Text-to-Speech pricing
Text-to-Speech is priced based on the number of characters sent to the service to be synthesized into audio each month. You must enable billing to use Text-to-Speech, and will be automatically charged if your usage exceeds the number of free characters allowed per month. For information about how to keep track of your character totals, see Monitoring API usage. Price is calculated per character.
The total number of characters in the input string are counted for billing
purposes, including spaces.
All Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
tags except mark are also included in the character count. For example, this input string
counts as 79 characters, including the SSML tags, newlines, and spaces:
<speak>
<say-as interpret-as="cardinal">12345</say-as> and one more
</speak>
Pricing table
| Feature | Free per month | Price after free usage limit is reached |
|---|---|---|
| Premium voices | 0 to 1 million bytes | US$0.000016 per byte (US$16 per 1 million bytes) |
| Studio voices | 0 to 1 million bytes | US$0.00016 per byte (US$160 per 1 million bytes) |
| Standard voices | 0 to 1 million characters | US$0.000004 per character (US$4 per 1 million characters) |
Google Cloud Platform costs
If you use other Google Cloud Platform resources in tandem with the Text-to-Speech, such as Google App Engine instances, then you will also be billed for the use of those services. See the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator to determine other costs based on current rates.
What's next
- Read the Text-to-Speech documentation.
- Get started with Text-to-Speech.
- Try the Pricing calculator.
- Learn about Text-to-Speech solutions and use cases.