Lyria
Ranked 4 of 8 AI music generators by recommenders
Google's AI music model, praised for great-sounding results, especially alongside manual sound design. Critics say it often ignores instructions and trails Suno.
Google's AI music model, praised for great-sounding results, especially alongside manual sound design. Critics say it often ignores instructions and trails Suno.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 62%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good-sounding music output
“You can already get great results with the current version using Lyria and manual sound design separately.”
Comment from 27 Apr 2026 in “New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1” “honestly not bad progressive death metal song with female vocals alternating growling and melodic”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do” “This is impressive and a perhaps an unsurprising competitor to companies like Suno”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “Lyria 3” - Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “Lyria 3”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Quality behind Suno
“Quality is like... Suno v3? Maybe v4 if I'm being generous?”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “Lyria 3” “it seems way behind Suno v5”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Lyria 3”
Other AI music generators people recommend
The four most recommended other AI music generators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suno | 107 | 80 | 57% | 12 | 1 yr6 owners | — |
| ElevenLabs Music | 10 | 10 | 50% | 1 | — | — |
| Google Flow Music | 9 | 26 | 26% | 1 | — | — |
| LyriaThis page | 8 | 5 | 62% | 5 | — | — |
| ACE-Step 1.5 | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it might be worth testing Suno/Lyria to see if they're able to do this”
“Trying to make some music via Lyria, I need to wait 10-12 hours for the API charge to show in my costs.”
“honestly not bad progressive death metal song with female vocals alternating growling and melodic”
“You can already get great results with the current version using Lyria and manual sound design separately.”
“everything I prompted ended up sounding like a robotic top 50 pastiche”
“even though it does tend to completely ignore instructions from time to time”
“it seems way behind Suno v5”
“Quality is like... Suno v3? Maybe v4 if I'm being generous?”
“most importantly it is watermarked as ai created”
“This is impressive and a perhaps an unsurprising competitor to companies like Suno”
“The music sounds great, but there's a reason most of the samples are non-english.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.