GoogleFastFreeReleased 30 March 2026
Lyria 3 Clip Preview pricing, context and benchmark
30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip.
1.05M
Input context
66K
Output context
Free
Official input
Free
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | Lyria 3 Clip Preview |
| Model ID | google/lyria-3-clip-preview |
| Provider | |
| Release date | 30 March 2026 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Output context | 65,536 tokens |
| Official input pricing | Free per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | Free per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | Free per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | Free per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text · image |
| Output modalities | text · audio |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Provider routes | 1 endpoint |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | Free in |
| Image | ✓ yes | no | Free in |
| Audio | no | ✓ yes | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is Lyria 3 Clip Preview?
30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip.
Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API.
With Lyria 3, you can generate...
Lyria 3 Clip Preview carries a 1.05M token window, uses the Other tokenizer and is served by Google. On Hoodgen it sits in the Fast tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released30 March 2026
| Property | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Lyria 3 Clip Preview | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released | 2026 | 2026 | Same release window |
| Context | 1.05M | 1.05M | Unchanged |
| Max output | 66K | 66K | Unchanged |
| Input price | $0.25 | Free | Cheaper |
| Output price | $1.5 | Free | Cheaper |
| Input modalities | text, image, video, file, audio | text, image | Unchanged |
| AA index | n/a | n/a | Newer benchmark run |
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
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Seeds
A seed can be pinned so the same prompt is reproducible across test runs.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with Lyria 3 Clip Preview?
High volume drafts
Captions, titles, product blurbs and rewrite passes where cost per call dominates.
Inline assistants
Autocomplete, quick replies and menu helpers that must answer inside a second.
Batch classification
Tagging, routing and extraction across thousands of short inputs.
Cheap agent loops
Tool calling loops that do not need frontier grade reasoning.
09 · Pricing
Lyria 3 Clip Preview pricing
Official pricing
List price
Free / 1M in
Free / 1M out
- 1.05M context
- text, image input
Cheapest route
Free / 1M in
Free / 1M out
- 1 route on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | standard | Free | Free | n/a | 100.0% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 1 |
| List price | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 1 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | google/lyria-3-clip-preview |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | max_tokens · response_format · seed · temperature · top_p |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image->text+audio |
| Max prompt tokens | 1,048,576 |
| Max completion tokens | 65,536 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/lyria-3-clip-preview",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Output cap | 65,536 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
| Depth ceiling | Fast tier: strong on throughput, weaker than flagship tiers on long multi step reasoning. |
| Rate limits | Free routes are rate limited by the provider, so heavy batch jobs should use a paid route. |
12 · Comparison
Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs other Google models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyria 3 Clip Preview | 1.05M | Free | Free | n/a | 2026 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 1.05M | $2 | $12 | n/a | 2026 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 1.05M | $2 | $10 | 50 | Oct 2026 |
| Gemini 4 Carbon | 1.05M | $2 | $10 | n/a | 2026 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | 1.05M | $2 | $12 | n/a | 2026 |
| Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | 131K | $2 | $12 | n/a | 2026 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Google and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
Lyria 3 Clip Preview questions, answered
Lyria 3 Clip Preview is a fast model from Google, released 30 March 2026. 30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip.
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