The stack, and what each piece is for.

The creative one. Ideas, images, lyrics, looks.

Reach for it when you need

• +Brainstorming song titles, hooks, concepts and catchphrases
• +Lyric drafts and alternate lines you then rewrite in your own voice
• +Album cover and artist-look ideas, and the images themselves

Free tier; Plus around $20 a month for image generation and the better models.

The technical one. Research, analysis, structure, and honest answers.

Reach for it when you need

• +Research: audiences, keywords, platform rules, commercial-use terms
• +Reading a spreadsheet export and explaining what the audience is doing
• +Analyzing why a song works: structure, hook placement, participation

Free tier; Pro around $20 a month.

The studio, once you know what you are making.

Reach for it when you need

• +Producing a finished-sounding song from a style prompt and your lyrics
• +Adding a vocal to your own uploaded instrumental
• +Covers and extensions of a demo in a new voice or style

Free tier is not for commercial release; paid plans start around $10 a month. Check the current terms.

Paste lyrics, get Suno's tags, delivery notes, checks and the style box.

Reach for it when you need

• +Tagging sections the way Suno reads them
• +Catching the misfires: uneven verses, long lines, digits, differing choruses
• +Building the eight-slot style box from your Sound Bible

Included with any track.

Consistent characters for covers, portraits and video stills.

Reach for it when you need

• +A recurring artist character that looks the same on every cover
• +High-resolution album art and YouTube backgrounds
• +Image-to-video stills for visualizers and shorts

Credits; from about $12 a month.

Titles, thumbnails, cover text and everything that needs a template.

Reach for it when you need

• +Putting the title and artist name on a cover
• +YouTube thumbnails with big readable text
• +Lyric cards, quote posts and story graphics

Free; Pro around $15 a month for brand kits and resizing.

Shorts, captions and the clips that carry the song.

Reach for it when you need

• +Cutting the strongest 15 to 60 seconds into a vertical clip
• +Auto captions and lyric text on screen
• +Cook-up videos, reveals and breakdowns for producers

Free; Pro for extra effects.

Every creator who used a sound, in one table. Then the lane study across sounds.

Reach for it when you need

• +Seeing who actually uses a song in your lane, and whether they are everyday users or big accounts
• +Reading hashtags and captions to find the moment people attach the song to
• +Building the warm list of everyone who used your own sound

Included: five lookups a month on every plan.

What people type into YouTube, whether it is growing, and who ranks.

Reach for it when you need

• +Turning a seed phrase into the real queries people type, from YouTube's own autocomplete
• +Seeing whether interest is rising, steady or falling in YouTube search over the last year
• +Reading who ranks for a phrase, how big they are, and the title shapes that win

Included: three free analyses on every account, thirty a month on every plan.

The same signals packaged with estimates and channel tracking.

Reach for it when you need

• +Search volume and competition for a keyword or phrase
• +Seeing which titles rank for a term before you write yours
• +Tracking your own channel against similar ones

Free tier; paid from about $20 a month.

The audience's answer, in numbers.

Reach for it when you need

• +Views, streams, saves, shares, retention and traffic sources after release
• +Which section of a video people rewatch
• +Where listeners come from and what else they play

Free with the platforms.

The record onto Spotify, Apple, YouTube Music and TikTok.

Reach for it when you need

• +Releasing singles on a schedule with correct credits and metadata
• +Getting your sound onto TikTok and Instagram
• +Managing a growing catalog under one artist or producer name

Around $23 a year for unlimited uploads on the base plan.