Compare Amazon Polly

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Detailed Comparison

Pricing
Model
Pay-as-you-go, per character
Pay-as-you-go, per character, with a monthly free allowance
Starting Price
$4.00 per 1 million characters (Standard)
$4 per 1 million characters (Standard, WaveNet)
Has Free Version
Plan Summary
Standard $4.00 per 1M charactersNeural $16.00 per 1M charactersLong-Form $100.00 per 1M charactersGenerative $30 per 1M characters
Standard and WaveNet $4 per 1M charactersNeural2 $16 per 1M charactersChirp 3: HD $30 per 1M characters
Other Specifications
Product Type
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Language Support
Languages Supported
over 40 languages and language variants (vendor figure)
Total not stated on the page we checked (Chirp 3: HD lists 53 language variants)
Voice Quality
Quality Rating
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Tonal Description
Voice types listed: Standard, Neural, Long-Form and Generative
Voice families: Chirp 3: HD, Studio, Neural2, WaveNet, Standard
Voice Count
Total Voices
100+
Not stated on the page we checked
Categories
Male and female voices
Chirp 3: HD (30 voices), Studio, Neural2, WaveNet, Standard
Ease of Use
Usability Rating
Developer-oriented (API)
Developer-oriented (API)
User Experience
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Integrations
API Availability
Yes, API service
Yes, Cloud Text-to-Speech API
Platform Integrations
N/A
N/A
Use Cases
Primary Use Cases
N/A
News and broadcast reading (Studio)Conversational agents (Chirp 3: HD)
Applications
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Text to Speech Features
SSML Support
API Access
Multi Language
Emotional Impulse
N/A
N/A
Voice Cloning
N/A
N/A
Character/Word Limits
Plan Limits
Per-character billing
Per-character billing
Monthly Limit
Free: Standard 5M, Neural 1M, Long-Form 500K, Generative 100K characters a month (see free tier terms)
Free: 4M (Standard, WaveNet), 1M (Neural2, Chirp 3: HD) characters a month, per a web search summary of the pricing page
Commercial Rights
Included
N/A
N/A
Licensing Terms
Stored audio can be used for redistribution, analysis, archiving or any other use case at no extra cost; other commercial terms not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
File Formats
Supported Formats
MP3OGG
MP3LINEAR16
Export Options
MP3, OGG and other standard audio formats
MP3 and LINEAR16 (WAV encoding); Chirp 3: HD streaming also ALAW, MULAW, OGG_OPUS, PCM
Customer Support
Support Channels
N/A
N/A
Priority Support
N/A
N/A

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