Preview build — figures marked “✓” or in green are sourced (benchmarks by Artificial Analysis); treat everything else (value scores, “Est.” figures, unmarked prices and changes) as illustrative. Methodology
TTS
Text to Speech
Speech synthesis priced per thousand characters of input.
✓ 6 of 6 list prices sourced (feeds and provider pages). Methodology
- Models
- 6
- Providers
- 4
- Cheapest (sourced)
- Cloud TTS Standard
- $0.0040/1K
- Best est. value
- Cloud TTS WaveNet
- Google · 69.9
Price vs Arena Elo
full dots: efficient frontier — benchmarks by Artificial Analysis
| Model | Provider | Price | Arena Elo | Efficient frontier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud TTS WaveNet | $0.0040 / 1K chars | 902 | yes | |
| tts-1 | OpenAI | $0.0150 / 1K chars | 1083 | yes |
| Polly Neural | Amazon | $0.0160 / 1K chars | 879 | no |
| tts-1-hd | OpenAI | $0.0300 / 1K chars | 1102 | yes |
| Turbo v2.5 | ElevenLabs | $0.0500 / 1K chars | 1098 | no |
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| $0.0040 / 1K charsList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — WaveNet now bills on the same SKU as Standard ($4/1M); $16/1M applies to Neural2/Polyglot instead; legacy TTS models section | $12.00 | 902Arena Elo 902 ±12 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 69.9 | |||
| OpenAI | $0.0150 / 1K charsList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $45.00 | 1083Arena Elo 1083 ±11 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 41.3 | ||
| Amazon | $0.0160 / 1K charsList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — $16/1M = $0.016/1K outside the 12-month free tier; Standard is $4/1M, Long-Form $100/1M, Generative $30/1M | $48.00 | 879Arena Elo 879 ±14 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 34.5 | ||
| OpenAI | $0.0300 / 1K charsList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $90.00 | 1102Arena Elo 1102 ±12 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 24.4 | ||
| ElevenLabs | $0.0500 / 1K charsList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — page groups models as 'Flash / Turbo' ($0.05/1K); the 'Turbo v2.5' name no longer appears separately | $150 | 1098Arena Elo 1098 ±11 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 11.5 | ||
| $0.0040 / 1K charsList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — legacy TTS models section; free tier 4M chars/month | $12.00 | — | — |
Prices are quoted per 1K chars. Benchmark scores are Artificial Analysis arena measurements; models without one show “—”. The estimated value score is benchmark-per-dollar relative to this category's median, normalised across the full catalogue.