ai text-to-speech models
ai voice models and apis ranked for developers — on price you can read, a licence you can actually ship on, and whether they stream fast enough for a voice agent.
5 listed · 5 researched by us · featured first, then most upvoted
ElevenLabs
we checked this$0.05 per 1K chars (Flash/Turbo v2.5)the quality and ecosystem leader, agents to narration
#teams-that-want-top-qual#the-best-sdks-without-ru
Cartesia Sonic
we checked thisfree tier; from $5/mo (Pro)the voice-agent default: streaming-first, low latency
#real-time-voice-agents-t#per-usage-pricing
OpenAI TTS
we checked this$15 per 1M chars (tts-1)cheap, steerable, and one client if you're already on openai
#teams-already-building-o#steerable-narration
this page is deliberately short: a handful of ai text-to-speech models we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.
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