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Both cover music licensing. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Epidemic Sound | Suno | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $9.99 | From $8 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Billing | Annual only | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 30 days | None |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Music Licensing, Stock Footage & Assets | Music Licensing, AI Content Tools |
| Works with | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram | YouTube, TikTok |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Music cleared for monetized video
Epidemic Sound exists to solve one problem, which is a copyright claim landing on a video that was earning. Every track is licensed for the platforms creators publish on, and the clearance follows the channel rather than the upload. The catalogue is smaller than a stock library's, and cancelling ends the licence on work you already published.
Our note
The subscription is a licence rather than a purchase, so treat leaving as a decision about your back catalogue and not just about next month's bill. Uppbeat's free tier is the cheaper starting point if you are not yet earning.
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Full songs, with vocals, from a written prompt
Suno writes and performs a song from a description, vocals included, which is a different proposition from the loop libraries creators have used for background music. Credits refresh monthly and cover generation rather than length. Read the plan you are on before publishing: what you may do commercially with a track depends on it, and the free plan is the strictest.
Our note
This is the tool people mean when they say AI music now, and the free plan is enough to find out whether it makes anything you would use. For background music under a video, a library like Uppbeat is still less trouble; for a song that had to be about something specific, nothing else is close.
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