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Amazon Polly Pricing Details
With Amazon Polly, you only pay for what you use. You are charged based on the number of characters of text that you convert either to speech or to Speech Marks metadata. In addition, you can cache and replay Amazon Polly’s generated speech at no additional cost. It's easy to get started with the Amazon Polly Free Tier, try it today.
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go model
You are billed monthly for the number of characters of text that you processed. Amazon Polly’s Standard voices are priced at $4.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requests (when outside the free tier). Amazon Polly’s Neural voices are priced at $16.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requested (when outside the free tier). Amazon Polly’s Long-Form voices are priced at $100.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requested (when outside the free tier). Amazon Polly’s Generative voices are priced at $30 per 1 million characters for speech requests (when outside the free tier).
Free tier
Millions of characters per month
For Amazon Polly’s Standard voices, the free tier includes 5 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech through Polly. For Neural voices, the free tier includes 1 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech through Polly. For Long-Form voices, the free tier includes 500 thousand characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech through Polly. For Generative voices, the free tier includes 100 thousand characters per month for speech requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech through Polly.
Pricing Examples
| Example | Text Length | Speech Duration | Standard TTS Cost | Neural TTS Cost | Long-form TTS Cost | Generative TTS Cost |
| 1,000 requests, 1,000 characters per request | 1 million characters | ~23 hours, 8 min |
$4.00 | $16.00 | $100.00 | $30.00 |
| 10,000 requests, 100 characters per request |
1 million characters | ~23 hours, 8 min | $4.00 | $16.00 | $100.00 | $30.00 |
| 2016 Amazon Shareholders Letter | 1.3k characters, single page | ~1 min. 40 sec |
$0.005 | $0.021 | $0.13 | $0.04 |
| Average email message |
~3.1k characters | ~4 min | $0.01 | $0.05 | $0.31 | $0.09 |
| Typical news article |
~6.5k characters, three pages | ~9 min |
$0.03 | $0.10 | $0.65 | $0.20 |
| "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens | ~165k characters, 64 pages | ~3 hours 50 min | $0.66 | $2.64 | $16.50 | $4.95 |
| "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain |
~600k characters, 224 pages | ~13 hours 50 min |
$2.40 | $9.60 | $60.00 | $18.00 |
| Animated video: - Average length of a single narration text: 100 characters - Number of narration texts per animated production: 25 |
2.5k characters per animation | ~3.5 min | $0.01 |
$0.04
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$0.25 | $0.08 |
| Conversational application: - Average spoken response length: 100 characters - Requests per user per month: 300 |
30k characters per user per month | ~42 min | $0.12 |
$0.48 | $3.00 | $0.90 |
| Animated avatar: - Average length of single phrase from avatar: 100 characters - Number of phrases produced by avatar: 25 - Need for Speech Marks to synchronize lips |
2.5k characters of synthesized speech 2.5k characters of Speech Marks data |
~3.5 min | $0.02 | $0.08 | $0.50 | $0.15 |
| Storytelling with highlighted text for children: - Length of text for the story: 10k characters - Need for Speech Marks to synchronize highlighted text |
10k characters of synthesized speech 10k characters of Speech Marks data |
~13 min | $0.08 | $0.32 | $2.00 | $0.60 |
AWS GovCloud (US) Pricing Details
We encourage our government customers and their partners to take advantage of the Standard voices available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region for Amazon Polly.
Amazon Polly’s Standard voices are priced at $4.80 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requests (when outside the free tier). Amazon Polly’s Neural TTS voices are priced at $19.20 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requests (when outside the free tier).
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