Moises vs Suno

Suno's center of gravity is generation. You type a genre, mood, theme or your own lyrics and get a finished track with vocals; paid plans run v6 and v6-wild, Free runs v6-mini. The recent updates push it further toward a production tool: Suno Studio is a browser DAW with multitrack arranging, MIDI export, effects and automation, and the October Studio update moved Clip Settings to a left sidebar with a new Clip Info panel, added auto-stretch for imported audio and semitone-and-cent pitch tuning. Voices records a few seconds of your voice and has it sing your lyrics, and custom models (trainable on your own recordings) can be shared on Premier at 2x the input. A beta MCP connects Suno to Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code, so you can create songs conversationally. Albums let you publish a body of work with follower push notifications.

Moises does the inverse. It ingests audio you already have and separates it into up to 27 stem types — vocals, guitar, bass, drums, piano, keys, winds, strings — which the vendor describes as running on world-class Hi-Fi models. Around that it layers musician-facing utilities: Chord Finder, key detection, a Speed Changer that alters tempo without shifting pitch, Lyric Transcription, section navigation, Capo Mode, transpose, setlist organization, and Video Recording with studio-quality audio for socials. It runs as browser plus desktop and mobile apps; Suno's app coverage in the data is browser plus iOS. For dense, heavily compressed mixes, Moises itself flags separation artifacts as a limit.

Both are freemium, but the gating differs. Suno lets Free users generate with v6-mini and upload up to 8 minutes of audio, and every paid tier caps downloads monthly — the vendor's own 'not for' list names unlimited downloads as unavailable. Feature tiers matter more than the headline price: Pro unlocks v6 and v6-wild, Auto and Split-from-mix stem separation, the ability to share custom models is Premier-only at 2x inputs, 8-minute uploads on Free and Pro versus 30 minutes on Premier, and Advanced split separation is Premier-only. Premier's core value is locked behind Suno Studio, so anyone unwilling to learn the browser DAW is paying for something they won't use. Collaboration is also tiered: invite-only workspaces with a shared song library arrived for Pro and Premier, while sharing custom models with collaborators is Premier. Moises' static data lists no dollar figures, so the honest comparison is structural — Moises bundles practice, chord, tempo and recording tools into the same subscription that delivers separation, while Suno bundles generation plus a DAW and stems for its own output. If you mostly separate third-party audio, you are paying Suno for a generation engine you may not need; if you mostly generate, Moises won't produce a single note.