Suno generates full-length, radio-quality songs for roughly $0.02 per track. While the free tier offers a generous 50 credits daily, the $10/month Pro plan is where the real utility lies, offering 2,500 credits (about 500 songs) and, crucially, commercial ownership of your outputs.
For a marketing team needing background tracks or a developer building a content generation pipeline, the math is compelling. Producing 500 unique, royalty-free tracks for $10 is orders of magnitude cheaper than stock audio subscriptions like Epidemic Sound ($15/month) or hiring human composers. The v5 model (released September 2025) pushed the maximum duration to 8 minutes and introduced "Personas," allowing for consistent vocal styles across multiple tracks. The audio fidelity is shocking—vocals have breath, rasp, and emotion that rival human performances, and the structure follows standard verse-chorus-bridge patterns without the disjointed wandering typical of earlier models.
However, Suno remains a consumer-first product trapped in a "walled garden." There is still no official, public API. Developers are forced to use brittle, unofficial wrappers that reverse-engineer the web client, meaning a single UI update from Suno can break your entire application overnight. If you're building a production app, this fragility is a non-starter compared to more developer-centric (though lower fidelity) options like Stable Audio.
Legally, the ground is shifting but still shaky. While Suno settled with Warner Music Group in November 2025, allowing for safer use of "Warner-like" outputs, litigation with Sony Music is ongoing. If your use case involves high-visibility commercial distribution, this lingering copyright uncertainty is a risk factor you can't ignore.
Use Suno if you need finished, high-quality audio files immediately and don't mind manual downloads. It is the best "text-to-MP3" converter on the market. But if you need to programmatically generate music inside an app or game, the lack of an official SDK makes it a dangerous dependency. For those use cases, look at AIVA or the officially supported endpoints of Stable Audio.
Pricing
The free tier is generous (50 credits/day = ~10 songs) but strictly non-commercial. The cost cliff is soft: $10/month gets you 2,500 credits, which drops the cost to ~$0.02 per song. This is effectively infinite for most individual users. The hidden cost lies in "feature burn"—extensions, upscaling to v5 quality, and stem separation all consume extra credits, meaning your 500-song allowance can quickly shrink to 100 actual finished projects. Compared to Udio ($10/month for similar limits), Suno allows slightly more throughput for the price.
Technical Verdict
Hostile to developers. With no official public API, you are limited to web automation or third-party wrappers (like suno-api on GitHub) that mimic browser requests. These are unreliable for production. Latency is high (1-2 minutes per generation), and there are no webhooks, meaning you have to poll for completion. Documentation is nonexistent for devs, as the platform targets consumers.
Quick Start
# No official SDK exists. This uses the popular unofficial 'suno-api' wrapper pattern.
import requests
# Requires running a local unofficial proxy (e.g. from GitHub)
url = "http://localhost:3000/api/generate"
payload = {
"prompt": "A synthwave track about coding in the rain",
"make_instrumental": False,
"wait_audio": True
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload)
print(f"Audio URL: {response.json()[0]['audio_url']}")Watch Out
- Commercial ownership only applies to songs generated while you are an active Pro/Premier subscriber.
- There is no official API; all 'Suno APIs' found online are unofficial scrapers/wrappers.
- Stem separation is available but often has 'bleed' (e.g., vocals faintly audible in the drum stem).
- Sony Music lawsuit is still active (as of Feb 2026), so high-profile commercial use carries legal risk.