Suno: the platform that pulls the second half of music production inside one product
The most complete commercial platform on the text-to-song route: a style description, your own lyrics, a hummed melody or a recorded riff all work as a starting point, a full song with vocals and instrumentation arrives in seconds, and the same product then extends it, edits sections, restyles it, extracts stems and remasters it. We list it as the top closed entry for music in the audio domain on workflow completeness rather than peak audio quality. Most generative music products cover drafting and picking a take and stop there; Suno connects the rest through stem extraction with up to 12 stems, MIDI export and Suno Studio, and Studio speaks conventional DAW semantics rather than adding another prompt box, with a multitrack timeline, take lanes, comping, manual BPM to settle tempo drift and per clip transpose and speed. Custom Models trains up to three private style variants from six or more tracks you own, and Voices, formerly Personas, generates in your own singing timbre with a verification step. The tier split matters: the free plan covers creation (generation, lyrics, Cover, crop and fade, audio upload) while stems, Add Vocals, Voices and Custom Models require Pro or Premier and Studio is Premier only on desktop web, so real cost modelling should assume Premier. Version numbers do not track quality on third party benchmarks either: on WildSongBench v5 scores 6.8721, above v6 at 6.5562 and v6 Wild at 6.4195, with v4.5 at 6.6995 and v5.5 at 6.7150, and the vendor itself asks for capability based rather than version based description. Limits: closed with no self-hosting, so unreleased melodies and lyrics must be uploaded; no stable version semantics, meaning a regeneration can sound different after a model update; commercial rights follow the tier; control granularity sits at section and style level with no editable chord track, so theory level edits require Studio multitrack re-arrangement or an open model such as YuE2 that exposes an ABC score. Graded C (vendor claim); the benchmark numbers are submitted by m-a-p and have not been recomputed by us.