Amazon Polly
the cheap, stable incumbent — boring in the best way
the dependable aws incumbent: 30+ languages, ssml, speech marks and a generative expressive tier, at low prices with a real free tier. top-line expressiveness trails elevenlabs and hume; no cloning.
polly is aws's steady tts: 30+ languages, ssml, speech marks, and a newer generative expressive tier, priced from $4/million characters (neural $16, generative $30) with a 12-month free tier and up to $200 in new-account credit. if you live in aws and want cheap, reliable speech that just works, it's the obvious pick.
its top-line expressiveness trails the specialist leaders and there's no zero-shot cloning. that's the trade for stability and price — for many production apps, the right one.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai text-to-speech models
- pricing
- $4 per 1M chars (Standard)
- website
- aws.amazon.com
the dependable aws incumbent: 30+ languages, ssml, speech marks and a generative expressive tier, at low prices with a real free tier. top-line expressiveness trails elevenlabs and hume; no cloning.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.