Suno vs Udio Comparison 2026
Both cover music licensing. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Full songs, with vocals, from a written prompt
Generate a track when licensing one is the bottleneck
At a glance
- Suno starts cheaper, at $8.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Suno | Udio | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $8 | From $10 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) | Web, iOS, Android |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Suno
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.
Only on this side
- Works with YouTube
- Works with TikTok
Udio
Generate a track when licensing one is the bottleneck
Udio makes music from a text prompt, which for a creator is less about writing songs than about clearing the last thing standing between a cut and an upload. Credits buy generations, and the free daily quota is enough to hear whether the output suits the format before any money moves. The paid tiers raise the monthly credit allowance and the free trial has its own limits, so read what a plan actually includes before treating it as unlimited.
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