{"slug": "suno", "name": "Suno", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "AI music generator that creates songs with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts or audio.", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 12, "warners": 1, "score": 5.669, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2025-12-17", "latest": "2026-09-22", "why": "Liked for turning hummed tunes and personal lyrics into finished songs, and by musicians for covering their own beats and arrangements or generating stems and drum parts.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 5, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Personal songs", "Cover feature"], "caveat": "Hollow output", "short_quote": "I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno.", "icon": true, "domain": "suno.ai", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://suno.com", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Suno"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for turning hummed tunes and personal lyrics into finished songs", "cites": [{"id": 787466944, "item_id": 49216684, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216684", "by": "dexterlagan", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it.", "excerpt": "Had this song in my head, wrote some lyrics, hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it. What a world. I make little tools like that all the time. My GitHub is filled with these little things I write or gen once never to be used again. Some of them I use daily (GitHub.com/dexterlagan). Since LLMs became decent I make even more of these. 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I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like and have been in my playlist for months alongside the bands I have listened for more than 30 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "creating AI music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"}]}, {"text": ", and by musicians for covering their own beats and arrangements or generating stems and drum parts.", "cites": [{"id": 740814048, "item_id": 46300878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300878", "by": "ramigb", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!", "excerpt": "I found that out while working with music models like Suno! I love creating music for my own listening experience as a hobbyist and when I give suno a prompt no matter how well crafted it is the outcome varies from \"meh\" to \"that's good\" ... while when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless! Could be a bias since the music has a lot of elements I crea", "context": "hobbyist music creator", "use_case": "covering hobby music beats", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"}, {"id": 746267552, "item_id": 46641722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641722", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.", "excerpt": "I'm a relatively serious pianist and have been composing music (mostly classical/contrapuntal) since I was a kid. This may be of interest - I wrote an article a while back about how a musician can leverage GenAI. 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I love creating music for my own listening experience as a hobbyist and when I give suno a prompt no matter how well crafted it is the outcome varies from \"meh\" to \"that's good\" ... while when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless! Could be a bias since the music has a lot of elements I crea", "context": "hobbyist music creator", "use_case": "covering hobby music beats", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"}, {"id": 771421936, "item_id": 48213871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213871", "by": "halyconWays", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI", "excerpt": "How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI, and something that can create super niche sound effects. This feels like Suno 1.0 levels of quality but maybe it can get there?", "context": "", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stable Audio 3"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Personal songs", "summary": "Commenters made songs from their own lyrics, humming or vacation stories, including a wedding walk-out tune.", "quotes": [{"id": 787466944, "item_id": 49216684, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216684", "by": "dexterlagan", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it.", "excerpt": "Had this song in my head, wrote some lyrics, hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it. What a world. I make little tools like that all the time. My GitHub is filled with these little things I write or gen once never to be used again. Some of them I use daily (GitHub.com/dexterlagan). Since LLMs became decent I make even more of these. 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If I was very talented and had the time, I could have written the lyrics and recorded th", "context": "", "use_case": "generating personalized song", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"}, {"id": 773220768, "item_id": 48326298, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326298", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I made a suno.ai tune to walk out for my wedding to", "excerpt": "The whole AI/anti-AI schtick doesn't have a sense of sanctimony to it that I think would be considered gauche in real life. That makes me wonder. I'm here on this site a lot but my life seems very different from most commenters. So I'm starting to believe that the difference clusters a little. For instance, I frequently see the \"we never talk to our neighbours anymore\" idea expressed, but in real life I live in a hig", "context": "", "use_case": "generating a wedding song", "switched_from": "", "story": "Please Use AI"}]}, {"label": "Cover feature", "summary": "Uploading your own beat or arrangement and having Suno cover it gives strong results.", "quotes": [{"id": 740814048, "item_id": 46300878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300878", "by": "ramigb", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!", "excerpt": "I found that out while working with music models like Suno! I love creating music for my own listening experience as a hobbyist and when I give suno a prompt no matter how well crafted it is the outcome varies from \"meh\" to \"that's good\" ... while when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless! Could be a bias since the music has a lot of elements I crea", "context": "hobbyist music creator", "use_case": "covering hobby music beats", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"}, {"id": 746267552, "item_id": 46641722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641722", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.", "excerpt": "I'm a relatively serious pianist and have been composing music (mostly classical/contrapuntal) since I was a kid. This may be of interest - I wrote an article a while back about how a musician can leverage GenAI. The process I used was: start by singing to develop a motif \u2192 notate sheet music and chord progression \u2192 use an arranger keyboard to flesh it out \u2192 then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Sun", "context": "pianist and composer", "use_case": "converting arrangements into covers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: AI Music Covers in 2026?"}]}, {"label": "Stems and parts", "summary": "Can generate stems, single instruments or drum parts to use in a wider production workflow.", "quotes": [{"id": 745757920, "item_id": 46609870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609870", "by": "neom", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella", "excerpt": "I mean my camera has a full auto setting I don't use it that way, same with Suno, you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella, I use it to gen things to put onto my OP1, does that count? This is My lyrics + Suno + OP1 + KOII + Abelton + 20hours or so?: https://soundcloud.com/john/golden", "context": "music creator", "use_case": "generating music elements", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp"}, {"id": 745693984, "item_id": 46605874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605874", "by": "hmokiguess", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar on top", "excerpt": "I have a maybe unpopular opinion to share. We now sort of accepted the idea of \u201cvibe coding\u201d, and, even shared appreciation from people who are using it to resuscitate side projects and things they wanted to do but required a lot of work. (Heck, even Linus Torvalds is doing it). Is \u201cVibe Music / Art\u201d any different? For example, I am not a drummer, say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar ", "context": "guitarist, not a drummer", "use_case": "generating drum tracks", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp"}]}, {"label": "Mood listening", "summary": "Users keep their Suno songs in regular playlists and use them for specific moods.", "quotes": [{"id": 779531696, "item_id": 48720731, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720731", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have a few Suno songs I\u2019m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me.", "excerpt": "Cool stuff. I love AI music. Listen to it all day while writing code or whatever. Most of the time it\u2019s the outrun or vaporwave like 1 hr playlists on YouTube and then I have a few Suno songs I\u2019m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me. It\u2019s pretty cool technology. You just ask for a certain feeling to be evoked and you can have it done. Magical.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tidal AI Policy"}, {"id": 765438224, "item_id": 47839889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839889", "by": "AbraKdabra", "date": "2026-04-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like", "excerpt": "I really don't care if it's AI, I love music and it's 100% subjective to what I like, I'm not less moral if I prefer some ones and zeroes than a real band if it pleases my ears. I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like and have been in my playlist for months alongside the bands I have listened for more than 30 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "creating AI music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"}]}, {"label": "Fun to use", "summary": "Someone with Ableton and Logic Pro experience was blown away and found it very fun.", "quotes": [{"id": 776771792, "item_id": 48548237, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548237", "by": "_praf", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno.", "excerpt": "Author here: I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno. It's really so much fun.", "context": "has played with music production", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "It used to be hard"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Hollow output", "summary": "Generated music can sound competent but feel like it has nothing to say.", "quotes": [{"id": 796808976, "item_id": 49800561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800561", "by": "EastLondonCoder", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say.", "excerpt": "I believe many of us here knows that the idea of a simple prompt to make something more than a sketch or a prototype don\u2019t really work. Unless you steer and understand what an LLM will produce, you will end up with something that possible \u201dworks\u201d that has no future plans baked in. Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say. I\u2019d say that vibecoded software i", "context": "", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"}]}, {"label": "Prompt-only variance", "summary": "Results from text prompts alone range from \"meh\" to \"that's good\", however well the prompt is written.", "quotes": [{"id": 740814048, "item_id": 46300878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300878", "by": "ramigb", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!", "excerpt": "I found that out while working with music models like Suno! I love creating music for my own listening experience as a hobbyist and when I give suno a prompt no matter how well crafted it is the outcome varies from \"meh\" to \"that's good\" ... while when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless! 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If I was very talented and had the time, I could have written the lyrics and recorded th", "context": "", "use_case": "generating personalized song", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"}, {"id": 779531696, "item_id": 48720731, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720731", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have a few Suno songs I\u2019m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me.", "excerpt": "Cool stuff. I love AI music. Listen to it all day while writing code or whatever. Most of the time it\u2019s the outrun or vaporwave like 1 hr playlists on YouTube and then I have a few Suno songs I\u2019m fond of when I feel a specific mood strike me. It\u2019s pretty cool technology. You just ask for a certain feeling to be evoked and you can have it done. Magical.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tidal AI Policy"}, {"id": 776771792, "item_id": 48548237, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548237", "by": "_praf", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno.", "excerpt": "Author here: I used Suno. I've played around with music production using things like Ableton and Logic Pro and I was completely blown away by Suno. It's really so much fun.", "context": "has played with music production", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "It used to be hard"}, {"id": 773220768, "item_id": 48326298, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326298", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I made a suno.ai tune to walk out for my wedding to", "excerpt": "The whole AI/anti-AI schtick doesn't have a sense of sanctimony to it that I think would be considered gauche in real life. That makes me wonder. I'm here on this site a lot but my life seems very different from most commenters. So I'm starting to believe that the difference clusters a little. For instance, I frequently see the \"we never talk to our neighbours anymore\" idea expressed, but in real life I live in a hig", "context": "", "use_case": "generating a wedding song", "switched_from": "", "story": "Please Use AI"}, {"id": 771421936, "item_id": 48213871, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213871", "by": "halyconWays", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "compare", "quote": "How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI", "excerpt": "How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI, and something that can create super niche sound effects. This feels like Suno 1.0 levels of quality but maybe it can get there?", "context": "", "use_case": "AI music generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stable Audio 3"}, {"id": 765438224, "item_id": 47839889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839889", "by": "AbraKdabra", "date": "2026-04-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like", "excerpt": "I really don't care if it's AI, I love music and it's 100% subjective to what I like, I'm not less moral if I prefer some ones and zeroes than a real band if it pleases my ears. I created a lot of songs in Suno which I really really like and have been in my playlist for months alongside the bands I have listened for more than 30 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "creating AI music", "switched_from": "", "story": "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"}, {"id": 746267552, "item_id": 46641722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641722", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.", "excerpt": "I'm a relatively serious pianist and have been composing music (mostly classical/contrapuntal) since I was a kid. This may be of interest - I wrote an article a while back about how a musician can leverage GenAI. The process I used was: start by singing to develop a motif \u2192 notate sheet music and chord progression \u2192 use an arranger keyboard to flesh it out \u2192 then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Sun", "context": "pianist and composer", "use_case": "converting arrangements into covers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: AI Music Covers in 2026?"}, {"id": 745757920, "item_id": 46609870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609870", "by": "neom", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella", "excerpt": "I mean my camera has a full auto setting I don't use it that way, same with Suno, you can get the stems out of suno, you can gen just one instrument, just a sound, just an a cappella, I use it to gen things to put onto my OP1, does that count? This is My lyrics + Suno + OP1 + KOII + Abelton + 20hours or so?: https://soundcloud.com/john/golden", "context": "music creator", "use_case": "generating music elements", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp"}, {"id": 745693984, "item_id": 46605874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605874", "by": "hmokiguess", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar on top", "excerpt": "I have a maybe unpopular opinion to share. We now sort of accepted the idea of \u201cvibe coding\u201d, and, even shared appreciation from people who are using it to resuscitate side projects and things they wanted to do but required a lot of work. (Heck, even Linus Torvalds is doing it). Is \u201cVibe Music / Art\u201d any different? For example, I am not a drummer, say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar ", "context": "guitarist, not a drummer", "use_case": "generating drum tracks", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp"}, {"id": 740814048, "item_id": 46300878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300878", "by": "ramigb", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless!", "excerpt": "I found that out while working with music models like Suno! I love creating music for my own listening experience as a hobbyist and when I give suno a prompt no matter how well crafted it is the outcome varies from \"meh\" to \"that's good\" ... while when I upload semi finished beat I made and prompt it to cover it the results consistently leave me speechless! Could be a bias since the music has a lot of elements I crea", "context": "hobbyist music creator", "use_case": "covering hobby music beats", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"}]}