Deliverable ad music on a US$10 monthly budget
Udio currently cannot deliver a downloaded track, so it fails the brief. Suno Pro fits the monthly price, but two official pages differ on creation-time and download-time licensing, and a paid download is not automatic clearance for an earlier free creation. Stable Audio’s help lists a 0:30 option and permits Free-plan commercial advertisements and client projects subject to its terms. A finished file, the applicable rights, free allowance and total cost have not been tested; its explainer lists Solo at $12/month without an ISO currency or applicable region. No option has been verified against every requirement.
Latest source row read 2026-11-02
The task
Spend no more than US$10 for one month, without annual prepayment, to produce a 30-second advertising track, download the audio and hand it to a client with the commercial permission that use requires.
Candidates
Meets the documented conditions is not the same as a completed task: it means the conditions listed in the official pages are satisfied, and the limits below still apply.
Suno Pro
Unconfirmed; not recommended yetThis month: US$10 a month fits the budget; US$8/month is the annual-billing equivalent and is not used here.
Includes 2,500 monthly credits and 20 monthly downloads, with extras billed separately. Creating from material you have rights to during a paid subscription and downloading through an approved channel is a workflow to verify, not a done deal.
- The actual 30-second file, its format and the client-use scope remain unchecked.
- Do not promise that earlier free songs can be used commercially.
Suno Free and earlier free creations
Does not meet this taskThis month: Free is US$0, with no monthly song-download allowance and no commercial rights.
The free workflow does not meet the task. Upgrading does not automatically license songs created earlier; an individual exception may be granted but is not guaranteed, so client advertising use stays out until there is specific confirmation.
- The retroactive-rights FAQ is dated 17 December 2025 and describes creation-time conditions.
- The newer page describes commercial rights by download during a subscription, while the earlier FAQ uses creation-time conditions. Do not infer that an earlier free song is licensed without resolving this conflict or obtaining specific confirmation.
Udio
Does not meet this taskThis month: The current monthly checkout price was not verified this round, and a price would not resolve the download restriction.
Does not meet the task: audio, video and stem downloads are all disabled in the current official explanation, so online creation and listening cannot produce a deliverable file.
- Listening in the product is not a download.
Stable Audio
Unconfirmed; not recommended yetThis month: The official explainer lists Solo at $12/month, without stating an ISO currency or applicable region. Free-plan allowance, actual checkout and the credits needed to complete this task remain unverified.
Keep this option unconfirmed. The official documentation lists a 0:30 web length option and full WAV export. Its licensing help permits Free-plan outputs for commercial advertisements and client projects, subject to the Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy; applicable rights and any client sublicensing still need review. A successful generation, exact duration, free allowance and total cost were not tested.
- The $12/month Solo figure does not establish its currency code, eligible region or actual checkout; Free availability and task consumption are unverified.
- Instrumental composition and sound effects are the documented scope; intelligible lyrics and sung vocals are not the target, so a sung advertising jingle is a different tool’s job.
- The licensing help lists Stable Audio 3.0 Small and Medium as Core Models under the Community License: qualifying commercial users must register, and exceeding US$1M in annual revenue individually or with affiliates requires a separate licence. Check the applicable licence for other self-hosted models.
Keep creation, download and licensing apart
The current terms require downloads through approved channels and restrict jointly owned Remixes, made through the user-remixing feature the terms define, to personal non-commercial use unless a separate offering says otherwise. That restriction is specific to those Remixes: it is not a blanket ban on editing your own audio, and a normal paid subscription does not remove it.
Before delivery
Record the plan in force when the track was created, the download date and the permission you are relying on. Confirm any earlier free-song exception with Suno, then inspect the format and the real 30-second length against what the client asked for. Keep the terms version you read. We have not generated this deliverable or verified sublicensing, and commercial permission does not guarantee the work is protected by copyright.
Where every claim comes from
Each link was opened and read on the date shown. The note describes what that page actually supports.
- Suno - pricing ↗
Free lists $0, no monthly song downloads or commercial rights. Pro shows the $8 annual-billing equivalent, 2, 500 monthly credits, 20 downloads and purchasable extra credits/downloads. Monthly price is separately supported by the rights FAQ; taxes are calculated at checkout.
- Suno - monthly billing and retroactive rights ↗
The register previously recorded the December 17, 2025 edit date. The body read today says paid upgrades do not automatically license earlier free songs; song-specific retroactive exceptions may be offered but are not guaranteed. Plans start at $10/month, with an annual discount.
- Suno - paid benefits and downloads ↗
The 3 September 2026 explanation that describes commercial rights by download during a subscription - the other half of the conflict with the earlier FAQ.
- Suno - terms of service ↗
Terms effective September 3, 2026 require the necessary rights and permissions for uploaded material; the registered approved-download and jointly owned Remix personal/non-commercial conditions remain separate from a paid-plan price.
- Udio - download changes ↗
States that audio, video and stem downloads are disabled on the current service.
- Stability - hosted pricing and licensing explainer ↗
The explainer lists Solo at $12 per month with 660 credits and says exports have no download cap while subscriptions meter generation. It does not state an ISO currency or applicable purchase region; actual checkout and Free-plan allowance remain unverified.
- Stability - the Stable Audio web studio ↗
Full Mix with local edits and extension, exporting a full WAV, a ZIP containing separate track audio files or a shareable session link; the studio is described as early beta.
- Stability - Stable Audio 3 prompt guide ↗
The documented uses are instrumental composition, sound effects, audio-to-audio, section regeneration and extension; intelligible lyrics and sung vocals are not the target.
- Stability - Stable Audio credits and lengths ↗
The web length picker lists Auto, 0:30, 1:00, 1:30 and 3:00. A new Full Mix session costs 4 credits; mixing, editing and exporting do not consume generation credits. Actual generation and exact output duration were not tested.
- Stability - Stable Audio commercial usage licensing ↗
Commercial use, including advertising and client projects, is permitted for Free-plan outputs subject to the Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. For self-hosting, the page lists Stable Audio 3.0 Small and Medium as Core Models covered by the Community License: qualifying commercial use requires registration, and exceeding $1M in annual revenue individually or in aggregate with affiliates requires a separate licence. Check the licence for other models. The page does not verify the task output, client sublicensing or free generation allowance.
- Stability - community licence and self-hosting ↗
Commercial self-hosting of the Core Models requires registration, and the community licence terminates once you or an affiliated entity pass US$1M in combined annual revenue.