Amazon Polly pricing and free tier

Free tier: Standard 5M characters/month, Neural 1M characters/month (first 12 months).

Prices are from each vendor's official pricing page, checked on . This page has no affiliate links.

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Pricing page (source)

Key facts

Free tier
Yes: Standard 5M characters/month, Neural 1M characters/month (first 12 months).
API per 1M characters
$4 (Standard (Neural $16, Generative $30))
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on aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing
Amazon Polly plans (checked Oct 18, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page, tax as stated by the vendor)
PlanBilled monthlyBilled annually, per monthUsage limit
Standard——$4 per 1M characters
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Commercial use
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Voice cloning
None
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Neural——$16 per 1M characters
Details
Commercial use
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Voice cloning
None
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Generative——$30 per 1M characters
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Commercial use
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Voice cloning
None
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Long-Form——$100 per 1M characters
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Commercial use
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Voice cloning
None
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Amazon Polly links and sources

Websiteaws.amazon.com/polly
Pricing pagehttps://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/
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CurrencyUSD
Free tierStandard 5M characters/month, Neural 1M characters/month (first 12 months). Source
Commercial use on free plan—
API per 1M characters$4Standard (Neural $16, Generative $30) Source

Pay-as-you-go only. Free tier also includes Long-Form 500,000 characters/month and Generative 100,000 characters/month (first 12 months).

Amazon Polly pricing questions

Does Amazon Polly have a free plan?

Yes. Standard 5M characters/month, Neural 1M characters/month (first 12 months). (checked )

How much does the Amazon Polly API cost?

$4 per 1M characters (Standard (Neural $16, Generative $30)), from the vendor's pricing page checked on .

Lowest monthly prices of other AI voice generator tools

Lowest-priced plan billed monthly
ServiceMonthlyFree tier
Cartesia$520,000 credits/month (text-to-speech uses 1 credit per character).
Typecast$53,000 credits total (about 5 minutes). Credit attribution required.
ElevenLabs$610,000 credits/month. No rollover. No commercial license.
Speechify API$10$0, no card required. Stops until next month when the monthly usage balance runs out.
WellSaid$193 minutes of downloads/month. No commercial use. No card required.
Fliki$283 credits/month, up to 5 minutes, 720p, watermarked.

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