Compare Amazon Polly

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Pricing
Model
Pay-as-you-go, per character
Freemium / Subscription
Starting Price
$4.00 per 1 million characters (Standard)
$21 (Prime)
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
Free: personal use onlyPrime Lite, Prime, Prime Plus differ in credits, not voicesPrime: $21, 300,000 credits (up to 14 hours)Top-ups: 100,000 characters for $7
Other Specifications
Product Type
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Text-to-SpeechVoice Cloning
Language Support
Languages Supported
over 40 languages and language variants (vendor figure)
152 languages and accents (vendor figure)
Accent Variety
-
English 14 accents, Spanish 23, Arabic 16, Chinese 3
Voice Quality
Quality Rating
Not stated on the page we checked
Not rated
Tonal Description
Voice types listed: Standard, Neural, Long-Form and Generative
not stated on the page we checked
Voice Count
Total Voices
100+
2,000+
Categories
Male and female voices
Voices from several AI providers
Ease of Use
Usability Rating
Developer-oriented (API)
Not rated
User Experience
Not stated on the page we checked
Paragraph-level editor with speakers, pauses and sound effects
Integrations
API Availability
Yes, API service
No public API
Platform Integrations
N/A
N/A
Use Cases
Primary Use Cases
N/A
Podcastsvideo voiceoversaudiobooks
Applications
Not stated on the page we checked
Podcasts, video voiceovers, audiobooks
Text to Speech Features
SSML Support
N/A
API Access
No
Multi Language
Emotional Impulse
N/A
N/A
Voice Cloning
N/A
Character/Word Limits
Plan Limits
Per-character billing
Credits: one per character
Monthly Limit
Free: Standard 5M, Neural 1M, Long-Form 500K, Generative 100K characters a month (see free tier terms)
Free account: ten requests plus bonus credits
Commercial Rights
Included
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
Paid plans: royalty-free commercial use; free plan: personal use only
File Formats
Supported Formats
MP3OGG
MP3WAVTXTDOCSRT
Export Options
MP3, OGG and other standard audio formats
MP3 or WAV, single file or split by paragraph
Customer Support
Support Channels
N/A
not stated on the page we checked
Priority Support
N/A
N/A

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