What Suno v6 Costs to Use
Suno v6-mini is free for every user on the $0 plan, which includes 50 credits a day. The full v6 and v6-wild models sit behind Pro at $8 a month or Premier at $24 a month.
Suno released the v6 line on 9 September 2026, and it is three models rather than one: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini. Most launch coverage led with the word "free". That is accurate and incomplete at the same time, because the free plan gets exactly one of those three models.
AI Perks tracks free credits and startup discounts across 194 AI companies. Suno belongs to the group where the free tier is genuinely free and the capable tier is a different tier.
Is Suno v6 Free? What v6-mini Gives You
Yes. v6-mini is free for all users and it is the only v6 model on the free plan, which comes with 50 credits a day.
The split between the three models is the thing to understand before picking a plan, because it is not a quality gradient alone. It is a feature gate.
| Model | Plans | Features Suno lists for it |
|---|---|---|
| v6 | Pro, Premier | Plain-language song edits, mashups, image to song |
| v6-wild | Pro, Premier | Plain-language song edits, mashups, image to song |
| v6-mini | Free, Pro, Premier | Not listed with the three features above |
So the free plan is a real way to use a v6-generation model, but the three headline capabilities of the launch are not part of it. Anyone evaluating Suno on the free tier is evaluating the smallest model without the editing layer, which is a noticeably different product from the one the announcement demonstrated.
That matters most for the workflow the editing features were built for: generate a rough take, then steer it in plain language rather than re-rolling the prompt and hoping. On v6-mini you are back to re-rolling.
Suno Pricing 2026: Free vs Pro vs Premier
Three plans. Everything in the table below is Suno list pricing as published. The number that is not published is how many credits a single generation costs.
| Plan | Price | Credits | Models | Cost per credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 per day | v6-mini | $0 |
| Pro | $8/month | 2,500 per month | v6, v6-wild, v6-mini | about $0.0032 |
| Premier | $24/month | 10,000 per month | v6, v6-wild, v6-mini | about $0.0024 |
The cost-per-credit column is arithmetic on the two published figures, not a Suno quote. It still says something useful: Premier costs three times what Pro costs and carries four times the credits, so the per-credit rate is roughly 25% lower. If you are already spending the whole Pro allowance every month, the upgrade is cheaper per unit of work than the headline price jump suggests.
What you cannot derive from these numbers is songs. Suno has not published the credit cost of a generation on v6, so every "X songs a month" figure circulating since launch is somebody's assumption multiplied out. Compare plans in credits, and read the cost of a generation inside the product before committing to a tier.
The free allowance is worth sizing correctly too. Fifty credits a day across a thirty day month is 1,500 credits, roughly 60% of a single month of Pro. That sounds generous until you look at the shape of it rather than the total: the allowance arrives fifty at a time, daily, which suits steady experimentation rather than one concentrated production week.
AI Perks covers the model and compute programs where four-figure AI bills actually live. Music generation is rarely the largest line on one.
What the Warner Music, BMG and Believe Deals Change
v6 is the first Suno model line built on music the company has rights to, through partnerships with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. That changes the provenance of the training data. It is not, by itself, a statement about the licence on your output.
Keep those two questions apart, because launch-day coverage repeatedly collapsed them into one.
The label partnerships answer where the model learned. What you are permitted to do with a specific generated track is a separate question, governed by your plan and by Suno's terms of service, and the v6 announcement does not resolve it. If generated music is heading into a product, a paid advert or a client deliverable, read the current terms directly rather than inferring a licence from the fact that the training data was licensed.
That is the most expensive assumption available on this page, and it is worth ten minutes of reading to avoid.
Every Pre-v6 Model Is Retired
All Suno models before v6, including v4, v4.5, v5 and v5.5, were retired for new generations as v6 rolled out. Items already in your library are unaffected.
Existing tracks stay where they are. What you can no longer do is start a new generation on v5.5 because you preferred how it handled a particular genre.
That carries a real cost for anyone who built a workflow on one version. Prompt libraries tuned to a retired model, style references that only behaved the way you wanted on v5, and internal documentation that names a version number are all sunk cost now. Suno cleared four model versions in a single release.
The lesson generalises past Suno. Build the repeatable part of an audio workflow around the product and the brief, not around a version number. Model lines in generative audio turn over fast enough that anything version-specific should be treated as disposable from the day it is written.
What Suno Has Not Published
Four things are missing from the official v6 material. Any article stating them as fact is guessing.
- The credit cost of a generation. Without it, no credit allowance converts into a song count.
- Quality benchmarks separating v6-mini from v6 and v6-wild. There is no published comparison, only the split by plan and by feature.
- Programmatic access rates for v6. Check Suno directly rather than a reseller quoting a number.
- How the label partnerships interact with commercial-use terms. The terms of service remain the governing document, and the announcement does not restate them.
The plan prices and the 50-credit daily free allowance are published, and they are the parts of this page you can lean on.
How to Keep Your AI Audio Bill Down
Start at AI Perks and work through the AI Tool and Creative categories before optimising a music subscription. Music generation is seldom the biggest number on an AI product bill, and the programs covering the bigger numbers are the ones worth claiming first.
Prototype on free v6-mini and move up when the output is going somewhere real. The free tier is enough to find a direction. The moment to pay is the moment a track is intended for release, not a moment earlier.
Plan around the shape of the free allowance rather than its total. Fifty credits a day suits daily iteration. A concentrated production week is a paid-plan problem, and pretending otherwise just spreads the work across a fortnight.
Recheck the terms on a schedule. Suno cleared four model versions in one release, pricing and rights language move on comparable cadences, and AI Perks tracks the changes so the re-reading is not yours to do.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Suno v6 free?
v6-mini is free for every user on the $0 plan, which includes 50 credits a day. The full v6 and v6-wild models require Pro at $8 a month or Premier at $24 a month, and the plain-language editing, mashup and image-to-song features are listed for those two models rather than for v6-mini. Free credits across 194 AI companies are tracked at AI Perks.
How many credits does one Suno song cost?
Suno has not published it. The plan allowances are public, at 50 credits a day on Free, 2,500 a month on Pro and 10,000 a month on Premier, but the credit cost of a single v6 generation is not, so any songs-per-month figure you see is an assumption rather than a Suno number. Check the cost shown in the product before sizing a plan.
Can I use Suno v6 music commercially?
The v6 announcement does not settle commercial-use rights. Those come from your plan and from Suno's terms of service, which is the document to read before shipping anything. The Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe partnerships concern the training data rather than the licence on your output, so treat the two as separate questions.
What happened to Suno v4, v5 and v5.5?
Every model before v6 was retired for new generations as the v6 line rolled out on 9 September 2026. Items already in your library are unaffected. You simply cannot start a new generation on a retired model, which is what turns a version-specific prompt library into sunk cost.
Does the Warner Music deal make Suno songs copyright safe?
It makes v6 the first Suno line built on music the company has rights to, which addresses the provenance of the training data. Your right to use a given track is a different question, answered by your plan and Suno's terms. Provenance and licence are not the same thing, and the announcement only speaks to the first.
How does Suno pricing compare to other AI credits?
At $8 to $24 a month, Suno is a small line item next to model APIs and compute, where AI product bills run to five figures. That is the argument for spending optimisation effort upstream of the music tool. AI Perks tracks $7.7M in credits across 194 companies at AI Perks.
Ship the music. Let someone else pay for the credits.