Suno is best known as the app that lets anyone without instruments or production skill finish a full song in minutes, and more than 100 million people had used it by September 2026. It suits creators who want speed over studio control, not a replacement for a producer's DAW.
Suno is an AI music platform based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that turns text, audio, image or video prompts into complete songs with vocals and instrumentation. Its September 2026 v6 model family is the first built entirely on licensed catalogs from Warner Music, BMG and Believe rather than unlicensed training data.
Founded: 2022 · HQ: Cambridge, MA, USA · Team: 400-500 · CEO: Mikey Shulman · Funding: $775M total raised across a seed/early round, a $250M Series C (Nov 2025, led by Menlo Ventures) and a $400M Series D (Jun 2026, led by Bond Capital, with IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon Capital Management and Quiet) · Valuation: $5.4B (Series D, Jun 2026)
About Suno
Suno was founded in 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Mikey Shulman, Georg Kucsko, Martin Camacho and Keenan Freyberg, four former colleagues from Kensho, the financial-technology machine learning company S&P Global acquired in 2018 for more than $500 million. The founders started by building general-purpose audio models rather than a music app: in April 2023 they released Bark, an open source text-to-speech and generative audio model, on GitHub and Hugging Face under the MIT license, and it passed 39,000 GitHub stars. Suno grew its first audience through a Discord bot running its v2 model in mid-2023 before shipping a public web app on December 20, 2023, alongside a distribution deal that put Suno inside Microsoft Copilot as a plugin. The company is incorporated as Suno, Inc. and now operates four offices worldwide. Suno's core product is a web, iOS and Android app that turns a text prompt, or an uploaded audio, image or video clip, into a full song with vocals, instrumentation and structure in under a minute. On September 9, 2026 the company replaced its entire model lineup with three new models built with licensed catalog data: v6, the flagship model tuned for polished, genre-consistent output; v6-wild, a more unpredictable model aimed at experimental results; and v6-mini, a faster free-tier model for quick drafts. All three add plain-language section and lyric editing, letting a user rewrite one line without regenerating the whole track, plus multi-song mashups and resampling. Suno says it is retiring every prior model version as the v6 family rolls out, the first time it has shipped more than one flagship model at once. Suno acquired WavTool, a browser-based digital audio workstation, in June 2025 and used its editing engine to build Suno Studio, a multitrack DAW-style tool that launched on September 25, 2025 for Premier subscribers. Studio 2.0 followed on August 13, 2026, one day after Suno announced a licensing alliance with BMG, the second major-label deal behind Warner's. Believe and its TuneCore distribution arm signed a licensing agreement on September 8, 2026, the day before the v6 launch, rounding out the rights partners whose catalogs trained the new models. Suno's post-money valuation reached $5.4 billion after investors put in $400 million during a June 2026 Series D round led by Bond Capital, with IVP, Forerunner and Union Square Ventures joining previous backers Matrix, Lightspeed and Menlo Ventures. That followed a $2.45 billion mark set seven months earlier when Menlo Ventures led a $250 million Series C, bringing Suno's total funding to about $775 million. Suno sells tiered consumer subscriptions rather than API access, ranging from a limited free plan for personal use up to a Premier tier that adds Suno Studio; exact credit allotments and monthly prices are detailed in the pricing notes on this profile. Billboard reported Suno's annual recurring revenue at $140 million as of September 30, 2025, up from $50 million at the start of that year, and industry estimates put annualized revenue near $300 million by February 2026. The company has said it is exploring a curated developer API program through an intake form, but as of September 2026 there is no public, self-serve Suno API. CEO Mikey Shulman was Kensho's first machine learning engineer and later led its ML team before S&P Global's acquisition. Co-founder Georg Kucsko serves as CTO and Martin Camacho as President; a fourth co-founder, Keenan Freyberg, left his COO role in January 2025. Headcount has grown quickly alongside the funding, from roughly 84 employees in July 2024 to an estimated 450 to 460 by August 2026, spread across Cambridge and three additional offices. Suno has said more than two-thirds of its staff are musicians. Suno labels its generated songs with C2PA Content Credentials, an invisible metadata standard that lets platforms and distributors flag AI-made audio, and publishes a public verification tool for checking a file's provenance. That transparency effort sits alongside unresolved litigation: Universal Music Group and Sony Music are still suing Suno over training-data copyright claims, even as Warner Music Group, which settled its own suit in November 2025, BMG and Believe have all signed licensing deals covering the v6 training set. Suno's privacy notice states that user-generated content is used to train future models, that voice recordings are kept for up to three years after a user's last interaction, and that VeraSafe acts as its GDPR representative for the EU and UK. Formal audit certifications are notably absent from Suno's public security pages: no visible SOC 2 report, ISO 27001 certificate, or HIPAA attestation as of September 2026. Suno's main rival is Udio, another text-to-song generator also facing major-label litigation, and both compete for the market Suno's leadership describes as turning music into an interactive, social format rather than a one-way stream. Suno's edge is scale and licensing: it says over 100 million people have used the platform and it holds the number-one music-app ranking in 35 countries as of 2026, and among AI music generators it is the only one with signed licensing agreements from Warner, BMG and Believe. Where it loses ground is on professional integration: without a public API, Suno cannot yet be embedded into third-party production pipelines the way traditional sample libraries or stock-music APIs can.
Mission
Building a future where anyone can make great music, no instrument needed, just imagination.
Products
- Suno (web, iOS, Android app) (Consumer AI music generation app): https://suno.com
- Suno Studio (Browser-based DAW / generative audio workstation (Premier plan)): https://suno.com/studio
- Bark (Open source text-to-speech / generative audio model (MIT license)): https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
Suno Models on HokAI
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much funding has Suno raised?
Suno has raised about $775 million since it launched, most recently a $400 million Series D that Bond Capital led in June 2026, pushing its valuation to $5.4 billion. A $250 million Series C the previous November, led by Menlo Ventures, had valued the company at $2.45 billion, with additional backing from Matrix, Lightspeed, IVP, Forerunner and Union Square Ventures.
What products does Suno make in 2026?
Suno's flagship app runs on Android, iOS and the web, letting anyone type a prompt or upload audio, an image or video to get a finished song, now powered by the v6 model family (v6, v6-wild and v6-mini) launched September 9, 2026. Premier subscribers also get Suno Studio, a multitrack DAW-style editor built from the WavTool acquisition, which reached version 2.0 in August 2026.
How does Suno handle data privacy and compliance?
Suno has not posted a SOC 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate, or a HIPAA attestation anywhere on its public trust or security pages. Its privacy notice states that user-submitted content trains future models by default, voice biometrics expire three years after someone's most recent session, and VeraSafe serves as its GDPR representative for EU and UK users.
Who are Suno's main competitors?
Udio is Suno's closest direct rival and also faces major-label copyright litigation over training data. Stability AI's Stable Audio 3.0 competes on openness, shipping three of its four models as open weights trained on licensed data, while Google DeepMind's Lyria and MiniMax Music target teams that want a music model bundled into a broader multimodal API rather than a standalone consumer app.
How do you start using Suno?
New users can sign up free at suno.com and generate a handful of songs a day at no cost, for personal use only. Upgrading to Pro unlocks commercial rights and a larger credit allowance, while Premier adds Suno Studio; there is no public developer API as of September 2026.
Top Alternatives
- Stability AI: Pick Stability AI if you want an open-weights audio model to self-host instead of Suno's closed, subscription-only app.
- MiniMax: Pick MiniMax if you need API access to a music-generation model; Suno has no public API as of September 2026.
- Google DeepMind: Pick Google DeepMind if you need music generation bundled inside a broader multimodal AI platform rather than a standalone consumer app.