Suno

The market-leading audio-music-generation platform — full songs (lyrics + vocals + arrangement) from a single prompt, and the leader on both neutral music boards: Suno V5.5 at Elo 1189 (instrumental) / 1171 (vocals) music-arena-leaderboard, 2026-08-03.

Two figures, two scales (added 2026-08-03). This page previously read “Suno v5 … Elo ~1293” from the T4 survey ai-music-generators-2026. The neutral board scores Suno V5 at 1158 / 1097. Both are kept, but they are not the same measurement — a ~135-point gap is far beyond the drift seen between TTS boards, so treat 1293 as a different scale and prefer the board’s figures.

The lead is narrower than it looks. mureka V9 sits 2 Elo behind on instrumental (1187 vs 1189) and 13 behind on vocals — a provider this wiki had never recorded.

Business

$2.45B valuation, ~$300M ARR, ~2M paid subscribers (Feb 2026). Pro $10/mo, Premier $30/mo (+Studio). The commercial flagship of the music-gen branch.

The catch — legal risk (ai-music-copyright)

Suno is the highest-quality but least legally-settled generator: Warner settled (late 2025) but it remains in active Sony litigation (ruling expected ~summer 2026), and its training-data legality is contested. Paid plans grant commercial rights, but the overhang is real — the exact quality-vs-legal-safety tradeoff against the cleaner udio.

Place in the wiki

The closed-frontier leader of audio-music-generation (as Google gemini Flash TTS leads TTS and ElevenLabs/Deepgram lead the STT APIs) — top quality, proprietary, and here uniquely encumbered by copyright litigation.

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audio-music-generation · ai-music-copyright · udio · stable-audio · speech-audio-ai