Google Gemini TTS + Cloud TTS

the widest catalogue and the cheapest floor

$4 per 1M chars (Standard/WaveNet)#gcp-native-teams-wanting#the-lowest-price-floor

unmatched breadth — seven voice tiers plus token-priced gemini tts — and the cheapest entry point at $4 per million characters, with a generous free tier. the multi-tier catalogue is confusing and some gemini models are preview.

google spans a huge catalogue: cloud text-to-speech from $4/million characters (standard/wavenet) up through neural2, chirp 3 hd and studio, plus the newer prompt-controllable, multi-speaker gemini tts (token-priced), across 40+ languages with ssml and a large free tier. for breadth and a low price floor, nothing here beats it.

the friction is the sprawl — the multi-tier catalogue is genuinely confusing to price — and some gemini tts models carry preview labels, so confirm general availability before you commit. cloning is limited (custom voice is a separate gated program). for gcp-native shops it's an obvious pick.

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/WaveNet)
website: cloud.google.com

our verdict

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.