AI voice & TTS pricing, decoded

What does a minute of AI speech actually cost?

Every AI voice platform prices itself in credits, characters, or "generation hours" — never in the one unit that tells you what you'll actually pay. We convert them all to a common baseline so you can compare straight across providers.

Pricing last checked July 2026 — see sources in the table below

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120 min

Estimate assumes ~1,000 characters ≈ 1 minute of natural-paced speech, the rough industry rule of thumb used by most of these platforms' own docs. Actual output varies with pacing, pauses, and voice model — treat this as a starting estimate, not an invoice.

Full plan breakdown

Every figure below is sourced from the provider's own pricing or affiliate page. Voice AI pricing changes often — click through to confirm before you commit to a plan.

Provider Plan Price / mo Included ≈ Cost / min Source

Methodology

We convert every plan's included usage to minutes of speech using a flat assumption of 1,000 characters per minute, applied identically across providers so the comparison stays apples-to-apples. This is a simplification — actual character-to-minute ratios depend on the voice model, language, and pacing settings used at generation time.

Where a provider meters usage in "generation hours" instead of characters (Murf), we use their own published hours-per-plan figures directly rather than converting through characters.

Plans priced only on annual billing are noted as such; monthly-billing prices are used by default for comparability. Enterprise and custom-quote tiers are excluded from the calculator because no public per-unit price exists to convert.

Why trust these numbers

Every source link in the table points to the provider's own pricing or affiliate terms page, not a third-party summary. We re-check these figures periodically; the "last checked" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent pass.

A note on PlayHT

PlayHT is not currently listed. Its affiliate signup page is returning a 404, and third-party reports of a 2025 Meta acquisition and full shutdown are unconfirmed against an official source. Rather than publish figures for a provider whose status we can't verify, we've pulled it until that's resolved.

Affiliate disclosure

Voice Cost Lab participates in the affiliate programs of some of the tools listed on this site. If you sign up for a paid plan through one of our links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. This does not influence the pricing figures or cost estimates shown above, which are pulled directly from each provider's published terms.

We link to a provider's official pricing or affiliate page whenever one is available; where we don't yet have an active affiliate relationship with a provider, the link goes directly to their site with no commission involved.

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