Suno Studio pricing: what the assistant tier gets you, and what it does not

Suno's pricing page is clear enough once you know what a credit is, but the thing most people actually want to know is buried in the top tier: the editor costs $30 a month. Here is the whole picture as of September 22, 2026, read from Suno's own pricing page, with our view at the end on when it is worth it and when it is not.

The three plans

Free, $0. Fifty credits a day, which renew daily and do not carry over. A credit buys a fraction of a song; Suno's own guidance works out to roughly ten songs a day. You get the free models, standard features, up to eight minutes of audio upload, and a shared generation queue. You do not get downloads, commercial rights, stem separation or the ability to buy more credits. Songs on the free plan are for personal use only.

Pro, $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly. 2,500 credits a month, which Suno describes as about 500 songs. Twenty song downloads a month. Commercial use rights. Two kinds of stem separation. A priority queue of up to ten songs at once, early access to new features, the ability to record and create with your own voice and to build custom models, and the option to buy more credits and downloads. Pro is the plan most people who use Suno seriously are on.

Premier, $30 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly. 10,000 credits, or about 2,000 songs. Sixty downloads a month. Three kinds of stem separation, including the advanced split. Thirty minutes of audio upload. The ability to add new vocals or instrumentals to existing songs. And Suno Studio, "now with MIDI, effects, automation, and design-your-own-plugins."

Two details worth knowing. Credits included in a subscription do not carry over month to month. And purchased top-up credits do not expire but need an active subscription to use.

What Suno Studio is

Suno calls it the first AI-native DAW. In practice it is a browser timeline editor for songs Suno generated, or audio you uploaded: arrange sections, layer tracks, cut and fade, and, since the 2.0 update, record MIDI, edit in a piano roll, use a built-in wavetable synth, add effects and automation, and export MIDI and advanced stems. The technology came partly from WavTool, the browser DAW Suno acquired in 2025. Editing inside Studio does not cost credits; generating does.

It is a real editor and it goes deeper on arrangement than our arranger does. If you have a hundred generated songs and want to make one of them into something longer and more particular, Studio is built for exactly that.

What the Premier tier does not get you

Here is where we have to be plain, because our product sits on the other side of this line.

It does not make you the one writing the music. Studio is downstream of the generator. The notes in a generated song are audio, and audio has no notes to move. You can add MIDI parts of your own alongside it, and that is where Studio starts to be an instrument, but the song's core was decided by the model.

It does not explain. Neither the generator nor Studio tells you why the chorus lifts or what the bassline is doing. The music theory stays inside the model.

It does not undo an assistant's turn, because there is no assistant turn to undo. Suno's "co-write" is a way of steering generation; each result is a new song.

It is not free, or even cheap, to try the editor. Thirty dollars a month is the entry price to Studio. There is no Studio on Free or Pro.

What a free browser instrument gets you instead

The instrument we make is free to start, and the free plan is the whole instrument rather than a demo: the grid, the recipe blocks, the sound designer, the arranger, recording and downloading your song, and a limited amount of co-producer time each month. Paid plans add more co-producer time and storage. The prices are on our pricing page.

What you do not get is a generator. Nothing here writes a song from a sentence. You start from a loop that already sounds good, change it, and ask the co-producer to change it with you. It edits your project through the same operations you use, explains each change in a sentence, and every turn is one undo.

Press play on this. It is the kind of thing you make in the first ten minutes, and every pad in it is yours to move:

When to pay Suno, and when not to

Pay for Pro if you generate songs regularly and need to download them or use them commercially. It is well priced for that.

Pay for Premier if you generate a lot and want to arrange and edit what you generated in a real timeline, with stems and MIDI. Studio is good at that job, and the job is real.

Do not pay for Premier because you want to learn to make music, or because you want an AI to help you with music you are making. Studio is an editor for a generator's output; it will not teach you why anything works, and it will not sit beside you while you build a beat. That is a different product, and ours is free to start.

Prices and plan contents were read from suno.com/pricing on September 22, 2026. Suno changes its plans; if something here is out of date, tell us through the contact form and we will fix it. We compare the two products in more detail on the Suno comparison page.