Suno free plan: 7 trial downloads, no commercial rights for ads
Suno's free plan gives 7 lifetime trial downloads for personal use and no commercial rights. What that means for an ad, and the $0.125 per track route on Sume.
No: a song you download on Suno's free plan is not cleared for an ad. Suno's pricing page, read on 2026-10-05, lists the Free plan at $0 with 50 credits a day, no monthly song downloads and "No commercial rights". Its terms update effective September 3, 2026 adds that free accounts get up to 7 lifetime trial downloads, for personal use only.
So a free account can listen, share inside Suno and test ideas, but the file you export from it is for personal use. An ad, even a small paid social test, is commercial. This post lays out what each plan allows, as Suno states it, and what the same job looks like when you generate a track through Sume instead.
What Suno's own pages say
The Terms of Service say free-tier users may use Outputs only for lawful, personal and non-commercial purposes, while Pro and Premier subscribers may commercially exploit Output within Suno's Conditions of Access and Use, and Suno assigns them its right, title and interest in Output it owns. The numbers below are from the pricing page and the September 3 update.
| Plan | Price | Downloads | Commercial use | Models named |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 a month, 50 credits a day | Up to 7 lifetime trial downloads, personal use only | No commercial rights | Free models |
| Pro | $8 a month, 2,500 credits | 20 a month | Commercial use rights | v6 and v6-wild |
| Premier | $24 a month, 10,000 credits | 60 a month | Commercial use rights | v6 and v6-wild |
Doing the arithmetic for one ad
If you want ten candidate beds for a campaign, a free account cannot deliver them: 7 trial downloads are a lifetime allowance and none of them can be commercial. A Pro month at $8 covers 20 downloads, which is $0.40 per download if you use all of them. Suno's pages do not say how many credits one song costs, so the number of takes you need before you keep a song is not something this post can price.
The same job on Sume
Sume's Music Router charges a fixed $0.125 per accepted generation, whatever the prompt length, so ten candidate beds cost $1.25 and the cost of an unused take is visible up front. You send a prompt to POST /v1/music-router/generate, poll the job, and read the audio from result.artifacts[], as described in the Music Router docs and Jobs and results. The engine is Lyria 3.5 today under sume/music-auto.
What Sume cannot do is give you Suno's sound: there is no Suno model on the Music Router, and its catalog lists only sume/music-auto, lyria-3.5 and lyria-3-pro. It also does not replace reading the rights terms of whichever tool you pick. Whichever route you take, keep the plan name, the date and the terms version you read next to the exported file.
- Free Suno output: personal use, 7 trial downloads, no ads.
- Paid Suno output: commercial rights per the Terms, download caps per plan.
- Sume: pay per generation at one fixed price, $0.125.
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