Music · Head-to-head

ElevenLabs vs Lyria 3.5

ElevenLabs vs Lyria 3.5: pricing, features, and which to pick in 2026.

The verdict

Pick ElevenLabs if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 9.2 vs 8.4)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→your primary use case is creators, publishers, and developers who need realistic tts or cloning, and teams that want claude or claude code to manage elevenlabs agents over hosted oauth.
→you need: content-creation, media, development

Try ElevenLabs →

Pick Lyria 3.5 if…

Both are credible in this slot.

Try Lyria 3.5 →

Spec	ElevenLabs	Lyria 3.5
Category	Music	Music
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Free $0 (10k credits) + Starter $6/mo (30k) + Creator $22/mo (121k, first month $11) + Pro $99/mo (600k) + Scale $299/mo (1.8M) + Business $990/mo (6M) + Enterprise custom. Credits are shared across products. Annual is 10 months prepaid.	Free tier via Google Flow Music; paid access through Google AI subscriptions — check website for current pricing
Free tier	10,000 credits per month, non-commercial, no rollover. Shared across products. elevenlabs.io/pricing 28 Aug 2026.	Yes — Google Flow Music includes free access to Lyria generation, with usage limits set by Google's AI plan tiers rather than a separate music quota.
AI Score	9.2/10	8.4/10
Best for	Creators, publishers, and developers who need realistic TTS or cloning, and teams that want Claude or Claude Code to manage ElevenLabs agents over hosted OAuth.	—
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	content-creation media development	—
Date added	2026-04-30	2026-07-30

Music · freemium

✓Still the realistic-voice default for TTS and short-sample cloning
✓Hosted MCP with OAuth in Claude and Claude Code, so agents can be managed in the assistant you already use
✓Shared credit pool is at least honest: one budget across speech, music, and dubbing
✓Commercial license starts at Starter ($6/mo)

×Credits are shared, so music or dubbing will eat the TTS budget faster than the headline number suggests
×Free is non-commercial and does not roll over unused credits
×MCP is documented for Claude and Claude Code today — other assistant logos on the marketing page are not a ship claim
×Starter is $6/mo now, not the $5 we previously published

Music · freemium

✓Free to try inside Google Flow Music — no separate subscription to evaluate the model
✓SynthID watermarking gives verifiable provenance, which matters for commercial and platform use
✓Sits alongside Google's video tooling, so scoring generated footage happens in one place
✓Backed by DeepMind's research pipeline, with a track record of steady Lyria iteration rather than one-off releases

×Not a standalone product — you get it through Flow Music or an API, not a dedicated music app with a library and sharing
×No published spec sheet or independent benchmark at launch, so quality claims over Lyria 3 are Google's word for now
×Suno and Udio have far more mature consumer workflows for song iteration, stems and community sharing
×Commercial-usage rights depend on which Google surface and plan you're on, which is less clear-cut than dedicated music tools' licensing