Suno is putting a ceiling on how much music leaves its platform. From 3 September, Pro subscribers, who pay eight to ten dollars a month and previously had no limit, are capped at 20 song downloads a month; Premier subscribers get 60. Free users, who used to receive daily replenishing credits, now get seven downloads in total, for personal use only, meaning no uploading to Spotify, no selling and no commercial use.
The stated purpose is to make it harder for bad actors to mass-export music, a clear reference to users who generated tracks in bulk and pushed them to streaming services, in some cases to farm royalties from artificial plays, the practice that led one rights coalition to call Suno a fraud-fodder factory. Subscribers who hit the cap can buy more downloads, and Premier users can still export freely from the Suno Studio production suite.
The same announcement previews the next generation of models, developed with the music industry and described as better on every metric Suno has measured, with all prior models to be retired when they arrive. Existing songs stay playable, shareable and usable as the basis for covers and remixes.
The terms of service published alongside close the obvious workaround: recording or stream-ripping a track is now expressly prohibited, with account termination and possible legal action for violators, and Suno reserves the right to fingerprint or watermark its outputs. How it will detect ripping in practice, it has not said.
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