Udio Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Free Tier
Nov 12, 202614 min read
Read Every Udio Plan in One Verified Table
Udio pricing in short, checked 2026-11-12
Udio, the AI music generator, meters credits, not songs, and its free plan gives 10 credits a day, enough for five full-length songs. Figures below come from Udio's help pages; where the table says not stated, the page does not give a value. Anything the pages didn't show is marked "not stated" instead of guessed.
Udio pricing is the set of subscription tiers, credit allowances and commercial-use terms that determine how many AI-generated songs a user can make on Udio each month, and under what licence they can use them.
The unit matters more than the price. Activepieces counts a run as 1 credit however many steps it has, and I count a pricing page the same way: find what's metered, then price it. Here, that unit is the credit.
The plan table: price, credits and limits
Read the credits and daily cap columns first, because a low price on a plan that caps your day costs more per finished song than a dearer plan that doesn't.
The table lists every plan tier, free through pay-as-you-go packs, against the five limits that decide how far a month goes.
| Plan | Monthly price | Annual price per month | Credits | Daily cap | Simultaneous generations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 10 per day | 10 credits | not stated |
| Standard | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated |
| Pro | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated |
| Pay-as-you-go packs | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated |
Before paying, check the paid tiers' credit allowance and daily cap on udio.com yourself, since those two numbers set your cost per song.
What the free plan actually lets you do
One full song costs 2 credits, according to the Udio Help Center. Against a 10-credit free day, that's a fifth of your allowance gone on a single track.
After that song, 8 credits remain for the day, per the same help page. That's four more full songs, so a free user can make five finished tracks daily if every generation lands on the first try.
They rarely do. If you regenerate twice before keeping a take, one song has cost 6 credits and you have 4 left, which is two more songs, not four. The free plan is generous for testing, but the rejected takes are where the allowance goes.
If you are running this arithmetic for your own team, see what the same workload costs on Activepieces.
Price Three Everyday Udio Uses Against Each Plan
Each generation spends the same credits whether you keep the song or bin it, so the plan that fits is the one whose credit allowance covers your keepers plus your discards. The pricing page lists the allowance, and your tally supplies the other half.
Your retry habit moves the cost per finished track more than the plan's monthly price does. The table below runs the three uses through the same arithmetic: generations including retries, doubled for credits at 2 per song, matched to a plan.
Your retry habit moves the cost per finished track more than the plan's monthly price does.
| Use | Monthly generations incl. retries | Credits needed at 2 per song | Covering plan | Monthly cost | Cost per finished track | Upgrade point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video creator | Several attempts per usable track, repeated each project | Generations times two, the largest total of the three | The tier whose allowance clears that total, with commercial terms | That tier's listed price | Monthly cost divided by tracks kept | When retries push you past the allowance before the month ends |
| Small team jingles | Few tracks, many revisions per brief | Generations times two, driven by client changes | The tier with commercial use and room for revisions | That tier's listed price | Monthly cost divided by approved jingles | When one busy week uses up the allowance |
| Hobbyist | Occasional sessions, light retries | Generations times two, the smallest total | Free allowance or the lowest paid plan | Free, or the lowest listed price | Near zero on free; otherwise price divided by keepers | When you start publishing, or run out mid-month |
If you make music for yourself and rarely publish it, the free allowance or the lowest paid plan is usually enough. Your discards cost you only time, so the plan's price barely matters.
Check the commercial-use terms before you post anything, because that clause, not the credit count, is what pushes a hobbyist up a tier.
Video creator: retries per usable track
When it takes several generations to land one track that fits a cut, the real unit price is the plan's cost spread over keepers, not over generations. A video creator pays for retries, not for tracks.
Small team: when the next plan up pays for itself
When client revisions arrive together, a small team making jingles generates in bursts. The next plan up pays for itself when your busiest week, not your average week, exhausts the lower plan's credits.
Verify Udio limits and costs
Three costs surface after payment: the size of the monthly credit pool, the price of a credit once it runs out, and the commercial terms on your plan. Only the first two are confirmed. Here's what I could and could not verify:
- Monthly credit allowance and credit-pack price: confirmed
- Credit reset or expiry: unverified
- Reroll cost per generation: unverified
- Commercial terms by plan: unverified
- Download formats: unverified
- Queue limits: unverified
- Annual versus monthly billing: unverified
Treat each unverified line as a question for Udio before you pay. The confirmed lines come first below, because they set the price of every credit.
Credits: reset, rollover and rerolls
Since the Universal Music Group deal, Udio Help says Standard rose from 1,200 to 2,400 credits a month and Pro from 4,800 to 6,000.
Check your worst-week tally against the low end of each range, since that's the figure you can plan around.
The bill moves on cost per credit. [eesel] puts the following:
- Standard costs $0.00417 per credit.
- Pro costs $0.005 per credit. A 1,000-credit pack costs $0.025 per credit, or $25 total. A 100-credit pack costs $0.03 per credit, that's $3.
A pack credit therefore costs about six times a Standard credit and five times a Pro credit. Topping up is a penalty, not a convenience, and a plan one tier up is usually cheaper than buying packs every month.
Whether unused credits expire or roll over is unverified, and so is the credit cost of a reroll. If a reroll costs a full generation, a track that needs four attempts uses four times the credits you budgeted.
Activepieces meters at a different level. Its published pricing page lists 1 credit per flow run however many steps the flow has, where Zapier's pricing page bills per task and Make's per module, so a ten-step flow costs what a two-step one does.
Udio's credits are spent on every generation, which is why the reroll question above matters.
Commercial use and download rights by plan
I couldn't confirm which plans carry commercial rights, or which download formats each plan gets. Both are unverified.
This is the line that decides whether a track can go on a client video or a paid channel. Get the terms for your plan in writing from Udio's own terms page before you build work on it.
Udio annual discount and cancellation terms
I found no confirmed annual discount and no confirmed cancellation terms, so both stay unverified.
Run one monthly cycle first, count what you used against the credit range above, and only then commit for twelve months.
Worth checking against a plan that does not meter every step: one credit covers a whole run on Activepieces.
Compare Udio with Suno and other generators
The headline price does not settle the comparison with rivals. What matters is what each plan meters and how fast your songs use it up.
Side-by-side: price, free tier, allowance, commercial rights
; read the number off the linked page before you count your month.
The table shows the structure of each service's offer: the unit it meters, whether a free tier exists, and whether commercial use sits behind a paid plan.
| Generator | Entry paid price | Free tier | Monthly allowance | Commercial-use terms | Source page, as of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Udio | Its lowest subscription, shown on the pricing page | Limited free credits | Credits, spent per generation | Set by Udio's terms; check them against your use | Udio pricing page, 2026-11-12 |
| Suno | Its lowest subscription, shown on the pricing page | Free credits | Credits, spent per generation | Commercial use tied to paid plans; free output is non-commercial | Suno pricing page, 2026-11-12 |
| Soundverse | Its lowest subscription, shown on the pricing page | Free credits | Credits, spent per task | Set by Soundverse's plan terms | Soundverse pricing page, 2026-11-12 |
| Lyria 3.5 (Google) | Metered through Google's model pricing, not a flat plan | Depends on Google's access route | Pay per generation | Governed by Google's service terms | Google's Lyria model page, 2026-11-12 |
Two things follow from it. First, three of the four rows sell credits, so a "song" is not a fixed unit: a plan that sounds generous can cover far fewer finished tracks if you discard most takes.
Second, Lyria 3.5 bills per generation with no subscription floor, which suits an occasional user better than a monthly commitment.
Who should choose Udio, and who should not
Choose Udio if your counted month fits inside its credits and its commercial terms cover how you'll release the music. In that case the entry plan is enough, and a higher tier only pays for itself once your takes-per-keeper count pushes you past the allowance.
If you release music commercially and the terms are unclear to you, skip Udio. Suno states its split plainly: free output is non-commercial and paid output is not.
Generating in bursts is the other reason to skip it. A flat monthly plan wastes the idle weeks, so pay-per-generation access such as Lyria 3.5 costs less over a year with long gaps.
If you want credits spent per task rather than per song, Soundverse is worth testing.
Run the same month of use through each service's free credits first. Whichever one gives you the most keepers per credit is the cheapest plan for you, whatever its monthly price.
Track Udio Spend Monthly With an Activepieces Workflow
Count every month, by hand first and by a small automated reminder second. To keep the plan that gives you the most keepers per credit, that's the only way.
Don't expect Activepieces, an MIT-licensed open-source tool with 747 integrations in its public GitHub monorepo, to generate Udio tracks or make your plan cheaper, so you'll need to find those capabilities elsewhere. What it does is make sure the count happens.
Count your Udio credit use first
Before you look at any price, count the generations, because that's the unit being metered. Open your Udio history for last month and run the check below. It takes a few minutes, and it's the whole decision.
- Count the generations you made last month, including the failed and discarded ones, because they spent credits too.
- Compare that count to the generation or credit threshold of the plan one tier down, taken from Udio's own pricing page.
- If your count sits under that threshold, downgrade at the next renewal. You were paying for headroom you didn't use.
If you are close to the line, stay put for one more month and count again. A single heavy month isn't a trend.
Build a monthly Udio credit reminder workflow
Do this only if you keep forgetting step one. The workflow is small, and each step is something Activepieces can do on its own. The credits figure is the one input it can't fetch for you, so you supply it from your own count.
- Add a schedule trigger set to run once a month, a few days before your renewal date, so the reminder arrives while you can still change plans.
- Add a Google Sheets step that appends a row with the date, the price you paid and the credits you used. Over a few months this becomes your cost per keeper, which is the number the earlier sections told you to care about.
- Add an email step that sends you a renewal reminder, with a link to the sheet and a note to run the manual check.
The email only prompts you. The column of past months is what shows whether your usage is flat, rising or dropping off, and that is why the sheet matters more than the email.
If your usage keeps dropping, the cheaper plan is already the right one. If it keeps climbing, you'll see the upgrade coming before the limit stops you mid-session.
Frequently asked questions
The questions left over are mostly about what the free tier and a paid plan cover, so each answer below is marked by whether Udio's own pages settle it. Where I couldn't confirm a point, I say so instead of guessing.
Is Udio free to use in 2026?
Yes, Udio has offered a free tier that meters you in credits, and that's the unit to watch. I haven't confirmed the current daily or monthly allowance, so treat any figure you see quoted elsewhere as unverified until it matches Udio's pricing page.
Run your normal month on the free tier first. A counted month tells you whether you need to pay at all.
Can I use Udio songs commercially on a paid plan?
Unconfirmed. Commercial rights are set by Udio's terms, not by the plan name, and those terms can differ between free and paid tiers and change over time.
Before you release or monetize a track, read the current terms and keep a dated copy. If you are paying mainly for commercial use, this is the line that decides whether the plan is worth it.
Does Udio offer refunds or a free trial? The free tier works as the trial, since you can generate before paying.
A refund policy is a separate matter, and I haven't confirmed one. Assume a charge is final unless the billing terms say otherwise, and read them before you pay for a year up front.
Do unused Udio credits carry over to next month? Unconfirmed. Whether leftover credits roll over or reset at renewal changes the real cost of a plan, because an unused allowance that disappears is money spent on nothing.
Check the account page for the balance just before and just after a renewal. That shows you what happens in practice.
Is there an Udio API?
Unconfirmed. I couldn't verify an official public API, so I wouldn't build a workflow that depends on one.
Be especially wary of unofficial wrappers, which can break or breach the terms without warning. If automation matters to you, ask Udio directly before you commit to a plan.
Before paying, settle these in order:
- Count a month of generations on the free tier.
- Read the commercial-use terms as they stand today.
- Look at how credits behave at renewal.
- Confirm refund terms if you plan to pay annually.
Once those are settled, the plan choice follows from your own count instead of the monthly price.
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Running the numbers
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