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Lyria 2 by Google AI — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Feb 18, 2026
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Lyria 2 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 40.0% across 20 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 6 challenges.

Lyria 2

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Google DeepMind's production music generation model available via Vertex AI. Generates 32.8-second instrumental clips at 48kHz from text prompts. Supports negative prompts to exclude unwanted elements and deterministic generation via seed parameter. All output is SynthID-watermarked.

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Lyria 2Ambient Electronic Track
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Lyria 2Jazz Piano Improvisation
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Lyria 2Thunderstorm Ambience
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Lyria 2Cinematic Orchestral Trailer
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Lyria 2Lo-fi Hip-Hop Beat
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