Lyria 3.5 songs per $100: Google 1,250 vs Sume's 800

$100 buys 1,250 Lyria 3.5 songs at Google's $0.08 per song and 800 tracks at Sume's fixed $0.125, a $4.50 gap per 100 songs.

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At Google's list of $0.08 per song, $100 buys 1,250 Lyria 3.5 songs. Sume bills a fixed $0.125 per music track (the provider list of $0.10 plus Sume's margin), so $100 buys 800 tracks, and every 100 songs cost $4.50 more.

Songs per budget (read 2026-10-04)
BudgetGoogle Lyria 3.5 ($0.08)Sume Music ($0.125)
$1012580
$1001,250800
$5006,2504,000

What the Sume price covers

Sume's Music Router charges the same fixed price per generation whichever engine answers, with lyria-3.5 and lyria-3-pro among the routable ids. See the Music Router docs and the rate card.

The Google price

Google lists Lyria 3.5 at $0.08 per song on its Gemini API pricing page. That page also lists a cheaper 30-second Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0.04; Sume does not list that one.

Recompute it in Python

Songs per budget at each price. The numbers are the ones in the table above.

budget = 100
print(int(budget / 0.08), int(budget / 0.125))

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