Lyria
GoogleLyria is Google DeepMind's music generation model line, which produces full-length songs with vocals and instrumental clips from text prompts. It is served through the Gemini API and in Google products including Gemini, YouTube Shorts and Flow, alongside a real-time variant for interactive generation.
Magenta RealTime, which Google describes as its open Lyria model, is a separate open-weight release and is not part of this entry.
Openness
1 high confidence- weights
- closed(no weights are distributed
- data
- closed
- code
- closed
- license
- Proprietary(Gemini API terms, which bar attempts to extract or replicate the model)
Lyria is available only through Google's API and apps, and Google's terms forbid extracting the model. Google has released a separate, smaller open model, Magenta RealTime, but no Lyria weights, data or code.
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/music-generation recorded 2026-09-26
"Lyria 3.5 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API."
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms recorded 2026-09-26
Gemini API terms: users may not "reverse engineer, extract or replicate any component of the Services".
- https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/ recorded 2026-09-26
Model page: "Try in Gemini", "Try in YouTube Shorts"; "Magenta RealTime Our Lyria open model" is listed as a separate release.
Adoption
not assessedGoogle publishes no usage figure for Lyria, and a hosted model has no download count, so no reading was possible.
- https://deepmind.google/models/lyria/ recorded 2026-09-26
Model page, read for a usage disclosure: none published.
Capability
4 medium confidenceLyria places just below the top three on the instrumental music arena and above every downloadable model. Suno holds the two places above it on both boards.
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/music/leaderboard/instrumental recorded 2026-09-26
Leaderboard entries "Lyria 3 Pro" (rank 4, Elo 1081.9) and "Lyria 3.5" (rank 6); the downloadable "Stable Audio 3 Medium" is rank 13.
Verified 2026-09-26