TTS-1 pricing.
Prices checked
TTS-1 costs $15 per 1M characters from OpenAI; the cheapest price is $15 per 1M characters at Azure AI Foundry, checked .
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OpenAI's own price
OpenAI
$15 per 1M characters
Every other price here is measured against it.
Cheapest price
Azure AI Foundry
$15 per 1M characters
same as OpenAI
The least you pay per 1M characters of the 3 providers selling it.
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Every provider selling TTS-1
- 1
same as OpenAI
$15per 1M characters - 2$15per 1M characters
- 3
same as OpenAI
$15per 1M characters
How we count
Every price is what one job costs, so two providers' numbers stand beside each other. One million characters of text read aloud in a standard voice, no voice cloning. Prices are in US dollars.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
Similar speech models
Speech models from other labs priced for the same job, cheapest first. Each percentage is against TTS-1's cheapest, $15 per 1M characters.
Frequently asked
- Who sells TTS-1 cheapest?
- Azure AI Foundry, at $15 per 1M characters, checked 1 Nov 2026.
- What does TTS-1 cost for a million characters?
- OpenAI charges $15 per 1M characters, and every other row here is measured against it. Nobody on this page goes below it.
- Is TTS-1 open weights?
- No. OpenAI keeps the weights, so every price here is OpenAI's own or a resale of it.
- How current are these TTS-1 prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read every 3 days; the readings on this page are from 1 Nov 2026.
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