When do Suno credits reset, and do they roll over?

Free plan credits reset once a day on UTC. Paid credits reset once a month at the exact time you subscribed, so a 3pm purchase means a 3pm refresh. And nothing rolls over: not from day to day, not from month to month. Those three sentences answer most of what people search for, and the rest of this page is the detail that decides whether you waste money.

Do Suno credits roll over? No, and the wording is exact

Suno states it on the pricing page without hedging: credits included in a subscription do not carry over from day to day or month to month.

Two consequences follow, and the second one is the expensive one.

An unused Premier month is gone. Ten thousand credits is not a balance accumulating in an account, it is a monthly allowance that expires. Subscribe in a month where life gets busy and you paid $24 for credits that evaporated on your renewal date.

Purchased top-up credits behave differently. They do not expire. But you need an active subscription to spend them, so cancelling leaves them stranded in the account, visible and unusable, until you subscribe again.

That asymmetry is the practical argument for buying add-on credits in a heavy month rather than upgrading a plan permanently. Add-ons keep. Plan allowances do not.

When exactly do they reset

Free plan. Up to 50 credits replenish once daily. Suno uses UTC for this so the timing is identical for everyone, which means your local reset hour depends on your offset. In Los Angeles that is late afternoon or early evening the day before. In Berlin it lands early in the morning. If you have ever been confused about why your credits appeared "at a weird time", that is why: the clock is not yours.

Pro and Premier. Credits replenish monthly, and the refresh follows your original purchase moment rather than the first of the month. Subscribed on 2 January at 3pm local time, and every refresh lands on the 2nd at 3pm.

The edge case worth knowing: subscribe on the 31st and your date tracks the end of the month. The 31st in months that have one, otherwise the 30th, and the 28th in February.

If a refresh has not arrived within 24 hours of when you expected it, Suno's own instruction is to contact support rather than wait it out.

What happens when you burn through a paid month

You do not get locked out. You get throttled.

Once the monthly allowance is spent, Pro and Premier accounts start receiving the same 50 credits a day the free plan gets, beginning the following day and running to the end of the billing cycle.

Then the order reverses at renewal: in a new cycle, the monthly allowance is used first, and the 50-a-day does not appear again until that allowance is exhausted.

This catches people who plan around the daily allotment. You cannot stack them. There is no month where you get 2,500 plus 50 a day. It is one or the other, in that order.

How many credits a song costs

Work it from Suno's own numbers rather than folklore. Pro's 2,500 credits are described as up to 500 songs, and Premier's 10,000 as up to 2,000. Both work out to five credits per song.

Since a standard generation returns two songs, one press of the button costs ten credits.

That arithmetic reframes the whole budget. On Pro you have roughly 250 generations a month. If a track takes you twelve attempts to get right, you are spending 120 credits on one song, and your 500-song plan is really a forty-song plan. Nothing about upgrading fixes that ratio.

The fix is upstream. Vague prompts are the single largest credit expense in most accounts, and a specific Style string with concrete instruments, production era and vocal treatment usually lands in two or three attempts instead of twelve. That is a 4x saving on the same subscription, which no plan change can match. If your prompts run on adjectives, the prompting guide and the style catalogue are the cheapest upgrade available.

How to check your balance and where the numbers live

Your credit count lives in your Suno account area, alongside the plan and billing details. It is the same place you go to see your renewal date, which is the number you actually need when planning a heavy week.

Two habits worth adopting:

• Check the renewal date, not just the balance. A balance of 400 means one thing on the 29th day of a cycle and something entirely different on the 3rd.
• Before starting a project that needs many iterations, confirm you are not about to cross into the 50-a-day trickle mid-session. Dropping to a daily allotment halfway through an arrangement is how projects get abandoned.

Free daily credits, and the honest limits of them

Fifty credits a day is five generations, or ten songs. Every day, forever, at no cost. As a place to learn prompting it is genuinely good.

It has one hard boundary that has nothing to do with volume. Songs made on the free plan carry no commercial rights, cannot be monetised, and subscribing later does not backdate a licence to them. If a song matters to you commercially, make it while subscribed. There is no way to fix this after the fact, which is the rights rule most people learn too late.

The download cap that arrives on 3 September 2026

From that date, downloads are capped monthly on top of credits: 20 songs on Pro, 60 on Premier.

For most people the credit budget stops being the binding constraint at that point. You can generate far more than you can export, so the workflow shifts: audition inside Suno, export only what survives. If you routinely download every variation to compare elsewhere, that habit gets expensive in a way credits never made it.

Which plan makes sense under those limits is a different calculation than it was a year ago.

Quick answers

Do Suno credits roll over? No. Included credits expire; purchased top-ups do not, but need an active subscription to use.

When do credits reset on the free plan? Once a day, on UTC.

When do paid credits reset? Monthly, at the same time of day you originally subscribed. Subscribing on the 31st tracks the end of each month.

How many credits per song? Five, based on Suno's own song-per-credit figures. A generation returns two songs, so one generation is ten.

What happens when I run out on Pro? You drop to 50 credits a day until the cycle renews.

Do daily and monthly credits stack? No. The monthly allowance is spent first; the daily allotment only appears after it is gone.

Can I buy more credits? Yes, on Pro and Premier. Purchased credits do not expire but require an active subscription.

My credits did not arrive. Suno asks you to contact support if a refresh has not landed within 24 hours of the expected time.