Make any song
you can imagine

Suno uses deep-learning models trained to turn a text description - or an audio input - into a complete original song: lyrics, vocals, melody, instrumentation, structure, and mixing, typically in under a minute. You describe the genre, mood, and theme (or paste your own lyrics with structure tags like [Verse] and [Chorus]), and the model composes and produces the whole track. Newer versions like v5.5 add personalization: Voices for your own vocal identity, Custom models trained on your catalog, and My Taste for learned preferences.

The core loop is a single prompt box: describe your song, hit Create, and get two full takes back in seconds. Simple mode is one sentence; Custom mode adds your own lyrics, style fields, exclusions, vocal gender, and weirdness/style sliders. Around that sit a Library for your songs, a community feed for discovering and remixing others' tracks, playlists, and - on Premier - Studio, a multitrack editing workspace. The mobile apps mirror the web with extras like humming or recording a voice memo as input.

Songs made on the free plan are non-commercial forever, even if you upgrade later. Songs made while subscribed to Pro or Premier carry commercial-use rights: monetized YouTube, streaming releases, ads, and client work, with Suno taking 0% of revenue. But a license isn't a copyright - 100% AI-generated music may not qualify for copyright protection since it lacks human authorship, so adding your own lyrics, vocals, or arrangement strengthens your legal position. See the License section above for the full breakdown.

Generative music raises real risks - voice cloning abuse, imitating real artists, and provenance of AI content - and Suno has built guardrails for each: Voices requires identity verification (you speak a random phrase matched against your singing sample, and your voice stays private to your account), prompts referencing real artist names or real song lyrics are blocked, and generated audio carries an inaudible watermark for provenance. Remaining challenges include occasional lyric/pronunciation glitches, language mixing, and the industry litigation still working through the courts.

Content creators use it for original background music on YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts; singers demo songs in their own voice; songwriters hear lyrics performed instantly; producers sketch ideas and export stems and MIDI to their DAW; brands generate jingles and ad beds at scale; game and film composers prototype to a style; educators teach songwriting; and developers generate tracks programmatically via API platforms. And plenty of people just make songs for fun - birthday tracks, inside jokes, and gifts.

In late 2023, Suno became one of Microsoft Copilot's first creative plugins: users could ask Copilot to make a song and the Suno plugin would generate a complete track - lyrics, vocals, and instrumentals - right inside the chat. The partnership brought AI music to a mainstream audience and Microsoft sign-in remains one of Suno's login options today. It was an early signal of Suno's strategy of meeting creators inside the tools they already use.

The short version: which plan generated the song decides its rights. Free-tier songs belong to Suno and are limited to personal use with attribution; paid-tier songs come with a broad commercial license assigned to you. Restrictions apply on every plan: no claiming registered copyright over pure-AI works, no monetizing others' remixable songs, no shifting infringement liability to Suno, and no exclusivity guarantee. Terms change often - the full License section above covers the details, and suno.com/terms is the source of truth.

Suno embeds an inaudible watermark in generated audio. You can't hear it and it doesn't affect quality, but it lets detection tools identify a track as Suno-generated - supporting provenance, authenticity, and platform AI-labeling policies as streaming services increasingly require AI disclosure. Practically: be honest about AI-generated content when distributing, since attempting to strip watermarks can violate terms and platform rules.

Credits are the single currency: a full song generation costs about 5 credits, so Free's 50/day ≈ 10 songs, Pro's 2,500/month ≈ 500, and Premier's 10,000 ≈ 2,000. Credits don't roll over - daily credits reset each day and monthly credits reset each billing cycle - while purchased top-ups persist with an active subscription. To stretch them: write specific prompts to cut regenerations, use the My Taste wand for better first takes, extend and edit good takes instead of regenerating from scratch, and spread big projects across the cycle instead of cramming the last week.

Exclude Styles is the negative prompt for music: alongside describing what you want, you list what the model should avoid - "no EDM drops," "no autotune," "exclude trap hi-hats." It's available in Custom/Advanced mode and is one of the fastest ways to fix a generation that keeps drifting into the wrong territory. Pair it with the weirdness and style-influence sliders to steer results precisely instead of regenerating blindly.

Pro ($10/mo, $8 annual) is the working creator's tier: 2,500 credits, v5.5 and the full model lineup, commercial rights, Voices, up to 3 Custom models, stem splitting, longer audio uploads, and a priority queue. Premier ($30/mo, $24 annual) is the production tier: 10,000 credits plus Suno Studio - the generative audio workstation with multitrack editing and MIDI export. The commercial rights are identical between them; the difference is volume and tooling.

The core promise: if you can describe a feeling, you can make a song. No instruments, music theory, or studio required - one sentence produces a finished track with vocals in under a minute, and each generation gives you two takes to choose from. From there you can extend, remix, edit stems, or publish to the community. It's the reason Suno is a top-10 music app and spans everyone from first-time creators to professional producers.

Covers reimagine an existing track in a completely different style while keeping its core melody and structure - turn your acoustic demo into synthwave, or your rap into bossa nova. You can cover your own Suno songs or audio you upload and hold rights to; it doesn't license you to cover copyrighted commercial songs. On Premier, Stem Cover takes it further by restyling individual stems inside Studio.

The iPhone app - "Suno - AI Songs & Music" by Suno, Inc. on the App Store - is free with in-app subscriptions. Create from a prompt, hum a melody, tap a beat, or record audio; browse the community; and manage your library. Subscriptions bought in the app work on the web too, and everything syncs to one account. See the App section above for the download link and install steps.

The Android app - "Suno - AI Music & Songs Maker" by Suno, Inc. on Google Play - needs Android 5.0 or newer and carries the same feature set: prompt-based creation, audio input, community, playlists, and subscription upgrades. Install only from Google Play (APK mirrors are risky), verify the developer name, and sign in with the same method you use on the web to keep one account.

Because a genre is just words in a prompt, Suno makes style exploration nearly free: blend genres that rarely meet ("big band swing with synthwave production"), travel eras ("1970s Bollywood disco"), or push into the weird with the weirdness slider. The Explore feed, trending songs, and curated collections surface what the community is making, and Reuse Prompt lets you capture the vibe of a song you love in your own creation. My Taste then learns which styles you gravitate toward.

Beyond text, Suno builds songs from sound: hum a melody, tap out a beat, record a voice memo, or upload audio, and the model uses it as the seed - as a reference for vibe, a backing track to sing over, or raw material to remix. Free accounts can upload short clips (around a minute), while paid plans support much longer uploads for full-song work. With v5.5, your voice itself becomes an input: a verified 30-second-to-4-minute singing sample powers Voices, and it can even isolate vocals from mixed audio automatically.