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Lyria 3.5

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Music generation, full-length songs. Google's Gemini API release notes for September 3, 2026 read "Lyria 3.5 in public preview: Released the next generation of Google's music generation model: lyria-3.5" - one model id, singular, and the reason status is preview rather than ga. Best for full-length songs with distinct verses, choruses and bridges; duration is a couple of minutes and is controllable from the prompt, including timestamped structure. Text AND image inputs through the Interactions API - a change from Lyria 3, which this catalog carries as text-in only - and 44.1 kHz high-fidelity stereo output, MP3 by default with WAV available via response_format. Billed per request at $0.08 per song, paid tier only with the free tier listed as "Not available", so the per-token price fields are N/A rather than unknown. No deprecation and no shutdown date announced: the deprecations table lists it with release date September 3, 2026 and "No shutdown date announced". CORRECTION 2026-09-05, and it replaces two rows. On 2026-09-04 this catalog published lyria-3-5-clip-preview and lyria-3-5-pro-preview, read from a pricing-page listing that stood for about a day. Those two ids appear on NO Google surface today - not the release notes, which named only lyria-3.5 on the day of the launch; not the pricing page; not the music-generation guide, which now states the Lyria family as exactly two models, lyria-3-clip-preview and lyria-3.5; not the deprecations table. They were withdrawn as our own error rather than retired - Google never declared a shutdown for them - so this is a correction and it generates no changelog event (LEARNINGS #48). Google's pricing page heads the surviving Lyria 3 pair "Google's family of legacy music generation models" and its deprecations table names lyria-3.5 as the recommended replacement for lyria-3-pro-preview, but publishes no lifecycle date for either Lyria 3 endpoint, so those rows keep status preview.

Lyria 3.5 by Google is tracked live in our LLM catalog. It is in preview.

Last verified: 26 Sep 2026 · sourced from official provider documentation

Provider
Google
Status
Preview
Input price
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Output price
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Cached input
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Blended price
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Context window
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Max output
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Modality
text-in, image-in, audio-out
Open weights
No — API only
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
3 Sep 2026
API string
lyria-3.5

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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FAQ

Lyria 3.5 — questions & answers

Is Lyria 3.5 deprecated?

No — Lyria 3.5 is in preview and not currently scheduled for deprecation or retirement in our tracker.

Does Lyria 3.5 support image or vision input?

Yes — Lyria 3.5 accepts image input. Listed modalities: text-in, image-in, audio-out.

Can I self-host Lyria 3.5?

No — Lyria 3.5 is proprietary. Its weights are not publicly released, so it is available only through Google's API (or hosted partners), not for self-hosting.

What is the API model string for Lyria 3.5?

The API model identifier for Lyria 3.5 is "lyria-3.5" when calling Google's API.