Suno

About Suno

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Suno

All products by Suno reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

SunoAI Creative Tools

AI-powered music generation platform for creating original songs

From $10/mo7.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Suno

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Suno's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.0 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Finance Lead the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Suno competes with, and how they differ.

Udio7.7/10

Suno's closest head-to-head rival: a text-to-song generator co-founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, named alongside Suno in the same June 2024 RIAA lawsuit and now separately settled with UMG (Oct 2025) and Warner while Sony litigation continues.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

ElevenLabs8.3/10

Built its business on AI voice cloning and text-to-speech, then entered music generation with Eleven Music / the ElevenMusic app (Aug 2025 launch, April 2026 mobile app), trained on licensed catalog via Merlin and Kobalt deals rather than facing Suno's copyright litigation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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AIVA

A Luxembourg-based AI composer operating since 2016, focused on cinematic/orchestral scoring for film, games and media with MIDI and stem export; targets professional composers rather than Suno's consumer vocal-pop song generation.

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Mubert

A B2B/API generative-music-as-a-service for apps, games and live streams (real-time streaming, adaptive background tracks), competing on infrastructure and licensing rather than as a consumer song-creation app like Suno.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Suno's history, with sources.

1. Aug 18, 2026Milestone

   Judge denies bid to add 61,026 works to UMG/Sony suit, allows DMCA claim

   In the RIAA-backed U.S. case, Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV granted UMG and Sony Music leave to add a DMCA anti-circumvention (YouTube stream-ripping) claim but denied their motion to expand the case from 560 to 61,026 recordings, citing "complexity and delay"; the fair-use question remains unresolved, with fact discovery closing September 30, 2026.

   musicbusinessworldwide.com
2. Jul 31, 2026Milestone

   Munich Regional Court rules against Suno in GEMA copyright case

   Germany's GEMA won a ruling finding that Suno's US-based AI training and EU reproduction/output infringed copyright in six compositions; the court ordered Suno to stop the infringing training and outputs and to disclose related revenue, with damages to be determined later. Suno said it was evaluating an appeal.

   musicweek.com
3. Jun 3, 2026Funding

   Series D — over $400M led by Bond Capital at $5.4B valuation

   Suno raised more than $400 million in a Series D round led by Bond Capital, with IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon and Quiet joining existing investors Matrix, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures and Schroders Capital, valuing the company at $5.4 billion post-money — more than double its November 2025 valuation.

   musicbusinessworldwide.com
4. Nov 25, 2025Partnership

   Settles with Warner Music Group; licensing partnership plus Songkick acquisition

   Suno and Warner Music Group ended WMG's copyright suit and announced a licensing partnership requiring artist opt-in consent before any artist's name, image, likeness, voice or compositions are used in AI-generated outputs; as part of the deal Suno acquired WMG's concert-discovery platform Songkick.

   musicbusinessworldwide.com
5. Nov 19, 2025Funding

   Series C — $250M led by Menlo Ventures at $2.45B valuation

   Suno raised a $250 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures, with NVIDIA's NVentures, Hallwood Media, Lightspeed and Matrix participating, at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation; the Wall Street Journal reported the company had reached $200 million in annual revenue.

   techcrunch.com
6. September 2025Launch

   Launches Suno Studio, a generative audio workstation

   Suno launched Suno Studio, described as the first generative audio workstation, combining professional multi-track editing with AI-powered stem generation.

   techcrunch.com
7. Jun 24, 2024Milestone

   RIAA-backed labels sue Suno for copyright infringement

   Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, through the RIAA, sued Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging mass unauthorized use of copyrighted sound recordings to train its AI model and seeking statutory damages up to $150,000 per work; Suno's defense rests on fair use.

   manatt.com
8. May 21, 2024Funding

   Series B — $125M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

   Suno raised a $125 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix and Founder Collective; The Information reported an implied valuation of roughly $500 million, not confirmed by the company.

   musicbusinessworldwide.com
9. March 2022Founded

   Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by four Kensho alumni

   Suno was founded in March 2022 by Mikey Shulman (CEO), Georg Kucsko (CTO), Martin Camacho (President) and Keenan Freyberg (COO), who met while working together at Kensho, a Cambridge, MA financial-AI company acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Suno is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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