AI speech model prices
43 models from 9 providers · Prices checked
Best deals
Most widely sold
Eleven Multilingual v2
text to speech · 3 providers
Vercel AI Gateway
Sold by 3 providers, the most of any speech model.
Cheapest per 1M characters
TTS-1
text to speech · 3 providers
Azure AI Foundry
The least you pay for a model several providers sell.
The cheapest speech models
all rankings- 1Azure AI Foundry · text to speech · 3 providers$15per 1M characters
- 2
OpenAI · text to speech · 1 provider$15per 1M characters - 3Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters
- 4OpenAI · text to speech · 3 providers$30per 1M characters
- 5Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 3 providers$40per 1M characters
- 6
ElevenLabs · text to speech · 1 provider$40per 1M characters - 7
MiniMax · text to speech · 1 provider$60per 1M characters - 8ElevenLabs · text to speech · 2 providers$80per 1M characters
- 9MiniMax · text to speech · 1 provider$100per 1M characters
- 1Vercel AI Gateway · speech to text · 2 providers$0.11per hour of audio
- 2ElevenLabs · speech to text · 1 provider$0.22per hour of audio
- 3
Deepgram · speech to text · 1 provider$0.26per hour of audio - 4Deepgram · speech to text · 1 provider$0.31per hour of audio
- 5Azure AI Foundry · speech to text · open weights · 3 providers$0.36per hour of audio
- 6Deepgram · speech to text · open weights · 2 providers$0.36per hour of audio
- 1Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 3 providers$40per 1M characters
- 2Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters
- 3Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters
- 4Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$40per 1M characters
- 5Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters
- 6Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$40per 1M characters
- 7Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters
- 8Vercel AI Gateway · speech to text · 2 providers$0.11per hour of audio
What one price buys
Priced per 1M characters. One million characters of text read aloud in a standard voice, no voice cloning. Prices are in US dollars.
Models
25
priced per 1M characters
Prices compared
37
side by side
Providers
8
selling them
Typical price
$40
per 1M characters
Priced per hour of audio. One hour of recorded audio transcribed in batch, standard model. Prices are in US dollars.
Models
18
priced per hour of audio
Prices compared
22
side by side
Providers
7
selling them
Typical price
$0.36
per hour of audio
Providers selling speech models
all providers- ElevenLabs12 prices
- Vercel AI Gateway12 prices
- Deepgram9 prices
- Fal7 prices
- DeepInfra5 prices
- OpenAI5 prices
- Azure AI Foundry4 prices
- MiniMax4 prices
- Runway1 price
Every speech model
Rankings
How we count
What a million characters read aloud costs, and what an hour transcribed costs.
One million characters of text read aloud in a standard voice, no voice cloning. Prices are in US dollars.
One hour of recorded audio transcribed in batch, standard model. Prices are in US dollars.
A price that buys something else, a resolution the maker's own price does not state, or a unit we will not convert without publishing the assumption, is listed on the model's page in a block of its own and not ranked. Neither is a price below the lab's own with nothing published to account for it. Only a price read in the last 3 days can be #1.