Cheapest text to speech APIs
Live text to speech API prices in each provider’s own billing unit, cheapest first.
The cheapest text to speech API per 1M characters is Async Text to Speech Pro V1.0 at $10.00 (fal.ai), of 27 models priced per 1M characters. Prices are the providers’ own billing units; endpoints billed differently are listed separately, never converted with assumptions.
Cheapest per 1M characters
| Model | Price per 1M characters | Provider | Source and observation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Async Text to Speech Pro V1.0async | $10.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Kokoro TTSKokoro · 9 variants at this price | $20.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Chatterbox (text-to-speech / multilingual)Resemble AI · 2 variants at this price | $25.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Bytedance Seed Speech Text to SpeechByteDance Seed | $30.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| CSM-1BUnattributed (via fal) | $30.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTSGoogle DeepMind | $30.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Chatterboxhd (text-to-speech)Resemble AI | $40.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| DiaUnattributed (via fal) | $40.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Eleven v4 TurboElevenLabs | $40.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSGoogle DeepMind | $45.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash TtsUnattributed (via fal) | $50.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Orpheus TTSUnattributed (via fal) | $50.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS (Flash)Qwen (Alibaba) | $50.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Zonos-Audio-CloneUnattributed (via fal) | $50.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Minimax (preview / speech-2.5-turbo)MiniMax | $60.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech 2.6 [Turbo]MiniMax | $60.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech 2.8 [Turbo]MiniMax | $60.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech-02 TurboMiniMax | $60.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Qwen 3 TTS - Text to Speech [0.6B]Qwen (Alibaba) | $70.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Eleven v4ElevenLabs | $80.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Qwen 3 TTS - Text to Speech [1.7B]Qwen (Alibaba) | $90.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Qwen 3 TTS - Voice Design [1.7B]Qwen (Alibaba) | $90.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| ElevenLabs TTS Multilingual v2ElevenLabs | $100.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Minimax (preview / speech-2.5-hd)MiniMax | $100.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech 2.6 [HD]MiniMax | $100.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech 2.8 [HD]MiniMax | $100.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax Speech-02 HDMiniMax | $100.00 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
Method and caveats
One row per model: its cheapest priced offer in that billing unit. Endpoints that differ only by language or voice at the same price are shown once. Resolution, duration, steps and quality settings change the real cost per output; check the source before use. Most of these prices are resale prices from the source shown (for example fal), not the model developer’s own list price. Missing prices are unknown, not free.