Added to our archive on 1 October 2026. This report is dated to the day of the event.

"v6 is trained from the ground up, so it's trained from scratch on a new set of data that is not the same data that previous models were trained on," Suno's chief product officer Jack Brody told Music Ally in an interview before the launch. On 9 September 2026 Suno released that model family, v6, and began retiring every model that came before it.

It is the first Suno release built with record industry partners, including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. It arrives while Universal Music Group and Sony Music are still suing the company, and it changes what users get for their money: the two models Suno calls premium, v6 and v6-wild, are reserved for paying subscribers, and free users get v6-mini.

  • What: three new music models, v6, v6-wild and v6-mini; all earlier Suno models retired.
  • Plans: v6 and v6-wild for Pro and Premier subscribers, v6-mini for everyone.
  • Why it matters: the first Suno models built with label partners, who share in Suno's revenue from launch.

Three models, and the old ones go

"v6 is our flagship model for Pro and Premier subscribers," co-founder and chief executive Mikey Shulman wrote in the announcement. v6-wild, also for paying users, "is less predictable and more varied", and "v6-mini is a faster, more efficient version available to everyone." Shulman called the v6 models "our best yet": "faster, more expressive and higher quality."

"As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generation," he wrote. According to Suno's help centre, songs made with older models stay in users' libraries unchanged, new versions of them are made with the latest models, and existing custom models are upgraded so that v6 powers them. A v6 generation costs the same as one on v5.5, 10 credits for two songs, though prompts with many images and videos cost more.

Editing instead of starting over

Most of the new features are about changing a song rather than generating a new one. Users can rewrite one section in plain language while keeping the rest, "update a single lyric without rebuilding the entire song", combine several sources into a mashup, and isolate and sample parts of a track. Prompts can mix text, audio, images and video. Music Ally quoted example requests such as "Change the chorus so it's sung by a gospel choir" and "Sample the riff at 0:45, isolate the guitar, build a beat around it."

One planned feature is missing. Brody told Music Ally that artist remix tools are still being built: "The first version of that is going to be an experience where artists can opt in, and then their likeness and catalogue can be used for remix experiences." TechCrunch reported the same plan for artists who opt in to a new partnership programme. Suno gave no launch date.

Licensed data, shared revenue

The training set "includes licensed music from Warner. It includes user data," Brody said, alongside the team's own research. Music Ally reported that BMG music has begun to be added and that music from participating Believe and TuneCore artists will also go into the models. Suno settled its dispute with Warner in November 2025 and signed its BMG deal in August, TechCrunch noted.

From the jump, as we start to roll out this partnership, we will start sharing a portion of our revenue with our partners.
Jack Brody, chief product officer, Suno, in a Music Ally interview published 9 September 2026

Suno did not say how large that share is. For the Believe deal, Digital Music News reported that participating artists will be compensated but that specifics were "few and far between".

Believe joined a day before the launch. In a post on 8 September, Suno said Believe will be part of the new models it is developing with the music industry, that artists of Believe and of TuneCore, Believe's platform for self releasing artists, can choose to take part in new products, and that "All tracks created by artists using Suno's new industry partner model will also become eligible to distribute through Believe and TuneCore." The deal reverses an earlier position. "Earlier this year, Believe and TuneCore said they would not distribute music made with models that did not meet their standards, including Suno's models at the time," Suno wrote.

Suno tied the partnership to its newer safeguards: audio watermarking and fingerprinting to identify Suno songs off the platform, and download limits "designed to prevent mass distribution to streaming services." Its pricing page, checked on 1 October, lists 20 song downloads a month on Pro, 60 on Premier and none on the free plan.

The lawsuits that remain

The licences do not end Suno's court cases. TechCrunch listed active suits from Sony Music and Universal Music Group, from the musician Jason Isbell, and from users who allege security negligence after a data breach, and Music Ally added Canada's Socan and Round Hill Music. TechCrunch also noted that Suno had recently acknowledged obtaining YouTube audio to train its models.

Brody presented the licensed model as useful to the industry's business side as well. "We can help manage some of the broader ecosystem challenges like streaming fraud and kind of mass exportation and uploading to distributors that are low intent," he said in remarks quoted by TechCrunch.