Updated 2026-09-21

AI Voiceover Pricing Index — September 2026

Every price below is normalized to USD per hour of finished audio — one hour standardized at 150 words/min (~54,000 characters). Subscription plans are divided by the hours they include; raw per-character APIs are converted at that same rate. Every row links to the official pricing page it was checked against, with the date it was checked.

Studio & creator tools

Subscription-based tools with ElevenLabs-grade voices, a studio UI, and voice cloning. This is the league YTVoice.app competes in.

ServicePlanPriceWhat you get$ / hour of audioSource
YTVoice.appUsBusiness pack$79 one-time40 hours (2,160,000 characters), never expires$1.982026-09-21
Hume AI (Octave)Creator$7/mo140,000 characters$2.702026-09-21
CartesiaPro$5/mo100,000 creditsAssumes 1 credit = 1 character — Cartesia does not publish an exact conversion.$2.702026-09-21
Fish AudioPro$75/mo~1,620 min$2.782026-09-21
YTVoice.appUsStarter pack$9 one-time3 hours (162,000 characters), never expires$3.002026-09-21
Speechify StudioCreator$300/yr96 h/yr$3.132026-09-21
Fish AudioPlus$11/mo~200 min$3.302026-09-21
Speechify StudioStarter$100/yr24 h/yr$4.172026-09-21
Murf.aiBusiness$66/mo96 h/year (8 h/mo)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$8.252026-09-21
ElevenLabsPro$99/mo600,000 characters$8.912026-09-21
Murf.aiCreator$19/mo24 h/year (2 h/mo)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$9.502026-09-21
ElevenLabsCreator$22/mo121,000 characters$9.822026-09-21
ElevenLabsStarter$6/mo30,000 characters$10.802026-09-21
WellSaidPro$49/mo180 min/mo$16.332026-09-21
WellSaidStarter$19/mo20 min/mo$57.002026-09-21
Play.htDiscontinued———Shut down by Meta in 2025. Kept here for reference only — not a live comparison point.—n/a

Raw cloud TTS APIs

Developer-facing, pay-per-character APIs with no studio UI. Several of these are cheaper per hour than any studio tool — the honest tradeoff is voice quality and workflow, not price. If you can code against an API and don't need studio voices, raw APIs are cheaper.

ServicePlanPriceWhat you get$ / hour of audioSource
Amazon PollyStandard$4 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$0.222026-09-21
Google Cloud TTSStandard / WaveNet$4 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$0.222026-09-21
Speechify APIStarter$10/mo incl. 1M characters1M characters/mo$0.542026-09-21
Azure AI SpeechNeural / Neural HD Flash$15 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$0.812026-09-21
OpenAI TTStts-1$15 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$0.812026-09-21
Fish Audio APIs2 / s2.1-pro$15 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$0.812026-09-21
Amazon PollyNeural$16 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$0.862026-09-21
Google Cloud TTSNeural2$16 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$0.862026-09-21
Amazon PollyGenerative$30 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$1.622026-09-21
Google Cloud TTSChirp 3 HD$30 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$1.622026-09-21
OpenAI TTStts-1-hd$30 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$1.622026-09-21
Murf APIPay-as-you-go$30 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)$1.622026-09-21
Google Cloud TTSStudio$160 / 1M characters1M characters (~18.5 h)Checked live in browser 21.09.2026.$8.642026-09-21
Methodology

1 hour of audio = 150 words/min ≈ 54,000 characters. This is the standard pace used for narrated YouTube scripts and audiobooks.

Subscription plans: monthly (or yearly, converted to monthly-equivalent) price ÷ hours of audio the plan includes at that pace.

Per-character APIs: price per 1,000,000 characters × 0.054 (the fraction of 1M characters in one hour of audio).

What's not included:free tiers (all these services have one, but they cap out too fast for regular use), enterprise/custom pricing, add-on seats, and overage rates beyond a plan's included quota. Cartesia's credit-to-character ratio is an assumption (1:1) since the provider doesn't publish an exact conversion — flagged in the table.

Sourcing:every number is checked directly against the provider's official, public pricing page. Rows are never estimated or copied from third-party reviews.

Changelog

  • 2026-09-21First publication — 16 studio/creator plans across 13 services plus 12 raw cloud TTS API tiers across 6 providers, all checked against official pricing pages.

Frequently asked questions

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