Compare · Text to speech
Text to speech, priced side by side.
What 10 lakh (1 million) characters cost on each company’s voice for live calls. Their prices from their own pages, ours from our price list.
On a live call
On a live call, we bill time, not text.
A WebSocket open for a whole call is billed for the silences too. Cartesia bills its socket by the characters spoken.
- ₹0.90Mira TTS: a minute the WebSocket is open, whatever it says
- ₹2.66–₹2.84Cartesia: a minute of speech at “about 750 to 800 credits per minute”, on its Scale rate
At a glance
The rest, at a glance.
| Detail | Mira TTS | Cartesia | ElevenLabs | Sarvam | Smallest.ai | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The rest, at a glance. | ||||||
| How you pay | Rupee wallet, no plan | Monthly plan, in $ | Pay as you go, in $ | Pay as you go, in ₹ | Prepaid, in $ | Pay as you go, in $ |
| Indian languages, besides English | 8, and Hinglish | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| OpenAI’s speech API | Yes | No, its own | No, its own | No, its own | Not stated | No, its own |
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Sources
Every figure comes from a public page.
Their pricing pages and docs, read on the date beside each name, and our own price list.
- Mira TTS
- Our price list and documentation: Our pricing · TTS quickstart · TTS WebSocket
- Cartesia
- Read . Sonic, Scale plan: $37.38 per 1M characters, monthly plans only; $299 for 8M credits, used in full; past the plan $38–$65 per 1M. Pricing · Pricing docs · Sonic 3.6 languages · Cartesia alternative
- ElevenLabs
- Read . Flash, v4 Turbo: $40 per 1M characters, pay as you go; Multilingual and v4 are $80 per 1M. API pricing · Models · ElevenLabs alternative
- Sarvam
- Read . Bulbul V4 Flash: ₹2.00 / 1,000, pay as you go; ₹1.70 on monthly plans from ₹49,999. API pricing · Text to speech API · Sarvam alternative
- Smallest.ai
- Read . Lightning V3.1: $17.50 per 1M characters, pay as you go, from a prepaid balance. Model pricing · Lightning V3.1 · Smallest.ai alternative
- Google Cloud
- Read . Chirp 3: HD: $30 per 1M characters, after the first 1M characters each month, which are free. Pricing · Chirp 3: HD · Google Cloud alternative
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- Cartesia alternative Text to speech
Cartesia sells Sonic on monthly credit plans in dollars.
- ElevenLabs alternative Text to speech
ElevenLabs speaks 90+ languages, in dollars.
- Sarvam alternative Text to speech
Sarvam vs Voice Infra for phone calls: fewer errors on Hindi phone audio, a faster transcript, and from 14,000 minutes a month a lower rate.
- Smallest.ai alternative Text to speech
Smallest.ai and Voice Infra in rupees: text to speech per 10 lakh characters, speech to text per hour, and phone agents at ₹1.50 a minute all-in at volume.
- Google Cloud alternative Text to speech
Google has 30 Hindi Chirp 3: HD voices and a free tier.
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Six agent platforms by the minute, every cell sourced.
- Pricing Voice Infra
Agents by the minute; models by the character, minute or token.