AI Voice / Review
Amazon Polly
Pay-as-you-go text-to-speech API from AWS, priced per character.
$16
Cost / 1M chars
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From
Yes
Free tier
Amazon Polly is AWS's pay-as-you-go text-to-speech service, priced per character with no monthly fee. Its neural voices cost about $16 per million characters, and new AWS accounts get a generous monthly free tier for the first year.
Developers and AWS teams needing cheap, scalable programmatic TTS at high volume.
Strengths
- +Very cheap per-character pricing
- +Rock-solid AWS scale and uptime
- +SSML, lexicons, speech marks
- +Generous free tier first year
Trade-offs
- –No self-serve voice cloning
- –Voices dated vs ElevenLabs
- –Code-only; no real app
Amazon Polly at a glance
- Languages
- 30+
- Voice cloning
- No
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- All usage
- Styles/emotions
- Limited
- Output
- MP3, OGG, PCM