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Lyria 3 Pro Preview: pricing, context and benchmarks
Lyria 3 Pro Preview is a language model from Google released on March 30, 2026. It is offered free of charge on OpenRouter, with a 1M-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
| Price | 30/30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 14/15 | |
| Features | 3/15 |
What you need to know about Lyria 3 Pro Preview
Lyria 3 Pro Preview was released by Google (United States) on March 30, 2026. It accepts text and images as input and produces text and audio. Its context window reaches 1,048,576 tokens, larger than 93 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 65,536 tokens in one go.
It has been available for about 7 months, long enough for its prices and scores to have settled.
Lyria 3 Pro Preview pricing
Lyria 3 Pro Preview is free on OpenRouter. Free variants usually have strict rate limits and can be withdrawn without notice: keep a paid fallback model for regular use.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Lyria 3 Pro Preview. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
- It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
Its weights are not published: it can only be used through the Google API or a broker such as OpenRouter, which means sending your data off your machines.
Other Google models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Argon | Oct 13, 2026 | $4 | 166.5 |
| Nano Banana 2.1 | Oct 6, 2026 | $3 | — |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Sep 2, 2026 | $1.65 | 157.4 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | Aug 13, 2026 | $1.5 | 158 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Jul 21, 2026 | $1.5 | 154.5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Jul 21, 2026 | $0.85 | 144.9 |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.56 | — |
| Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.13 | — |
Verdict
Lyria 3 Pro Preview scores 78/100 on our grid, which only uses published figures.
Strengths
- Usable for free on OpenRouter.
- Very large context (1M tokens): long documents or a whole codebase fit in one request.
Limitations
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Free version is rate-limited with no availability guarantee.
Avoid if…
- your data must not leave your servers;
- you are building an agent that must call tools.
Alternatives
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731$0.07
- Summarize$0.03
- Extract$0.03
- Laguna S 2.1$0.11
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423$0.11
- Qwen3.7 Flash$0.06
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Lyria 3 Pro Preview cost?
Lyria 3 Pro Preview is free on OpenRouter as of October 25, 2026, with rate limits.
How big is Lyria 3 Pro Preview's context window?
1,048,576 tokens, roughly 786,000 words, with a maximum of 65,536 output tokens.
Can Lyria 3 Pro Preview run locally?
No, Google does not publish its weights: it is API-only.
Is Lyria 3 Pro Preview suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to Lyria 3 Pro Preview?
The closest models on price and performance are DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Summarize, and Extract.
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