Artlist AI Music Generator: Test Tracks, Credit Costs and Limits (2026)
Last verified: 2026-11-08
You describe a song, pick instrumental or vocals, and get a finished track from one of the AI tools in how Artlist works. On our Max Pro account a song starts at 300 credits on Lyria 3 Pro and 150 on Lyria 3.
Three Lyria 3 Pro test tracks
We ran two prompts on Lyria 3 Pro, one of them twice, with duration on Auto. Each track cost 300 credits.
Journey's Gentle Dawn, 2:09. Instrumental, default mix.
Warm cinematic instrumental for a travel montage: gentle felt piano, soft strings and light hand percussion, building slowly to a hopeful finish
Journey's Gentle Dawn, 2:56. Same prompt, Artlist Sound mix.
Neon Blue Coastline, 2:33. Auto Lyrics, Artlist Sound mix.
Upbeat indie pop song with a female vocal about packing a van and driving to the coast at sunrise, bright guitars, handclaps, big singalong chorus
How do you generate a song on Artlist?
- Open AI Music in the left menu of the AI tools.
- Describe the song. Name instruments, mood and how it should build.
- Choose Auto Lyrics, Custom Lyrics or Instrumental.
- Set duration, genre, mood, theme and tempo, or leave them on Auto.
- Press Generate.
Open a finished track with the arrow on its right to see its settings, prompt and lyrics. Auto Lyrics wrote the words from one sentence, with backing lines in parentheses.
Lyria 3 or Lyria 3 Pro?
| Lyria 3 Pro | Lyria 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting cost | 300 credits | 150 credits |
| Maximum length | 3 minutes | 30 seconds |
| Duration setting | Yes | No |
| Vocals, mix, genre, mood, theme, tempo | Yes | Yes |
| Image input | Yes | Yes |
Pick Pro for anything over 30 seconds. Our Artlist AI models list covers every other model.
Does a longer Pro track cost more?
No. Artlist quoted Lyria 3 Pro at 300 credits for a 1-minute track and 300 for a 3-minute one.
What does a 30-second Lyria 3 track give you?
We ran the travel-montage prompt from our first test on Lyria 3, set to Instrumental, for 150 credits. It came back as "Open Horizon Journey", 30.8 seconds long.
Artlist Sound defaults to on for Lyria 3 and off for Lyria 3 Pro. Check the mix each time you switch.
How do Custom Lyrics work?
Choose Custom Lyrics and a second box opens for the words. We wrote two short sections with section labels in brackets:
[Verse] Flour on the counter, the kettle starts to sing The street is still sleeping, the bell doesn't ring
[Chorus] Open the shutters, let the morning in Warm bread and coffee, here we go again
With this prompt, Lyria 3, 150 credits:
Light acoustic folk song with a warm male vocal, fingerpicked guitar and soft brushes, about opening a small bakery at dawn
Artlist titled it "Dawn's First Loaf". In the track's details our lyrics showed on one line, in Title Case, with the line breaks gone. Lyria 3 stops at 30 seconds, so a full song with your own lyrics needs Lyria 3 Pro.
Can Artlist make music from an image?
Yes. Attach a picture and the model writes to it. We gave Lyria 3 the bakery window picture from our image tests and a one-line prompt, "A song inspired by this picture", on Auto Lyrics. 150 credits.
It named the track "Golden Echoes" and wrote this:
Golden light on window signs Echoes from a different time A memory baked in morning light Fading slow into the night
Window signs, morning light and baking all turn up in the lyrics, though the prompt named none of them. The details panel keeps the picture under Reference image.
What does Remix do?
Use on a finished track has one option, Remix. It loads that track's prompt, model and settings back into the prompt box so you can change them and run again. On "Golden Echoes" it brought back the prompt, Lyria 3 and 30 seconds, but not the reference picture, and Generate asked 150 credits, the same as a new track.
How many songs does each Artlist plan buy?
Credits are shared across all AI tools, so these are the most you could make if every credit went to music, at the prices shown on our account. Artlist's "up to" song counts match the 150-credit model.
| Plan | Monthly credits | Lyria 3 (from 150) | Lyria 3 Pro (from 300) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Starter | 16,500 | 110 | 55 |
| AI Core | 40,000 | 266 | 133 |
| AI Creator | 80,000 | 533 | 266 |
On our account neither Lyria model carries the Unlimited mark, so each song used credits. Our page on Artlist AI credits shows how far a monthly balance goes. Our Artlist discount code adds 2 free months on annual plans, which lowers what each credit costs you.
What is Artlist Sound?
A toggle in the settings. Artlist describes it as its "professional production for a polished, high-end sound". Turning it on left the price at 300 credits.
What can't Artlist AI music do?
The Artlist Help Center lists these limits:
- No stems. The download is one mixed file. For stems, use tracks from the stock catalog.
- No song references. You can't upload a track to work from.
- No sound effects. Use the catalog's sound effects instead.
- No named artists, songs or lyrics in prompts. They may be blocked.
Generations that fail with an error don't use credits.
What file do you get?
Artlist's FAQ lists WAV at 48 kHz, 16-bit. All six files we downloaded end in .wav but contain 192 kbps MP3 audio at 44.1 kHz.
Can you use Artlist AI music commercially?
The Artlist Help Center says AI outputs are yours, including for commercial use and after your subscription ends, as long as you follow the license terms. Stock catalog music works differently: it stays licensed only for projects published while you subscribe. Details are in the Artlist license. Whether you can release a generated song on its own, on Spotify for example, isn't settled in Artlist's documents; our license page explains how we read it.
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