What a three-minute AI song costs: ElevenLabs, Lyria and Sume

A three-minute song costs $0.45 through the ElevenLabs Music API at $0.15 per minute, $0.08 on the Gemini API with Lyria 3.5 at $0.08 per song, and $0.125 on Sume's Music Router, which is a fixed price per generation.

The arithmetic

What the price does not include

The ElevenLabs price is per minute, so a five-minute song is $0.75. Lyria's is per song and its length is set through the prompt. Sume's is per generation, with no duration field. Plans, licensing terms and download limits differ and are outside this table.

• Suno is subscription-priced, not per call.
• Rejected prompts still need a rewrite and a second call.
• Joining parts adds $0.01 per Timeline audio job.

Try the Sume call

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/music-router/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: cost-song-001" \
  -d '{
    "model": "sume/music-auto",
    "prompt": "Upbeat indie pop, 118 BPM, G major. Bright guitars, handclaps, warm bass. Verse-chorus arc. Instrumental."
  }'

Choosing

Pick on length and rights first, price second; the gap on one song is cents.