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AI voice and text-to-speech cost calculator: price per minute

At 300 minutes of audio a month the cheapest plan that states commercial use is ElevenLabs Creator at $54.22/month ($0.1807 a minute); the cheapest of any kind is Murf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $3/month ($0.0100 a minute). At 1M characters a month the cheapest is Murf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $10/month ($0.0100 per 1,000 characters). 4 of 5 verified vendors can be priced per minute; Speechify sells characters and states no minutes rate.

Last checked 2026-10-18 on the official pages.

Enter minutes of audio (or characters) per month and see the cheapest plan at ElevenLabs, Murf, WellSaid, Speechify and Resemble AI, the total monthly cost and the effective price per minute.

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Monthly cost = plan price (monthly, or the per-month equivalent of annual billing) + overage beyond the allowance, before tax, one user. Allowances stay in each vendor's own unit; minutes and characters are converted only where the vendor states a rate (ElevenLabs and Murf: about 1,000 characters a minute), so vendors without a stated rate are missing from rankings in the other unit. A plan whose allowance is exceeded and that states no overage price is treated as not fitting. Plans that do not state commercial use are left out of the commercial tables. monthly price = no annual price is published, so the monthly price is used. Ties are broken by name. Affiliate status is never used.

Cheapest plan by monthly minutes

Monthly billing, one user. First column: plans that state commercial use. Second: any plan, free ones included. All volumes.

Audio per monthCheapest (commercial use stated)Cheapest (any plan)
10 minutes a monthElevenLabs Starter at $6/monthElevenLabs Free at $0/month
60 minutes a monthElevenLabs Creator at $22/monthMurf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $0.60/month
300 minutes a monthElevenLabs Creator at $54.22/monthMurf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $3/month
1,000 minutes a monthElevenLabs Pro at $167/monthMurf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $10/month
5,000 minutes a monthElevenLabs Scale at $843/monthMurf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $50/month

Vendors

ElevenLabs

10k credits per month (about 10 minutes), no commercial license

Murf

Studio Free: 10 minutes of voice generation (period not stated), no commercial rights; API: $10 of free credits

WellSaid

Free trial: 3 download minutes per month, no commercial rights

Speechify

API Free: 500K characters a month, commercial use; Studio Free: 600 credits, no commercial rights

Resemble AI

No free allowance stated; Flex has a $0 monthly fee and bills TTS per second

Popular comparisons

ElevenLabs vs Murf · ElevenLabs vs WellSaid · ElevenLabs vs Resemble AI · ElevenLabs vs Speechify · Murf vs WellSaid · Murf vs Resemble AI · all

Also: cheapest AI voice by volume · vendors we could not verify (Play.ht, Lovo)

Frequently asked questions

What is the cheapest AI voice generator per minute?

At 300 minutes a month: Murf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $3/month ($0.0100 a minute) if commercial rights do not matter, and ElevenLabs Creator at $54.22/month ($0.1807 a minute) if the plan must state commercial use. At 5,000 minutes: Murf API Falcon (pay as you go) at $50/month ($0.0100 a minute).

How is cost per minute worked out?

Total monthly cost (plan fee plus any overage) divided by the minutes you enter. Where a vendor sells characters, minutes are converted only if the vendor states a rate: ElevenLabs and Murf say about 1,000 characters a minute.

Which vendors are tracked?

ElevenLabs, Murf, WellSaid, Speechify and Resemble AI have verified prices. Play.ht and Lovo (Genny) are pending: their official pricing pages could not be fetched on 2026-10-18. Pending vendors are never ranked.