Make your first song with v6
Free accounts get 50 credits a day on v6-mini - no card required.
What is Suno v6?
Suno v6 is the model family Suno released on September 9, 2026 - its first built on music the company has permission to use. Earlier versions (v3 through v5.5) were trained without label licenses, which is what drove years of litigation from the major labels. v6 flips that: it's trained with catalogs from Warner Music, BMG and Believe/TuneCore, and those rights holders now share in the revenue from Suno's subscription business. Suno is retiring the old, unlicensed models for new generations - songs you already made keep playing, but new songs move to v6.
Three models, one family
v6 isn't a single model - it's a small family, each tuned for a different way of working.
v6 Flagship
The default for paid plans. Suno describes it as reliable, precise and consistently polished - the model to reach for when you want a result close to your prompt on the first take.
v6-wild Experimental
The same family, tuned looser - less predictable and more varied output for subscribers who want to be surprised rather than get exactly what they asked for.
v6-mini Free & fast
The new engine behind the free tier - quicker generations for everyday experimenting. Free-tier songs still carry the same non-commercial limits as before.
Exactly which plans unlock v6 versus v6-wild can shift as Suno rolls this out - check suno.com/pricing for the current gating. What's confirmed: v6-mini powers free generations, and the licensed v6 family is replacing the older, unlicensed models for everyone going forward.
Built with the industry, not just around it
v6's headline isn't a feature - it's where the training data came from, and what that means for the people who made it.
Revenue-sharing, not just licensing
Suno CEO Robert Kyncl framed it plainly: "our artists and songwriters will share in the revenue generated by Suno's more than 2 million, and growing, paying subscribers." Warner Music and BMG had already struck licensing deals earlier in 2026; Believe/TuneCore joined on September 8, the day before v6 shipped - reversing an earlier block Believe had placed on distributing Suno tracks.
It's a first step, not a finish line. Sony Music and Universal Music Group's copyright lawsuits against Suno were still active as of September 2026, and Suno's public defense in those cases remains "fair use." v6 covers the labels and publishers who signed on - it doesn't retroactively settle everything, and most of the music industry isn't licensed yet.
Sep 9, 2026
v6, v6-wild and v6-mini launch
The licensed model family ships, with mashups, prompt-level editing, and multi-input generation.
Sep 8, 2026
Believe & TuneCore deal
Global opt-in licensing partnership with Believe, owner of TuneCore.
Aug 12, 2026
BMG partnership
A global opt-in licensing alliance covering BMG's recorded music and publishing catalogues.
Late 2025
Warner Music settlement
Warner Music settled with and partnered with Suno, the deal whose data now trains v6.
What v6 actually adds
Edit in place
Describe a change and v6 makes it without rebuilding the song - "make the bridge acoustic" or "swap the chorus for a gospel choir" touches only that section.
Mashups
Feed in more than one source track and v6 blends them into something new - a way to combine a vibe, a genre, and a melody instead of picking just one.
Multi-input generation
Combine text, audio, an image, or video as reference material for a single generation, instead of a text prompt alone.
What changes - and what doesn't
Stays the same
- Existing songs keep playing. Anything you generated on v5.5 or earlier stays in your library, unaffected.
- Plans and credits work the same way - v6 runs on the same Free / Pro / Premier structure and credit costs.
- Commercial rights rules are unchanged - still tied to which plan was active when you generated the song.
- Studio 2.0, Voices and Custom models carry forward into the v6 era.
Changes
- New generations move to v6. The older, unlicensed models are being retired as the default for new songs.
- Training data is now licensed for the catalogs Suno has deals for - not the whole music industry yet.
- Exact revenue-share terms with labels haven't been made public in detail.
- Sound can shift between model generations, as it has with every past version bump.
How to get v6
Already on suno.com? Open Create and pick v6 (or v6-wild) from the model picker - no separate signup needed.
New here? Free accounts run on v6-mini with 50 credits/day. Pro ($8/mo, $6 billed annually) and Premier ($24/mo, $18 billed annually) unlock the full v6 family plus commercial rights.
Downloads are capped since September 3, 2026: 7 lifetime on Free, 20/month on Pro, 60/month on Premier, unlimited for Premier subscribers using Studio.
Suno v6 - frequently asked questions
When did Suno v6 come out?
September 9, 2026. It followed a fast run of announcements: the BMG licensing deal (Aug 12), Studio 2.0 (Aug 13), and the Believe/TuneCore partnership (Sept 8) - v6 was the culmination, launching the day after Believe signed on.
What's the difference between v6, v6-wild and v6-mini?
v6 is the flagship - reliable, polished, precise. v6-wild is the same family tuned for less predictable, more varied results. v6-mini is the fast model behind free-tier generation. All three come from the same licensed training approach.
Is v6 really trained on licensed music?
Yes, for the catalogs Suno has deals for: Warner Music, BMG, and Believe/TuneCore. That's a first for Suno, whose earlier models (v3-v5.5) were trained without label licenses. It's not industry-wide, though - Sony Music and Universal Music Group's lawsuits against Suno were still active as of September 2026.
What happens to songs I made with older models?
They stay exactly as they are - playable, downloadable within your plan's limits, and covered by whatever rights applied when you made them. Suno is retiring the older models for new generations, not deleting anything you've already created.
What can I do with v6 that I couldn't before?
Three big things: edit a specific section or lyric by describing the change, without regenerating the whole track; build mashups from more than one source song; and generate from a combination of text, audio, an image, or video rather than a text prompt alone.
Does v6 cost more, or change my credits?
No pricing change was announced alongside v6 itself - the Free/Pro/Premier structure and credit costs carry over. Suno's plan pricing did drop earlier in September (Pro to $8/mo, Premier to $24/mo, both cheaper billed annually), and new monthly download limits took effect September 3 - separate from the v6 launch, but worth knowing if you're comparing costs.
Does licensing mean the lawsuits against Suno are over?
No. Warner, BMG and Believe have settled and partnered with Suno, but Sony Music and Universal Music Group's copyright suits remained active as of September 2026, alongside other litigation from Round Hill Music and individual artists. v6's licensing covers Suno's new partners, not every rights holder.
Do I need to do anything to switch to v6?
Not on the web - it's just a model in the picker on the Create page, the same way you'd choose any earlier version. If you have a saved workflow built around a specific older model's sound, you may want to compare a few takes before assuming v6 matches it exactly.