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Chinese AI music against the Suno plans the pricing page actually rendered

Published 16 Oct 2026. Updated 16 Oct 2026. Researched 16 Oct 2026.

Music generators are sold as subscriptions, credits, and per-song API calls. Comparing them as if they were one number is how a roundup invents a winner. On 16 Oct 2026 we rendered Suno’s pricing page and Mureka’s FAQ. We did not render Mureka’s price table, so that table stays off this page.

Suno, as the page rendered

The pricing page lists three monthly plans. Free is $0, with 50 credits a day, no commercial rights, and no monthly song downloads. Pro is $8, with 2,500 credits a month, 20 song downloads, and commercial use rights. Premier is $24, with 10,000 credits a month and 60 song downloads. The page says annual billing saves 20 percent. The model row names a free model, v6-mini, and advanced models, v6 and v6-wild, on the paid plans. We did not test how many songs a credit buys, so we will not divide $8 by a guessed song count.

Mureka, only the sentences that rendered

The API FAQ says a top-up is a one-time payment, not a subscription, and that the balance is valid for 12 months from the last recharge. A new recharge extends the existing balance. Website membership credits are not the API balance. Downloads of songs are free. Stems are a separate payment. Paid API output comes with commercial authorization, according to that FAQ, which points at the terms rather than quoting them in full. Refunds are not supported. The pricing URL itself returned an application shell, not the per-song grid. A third-party review quotes a per-song rate from August. We are not adopting it.

The other published music rates

MiniMax’s pricing page says that starting 20 Aug 2026 the paid music generation and lyrics APIs are not available to new users. Existing paying users can continue. It lists Music-3.0 and Music-2.6, both discontinued for that new-user path, at $0.15 per piece of up to 5 minutes, and it tells new users to use MiniMax Audio or the open-source music model on Hugging Face. ElevenLabs lists music generation at $0.15 per minute on the API page, with a 5 minute duration limit, and says commercial licensing is on Starter plans and above. A per-minute rate and a per-song rate are not the same product. We are not drawing a bar that pretends they are.

What this is not

We did not generate a song on any of these services, so there is no taste ranking and no “sounds more human” claim. Copyright in the output is whatever the plan you paid says. Suno’s free tier, on the page we rendered, says no commercial rights. If you need a voice rather than a song, that is the speech guide. If you need a video with music under it, the video comparison is the other bill.

Privacy: a hummed melody or a voice sample is still your voice. Do not upload someone else’s recording to a cloning control and call it a soundtrack.