with Believe and TuneCore |
| 9 September 2026 | v6, v6-wild and v6-mini; earlier models retired as v6 rolls out |
Suno's blog index has no standalone v5 launch post, so a v5 release date is not stated by Suno on the pages checked.
Limits
- Length: up to 8 minutes per generation on all three v6 models.
- Volume: bounded by credits (50 a day free, 2,500 or 10,000 a month paid) and by concurrent generations (4 or 10).
- Downloads: 0, 20 or 60 a month, which also caps commercially usable output unless add-ons are bought.
- Custom Models: three per account.
- Older models: retired; past songs stay available in the library.
- Age: under 13s may not register.
Practitioner checklist
- Allow commercial or client work only from company-controlled Pro or Premier accounts, never from free accounts.
- Record, for each published song, the creating account, its plan on the creation date and the download date.
- Track monthly download use against the 20 or 60 allowance and budget for add-ons.
- Do not commercially release Remixes; the terms exclude them.
- Forbid uploads of unreleased, confidential or third-party audio and lyrics, given the perpetual licence and training use.
- Allow Voices only for a staff member's own voice, with written consent that covers biometric processing.
- Apply your own AI disclosure label to Suno tracks where platform rules or Article 50 require it.
- Re-check Suno's terms and pricing page before major releases; the current terms took effect on 3 September 2026.
Standards and references
- Suno: Terms of Service
- Suno: Pricing
- Suno: Privacy Notice
- Suno Help Center: What's new in v6?
- Suno Help Center: v6 FAQ
- Suno Help Center: Does Suno own the music I make?
- Suno Help Center: Can I distribute my songs to Spotify, etc?
- Suno: Introducing v6
- Suno: v5.5, More Expressive. More You.
- Suno: A new chapter in music creation (Warner Music Group partnership)
Related NHI Mgmt Group resources: AI Image, Video, Voice and Music Models Hub · AI Training Data Provenance and Copyright Exposure Guide · AI-Generated Media Labelling Tracker · AI Image and Video Generation at Work