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Head to head
Suno vs Soundraw: a singer against a soundtrack
One makes songs, the other makes the music under your video. The scores are further apart than the tools are.
Casey Lindstrom
Short answer
Not really a comparison. If somebody sings, Suno. If the music sits under something else, Soundraw, and it is cheaper, freer to try and safer to cancel.
Suno
81out of 100
- Output quality
- 27/30
- Vocals and language
- 17/20
- Rights and licensing
- 12/20
- Value
- 13/15
- Export and workflow
- 12/15
Soundraw
68out of 100
- Output quality
- 21/30
- Vocals and language
- 2/20
- Rights and licensing
- 18/20
- Value
- 14/15
- Export and workflow
- 13/15
The five criteria behind the two totals. The gap is almost entirely the vocals bar, which is the point.
| Suno | Soundraw | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 10 USD a month, 8 annually | 5.99 USD a month, 17.49 for WAV and stems |
| Vocals | Yes, the best in this test | None at all |
| Free tier | 50 credits a day, no download | Unlimited generation and previews, watermarked download |
| Rights after cancelling | Nothing made on the free tier was yours anyway | Everything made while paying stays licensed |
| Track length | Extendable, not in one pass | 5 minutes |
| Score on my rubric | 81/100 | 68/100 |
Where the scores come from
Soundraw scores 2 out of 20 on vocals and language, and that is not a criticism: it does not claim to sing. Take that row out and the two tools are much closer than the totals suggest. What is left is a tool built for a video editor against a tool built for a songwriter, and the right answer is whichever describes your afternoon.
What Soundraw does better
The free tier, first. Unlimited generation and previews means you build the exact track your edit needs, hear it against the picture, and only pay when you already know it works. Suno gives fifty credits a day and no way to take a file out of the building.
The licence, second. What you made during a paid month at Soundraw stays licensed after you cancel. Boomy and Mubert tie rights to a running subscription; Soundraw is the clearest licence in this test and the reason it is the one I recommend for anybody building a catalogue of video work.
The price, third, at 5.99 USD against ten. WAV and stems cost 17.49 USD, which is the number to check if you mix properly rather than dropping a stereo file under a timeline.
What Suno does better
It sings, and it sings better than anything else in this test. It sits a voice inside a dense mix rather than on top of it, and it returned a usable first take more often than any other tool across the same forty briefs. If the thing you are making has words in it, this comparison ends here.
It is also the tool people mean when they say "AI song generator". Soundraw is a music tool. The two words matter.
Which to pay for
Background music for videos, podcasts, streams or an app: Soundraw. A song with a chorus somebody will remember: Suno, or Udio if you will want to fix one line. Neither, if what you want is a finished personal song and no software at all: that is a different purchase entirely.
For the whole field, including the five tools not on this page, the the best AI music generator ranks all eight on the same rubric.
Questions people ask
Is Soundraw better than Suno?
For background music under video or a podcast, yes, and it is four dollars cheaper. For anything with a singer, no: Soundraw does not produce vocals at all.
Is Soundraw free?
Generation and previews are unlimited on the free tier and every download is watermarked. Commercial use starts at 5.99 USD a month and, unusually, survives cancellation.
Sources outside this site
- U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (January 2025)
- Music Business Worldwide, Warner Music Group strikes deal with Suno and settles its copyright lawsuit (25 November 2025)
- TechCrunch, YouTube will now automatically label AI videos (27 May 2026)
Casey Lindstrom
Writes and tests everything on this site
I have written about music software since 2014, first for a regional print weekly and since 2019 on the web. I pay for every subscription on this site out of my own pocket, run each tool through the same brief before I write a word about it, and keep the raw exports so I can go back and check myself.