Google Gemini TTS + Cloud TTS
the widest catalogue and the cheapest 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
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.
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.