What AI voice tools really cost per minute
AI voice tools price in credits and characters. We convert every plan and API into what you pay per minute of speech, from the vendors' own pricing pages.
One minute of ElevenLabs speech
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- Text-to-speech cost calculator: every plan and API for your monthly minutes
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Latest price changes
- : ElevenLabs. Starter's first month costs $1 instead of $6 for sign-ups until 18 October 2026 ("First month 83% off"). Creator's first month stays at $11, with no end date shown.
- : ElevenLabs. Started tracking ElevenLabs app and API pricing. A launch offer for the Eleven v4 model runs until 12 October 2026: 72% off v4 and v4 Turbo on the API, and 3× credits on Creator and higher plans.
- : Voice market. Started tracking text-to-speech pricing for Murf, Speechify Studio, WellSaid, Cartesia, OpenAI, Google Cloud, Azure AI Speech, Amazon Polly, Deepgram and Resemble AI. Google's pricing page lists WaveNet voices at $4 per million characters, the same price and billing code as Standard voices.
- : Play.ht and LOVO. Both were unreachable: play.ht and play.ai no longer resolve, and every LOVO site returned a "deployment disabled" error. Neither published a shutdown notice we could read.
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