Suno caps downloads and adds watermarks under Warner Music deal

Free accounts get seven downloads total — not per month, but for the lifetime of the account. Paid tiers scale from there: the $8 Pro plan allows 20 downloads a month and unlocks commercial licensing rights for tracks, meaning a paid download actually comes with permission to use the song commercially, while the $24 Premier plan raises the monthly cap to 60. Premier subscribers who use Suno Studio, the platform’s production suite, keep unlimited downloads regardless of the new cap.

Every download will carry watermarking and fingerprinting technology going forward, built according to CEO Mikey Shulman to hold up under everyday edits like re-encoding or clipping a track down, without being audible to a human listener. Alongside the audio watermark, Suno is also attaching machine-readable transparency data to files, noting where and how each track was generated. The goal isn’t to make the change noticeable to listeners — it’s to let streaming platforms and other systems identify AI-generated tracks automatically.

The changes trace back to a settlement Suno reached with Warner Music Group on November 25, 2025, which resolved litigation between the two companies and set up a licensing arrangement for future model training. Warner’s own announcement stated plainly that Suno’s current models will be deprecated once new models trained specifically on licensed content are ready, expected sometime in 2026, though no firm release date has been confirmed as of this writing.

That settlement addresses only one front. Suno is still fighting active lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony over allegedly training on copyrighted recordings without permission, lost a German copyright case brought by the licensing body GEMA in late July 2026, and faces a separate Massachusetts lawsuit over a data breach that reportedly exposed personal information belonging to more than 55 million users.