5 posts tagged "pricing".
The three ways an ecommerce brand answers the phone, normalized to cost per talk minute so they are comparable. Outsourced call centers run $0.35 to $1.35 a minute and voice agents run under $0.08 all-in, but containment rate decides more than either number.
Vrishab Nair
The voice agent platforms developers actually evaluate in 2026, compared on what a minute really costs once the LLM, speech, and telephony are added. Most headline rates are platform fees, not bills. SpeechifyAI is all-in from $0.07/min.
Luke Oliff
The tools for producing narration without hiring voice actors, compared on cost per finished hour rather than per seat. Studio subscriptions cap downloaded minutes; per-character APIs do not. One hour of audio runs from $0.31 to $40 depending on which you pick.
Luke Oliff
The top 10 text-to-speech APIs of 2026, benchmarked on the independent Artificial Analysis Speech Arena. Simba 3.2 is #1 on Artificial Analysis at $6 to $10 per million characters, above every ElevenLabs, Cartesia and Google model. Self-hosted models left out.
Luke Oliff
Simba 3.2 is #1 on Artificial Analysis, the independent TTS benchmark. On Voice Arena's blind, listener-voted board it's the #1 real-time voice and #1 on price — the model above it isn't real-time, the nearest at its quality costs 7x more. Nothing you can ship beats it.
Luke Oliff