# The best text to speech APIs with a creator plan (2026) — Dubsheet

> Source: https://dubsheet.com/category/tts-api (curated, re-verified)
> Updated 31 October 2026 · Reviewed by the Dubsheet editorial team

Speech models you can call from your own tools, priced per character, with a studio to try them.

4 tools in this category, ranked by what we can confirm about each (a public price, an API and docs, independent sources, stated limits; payment never changes the order). Each name links to its answer-first markdown twin.

## Facts

- Free to start: 3 of 4
- API: 4 of 4
- First paid plan a month: 1 of 4 publish one, $49
- Checked against their own sites: 27–31 October 2026 (4 of 4)
- Added in October 2026: 4

| Name | What it is | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Acapela Group](https://dubsheet.com/acapela-group.md) | Voice technology provider with custom voices, cloud API, and on-device deployment. | On quote | Yes |
| [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly.md) | Pay-per-character cloud text to speech from AWS, with four voice engines and a browser console. | Free, then $4 per 1m characters | Yes |
| [Deepgram Aura](https://dubsheet.com/deepgram-aura.md) | A developer speech API with Aura voices, selectable formats, and direct character-based pricing. | Free, then $0.015 per 1k characters | Yes |
| [Unreal Speech](https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech.md) | Kokoro-powered text-to-speech API with a free browser studio. | Free, then $49 a month | Yes |

## October in text to speech APIs with a creator plan

- Prices checked: 4 of 4 tools, on their own pricing pages
- Added in October: 4 new tools
- Last checked: 31 Oct, oldest check 27 Oct

## Text to speech APIs with a creator plan compared

| Tool | Price on its site | MCP server | API | Open source | Self-host |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Acapela Group](https://dubsheet.com/acapela-group) | On quote | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Not stated |
| [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly) | Free, then $4 per 1m characters | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Not stated |
| [Deepgram Aura](https://dubsheet.com/deepgram-aura) | Free, then $0.015 per 1k characters | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Not stated |
| [Unreal Speech](https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech) | Free, then $49 a month | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Not stated |

All 4 text to speech APIs with a creator plan we list.

## Questions buyers ask

### Which tool here costs the least?

3 of the 4 have a free plan: Amazon Polly, Deepgram Aura and Unreal Speech.

### When were these prices checked?

Read between 27 October 2026 and 31 October 2026 on each vendor’s pricing page.

## Sources and method

Ordered by what the vendors’ own pages confirm: price, the right to publish, API and limits. [How we rank](https://dubsheet.com/methodology/)

Each price is quoted from the vendor’s pricing page.

- [Acapela Group](https://dubsheet.com/acapela-group): [acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-cloud](https://www.acapela-group.com/solutions/acapela-cloud/), checked 29 October 2026
- [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly): [aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/), checked 27 October 2026
- [Deepgram Aura](https://dubsheet.com/deepgram-aura): [deepgram.com/pricing](https://deepgram.com/pricing), checked 31 October 2026
- [Unreal Speech](https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech): [unrealspeech.com/pricing](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing), checked 29 October 2026

## Where next

### Related categories

- [Free text to speech](https://dubsheet.com/category/free-plan)
- [Cheapest for 2 hours a month](https://dubsheet.com/category/cheapest)
- [Courses and e-learning](https://dubsheet.com/category/e-learning)
- [Free text to speech you may publish](https://dubsheet.com/category/free-publishable)