Speech · text to speech · Google
Google TTS Studio voices pricing
Per 1M characters
$160.00
Kind
Text to speech
Ranked 10 of 10 by price among 10 text-to-speech models in the index — the cheapest is Google TTS Standard/WaveNet at $4.00. Figures are USD list prices excluding tax.
Price history
Tracked since 7 September 2026. A chart appears once there are at least two weekly readings.
| Date | Figure | Reading | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | Price ($/1M chars) | $160.00 | — |
Machine-readable: history.json · Every movement also appears in the change log.
What it costs in practice
Computed from the current figures above. Change the assumptions in the Speech AI cost calculator.
| Workload | Cost |
|---|---|
| One million characters | $160.00 |
| A 4,000-word article (~24,000 chars) | $3.84 |
| A 90,000-word audiobook (~540,000 chars) | $86.40 |
| 1,000 short replies a day for a month (200 chars each) | $960.00 |
Compared with the closest alternatives
| Model | $/1M chars | vs this |
|---|---|---|
| Google TTS Standard/WaveNet | $4.00 | -98% |
| Deepgram Aura-1 | $15.00 | -91% |
| xAI Grok Voice API | $15.00 | -91% |
| Google TTS Neural2 | $16.00 | -90% |
| Mistral AI Voxtral TTS | $16.00 | -90% |
| Google TTS Polyglot | $16.00 | -90% |
| Google TTS Chirp 3 HD | $30.00 | -81% |
| Deepgram Aura-2 | $30.00 | -81% |
How to read this page
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