Comparison / Verified 19 August 2026
Mureka O2 vs Suno in 2026
mureka is the one people find after they hit suno's edges. it separates stems 5 and 12 ways, exports midi, clones voices, fine-tunes a custom model, and exposes all of it through an api. suno still sings better. which of those two facts matters more depends entirely on what happens after the track exists.
Free to start / No credit card / exclusive commercial rights on paid plans on paid plans
Best toolkit after generation
Mureka O2
5-stem and 12-stem separation, midi export, region editing, song extend, remix, and fine-tuning, all available through an api.
Best vocal performance
Suno
the most natural pop and r&b delivery in the category, with Voices and custom models trained on songs you own.
Where you pick
Sonura
the studio where you choose the model instead of being handed one, with stems on every plan and exclusive rights on paid plans.
Open it free01 / Spec sheet
Side by side, no marketing
every row below is checkable against a public source, and it is the same table on every page here, so nothing gets quietly reworded to suit an argument.
| Specification | Mureka O2Kunlun Tech | SunoSuno |
|---|---|---|
| Current model | O2, with V7.5 still selectable | v5.5 |
| Shipped | V7.5 July 2025, O2 current | 26 March 2026 |
| Longest run | full songs, with extend and region edit | full songs, extendable in the app |
| Vocals | yes, plus voice cloning on paid plans | yes, plus Voices for a reusable voice and custom models trained on your own catalogue |
| Stems | yes, 5-stem and 12-stem separation | up to 12 stems, but only inside Suno Studio on the top plan |
| Files out | audio and midi | wav, per-clip wav, and midi out of Studio |
| Training data | not disclosed | a licensing deal with Warner Music, with other label litigation still unresolved |
| Commercial use | paid plans | paid plans only |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Where it runs | web app and api, with fine-tuning for a custom model | web and mobile app |
| Run it in Sonura | no, it only runs inside Mureka | no, it only runs inside Suno |
02 / Head to head
Where each one actually wins
Stem separation
Mureka takes it5-stem and 12-stem separation on any track you upload, with quality on par with dedicated separation tools.
up to 12 stems, but only inside Suno Studio, and only on the top plan.
MIDI export
Too close to callyes, alongside audio, which means the part goes into your daw as notes you can rewrite rather than audio you can only cut.
midi comes out of Suno Studio, so it is there, behind the same top-plan gate as everything else in Studio.
Vocals
Suno takes itlyrics-first with MusiCoT, and the O2 model is the best mureka has shipped, but suno is still the reference.
the strongest vocal delivery available, and the thing suno is genuinely hardest to beat on.
Voice cloning
Too close to callavailable on the Pro plan, and straightforward to use once you are on it.
Voices lets you clone or reuse your own voice, with ownership verification required first.
Custom models
Mureka takes ita fine-tuning api, so you can train a model properly rather than nudge one, and call it from your own software.
train a variant on at least six songs you own and verify, then generate biased toward your sound. simpler, less controllable.
Building it into software
Mureka takes ita real api covering generation, extend, region edit, and stem extraction, plus soundtrack generation from image and video.
a consumer product with an api story attached, rather than an api product with a consumer app attached.
Editing a finished track
Suno takes itregion editing, song extend, remix, and lyrics video, so an almost-right take is fixable in place.
Suno Studio is a genuine browser daw: take lanes, eq, faders, pan, warp markers, time signatures, and Remove FX.
Community and documentation
Suno takes itmuch thinner. you will be reading official docs rather than two years of forum posts about meta-tags.
the largest body of shared prompting knowledge in the category, and it compounds.
a tally is not a recommendation. the rows that matter are the ones that touch what you are trying to ship.
03 / The catch
What the feature lists leave out
Mureka is what suno looks like if you optimise for after
suno spent its effort on the generation step and it shows: the vocal is the best in the category and that is what most people are buying. mureka spent its effort on everything that happens next. separation into 5 or 12 stems, midi out, region edits, extend, remix, fine-tuning, and an api that exposes all of it.
so the honest framing is not "which is better", it is which half of the workflow you actually struggle with. if getting a good take is your bottleneck, suno. if getting a good take apart is your bottleneck, mureka.
Separation is not the same as stems
worth being precise, because the feature tables blur it. mureka's 5-stem and 12-stem features are separation: you hand it a finished mix and a model pulls the parts back out. it works well and it is genuinely useful, and it is still a reconstruction of parts that were mixed together, not the parts themselves.
that is fine for remixing, sampling, and rescuing something you already have. it is not the same as a tool that gives you the bassline as its own recording because it was never glued to anything. if you have ever heard separation artefacts on a busy chorus, you know the difference.
The fine-tuning gap is bigger than it looks
both offer a "custom model". suno's version asks for at least six songs you can prove you own and gives you a private variant biased toward your sound. mureka exposes an actual fine-tuning api.
for one artist chasing a signature sound, suno's is easier and probably enough. for a studio, a label, or a product that needs a repeatable house sound across hundreds of generations, the api version is the one that can be versioned, tested, and called from your own code. that is a different category of tool wearing the same feature name.
04 / Pick one
Which one is yours
Go with Mureka O2 if you
- /need stem separation without paying for a top-tier plan to get it
- /want midi out so parts arrive as notes rather than audio
- /are calling music generation from your own software through an api
- /want to fine-tune a model properly rather than nudge one
- /need region editing, extend, and remix on tracks you already have
Go with Suno if you
- /want the best vocal performance available today
- /want a real multitrack editor in the browser rather than a set of endpoints
- /benefit from a large community and two years of prompting knowledge
- /are making songs to release rather than building a system
- /prefer one polished product over a deeper but rougher toolkit
05 / In Sonura
The models you can actually choose
Mureka O2 only runs inside Mureka. Suno only runs inside Suno. that is the deal a closed platform offers: one model, one interface, and whatever their roadmap decides next.
Sonura songs mode lets you choose. MiniMax Music 3.0, Stable Audio 3, ElevenLabs Music v2, and Google Lyria, on the same prompt, then stems out into Ableton, Logic, or FL Studio through the AU and VST3 plugin, with exclusive commercial rights on every paid plan and no royalty splits.
Models in songs mode
- MiniMax Music 3.0 the newest open-weights song model, and the first you can run on your own hardware end to end.
- Stable Audio 3 a sound-design toolkit first and a song model second, trained only on data it is allowed to use.
- ElevenLabs Music v2 the licensing-first model, with a rights story built before the product shipped.
- Google Lyria 3.5 the cloud-native option: strong structural control, wrapped in google cloud terms and a watermark.
- Stems on every plansplit any track into parts you can chop and mix, free included.
- Inside your DAWAU and VST3 for Ableton, Logic, and FL Studio.
- Free to start10 loops, 20 one-shots, and 2 full tracks, no card.
06 / FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Is Mureka better than Suno?
mureka is better at everything after generation: 5-stem and 12-stem separation, midi export, region editing, extend, remix, and a fine-tuning api. suno is better at generation itself, particularly vocals, and it has a genuine browser daw and a much larger community. pick based on which half of your workflow is the bottleneck.
Does Mureka export stems and MIDI?
yes to both. mureka offers 5-stem and 12-stem separation on uploaded tracks with quality comparable to dedicated separation tools, and exports midi alongside audio. suno also exports midi and up to 12 stems, but only inside Suno Studio on the top plan.
What is the latest Mureka model?
O2 is the current model, with the best audio quality and musical coherence mureka has shipped, and V7.5 from july 2025 is still selectable. mureka is made by Kunlun Tech and takes a lyrics-first approach using MusiCoT.
Can I clone a voice in either one?
yes. mureka offers voice cloning on its Pro plan. suno offers Voices, which lets you clone or reuse your own voice after verifying you own it. both are gated behind paid tiers.
Which has the better API?
mureka, clearly. its api covers track generation, song extension, region editing, and stem extraction, plus fine-tuning for a custom model and soundtrack generation from image and video. suno is a consumer product first, so mureka is the easier one to build software on top of.
Is separated stems the same as real stems?
no. separation reconstructs parts from a finished mix, which works well and still leaves artefacts on dense material. generating parts separately in the first place avoids the problem entirely, which is how sonura works: loops, one-shots, and stems that were never glued together.
Own your sound
make the loop, the vocal, or the whole track, then take the parts into your DAW and release it as yours. free to start, no card needed.
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