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AI music

Generate songs on your own computer instead of a Suno plan.

Badge key
  • Fully free / open source. A standard open-source license.
  • Free tier. The product has a free plan.
  • Free app, paid API. The app is free to install. Making something still costs money.
  • Unofficial: use at your own risk. Someone else built this. It can break. Back up your files.
  • Early. Not a finished replacement.
  • Not yet tested by us. Listed from the project page. Not a hands-on test.
  • Tested by us. We ran it on our own machine. The card has the result.

Song generation

Open music models you run yourself. Suno's free plan has no commercial rights. Pro and Premier include commercial use.

What it costs

  • Suno

    • Free $0/month
    • Pro $10/month, or $8/month billed annually
    • Premier $30/month, or $24/month billed annually

    List prices checked , Pacific time. Official pricing page.

Free alternatives that best fit

Best overall free pick: ACE-Step 1.5

ACE-Step 1.5

  • Fully free / open source
  • Tested by us

ACE-Step 1.5 is a local music model, the best overall free pick if you want songs without a Suno plan. The 2B model is the lighter one. XL is the larger, higher-quality model. You run it on your own computer.

Tested on CPU. Made a 30-second instrumental in about 45 seconds after switching it to half precision. The default setup needs about 10 GB of free RAM.

Replaces
Suno
Price
Free
License
MITMIT for the code and the weights.
Hardware
6 GB of VRAM or less for the 2B model. The XL model needs 12 GB with offload.
Maintained
Updated October 11, 2026.

Repository

YuE

  • Not yet tested by us

YuE is an open song generator you run yourself. The code is Apache 2.0. The weights are CC BY-NC 4.0: individual creators may monetize what they make, and a company needs a commercial license. It needs a large NVIDIA graphics card.

Replaces
Suno
Price
Free
License
Code Apache 2.0; weights CC BY-NC 4.0 (creators may monetize their outputs; companies need a commercial license)
Hardware
A 24 GB NVIDIA GPU.
Maintained
Updated October 6, 2026.

Repository