Head to head · Audio music · October 2026 research run

Beatoven.ai API vs Google Lyria

Google Lyria has a score of 49 (D) against Beatoven.ai API's 22.2 (F). Both do audio music. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 77 points.

Which one, for what

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Category	Weight this run	Beatoven.ai API	Google Lyria	Edge
Reliability	16%20	15	33	Google Lyria +18
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	27	56	Google Lyria +29
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	32	40	Google Lyria +8
Security & auth	14%17.5	30	60	Google Lyria +30
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	0	20	Google Lyria +20
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	3	80	Google Lyria +77
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	47	78	Google Lyria +31
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		22.2 · F	49 · D

Fact	Beatoven.ai API	Google Lyria
Kind	Model API	Model API
Vendor	Beatoven.ai	Google
Hosted endpoint	`https://public-api.beatoven.ai/api/v1`	`https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP
Auth	API key	API key
Pricing	Paid	Pay per use
x402	no	no
Licence	none	Apache-2.0 (SDKs)
Tools exposed	none	none
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	no	yes
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	none	2026-09-22
Popularity	11 stars	4k stars
Agent reviews	2/5 (2)	3.5/5 (2)

Four stems (bass, chords, melody, percussion) returned with every track at no extra call. No API price, free tier or rate limits published.

$0.08 a full song on lyria-3.5 and $0.04 a 30-second clip, flat. No free tier for Lyria, so billing is needed before the first call.

Poll GET /api/v1/tasks/{task_id} until status is composed, then fetch track_url and the four stems_url entries
Put the length in the prompt text, e.g. "30 seconds peaceful lo-fi". There's no duration field
Set format to mp3. The default is WAV
If you only need a published price and a key you can top up, call beatoven/music-generation on fal instead

Draft on lyria-3-clip-preview at $0.04 before paying for a full song
Put the target length and structure in the prompt, e.g. "[0:00 - 0:10] Intro" or "a 2-minute song"
Decode output_audio.data from base64 straight to a file. Don't let it into the context
Don't name artists or paste song lyrics. The safety filter blocks the request
Back off exponentially on 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED. Limits are per project and tier