Price directory
Text-to-speech API pricing, per 1M characters.
18 speech models — native per-character rates, dated and sourced from provider price pages.
Latest events
GPT-5.6 Sol: developer price cut 20%
Aug 22, 2026
The cut is temporary — three months only — and lands entirely on output tokens ($30→$20/M), the line item that scales fastest for coding agents and chatbots, while input drops less ($5→$4/M).
Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
Aug 17, 2026
GPT-5.6 Sol: pricing cut 50%
Aug 17, 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash cut 50%
Aug 13, 2026
Grok 4.6 launches at $2/$6
Aug 12, 2026
Price table
| Model | Provider | Price | Released | ||
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H
Hume AI's expressive text-to-speech model.
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Hume AI | $150.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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E
ElevenLabs' highest-quality text-to-speech model.
—/—I/O
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ElevenLabs | $100.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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C
Cartesia's low-latency text-to-speech model.
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Cartesia | $50.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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E
ElevenLabs' low-latency text-to-speech model.
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ElevenLabs | $50.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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R
Rime's expressive flagship text-to-speech model.
—/—I/O
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Rime | $40.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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R
Rime's fast, efficient text-to-speech model.
—/—I/O
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Rime | $30.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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D
Deepgram's current flagship text-to-speech model.
—/—I/O
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Deepgram | $30.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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A
Amazon Polly's generative text-to-speech engine.
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Amazon | $30.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
| $30.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||||
| OpenAI | $30.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | |||
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M
Microsoft Azure's HD neural text-to-speech voices.
—/—I/O
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Microsoft Azure | $22.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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A
Amazon Polly's standard neural text-to-speech engine.
—/—I/O
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Amazon | $16.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
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M
Microsoft Azure's standard neural text-to-speech voices.
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Microsoft Azure | $16.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
| $16.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||||
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D
Deepgram's first-generation text-to-speech model.
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Deepgram | $15.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||
| OpenAI | $15.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | |||
| $4.00 /1M chars as of Jul 2026 | — | ||||
| OpenAI | Not yet tracked | — |
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