Suno turns a text prompt into a finished song, vocals and all. The sticker price is simple enough. What’s confusing is that the thing you’re buying changes on September 3rd, and the change lands on the part most people assumed was free.
Remember, everything below is accurate as of this morning, and AI pricing moves constantly. The numbers will drift. The way to think about the decision holds up longer.
What the money buys
Suno meters everything in credits. A song runs about five of them.
Free gets you 50 credits that refresh daily, which Suno calls roughly 10 songs a day. Pro is $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly, for 2,500 credits (about 500 songs), the newer v5.5 model, and commercial use rights. Premier is $30 a month, or $24 yearly, for 10,000 credits and access to Suno Studio, the production suite.
So far, normal. The tiers mostly buy volume.
What it doesn’t buy
Songs made on the free plan can’t be used commercially. Not on a monetized video, not in a client project.
And starting September 3rd, downloads get capped. Free accounts get seven trial downloads total, for life. Pro gets 20 a month, Premier 60. Only Premier users working inside Studio keep downloading without a limit. The cap covers your existing library too, not just new work, and unused downloads don’t roll over.
Your songs stay playable and shareable on Suno either way. Getting a file onto your own hard drive is the scarce part now.
The math
Pro gives you 500 songs a month and 20 exports. That’s 25 to 1. Generating stays cheap, and most people burn dozens of attempts before one keeps, so the real ceiling is that 20.
Suno says you’ll be able to buy extra downloads but hasn’t published a price, which means nobody can actually run the numbers on a heavy month yet. And if you cancel, your library stays, but your downloads drop to free-tier rules.
Worth knowing where this came from: Warner Music settled its copyright suit against Suno in November 2025, and the announcement said downloading would require a paid account. Suno’s stated reason is making it harder to mass-export music.
Count how many songs you actually finish and use in a month. Not how many you make. For most people that number is well under 20, which makes this a smaller deal than the internet suggests, unless you’re the person with a 400-song library and no copies.