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AI Music Generation Cost Calculator

Tell it how many songs you need a month and whether you need a commercial licence. It picks the cheapest qualifying plan on Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs Music, and Mubert, then shows the effective cost per song in both USD and Sri Lankan rupees. Free, no signup, sources cited.

By Induwara AshinsanaUpdated Jun 9, 2026
AI music plan cost comparison

Whole finished tracks you need to download each month.

Rs

CBSL daily indicative rate. Edit to match your bank or Wise/Payoneer.

Volume presets

Longer tracks burn more credits, so they shrink each plan's monthly song allowance. Mubert is track-based and unaffected.

4 of 4 providers selected.

Cheapest for you
$10.00/mo
Suno · Pro · Rs 3,000/mo
Effective cost per song
$0.5000
≈ Rs 150 per song · 20 songs/mo
Annual @ cheapest
$120.00
≈ Rs 36,000/yr · 54.55% cheaper than the priciest pick
ProviderCheapest planSongs/moCost / songMonthly USDMonthly LKR
Suno Cheapest
ProCommercial
500$0.5000$10.00Rs 3,000
Udio
StandardCommercial
1,200$0.5000$10.00Rs 3,000
Mubert
CreatorCommercial
500$0.5995$11.99Rs 3,597
ElevenLabs Music
CreatorCommercial
33$1.10$22.00Rs 6,600

Monthly cost per provider (USD)

Suno
$10.00
Udio
$10.00
Mubert
$11.99
ElevenLabs Music
$22.00

Bars compare the full billed monthly cost (plan price × seats needed). Cost per song in the table divides that by your requested volume — the real metric to rank on.

All math runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded; no account needed. Sources cited below the tool.

How it works

AI music services price in credits, not songs, which makes comparing them genuinely confusing. This calculator normalises every provider to a single number you can act on: the effective cost per song you actually need. The methodology is the same for all four providers, and every plan price and allowance is hand-verified against the vendor pricing pages cited at the bottom of this page (last checked 2026-06-09).

For each provider, the steps are:

  1. Filter by licence. If you require commercial use, drop the non-commercial tiers (Suno Basic, Udio Free, ElevenLabs Free, Mubert Ambassador) — they forbid selling or monetising the output.
  2. Convert credits to songs.A plan's monthly song allowance is floor(monthly_credits ÷ credits_per_song). Suno costs ~5 credits/song (10 per generation, two songs each), Udio ~10, and ElevenLabs Music ~3,000 because a full track is credit-heavy. Mubert is priced per downloadable track, so it uses a flat track allowance instead.
  3. Adjust for length. A short clip costs about half the credits of a standard 2–4 minute track; an extended track needs a continuation pass, roughly double. The length selector scales credits-per-song accordingly (Mubert, being track-based, is unaffected).
  4. Pick the cheapest plan that covers you.Among qualifying plans whose allowance ≥ your requested songs, choose the lowest-priced one. If no single plan covers your volume, the tool surfaces the largest plan and flags how many subscriptions ("seats") you would need — it never silently picks a plan that falls short.
  5. Compute the real per-song cost. cost_per_song = (plan_price × seats) ÷ songs_you_need. This divides by what you actually need, not the plan's theoretical maximum, because you pay the whole subscription either way.
  6. Convert to rupees and rank. monthly_lkr = monthly_usd × usd_to_lkr_rate (default CBSL indicative, editable). Providers are ranked by cost per song ascending; the top row is your recommendation.

As a credibility check, the calculator re-derives every plan's song allowance straight from its published credit pool and compares it to the figure used in the math. That credit→song cross-check, run live on this page, currently passes.

Worked-example self-test (computed live on this page) — each line reconciles the formula above with the hand-derived numbers in the code header:

  • A · 20 songs · commercial · Suno Pro → cost/song $0.5000 (got $0.5000)
  • A · 20 songs · commercial · Udio Standard → cost/song $0.5000 (got $0.5000)
  • A · 20 songs · commercial · ElevenLabs Creator → cost/song $1.1000 (got $1.1000)
  • A · 20 songs · commercial · Mubert Creator → cost/song $0.5995 (got $0.5995)
  • B · 800 songs · commercial · Suno Premier → cost/song $0.0375 (got $0.0375)
  • B · 800 songs · commercial · Udio Standard → cost/song $0.0125 (got $0.0125)
  • B · 800 songs · commercial · Mubert Business → cost/song $0.2500 (got $0.2500)
  • C · 0 songs · commercial · Suno (cost per song 0) → cost/song $0.0000 (got $0.0000)
  • D · boundary 500 songs · commercial · Suno Pro → cost/song $0.0200 (got $0.0200)
  • E · 1,000,000,000 songs · commercial · Suno Premier (500,000 seats) → cost/song $0.0150 (got $0.0150)
  • F · 20 songs · commercial · short length · Udio Standard → cost/song $0.5000 (got $0.5000)

Out of scope for v1: live price scraping (brittle and against most vendors' terms — quarterly hand-verification is more honest); annual-billing discounts (monthly billing only); per-stem or per-second micro-pricing; and any judgement on music quality or licensing law. This tool prices plans; it does not rank sound or give legal advice. If AI music is one line item in a wider model budget, the AI TTS Cost Calculator and AI Image Generation Cost Calculator use the same USD-and-LKR, sources-cited approach for the other halves of the stack.

Worked examples

Hobby creator · 20 commercial songs/month · standard length

A Colombo YouTuber posting a few Reels a week, USD→LKR at Rs 300. Commercial licence required.

  1. Suno Pro: 2,500 credits ÷ 5 = 500 songs ≥ 20 → $10/mo. Cost/song = $10 ÷ 20 = $0.50 (Rs 150)
  2. Udio Standard: 12,000 credits ÷ 10 = 1,200 songs ≥ 20 → $10/mo. Cost/song = $0.50 (Rs 150)
  3. ElevenLabs: Starter (10 songs) too small; Creator 100,000 ÷ 3,000 = 33 ≥ 20 → $22/mo. Cost/song = $1.10
  4. Mubert Creator: 500 tracks ≥ 20 → $11.99/mo. Cost/song = $11.99 ÷ 20 = $0.60
  5. Cheapest: Suno Pro and Udio Standard tie at Rs 3,000/mo ($0.50/song).

Ad agency · 800 commercial songs/month · standard length

A small agency producing many client deliverables. USD→LKR at Rs 300. Commercial licence required.

  1. Suno: Pro covers only 500 < 800 → Premier (10,000 ÷ 5 = 2,000) covers → $30/mo. Cost/song = $30 ÷ 800 = $0.0375 (Rs 11.25)
  2. Udio: Standard 1,200 ≥ 800 → stays on $10/mo. Cost/song = $10 ÷ 800 = $0.0125 (Rs 3.75)
  3. Mubert: Creator and Pro cap at 500 < 800 → Business (1,000 tracks) → $199.99/mo. Cost/song = $0.25
  4. ElevenLabs: needs 800 tracks → Business (11M ÷ 3,000 = 3,666) → $1,320/mo. Cost/song = $1.65
  5. Cheapest: Udio Standard at Rs 3,000/mo — the larger $10 allowance avoids a tier jump.

Edge case · 5,000 commercial songs/month · standard length

Volume beyond any single plan — the tool flags multi-subscription rather than under-quoting.

  1. Udio Pro: 48,000 credits ÷ 10 = 4,800 songs < 5,000 → does not cover on one seat
  2. Seats needed = ceil(5,000 ÷ 4,800) = 2 → billed = $30 × 2 = $60/mo (flagged '×2 seats')
  3. Suno Premier: 2,000 < 5,000 → seats = ceil(5,000 ÷ 2,000) = 3 → $90/mo
  4. Cost/song (Udio, 2 seats) = $60 ÷ 5,000 = $0.012 (Rs 3.60) — still the cheapest path
  5. Takeaway: at this scale you are buying multiple subscriptions or negotiating overage, and the tool says so instead of hiding it.

Frequently asked questions

Sources & references

Pricing was last cross-checked against each vendor's pricing page on 2026-06-09. AI music pricing moves frequently — the table is reviewed regularly and whenever a vendor announces a tier change. Spotted a stale row? Email the address below — most fixes ship within 24 hours.

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