Head to head / AI Voice
Amazon Polly vs Hume AI
- →Amazon Polly is cheaper per million characters ($16 vs $100).
- →Amazon Polly has a free tier to start; Hume AI does not.
| Compared | Amazon Polly | Hume AI |
|---|---|---|
| Cost / 1M chars | $16 | $100 |
| Starting price | — | $3/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | — |
| Visit Amazon Polly | Visit Hume AI |
Feature by feature
| Feature | Amazon Polly | Hume AI |
|---|---|---|
| Languages | 30+ | 11+ (Octave) |
| Voice cloning | No | Yes (unlimited) |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | All usage | Yes |
| Styles/emotions | Limited | Yes (core strength) |
| Output | MP3, OGG, PCM | MP3/WAV/PCM stream |
Amazon Polly
Developers and AWS teams needing cheap, scalable programmatic TTS at high volume.
- +Very cheap per-character pricing
- +Rock-solid AWS scale and uptime
- +SSML, lexicons, speech marks
- +Generous free tier first year
Hume AI
Developers building emotionally expressive or empathic conversational voice agents.
- +Best-in-class emotional/expressive prosody
- +Empathic real-time voice interface (EVI)
- +Unlimited voice cloning on paid tiers
- +Commercial license on all plans
Compared on the metrics we track for this category. Prices are the cheapest paid tier. Some links are affiliate links.