Comparisons
Suno download limit: $2.99 vs $0.03 per song
Suno Pro caps downloads at 20 a month since 2026-09-03. We priced each extra song, ran one Suno V5 call on the kie.ai API for $0.06 and checked who owns it.
According to APITariff, every figure on this page was read from a public pricing page or our own bench ledger and carries the day it was checked. Data as of 2026-09-16, across 1179 models. How it is collected.
According to APITariff, the Suno download limit puts one downloaded song at $0.50 on Suno Pro with monthly billing, and at $2.99 for each song past the 20-download cap, while one Suno V5 track through the kie.ai API cost $0.03 in our test call on 2026-09-16. Suno Pro lists $8 a month and says yearly billing saves $24, so monthly billing is $10 for 20 downloads. Suno Premier gives 60 downloads for $30 a month with monthly billing, also $0.50 per download. The $2.99 figure for an extra download comes from a third-party reading of Suno’s in-app purchase screen, not from a Suno page. On kie.ai, one “Generate Music” request is listed at 12 credits, or $0.06, and our call returned 2 tracks for exactly 12 credits. kie.ai labels its Suno endpoint “Commercial use”, but its terms of use do not say who owns the output.
Last updated 2026-09-16 · 3 Suno plans · 5 API routes · sources: Suno pricing and help pages, kie.ai pricing API, one APITariff test call, APITariff daily fetch, 2026-09-16.
Suno download limit by plan
Suno Pro allows 20 song downloads a month and Suno Premier allows 60, from 2026-09-03, per Suno’s pricing page and help center checked 2026-09-16.
| Plan | Listed price | Monthly billing | Downloads | Credits | Commercial rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 7 lifetime, joined before 2026-09-03 | 50 per day | no |
| Pro | $8 / month | $10 / month | 20 per month | 2,500 per month | yes |
| Premier | $24 / month | $30 / month | 60 per month | 10,000 per month | yes |
Source: Suno pricing and Suno’s downloads FAQ, checked 2026-09-16. Monthly billing is computed: listed price plus Suno’s stated yearly saving divided by 12, which matches the “SAVE 20%” label on Suno’s annual toggle.
One song counts as one download in any format, and a song plus its stems also counts once.
What one downloaded song costs
Of 8 music routes APITariff priced on 2026-09-16, the lowest is $0.03 per track, shared by the kie.ai Suno API in our test call and MiniMax Music 1.5 on Replicate; the highest is $2.99 for an extra Suno download.
| Route | Price as listed | Per downloaded song | Commercial use terms | Source | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suno, extra download past the cap | $2.99 per song | $2.99 | yes, on Pro and Premier | third-party report | 2026-09-16 |
| Suno Pro, all 20 used | $10 per month | $0.50 | yes | Suno pricing | 2026-09-16 |
| Suno Premier, all 60 used | $30 per month | $0.50 | yes | Suno pricing | 2026-09-16 |
| ElevenLabs Music | $0.15 per minute | $0.38 for a 2:32 track | yes, Starter plan and up | ElevenLabs | 2026-09-16 |
| MiniMax Music 2.6 on Replicate | $0.15 per file | $0.15 | not checked | Replicate | 2026-09-16 |
| Lyria 3 Pro on Replicate | $0.08 per file | $0.08 | not checked | Replicate | 2026-09-16 |
| Suno V5 on kie.ai | $0.06 per request | $0.03, 2 tracks per request | “Commercial use” label on model page, not in terms | kie.ai pricing + our call | 2026-09-16 |
| MiniMax Music 1.5 on Replicate | $0.03 per file | $0.03 | not checked | Replicate | 2026-09-16 |
8 of 8 routes we priced are shown, in order of cost per song. API rows come from the APITariff daily fetch at 2026-09-16T07:23Z, except kie.ai, which we read from its pricing API and one test call. Google lists its current Lyria 3.5 at $0.08 per song on its own Gemini API pricing page, the same figure as Replicate’s Lyria 3 Pro. “Not checked” means we did not read that host’s terms for this page.
Cost at 20, 100 and 500 songs a month
At 100 kept songs a month, Suno Pro costs $249.20 with extra downloads at $2.99 and the kie.ai Suno API costs $3.00 at $0.06 per 2-track request, computed from prices read 2026-09-16 with every generated track kept.
| Songs kept per month | Suno Pro | Suno Premier | kie.ai Suno API | Lyria 3 Pro | MiniMax Music 1.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | $10.00 | $30.00 | $0.60 | $1.60 | $0.60 |
| 100 | $249.20 | $149.60 | $3.00 | $8.00 | $3.00 |
| 500 | $1,445.20 | $1,345.60 | $15.00 | $40.00 | $15.00 |
At 100 songs, Pro is $10 plus 80 extra downloads at $2.99, and Premier is $30 plus 40 extra.
The table assumes you keep every track. An API bills each request, kept or not. If you keep 1 track in 5, 100 kept songs need 250 kie.ai requests, or $15.00. Suno Pro’s 2,500 credits cover about 500 songs a month if a generation costs 10 credits for 2 songs, a figure third-party guides report and Suno’s help pages do not state.
What we measured on the kie.ai Suno API
We ran 1 request on the kie.ai Suno API on 2026-09-16 at 09:38 UTC and the credit balance fell from 317.13 to 305.13, a charge of 12 credits or $0.06 at kie.ai’s stated $0.005 per credit.
kie.ai shows a Suno “tiered discount plan” and a “regional discount for your location” on its pricing page. We read $0.06 from Germany on 2026-09-16; your listed price can differ. kie.ai’s Suno page, read the same day, states that high-tier top-ups with a 10% bonus bring the effective price to about $0.054 per request.
The request asked for model V5, instrumental, with the prompt “calm lo-fi instrumental with soft piano and light rain, 80 bpm”. The task reached SUCCESS 51 seconds later. It returned 2 tracks of 152.36 and 121.68 seconds, and the response named the model “chirp-hawk”.
Both MP3 files downloaded with HTTP 200. kie.ai’s documentation says generated files are kept for 14 days, so a download is your only copy after that.
Where Suno Pro wins
The per-song price leaves out 3 things Suno Pro does better: rights, discarded generations and the editor.
Suno’s terms, updated 2026-08-10, assign to Pro and Premier users Suno’s “right, title and interest” in output generated from “Submissions made by you through the Service”, subject to Suno’s commercial use restrictions.
Within the monthly allowance of 2,500 credits on Pro, a Suno generation you do not download costs no extra money. On kie.ai each discarded request costs $0.06.
Suno Studio on Premier, at $30 a month, has no download limit on its workflows. None of the 5 API routes in this article includes an editor.
Who owns a song made through the kie.ai API?
kie.ai’s Suno model page, read 2026-09-16, carries a “Commercial use” label and calls the output “commercial-ready, watermark-free”. kie.ai’s terms of use, effective 2025-08-01 and checked the same day, contain no clause on who owns generated output or on commercial use.
The kie.ai pricing page, read 2026-09-16, says: “For official access to Suno’s AI music services, please visit suno.com.” Suno’s 2026-08-10 rights grant covers output generated “through the Service”, meaning Suno’s own service, which a third-party API call is not.
ElevenLabs lists “Commercial use licensing on Starter+ plans” for music, checked 2026-09-16. Google’s Gemini API terms, modified 2026-04-28, say “Google won’t claim ownership over that content”, a statement on ownership for Gemini API access, not for Lyria on Replicate.
This is a reading of the published terms on 2026-09-16, not legal advice.
The rule
The kie.ai Suno API costs less per kept song than Suno Pro’s $0.50 as long as you keep at least 1 of every 16.7 tracks you generate, computed from $0.06 per 2-track request on 2026-09-16.
Keep fewer than 1 in 16.7 and Suno Pro’s 20 included downloads cost less per kept song. Against the $2.99 extra-download price, the break-even is 1 kept track in 99.7 generated.
For commercial use stated in the terms themselves, the routes in this comparison are Suno Pro or Premier and ElevenLabs Music on Starter plans and up. kie.ai states commercial use on its model page, and its terms of use, effective 2025-08-01, do not repeat it.
Does Suno have a song limit?
Suno has 2 separate limits: credits cap generation and a download cap limits exports. Pro gets 2,500 credits and 20 downloads a month, and Premier gets 10,000 credits and 60 downloads, per Suno’s pricing page checked 2026-09-16. Both paid plans can buy extra credits and extra downloads.
Do download limits apply to songs I already made?
Yes. Suno’s downloads FAQ, checked 2026-09-16, states that limits “apply to all music on Suno starting September 3, including songs created before that date.”
A Pro account with 300 older songs in its library downloads 20 of them per month at no extra cost. At the reported $2.99 per extra download, the other 280 cost $837.20 in one month.
Can I buy more Suno downloads?
Yes, Suno’s help center says users who hit the limit can buy more downloads, without printing a price. A third-party report of the in-app screen after 2026-09-03 lists $2.99 for 1, $8.95 for 3, $14.95 for 5 and $29.90 for 10, which is about $2.99 per song at every pack size.
Why can’t I download the full song on Suno?
Since 2026-09-03 a download needs a remaining download on your plan: 20 a month on Pro and 60 on Premier, per Suno’s help center checked 2026-09-16. Free users who joined before that date have up to 7 lifetime trial downloads, and later Free users may occasionally receive some. Free-plan downloads are for personal, non-commercial use only.
How we collected every figure on this page is described on the methodology page. For text model prices from the same daily fetch, see the cheapest LLM API ranking. Dated price moves on every tracked model, music included, are listed on the price changes page.
Drafted with AI from APITariff’s own price data and one paid test call, checked and edited by a person. The chart is rendered from the tables above, not generated.
Change log
- First edition. Suno plan pages, kie.ai pricing API and one kie.ai Suno V5 test call, all 2026-09-16.
| Model | Price |
|---|---|
| lyria-3-proReplicate | $0.080/ output audio file |
| music-1.5Replicate | $0.030/ output audio file |
| music-2.6Replicate | $0.150/ output audio file |
| MusicElevenLabs | $0.150/ minute |
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See Suno API pricing on kie.aiCite as: According to APITariff (https://apitariff.com/compare/suno-download-limit-vs-api-cost/, data as of 2026-09-16).