Suno alternative: how AI Song Generator compares on price, rights and files

Suno sells a free plan and two paid subscriptions, Pro and Premier. It runs on the web at suno.com, and its help center describes a mobile app in limited release on iOS and Android. Paying subscribers get the v6 and v6-wild models, while free users get v6-mini.

Suno's plan comparison lists a wide editing toolkit: extend, cover and speed changes, crop and fade, replacing or adding a section, stem extraction, adding vocals or instrumentals, personas and custom models. Suno Studio, which the pricing page says now includes MIDI, effects and automation, is reserved for Premier. The pricing page does not state a maximum song length, but the help center says one generation can run up to 8 minutes.

Every song starts at suno.com/create. Simple mode takes a one-line description of the song; Custom mode adds a lyrics field, a style input and the Creative Sliders. Each generation returns two songs for 10 credits and can run up to 8 minutes on v6, v6-wild or v6-mini. The plan comparison also lists crop and fade, for cutting a song to size, and replacing or adding a section. The v6 FAQ says you can change one section of a song in plain language, which is the documented route when one vocal line or passage needs fixing.

To extend a song, open its menu, choose Remix/Edit, then Extend, and pick where the new section starts. Extend adds music to the end of the track, and Get Whole Song stitches the extension onto the original so the two parts become one track. Cover, which the help center labels Beta, makes a new version of a song you created in a new style. It is for Pro and Premier users and works only on your own songs. Remixes of other users' songs are personal and non-commercial on every tier. For songs made with Voices, other people can remix or cover them only if the owner publishes or shares them and allows remixing; the help pages we read do not show where that permission setting sits.

Upload Audio turns a recorded or imported sound, such as chords you played yourself, into music, and you must confirm that you own the material before continuing. The help article gives clip lengths of 6 to 60 seconds, or up to 120 seconds on Pro and Premier, while the current pricing page lists uploads of up to 8 minutes on the free plan, so that article may be out of date.

Personas save the essence of a song, its vocals and style, so you can reuse it in new songs. You make one from the song's More Actions menu under Create, then Make Persona, and choose it in Custom mode above the lyrics field. Personas are public by default and can be made private. This is the documented way to keep the same singer across several songs; to change the singer, pick another persona or describe a different vocal style in the style input. The help pages do not state which plans include Personas.

Get Stems is for Pro and Premier subscribers. Auto Split separates a song into up to 12 stems for 50 credits. Split from Mix extracts one instrument or the vocal plus a complement track for 10 credits per stem, which is how you would get an instrumental beat or an acapella from a finished song. Advanced Split, for Premier only, lets you choose from nearly 100 instruments at 10 credits per stem. The free plan has no stem separation, and stem files do not count as extra downloads.

Suno Studio 2.0 is a browser-based production environment, a DAW, with automation, effects, MIDI, a wavetable synth and custom plugin design. The help center says it is for Premier subscribers, and songs created in Studio can be downloaded as MIDI on Premier. It is the part of Suno for working on a song in detail rather than generating a new take each time.

Suno does not publish a processing power figure, but it does list requirements. Studio runs in the browser on a desktop, laptop or tablet with a screen at least 768px wide, and mobile devices are not supported. You need a CPU with SIMD support (SSE4.1 or Neon) and at least 4GB of RAM. Google Chrome is recommended, and Web MIDI, the browser feature for connecting MIDI devices such as keyboards, does not work in Safari. Suno does not list specific MIDI keyboards.

Because Studio is only on Premier, it costs $30/month billed monthly or $24/month billed annually, as of October 15, 2026; the pricing page shows no separate Studio price. Whether it is worth it depends on how you work. If you want MIDI, effects and automation in the same place you generate songs, Premier is the plan that includes them. If you mostly export parts into your own DAW, the stems on Pro may cover what you need, so check your workflow before upgrading.

As of October 15, 2026, Suno Pro costs $10/month billed monthly or $8/month billed annually, and Premier costs $30/month billed monthly or $24/month billed annually, with taxes calculated at checkout. Pro includes 2,500 credits and 20 song downloads per month; Premier includes 10,000 credits and 60 song downloads per month. Subscription credits do not carry over, and subscribers who run out get 50 bonus credits per day until renewal.

AI Song Generator has three monthly plans and a weekly plan. Higher plans add credits and tools: editing and vocal removal from Creator, multi-stem splits, MIDI and AI music video from Pro, and your own singer voice from Studio. The pricing page lists every tool by plan.

A Suno credit and an AI Song Generator credit are different units, priced against different actions, so 2,500 is not automatically more music than 800. The fairer test is to price the work you actually do: how many songs you start in a month, how many you extend or edit, and how many you need to download. On Suno, the download allocation matters as much as the credits, because Suno's terms tie commercial use to it.

On AI Song Generator, every action shows its credit cost before you confirm it, and failed jobs are refunded automatically, so you can see what a session will cost while you are still planning it.

Suno's pricing FAQ says free plans do not include commercial rights and that Pro and Premier songs can be used commercially. Its terms add a condition: paid users may commercially exploit Output only if it was obtained as a permitted Download within their tier's monthly download allocation. Remixes of other users' songs are personal and non-commercial on every tier. For Pro and Premier subscribers, Suno assigns its right, title and interest in Output to the user, while stating that it makes no warranty that copyright will vest.

Suno's help center lists MP3 downloads on all plans, WAV for Pro and Premier on suno.com, video downloads, individual stem files when stems exist, and MIDI for Suno Studio songs on Premier.

AI Song Generator gives you MP3 downloads, WAV conversion, stem splitting and vocal removal for tracks in your library. What you may do with a track commercially depends on your plan, our Terms, what you put in and the law where you are. We do not claim to grant ownership or to clear outputs; our AI music copyright guide explains the open questions.

Suno is a strong choice in several situations, and we would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one.

We do not publish audio-quality rankings, and AI Song Generator runs on third-party music generation models, so we do not claim our songs sound better. The differences we can stand behind are about how the product works.

Before you cancel anything, download the Suno songs you are entitled to download, and keep a copy of any lyrics you wrote. Lyrics you wrote yourself can go straight into Custom mode. Rewrite style descriptions in your own words rather than copying another service's tags.

If you plan to upload a Suno song to restyle it, check first that you hold the rights to it under Suno's terms; on AI Song Generator you should only upload songs you own or are licensed to use. Then generate the same idea in both tools and listen side by side. That comparison will tell you more than any table.