--- title: Text-to-Speech Pricing | Telnyx canonical: https://telnyx.com/pricing/text-to-speech --- # Text-to-Speech Pricing | Telnyx AI # 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. [SIGN UP FOR FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[GET VOLUME RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) 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 $0 Standard rates. Card on file. Automatic tier discounts as usage crosses thresholds, no contract needed. [START BUILDING](https://telnyx.com/sign-up) VOLUME RATE Custom Committed volume on this product, priced on your forecast. Share the numbers and get a rate, no plan required. [GET A VOLUME RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) ENTERPRISE $5,000/ mo Monthly minimum spend. Dedicated infrastructure and IPs, private interconnect, in region GPUs, unlimited rate limits. [CONTACT SALES](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) Usually bought with ## What people add next. See the whole composition on voice ai agent ↗ * [Phone NumbersLocal, toll free, and international numbers from one API, one inventory.$1.00 / NUMBER/MO · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/numbers) * [Voice APITwo lines on the bill: the API and the SIP trunk it rides.$0.002 / MIN · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-api) * [Voice AI AgentsOrchestration, speech to text, and text to speech in one rate.$0.05 / MIN · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-ai-agents) * [Speech to TextRealtime and batch transcription on owned GPUs, or partner engines metered at their rate with no BYO key.FROM $0.0015 / MIN · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/speech-to-text) ## Live in five minutes. 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