On September 9, Suno released v6 — a family of three music-generation models built from scratch on licensed catalogs from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe.
Every previous Suno model is now retired. If you used Suno last week, you were using a model allegedly trained on scraped, copyrighted music. This week, you're using Warner's licensed catalog.
The lawsuits forced the switch
Warner, Sony, and Universal sued Suno in 2024 for copyright infringement. Warner settled in 2025. BMG signed a deal last month. The others are still suing.
Suno's chief product officer Jack Brody says v6 was trained on licensed Warner music, user-generated content, and technical learnings from the old models. Music from Believe artists and BMG's catalog is being added now.
Suno says this isn't just a data deal — it's revenue sharing with rightsholders, though financial terms remain undisclosed.
Two million people are paying
Suno hit two million paid subscribers and three hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue as of February 2026. Over one hundred million people have used the platform since launch.
Paid tiers start at eight dollars a month. The free tier now gets v6-mini, which Suno claims beats competitors' best paid models — but you can't download tracks or use them commercially without paying.
What just changed
You still type a prompt. You still get a song. But the training data now has contracts, lawyers, and revenue splits attached. The labels that spent two years suing Suno are now its suppliers and partners.
If you're an independent musician whose work trained the old models without permission or payment, you got nothing. The new models moved on without you.