Audio → text-to-speech APIs
What does text-to-speech cost per 1M characters?
28 text-to-speech voices from 7 providers, from $4.00 to $180.00 per 1M characters: a 45× spread for the same job. Enter your monthly volume below.
- Cheapest$4.00 / 1M charactersStandard · Amazon Polly
- Typical$30.00 / 1M charactersAzure TTS HD · Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
- Most expensive$180.00 / 1M charactersEleven V3 (Scale plan rate) · ElevenLabs
Standard list prices from each provider's pricing page, checked daily. Last price change Oct 25, 2026. How we compare.
Ranked for your volume
Monthly cost by provider
| Endpoint | Estimated / month | Per 1M characters |
|---|---|---|
1 Amazon PollyStandard - lowest for your volumePricing page | $4.00 | $4.00 |
2 Mistral AIVoxtral mini TTS 3Pricing page | $13.00 | $13.00 |
3 Mistral AIVoxtral mini TTS 3 0Pricing page | $13.00 | $13.00 |
4 Microsoft Azure AI FoundryAzure TTSPricing page | $15.00 | $15.00 |
5 Microsoft Azure AI FoundryTTS 1Pricing page | $15.00 | $15.00 |
6 OpenAITTS 1Pricing page | $15.00 | $15.00 |
7 OpenAITTS 1 1106Pricing page | $15.00 | $15.00 |
8 Amazon PollyNeuralPricing page | $16.00 | $16.00 |
9 Mistral AIVoxtral mini TTSPricing page | $16.00 | $16.00 |
10 Mistral AIVoxtral mini TTS 2603Pricing page | $16.00 | $16.00 |
Ordered by listed price for your volume only. No provider pays for its position. Share this page URL to keep your numbers.
Before you pick
Character-billed voices only. Token-billed voices such as Gemini TTS or GPT-4o mini TTS are not converted into a per-character rate.
Voice quality, languages and voice cloning are not compared here; listen to samples before you choose.
Pay-as-you-go list prices unless a row is marked as a plan rate (ElevenLabs lists its API rate per subscription plan); free tiers are not deducted.
At the default volume (1 M characters a month) the cheapest endpoint costs $4.00 and the most expensive $180.00.
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