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Text-to-speech cost calculator
Enter how many minutes of generated speech you need each month. You get 35 plans and APIs from11 vendors, cheapest first.
Cheapest for 120 minutes a month: Google Cloud Standard voices at $0.
| Option | Per month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Standard voices Google lists these under legacy models. | $0 | $0 |
| Google Cloud WaveNet voices Listed at the same price and billing code as Standard. | $0 | $0 |
| Google Cloud Neural2 voices | $0 | $0 |
| Google Cloud Chirp 3: HD voices | $0 | $0 |
| Google Cloud Studio voices | $0 | $0 |
| Amazon Polly Standard | $0.432 | $0.004 |
| Murf API, Falcon | $1.08 | $0.009 |
| OpenAI tts-1 | $1.62 | $0.013 |
| Azure AI Speech Neural East US price; varies by region. | $1.62 | $0.013 |
| Deepgram Aura-1 | $1.62 | $0.013 |
| Amazon Polly Neural | $1.73 | $0.014 |
| Azure AI Speech Neural HD East US price; varies by region. | $2.38 | $0.02 |
| Murf API, Gen2 | $3.24 | $0.027 |
| OpenAI tts-1-hd | $3.24 | $0.027 |
| Amazon Polly Generative | $3.24 | $0.027 |
| Deepgram Aura-2 | $3.24 | $0.027 |
| ElevenLabs API, Flash / Turbo | $3.92 | $0.033 |
| Resemble AI Flex pay-as-you-go $0.00067 per second of audio, so text length doesn't matter. | $4.82 | $0.04 |
| Cartesia Pro | $5.52 | $0.046 |
| ElevenLabs API, v2 Multilingual | $7.84 | $0.065 |
| Speechify Studio Starter Billed annually. $100 a year for 24 hours of voiceover. | $8.33 | $0.069 |
| Amazon Polly Long-Form | $10.80 | $0.09 |
| ElevenLabs Creator (app) | $22 | $0.183 |
| Speechify Studio Creator Billed annually. $300 a year for 96 hours of voiceover. | $25 | $0.208 |
| Murf Creator (Studio) Commercial rights. Annual billing pools 24 hours a year. | $29 | $0.242 |
| WellSaid Pro Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | $49 | $0.408 |
| Cartesia Startup | $49 | $0.408 |
| ElevenLabs Pro (app) | $99 | $0.825 |
| Murf Business (Studio) Business licence. Annual billing pools 96 hours a year. | $99 | $0.825 |
| WellSaid Business (per user) Billed annually. 2,880 downloaded minutes a year per user. | $160 | $1.33 |
| ElevenLabs Scale (app) | $299 | $2.49 |
| Cartesia Scale | $299 | $2.49 |
| ElevenLabs Business (app) | $990 | $8.25 |
| ElevenLabs Starter (app) | Doesn't cover it | |
| WellSaid Starter Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | Doesn't cover it |
Price only: voice quality, languages and licences differ a lot between these. Plans count at their full price even if you use less. "Doesn't cover it" means the plan includes fewer minutes and publishes no price for extra minutes. Free monthly allowances are included where they don't expire.
Not in the calculator
- OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts: $0.60 per 1M text input tokens and $12.00 per 1M audio output tokens. OpenAI's pricing page gives no per-minute figure, so we can't convert it honestly.
- Google Cloud Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS: $10.00 per 1M audio output tokens; Google states 25 audio tokens per second, so about $0.015 per minute of audio plus text input.
- Google Cloud Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS: $20.00 per 1M audio output tokens, about $0.03 per minute of audio plus text input.
- Play.ht: On 5 October 2026 play.ht and play.ai did not load: the domains no longer resolve, and their documentation site was gone.
- LOVO (Genny): On 5 October 2026 every LOVO site returned a "deployment disabled" error, and its API docs were marked inactive.
How the minutes are worked out
Vendors sell characters, credits, seconds or minutes. Text-billed options are converted with one shared pace, so no vendor looks cheaper because of its own optimistic estimate. Change the pace above to match your script. Details are on the methodology page; sources are linked from each vendor's page.
Prices on this page were checked against the official pricing pages on .