Suno's v6 has three labels behind it. Your legal score still hangs on the tier you pay for.

Suno replaced its whole model line on 9 September, and the part that matters for filmmakers is buried two clicks below the launch post: you can generate a score for free, but you cannot legally put it under a commercial cut unless you paid for the download.

What shipped

Suno's launch post describes three models, not four. v6 is the flagship and sits behind the Pro and Premier tiers, v6-wild is an experimental sibling on the same tiers, and v6-mini is free to everyone. The company's own v6 FAQ says the same, so the “v6 Pro” model doing the rounds at launch is a misreading of a subscription tier.

Two changes alter how a cut gets scored. Prompts now accept Suno songs, playlists, uploaded audio, images and video as references inside one Simple mode request, and sections can be edited in plain language, so you can rewrite a chorus or swap a guitar line without regenerating the track. Stems can be pulled out of a sample and rebuilt into something new.

Be careful with the phrase video to song. Suno's wording is video as a reference input, and there is no first-party statement about clip length or synchronization to picture. That is a mood board you can feed with footage, not a timeline you can score against, until Suno says otherwise.

Every earlier model is being retired. Suno frames that as the platform moving onto v6, and Billboard reports that retiring the old models was a condition of the Warner settlement, which makes the upgrade less of an invitation and more of an eviction from the models people learned.

The licensing claim, stated precisely

Chief product officer Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on,” built on licensed content from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, including TuneCore, plus Suno user data. Music Business Worldwide reports Brody confirming the set “doesn't include data from Universal or Sony.” Warner chief executive Robert Kyncl told staff in a memo that this is the first time WMG talent can participate in revenue from music creation as well as consumption. Revenue share exists, and no rate or per-artist split has been published by anyone.

Here is where we hold the line. Licensed with three partners who signed is a supportable claim. Cleared is not. The Verge says plainly that it is unclear whether excluding the old data means the new set is free of dubiously obtained material, no independent audit of the training set exists, and Suno's terms take a broad license over user content, so “user data” is doing undefined work in that sentence. Universal, Sony, Round Hill Music, GEMA and the Isbell plaintiffs all still allege otherwise about earlier models. A German court ruled against Suno in the GEMA case in July, Round Hill sued in August, and on 31 August Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Eduardo Calle and Guy Forsyth filed an 84 page right-of-publicity class action, which Suno calls without merit. Believe itself blocked distribution of Suno-made music in April and has now reversed into a partner, with artist opt-in.

What it costs to use v6 legally

The download is the thing you are buying, not the generation. Suno's downloads policy, effective 3 September, is explicit: commercial use requires a permitted download through a Suno channel, and screen recording or ripping the output is prohibited. Suno assigns the rights it holds and does not warrant that copyright exists in the output at all.

• Tier: Free. Monthly: $0; GBP at 0.74: £0; Models: v6-mini; Downloads: 7 lifetime trial; Commercial rights: No
• Tier: Pro. Monthly: $10, or $8 annual; GBP at 0.74: £7.40, or £5.92; Models: v6, v6-wild, v6-mini; Downloads: 20 per month; Commercial rights: Yes, on downloaded songs
• Tier: Premier. Monthly: $30, or $24 annual; GBP at 0.74: £22.20, or £17.76; Models: all three, plus Suno Studio; Downloads: 60 per month, Studio uncapped; Commercial rights: Yes, on downloaded songs

FX 0.74 USD to GBP, stated 9 September 2026.

A generation still returns two songs for 10 credits, Pro includes 2,500 credits a month and Premier 10,000, and heavier image or video inputs plus Max Mode cost more. For a single short film, 20 downloads a month is generous. For anyone building a cue library across several edits it is thin, and the free tier's 7 lifetime downloads are personal use only, which is the detail that turns “free temp score” into a legal problem the day the film goes anywhere near a client.

Timeline

• Date: Jun 2024. Event: Universal, Sony and Warner sue Suno in Boston, coordinated by the RIAA
• Date: Nov 2025. Event: Warner settles and licenses, Suno acquires Songkick, commits to licensed models and to retiring old ones
• Date: Apr 2026. Event: Believe blocks distribution of Suno-generated music
• Date: Jul 2026. Event: German court rules against Suno in the GEMA case
• Date: 10 Aug 2026. Event: New download caps and terms announced, effective 3 Sep
• Date: 12 Aug 2026. Event: BMG licensing deal signed
• Date: 31 Aug 2026. Event: Isbell, Lowery, Calle and Forsyth file a right-of-publicity class action
• Date: 8 Sep 2026. Event: Believe and TuneCore participation announced
• Date: 9 Sep 2026. Event: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini roll out, earlier models retired

What creators are already arguing about

Within an hour of the rollout, hands-on v6 output was posting in English, Japanese and Russian. @getsecretapps laid out the three models while much of the coverage was still calling Pro a model, @luisnomad reported voices from earlier models surviving into v6, and @hazimeno_ipoo and @madoromusic both described v6-wild as noisy and unstable.

That last one is the interesting fight, because The Verge's reviewer could not reliably tell v6-wild and v6 apart in limited testing. Two credible readings of the same model, which is exactly the kind of disagreement worth settling with generations rather than opinions. Brody's claim that v6-mini beats rival paid models is unverified by anyone independent, and the voice carry-over is a creator report we have not confirmed against Suno's own documentation.

The open questions

Whether a v5 voice persona truly survives into v6, the maximum length or format of a video reference, whether Suno Studio's uncapped downloads carry the same commercial position as capped ones, and whether the “Create Custom Model” beta at 100 credits, visible in Suno's own walkthrough video but absent from the launch post, is live for every Premier user. Those are the four things we will test, and the download policy is the one to read before you put a v6 cue anywhere near a paying job.