# Lyria — AI Compare Ninja

> Google DeepMind's music model for full songs with vocals, accessed via the Gemini API, Vertex AI, or embedded in Google Flow Music.

## Overview
- **Category:** Audio & Voice (Music generation)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active via the Gemini API and Vertex AI (Preview). It is also active as an end-user feature in Google Flow Music, the Gemini app, and YouTube Shorts Dream Track.
- **Paid from:** 0.04 USD / Use-based (Gemini API - Lyria 3 Clip Preview)
- **Free access:** No free plan published (There is no free tier in the Gemini API. Free access for end users is only available through Google Flow Music with a Google account.)
- **Website:** https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/lyria

## What it does
- Full songs with multilingual vocals, verse-chorus structure, and song length up to several minutes (Lyria 3.5)
- Image-to-music: upload an image and have it turned into a matching track
- Lyria RealTime generates instrumental music as a stream with up to 2 seconds of latency
- Direct API access for developers via the Gemini API and Vertex AI, with no consumer interface of its own
- Every output carries the inaudible SynthID watermark to flag it as AI-generated
- Free end-user access only embedded in Google Flow Music, the Gemini app, or YouTube Shorts Dream Track

## In brief
Lyria is Google DeepMind's family of AI music models for songs with vocals, full song structure, and image-to-music generation. Unlike Suno or Udio, Lyria has no pricing page of its own: access runs through the Gemini API, Vertex AI, or embedded Google products like Flow Music.

Through the Gemini API, a 30-second clip costs $0.04 and a full song with Lyria 3.5 costs $0.08, with no free tier. Anyone who just wants finished songs needs no API account: Google Flow Music is free to start with a Google account, and more quota comes via a Google AI subscription from €4.99 per month.


## Limits
Lyria has no dedicated purchase page of its own; it is a model with three access paths: the paid Gemini API (no free tier), the Vertex AI enterprise API (Preview status), and embedding inside free-to-paid Google consumer products like Flow Music. Anyone calling Lyria directly pays per generated song or clip; anyone who just wants finished songs needs no API access, only a Google account and, for more volume, a Google AI subscription.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini API - Lyria 3 Clip Preview | 0.04 USD | Use-based | 30-second clip per call; No free tier; Access only through the paid Gemini API tier |
| Gemini API - Lyria 3.5 | 0.08 USD | Use-based | Full song with vocals, several minutes long; Up to 10 reference images as input; MP3 output by default, WAV selectable |
| Google AI subscription (consumer) | Not verified for this market | Month | Lyria embedded in Google Flow Music, the Gemini app, and YouTube Shorts Dream Track; No separate Lyria price, part of the Google AI Plus/Pro/Ultra allowance; Google AI Plus from €4.99, Google AI Pro €21.99, Google AI Ultra from €99.99 per month |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/music-generation
- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing
- https://one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans/

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/lyria*