Cheapest text-to-speech API.
prices as of · re-ranked daily · 7 qualifying models · prices are per 1M characters
Every model that reads text aloud and has a price we can hold beside the others, cheapest first. 7 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.
Today's pick is TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry, $15 per 1M characters, read on 17 Sept 2026.
- 1
Azure AI FoundryTTS-1
sold by 3 providers, $15 per 1M characters at Azure AI FoundryThe same price OpenAI charges.
$15 per 1M characters
- 2
OpenAITTS 1.1106
sold by 1 provider, $15 per 1M characters at OpenAIThe price OpenAI charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$15 per 1M characters
- 3Azure AI Foundry
TTS-1 HD
sold by 3 providers, $30 per 1M characters at Azure AI FoundryThe same price OpenAI charges.
$30 per 1M characters
- 4OpenAI
TTS 1 HD 1106
sold by 1 provider, $30 per 1M characters at OpenAIThe price OpenAI charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$30 per 1M characters
- 5
MiniMaxSpeech 02 Turbo
sold by 1 provider, $60 per 1M characters at MiniMaxThe price MiniMax charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$60 per 1M characters
- 6MiniMax
Speech 02 HD
sold by 1 provider, $100 per 1M characters at MiniMaxThe price MiniMax charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$100 per 1M characters
- 7
ElevenLabsEleven Multilingual v2
sold by 2 providers, $180 per 1M characters at ElevenLabsThe price ElevenLabs charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$180 per 1M characters
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 17 Sept 2026.
- Which lab shows up most in this ranking?
- OpenAI trained 4 of the top 7 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 list price does not state, or a unit we will not convert without publishing the assumption, is shown on the model's page and ranked nowhere. Prices are read daily from 8 providers' public catalogs, against a market median of $30 per 1M characters. Last refresh: 17 Sept 2026.