Suno alternatives in 2026: what each one is actually for

Free tiers, cheapest plans and download rules

Prices are US dollars for monthly billing unless a cell says otherwise. “Not stated on their site” means it was not on the linked pages.

Tool	Free tier	Cheapest paid plan	Download rules	Source, checked 21 Sep 2026
Suno	Yes. 50 credits a day, up to ten short songs. No commercial rights	Pro: $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly. 2,500 credits, roughly 500 songs	Pro: 20 a month. Premier: 60. Free: up to 7 in total, for accounts opened before 3 Sep 2026. Extra downloads are sold. Suno Studio exports on Premier are not limited	suno.com pricing; Suno plan guide, 31 Aug 2026; Suno blog, 10 Aug 2026
Udio	Yes. 10 credits a day plus 100 a month, and at most 3 full-length songs a day	Standard: $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly. 2,400 credits	Disabled for audio, video and stems under the Universal Music Group partnership of 29 Oct 2025	udio.com pricing; Udio help centre, 17 Feb 2026
Mureka	Yes. 4 songs a day. No audio download, no commercial rights	Pro: $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly. Up to 500 songs	No limit on paid plans. MP3 on Pro. WAV, stems and MIDI on Premier, $30 a month	mureka.ai plans
ElevenLabs Music	Yes. 11 minutes of music a month, about 3 to 5 tracks. Personal use only	Starter: $6 a month. 33 minutes, about 8 to 16 tracks, from credits shared with its voice tools	Not stated on their site (checked 21 Sep 2026)	elevenlabs.io pricing
Stable Audio	No free plan listed. New accounts get 50 credits	Solo: $12 a month. 660 credits, 4 for a full-mix generation	Exporting is listed as free and unlimited	stableaudio.com pricing; stableaudio.com guide; Stability AI knowledge base
AIVA	Yes. 3 downloads a month, non-commercial, and AIVA must be credited	Standard: €15 a month plus VAT, or €11 billed annually. 15 downloads	3 a month on Free, 15 on Standard, 300 on Pro	aiva.ai pricing
Soundraw	None listed. You can try the generator first	Creator: unlimited MP3 downloads. Shown in local currency: from Türkiye, TRY 349 a month or TRY 207.50 billed annually. US dollar price not verified	Unlimited on Creator and Artist Unlimited. 10 a month on Artist Starter, 20 on Artist Pro	soundraw.io pricing
Lyro	No free plan and no free trial	Starter: $3 a month. 45 credits, about 11 songs	Not counted or capped on any plan	Lyro pricing

Your own audio, stems and commercial use

“Your own audio” means a recording you upload for the tool to build on. Stems are a song’s layers, such as vocals and drums, as separate files.

Tool	Your own audio	Stems	Commercial use	Source, checked 21 Sep 2026
Suno	Yes. Uploads of up to 8 minutes on Free and 30 on paid plans, which can also add a vocal or an instrumental to a song	2 separation types on Pro, 3 on Premier	Pro and Premier, for songs downloaded while you subscribe. None on Free	suno.com pricing; Suno downloads FAQ
Udio	Yes, on paid plans: songs from uploaded audio files	Stem downloads are disabled	No. The terms allow personal, non-commercial use only	udio.com pricing; Udio terms, 12 Nov 2025
Mureka	A reference track guides the style on paid plans. On Premier any voice can be the singer	Premier only: up to 12	Pro and Premier: full commercial rights, including earlier songs. None on Free	mureka.ai plans
ElevenLabs Music	Style reference only: a clip of about 30 seconds guides the sound and is not remixed	2 and 4 stems on Starter and Creator, up to 6 on Pro	Starter: commercial, no streaming. Creator, $22 a month, and above: commercial with release to Spotify and Apple, not enterprise	elevenlabs.io pricing; ElevenLabs Music docs
Stable Audio	Yes. Audio-to-audio and inpainting on something you made	Generates and exports stems, marked experimental	The terms say you own the output as far as the law allows. No per-plan wording on the pricing page	stableaudio.com; Stability AI terms
AIVA	Yes. An audio or MIDI file can be uploaded as an influence	Not stated on their site (checked 21 Sep 2026)	Standard: limited monetisation on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram, and AIVA owns the copyright. Pro, €49 a month: AIVA says you own it	aiva.ai pricing
Soundraw	Not stated on their site (checked 21 Sep 2026)	On Artist Pro and Artist Unlimited	Every plan: background music. Releasing on Spotify or Apple Music needs an Artist plan	soundraw.io pricing
Lyro	Yes, on Creator, from $19 a month: a beat around your vocal, or a vocal over your beat at its tempo and key	On Creator: four stems, for one credit plus two per started minute	Every paid plan, subject to our terms and our model providers’ terms. No promise of copyright protection	Lyro pricing; music rights

What each one is actually for

We have not compared how these tools sound, so this is not a ranking.

Suno. Full songs from a prompt at about $0.02 a draft, with 20 downloads a month on Pro.
Udio. Making and listening inside one service. With downloads disabled, it does not suit releases.
Mureka. Closest to Suno on price and volume, with no download limit on paid plans.
ElevenLabs Music. For people who already use ElevenLabs for voice work, or want music by the minute.
Stable Audio. For producers who think in tracks: multitrack sessions and a plugin for music software.
AIVA. For composers who want editable output. It exports MIDI.
Soundraw. Background music at a flat rate. Soundraw says its model is trained only on music made in-house.
Lyro. For people who want to download everything they make and finish a track in the browser. On Creator its stem splitter makes four stems, and its mixer and mastering use no credits.

Where the others are stronger than Lyro

On free tiers, price per song and scale, Lyro loses.

Free tiers. Suno, Udio, Mureka, ElevenLabs and AIVA let you try before paying. Lyro has no free plan, because every generation costs us money.
Price per song. Suno Pro and Mureka Pro work out at about $0.02 a generated song. A Lyro song costs $0.25 to $0.27, around 13 times as much. The arithmetic is on our cost per song page.
Scale. Suno reports 2 million paid subscribers (TechCrunch, 27 Feb 2026). Lyro is new and publishes no user numbers.
Own audio and stems for less. Suno lists both from Pro, $10 a month, and Lyro from Creator, $19.
Stems and length. Mureka splits up to 12 stems and ElevenLabs up to 6, against Lyro’s four. ElevenLabs generates up to 10 minutes and Stable Audio up to 6, against Lyro’s 3.

Lyro vs Suno and Lyro vs Udio

How to choose

If you need	Look at
The lowest price per song	Suno or Mureka
To download everything you make	Mureka, Soundraw, Stable Audio or Lyro
To release on streaming services	Suno Pro, Mureka Pro, ElevenLabs Creator, AIVA Pro, a Soundraw Artist plan or any Lyro plan. Then read what the platforms allow
To build on your own vocal or beat	Suno on a paid plan, Stable Audio or Lyro Creator

A licence is not copyright. See AI music copyright by country

How this page was checked

On 21 Sep 2026 we opened each company’s own pricing, help and terms pages and copied what they state, using no review sites. Where two of a company’s pages disagreed, we followed its pricing page. Report an error through the contact page and we will correct it.

Questions

What is the best alternative to Suno?

It depends on the job. Mureka is closest on price and volume. We have not compared sound quality, so try your own prompt in a few.

Which Suno alternatives have no download limit?

On 21 Sep 2026: Mureka’s paid plans, Soundraw’s Creator and Artist Unlimited plans, Stable Audio and Lyro. Suno limits downloads to 20 a month on Pro and 60 on Premier, except for exports from Suno Studio (Suno blog, 10 Aug 2026).

Is there a free Suno alternative?

Udio, Mureka, ElevenLabs Music and AIVA have free tiers, and none of them includes commercial rights. Lyro has no free plan.

Is Lyro cheaper than Suno?

No. A Suno Pro song works out at about $0.02 and a Lyro song at $0.25 to $0.27. Lyro’s lowest monthly price is lower, $3 against $10, but it buys about 11 songs, not 500.