Text-to-Speech Pricing

From $0.000003 a character. Twelve voices engines, or bring a key. Telnyx voices on owned GPUs from three millionths of a dollar a character, plus partner engines at metered rates. Voice Design Lab included.

from $0.000003per char

$0platform fee

$0support · HIPAA

5 minto first call

EXAMPLE OF MONTHLY COST

$15.00Per month

5M CHARACTERS (≈ 6,700 SPOKEN MINUTES) · TELNYX TTS

Characters (K)5,000 × $0.003: $15.00

Published rates, pay as you go, before volume tiers. Carrier passthrough and taxes vary by destination.

Rates

What's on the card.

Each row is a line on your invoice. Nothing is bundled into another primitive's rate and nothing turns on unless you call it.

Text-to-speech pricing

Model	Pricing
Telnyx TTS	$0.000003 per character
Standard TTS (Amazon Polly)	$0.000009 per character
Telnyx HD Voices TTS	$0.000048 per character
Neural Voices TTS (Amazon Polly)	$0.000024 per character
MiniMax speech-2.8-turbo TTS	$0.000034 per character
Rime TTS	$0.00002 per character
Inworld Mini TTS	$0.0000055 per character
Inworld Max TTS	$0.00001 per character
Qwen3TTS	$0.000032 per character
Telnyx Ultra	$0.000032 per character
Resemble TTS	$0.000008 per character
Murf TTS	$0.000008 per character
ElevenLabs TTS	BYO API key (billed by ElevenLabs)
Azure Neural HD TTS	BYO API key (billed by Azure)

Machine readable: GET /v2/public/pricing. Rates may vary by destination and volume tier. Machine readable: GET /v2/public/pricing?primitive=tts.

Compare

The same unit, list to list.

Public rate cards, side by side. The difference is structural: the carrier, the network, and the API are one company, so there is no markup on someone else's rate.

VENDOR	LIST RATE	BASIS
ElevenLabs	$0.00018 to $0.0003	per char, creator to scale
Telnyx	from $0.000003	per char, creator to scale

Competitor figures from public rate cards, Aug 2026. Volume and committed pricing on both sides changes the picture; ask us to run your numbers.

VOLUME

Commit more, pay less per unit. Nothing is gated.

PAY AS YOU GO

Standard rates. Card on file. Automatic tier discounts as usage crosses thresholds, no contract needed.

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COMMITTED

from $500/ mo

Discounted rates across everything you use, not one product. Named account manager, priority support, higher limits.

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ENTERPRISE

from $5,000/ mo

Dedicated infrastructure and IPs, private interconnect, in region GPUs, unlimited rate limits.

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