Suno
AI song generation from lyrics, a style, or your own sung tune. Free to try; downloading a song now needs the Pro plan.
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Suno (suno.com) writes and produces a full song from your lyrics and a style description, or from a tune you sing into your phone. Shluchim use it for Purim songs with the town's name in them, an upsheren song, a kids' rap for Hebrew school, a gentle niggun under a video, and voicemail greetings.
What it costs
Checked on the pricing page on October 21, 2026.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 credits a day, the free v6-mini model, upload up to 8 minutes of audio. No song downloads and no commercial rights. |
| Pro | $8/month billed yearly (more if paid month to month) | 2,500 credits a month, 20 song downloads a month, the v6 and v6-wild models, commercial rights, record and create with your own voice |
| Premier | $24/month billed yearly | 10,000 credits, 60 downloads a month, Suno Studio, adding new vocals or instruments to an existing song |
The change that matters: the old advice in the group was "free tier now" (November 2025) and "about $8 for production" (February 2026). Today the free plan lets you make and play songs but not download them. If you need the file for a Purim seudah or a video, plan on a month of Pro.
Suno's current models are v6 and v6-wild (paid) and v6-mini (free), released in September 2026.
How members use it
- Lyrics first. Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for lyrics with local details: the town, the year's theme, the names of the people being honored. For a Jewish melody, ask it to write new words to an existing tune.
- Make the song. Paste the lyrics into Suno with a style ("upbeat klezmer, male choir, 120 bpm"). Generate several versions and keep the best.
- Keep your own tune. Record yourself singing the niggun, upload it, and use Suno's cover or remix tools so the new song keeps your melody. A shliach said the result "rivals Tzama" and worked even for an obscure niggun (November 2025). In May 2026 a member added: upload a voice note of you singing the tune with the new words, so Suno fits the lyrics to it.
- Fix the Hebrew. Suno reads Hebrew words in English text the Israeli way or garbles them. Spell them as they should sound (
Khabad,samayakh,Shabbos) or type them in Hebrew letters; one member also tried nekudos. A member made a full Hebrew song in June 2026.
What it is good and bad at
From members' reports in 2026:
- Good: upsheren songs, soft background niggunim, voicemail greetings ("brilliant," August 2026), Purim parody songs, a kids' rap (April 2026).
- Weak for narration. Use ElevenLabs for spoken audio.
- Hard to keep a recorded voice over a simple music bed. Suno tends to write a new song around it instead (August 2026).
- A refused posuk. In August 2026 Suno refused a pasuk as "copyrighted lyrics." The admin's guess was that a copyrighted song uses the same words. Rephrase, or set a few words at a time.
- Consistency across a set of songs is hit or miss; keep the style text identical between songs.
The Sefirah question
In April 2026 the group admin noted that Suno can turn any song into an a cappella version, and members asked whether such a track counts as music during Sefiras HaOmer. One member had heard of an opinion that is strict even on recorded a cappella; another argued that a computer is a כלי נגינה "if it sounds like one." Others said there are many opinions. The thread ended without a conclusion.
In November 2025 a member asked whether AI music has a problem because it was trained on non-Jewish music. The replies were jokes, not answers.
The group has not discussed the Three Weeks or the Nine Days. Whether an AI-made or a cappella track is permitted during Sefirah or the Three Weeks is a halachic question: ask your rav.
Related tools
- Moises: separates vocals, drums and other parts from a song; members use it to strip vocals (February 2026).
- An a cappella converter that a member called "really good" (April 2026). Its free limits are not published.
- ElevenLabs: spoken narration and voice cloning. It also has a music generator the group has not reviewed.
- Audio to sheet music: a ChatGPT-suggested route is BasicPitch (audio to MIDI) and then MuseScore (MIDI to printable sheet music). Nobody in the group reported testing it.