Full-length songs are priced at $0.08 per song. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API. With Lyria 3, you can generate high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio from text prompts or from images. These…
Model details →Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview vs MiniMax: MiniMax-01
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
MiniMax-01 is a combines MiniMax-Text-01 for text generation and MiniMax-VL-01 for image understanding. It has 456 billion parameters, with 45.9 billion parameters activated per inference, and can handle a context of up to 4 million tokens.…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 1.0M | 🏆 Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.00 | $0.20 | 🏆 Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.00 | $1.10 | 🏆 Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | — | — | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview better than MiniMax: MiniMax-01?
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview and MiniMax: MiniMax-01?
Input: $0.00 vs $0.20 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.00 vs $1.10 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview and MiniMax: MiniMax-01 support?
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. MiniMax: MiniMax-01 supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview and MiniMax: MiniMax-01 support tool calling?
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview: not advertised. MiniMax: MiniMax-01: not advertised.