Compare Amazon Polly

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Detailed Comparison

Pricing
Model
Pay-as-you-go, per character
Subscription by characters, with free plan
Starting Price
$4.00 per 1 million characters (Standard)
$49/mo (Basic list price)
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 $0: 250K characters (pricing page) or 1M (home page)Basic $49/mo, 3M charactersPlus $499/mo, 42M charactersPro $1,499/mo, 150M charactersEnterprise $4,999/mo, 625M characters
Other Specifications
Product Type
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Language Support
Languages Supported
over 40 languages and language variants (vendor figure)
8 languages (vendor figure)
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
Not stated on the page we checked
Voice Count
Total Voices
100+
48
Categories
Male and female voices
Not stated on the page we checked
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, four endpoints
Platform Integrations
N/A
N/A
Use Cases
Primary Use Cases
N/A
N/A
Applications
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Text to Speech Features
SSML Support
N/A
API Access
Multi Language
Emotional Impulse
N/A
N/A
Voice Cloning
N/A
No
Character/Word Limits
Plan Limits
Per-character billing
Characters per month by plan; roughly 750 characters per minute of audio per the vendor
Monthly Limit
Free: Standard 5M, Neural 1M, Long-Form 500K, Generative 100K characters a month (see free tier terms)
Free: 250K (pricing page) or 1M (home page) characters
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
Home page: audio can be used commercially; attribution required on the free plan only. The terms page does not explicitly address generated audio.
File Formats
Supported Formats
MP3OGG
N/A
Export Options
MP3, OGG and other standard audio formats
Not stated on the page we checked
Customer Support
Support Channels
N/A
N/A
Priority Support
N/A
N/A

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