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Amazon Polly

by Amazon Web Services

Cloud text-to-speech with neural and generative voices

Pros

  • Very low standard-voice pricing
  • Reliable AWS infrastructure
  • Generous 12-month free tier

Cons

  • Generative/long-form voices are pricey
  • Less expressive than dedicated startups
  • Requires AWS account setup

✓ Where it shines / best for

  • Developers adding scalable TTS to apps via the AWS API
  • Building IVR, voice assistants and narrated content
  • E-learning, accessibility and audio articles at scale

✕ Not the best fit for

  • Non-developers wanting a no-code GUI editor
  • Users needing one-click consumer voice-cloning UI

Features

  • ✓ API access
  • ✓ Text-to-speech
  • ✓ Real-time
  • ✓ Multilingual
  • ✓ Free trial
  • ✓ Batch Export
  • ✓ Ssml
  • ✓ Generative Voice
  • ✓ Neural TTS
  • ✓ Speech Marks

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
Free Tier (Standard)$0month, first 12 months5 million characters/month for Standard voices
Free Tier (Neural)$0month, first 12 months1 million characters/month for Neural (NTTS) voices
Free Tier (Long-Form)$0month, first 12 months500,000 characters/month for Long-Form voices
Free Tier (Generative)$0month, first 12 months100,000 characters/month for Generative voices
Standard voices$4.00per 1M charactersPay-as-you-go after free tier; SSML tags count as characters
Neural voices (NTTS)$16.00per 1M charactersPay-as-you-go; higher-quality neural TTS
Generative voices$30.00per 1M charactersPay-as-you-go; most natural/conversational voices
Long-Form voices$100.00per 1M charactersPay-as-you-go; optimized for long content like articles

Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

Specifications

tiersStandard/Neural/Long-Form/Generative
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