# Suno 107 Hacker News commenters recommended Suno and 80 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1 years (6 owners). **Verdict:** Turns prompts, lyrics or hummed melodies into polished full songs, letting non-musicians make music, though critics find the output generic and note audio artifacts and weak lyrics. ## Why people recommend it - Polished, musical arrangements and vocals (6 comments): "the arrangements and solos that Suno has generated from my uploaded pieces much more creative and even human than most" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876674)) "I find the arrangements and solos that Suno has generated from my uploaded pieces much more creative and even "human"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887022)) "the model is very, very musical, and the resulting arrangements, melodies and instruments/voices are just great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994651)) - Non-musicians can finish songs (5 comments): "Signed a hobbyist human songwriter who has a hate and minor like for Suno as im not a good singer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49664520)) "lets individuals, who otherwise don't have the skill, to make catchy songs with silly lyrics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738060)) "sometimes when I want to hear what my song COULD be if I were good at every one of those" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247608)) - Builds songs from your melodies (4 comments): "Suno is the ONLY one that you can reliably pass in a 20-30 second melody and get something reasonably interesting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954763)) "it's also fun to take stuff out of Ableton and run it through Suno, to get real vocals and such" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017507)) "I hummed a melody that came to mind and it materialized it into a full band-backed song." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045595)) - Fun personalized and silly songs (4 comments): "it came back with a K-pop-style anthem that had a super catchy melody and lyrics that made my wife and me laugh out loud" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419883)) "we had a blast last time with my five year old shouting nonsense at Suno and having it make some cool songs out of it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324020)) "Worked out well for the most part, only way I'm ever going to hear music with themes for some of niche things I like" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664062)) ## What people warn about - Sounds generic, nothing to say (4 comments): "no matter how I change the genre, lyrics, etc. there's some underlying quality I can't quite name that my brain recognizes and quickly gets tired of" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435909)) "Suno generated music has a very unpleasant feeling of sounding like competent music with nothing to say." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800561)) "suno produces 7m "professional" songs per day. Can't think of a better example of a slop generator." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435753)) - Audio artifacts and detuned sound (3 comments): "It still has some weird things going on with high frequency artifacts and phase between left and right channels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938490)) "Sound quality doesn't seem to have improved, especially the grand pianos still sound detuned." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628960)) "Sound quality is better than Suno (less compression/alias artefacts, more transparent)!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856736)) - Struggles with new or niche genres (2 comments): "Try getting Suno to write a song in a new genre. Even if you tell it EXACTLY what you want, and provide it with clear examples, it won't be able to do it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927443)) "Suno's incapable of making psytrance, which is mind-boggling as that is an intensely repetitive, machine-like genre" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437441)) - Lyrics and editing are weak (4 comments): "It took me about 4 hours to get the lyrics just right, rewriting them (without AI help, it's terrible with lyrics), plugging them in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502045)) "the melody is usually pretty decent but the lyrics tended to be distractingly boring and cringe" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967404)) "I’m not sure this kind of detailed editing can easily be done with such AI tools anytime soon." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617064)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [ElevenLabs Music](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elevenlabs-music-v2-5.md): 10 recommend - [Google Flow Music](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-flow-music.md): 9 recommend - [Lyria](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lyria-3.md): 8 recommend - [ACE-Step 1.5](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ace-step-1-5.md): 6 recommend - [Stable Audio 3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stable-audio-3.md): 6 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://suno.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Suno", https://hackerapproved.com/p/suno/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).