Overview
Suno is currently the most popular AI music generation tool: describe a song in a sentence or paste lyrics, and within tens of seconds you get a complete track with vocals, instrumentation and arrangement.
On 2026-09-09, Suno released its V6 model family, shipping three models at once for the first time: the flagship v6 and experimental v6-wild for Pro / Premier subscribers, plus the free v6-mini for everyone. All older models from v4 through v5.5 are retired and the platform moves entirely to the V6 generation. Voices voice cloning, Custom Models and My Taste, introduced in the V5.5 era, remain available on V6.
The bigger change in V6 is not audio quality but how you edit. Rewriting a chorus used to mean regenerating the whole track; now you can change just the section you name with a plain-language instruction and leave the rest untouched. You can also build a multi-source mashup in one request (say, one song's vocals over another's drums), or sample part of a track and rebuild a beat around it. Inputs are no longer text-only: images, video clips and voice memos all work as source material, and you can describe a mood instead of naming a genre.
The other shift is licensing. V6 is Suno's first model trained on licensed data, built with Warner Music, BMG and Believe (including TuneCore), while earlier models were trained on scraped audio. Universal and Sony's copyright lawsuits are still ongoing. By the company's own count, more than 100 million people have created songs with Suno and paying subscribers exceed 2 million.
Since then the platform has kept expanding. On 2026-08-07, Voices arrived on the Suno mobile app for iOS and Android: users can record vocals directly on their phone and use them in songs by tapping the "+ Voice" button in the creation screen and recording for at least one minute, with unlimited use on Pro and Premier and a limited version on the free plan. On 2026-07-26, Suno shipped MIDI export and a batch of new features across web and mobile, including advanced stem separation, exporting stems as MIDI, collaborative lyric writing with auto-save, generating songs from screenshots, and Apple CarPlay plus Android Auto support. On 2026-10-02, Suno launched Speech beta, described as the first audio model that generates speech and original background music as one complete track: users type text and describe the voice and music style they want, and the beta is open to all users.
Key Features
- Natural-Language Section Editing (V6): Change only the part you name, e.g. have the chorus sung by a gospel choir, while the rest stays untouched
- Multi-Source Mashups & Sampling (V6): Combine elements from several songs in one request (one track's vocals over another's drums), or sample a section and build a new beat
- Multimodal Input (V6): Text, audio, images and video all work as source material; drop in a video clip and get a soundtrack, or generate songs from screenshots
- Mood-Based Generation (V6): Describe a feeling instead of a genre tag, and the model generates to the mood rather than the label
- Voices (Voice Cloning): Clone your own singing voice after verification, available on Pro / Premier; on mobile, record directly in the creation screen via "+ Voice" for at least one minute
- Custom Models + My Taste: Train up to 3 personalized models per account, with My Taste continuing to adapt to your preferences
- Complete Song Generation: Full songs with vocals, instruments and lyrics in one pass, across pop, rock, rap, electronic, jazz and dozens more styles
- Continuation / Extension / Custom Lyrics: Continue or extend an existing segment, or supply lyrics for the AI to compose around; collaborative lyric writing with auto-save is available on web and mobile
- Stem Separation & MIDI Export: Advanced stem separation and export stems as MIDI, available on web and mobile
- Speech beta: Type text and describe the voice and music style you want, and the model generates speech and original background music as one complete track; open to all users
- Car & Mobile Support: Apple CarPlay plus Android Auto support, alongside the iOS and Android apps
Use Cases
- Regular users without music background who want to create songs
- Short video creators making original BGM (to avoid copyright risks)
- Music enthusiasts quickly realizing creative ideas and inspiration drafts
- Custom music needs for businesses and brands
- Music producers using AI for demos and inspiration materials
- Pro/Premier users building personal IP music through Voices
- Creators producing speech with original background music in one track
Pros
- V6 moves AI music from a generator to an editor: fix one line without redoing the whole song
- First model generation trained on licensed data, sharply lowering commercial copyright risk
- Voices voice cloning is the industry's first large-scale rollout, now recordable straight from the mobile app
- Industry-leading song completeness and vocal naturalness
- Zero-barrier creation: one sentence is enough to make a song
- Extremely wide style coverage, from pop to traditional Chinese
- The free v6-mini tier already gives access to the current generation
- Active community: browse others' work for inspiration
- MIDI export, advanced stem separation and collaborative lyric writing round out the production workflow
- Speech beta generates speech and original background music as one complete track
Pricing
Free tier: 50 credits per day, v6-mini only, no downloads and no commercial license, plus a limited version of Voices. Pro $8/month (2,500 credits/month, 20 downloads/month, commercial license, v6 and v6-wild, Voices and Custom Models, unlimited Voices on mobile). Premier $24/month (10,000 credits/month, 60 downloads/month, 3 stem-separation options, Suno Studio, unlimited Voices on mobile). Annual billing saves about 20%.
Summary
Suno V6 marks the turn of AI music from generator to editor. Three models span free to professional, and natural-language section editing plus multi-source mashups replace reroll-luck with section-by-section polish. Training on licensed data for the first time also cuts commercial risk by an order of magnitude. The platform keeps widening its surface: Voices now records straight from the mobile app, MIDI export and stem tools arrived in July, and Speech beta turns typed text into speech plus original background music as one track. Go Pro at $8/month for serious content work; the free v6-mini is enough to test the water.
Version History
- Studio adds time alignment and clip stretching (2026-10-09): Suno Studio gained more precise time alignment, clip stretching, fade curves and pop-out windows, responding to creator feedback on editing precision.
- Speech beta launch (2026-10-02): Suno launched Speech beta, described as the first audio model that generates speech and original background music as one complete track. Users type text and describe the voice and music style they want; the beta is open to all users, and Suno notes remaining issues such as accent drift and overly heavy pauses that it will keep improving
- Suno releases the V6 model family: v6 / v6-wild / v6-mini go live, all older models retired (2026-09-09): Suno launched its V6 generation, shipping three models at once for the first time: the flagship v6 and experimental v6-wild for Pro / Premier subscribers, and the free v6-mini for all users. Every model from v4 through v5.5 is retired and the platform moves entirely to V6. New capabilities include plain-language editing of a named section (such as swapping the chorus to a gospel choir) without touching the rest, one-request multi-source mashups, sampling a section to rebuild a beat, and images, video or voice memos as generation input. V6 is Suno's first model trained on licensed data, built with Warner Music, BMG and Believe (including TuneCore); Universal and Sony's copyright lawsuits remain ongoing.
- Voices arrives on Suno mobile (2026-08-07): Voices launched on the Suno mobile app for iOS and Android. Users can record vocals directly on their phone and use them in songs by tapping the "+ Voice" button in the creation screen and recording for at least one minute. Pro and Premier plans get unlimited use; the free plan offers a limited version.
- Suno ships MIDI export and a batch of new features (2026-07-26): New on web and mobile: advanced stem separation, export stems as MIDI, collaborative lyric writing with auto-save, generate songs from screenshots, and Apple CarPlay plus Android Auto support.