Cheapest text-to-speech API.
Prices checked
TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry leads 9 models at $15 per 1M characters, checked .
Top 9
all speech models- 1
TTS-1
Azure AI Foundry · text to speech · 3 providers$15per 1M characters - 2
TTS 1.1106
Maker's price
OpenAI · text to speech · 1 provider$15per 1M characters - 3
Eleven Flash v2
Trains on prompts
Vercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 2 providers$20per 1M characters - 4
TTS-1 HD
Maker's priceOpenAI · text to speech · 3 providers$30per 1M characters - 5
Eleven Multilingual v2
Trains on promptsVercel AI Gateway · text to speech · 3 providers$40per 1M characters - 6
Eleven Turbo 2
Maker's price
ElevenLabs · text to speech · 1 provider$40per 1M characters - 7
Speech 02 Turbo
Maker's price
MiniMax · text to speech · 1 provider$60per 1M characters - 8
Eleven v4
Maker's priceElevenLabs · text to speech · 2 providers$80per 1M characters - 9
Speech 02 HD
Maker's priceMiniMax · text to speech · 1 provider$100per 1M characters
How we count
Every model that reads text aloud and has a price we can hold beside the others, cheapest first. 9 qualify, from $15. Where a lab prices several variants of one model the same, one of them stands for the rest. Prices are for one million characters read aloud in a standard voice, with no voice cloning, which is roughly 17 hours of speech.
A price below the lab's own is listed only when the provider says why.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Trains on prompts
- The provider says it may train on what you send it, which is what pays for the lower price.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest of the text-to-speech models right now?
- TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry, $15 per 1M characters, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- Which lab shows up most in this ranking?
- ElevenLabs trained 4 of the top 9 models here.
- How is this ranked, and how current is it?
- Every row is the cheapest price for that model that we can hold beside the others: the lab's own, a price below it with a published reason, or a price at or above it. A price that buys a different task, or a resolution the lab's own price does not state, or a unit we will not convert without publishing the assumption, is listed on the model's page and not ranked. Prices are read every 3 days from 8 providers' public catalogs, against a typical $40 per 1M characters. Last refresh: 1 Nov 2026.