Speechify Pricing (2026): $29 Listening vs $19 Studio — Two Products
Most Speechify pricing confusion is one fact: it's two products wearing one brand. Premium reads documents to you; Studio produces voiceover. Buying the wrong one is the most common mistake.
Direct answer
Speechify sells two different products, verified July 2026. Speechify Premium — the listening app that reads documents aloud — is $29/month (free tier: 10 basic voices). Speechify Studio — the voiceover, dubbing and avatar production suite — is separate: Studio Free ($0, 600 credits, no commercial rights), Starter ($19/month, 7,200 credits = exactly 2 hours of voiceover) and Creator ($49, 28,800 credits = 8 hours). A Premium subscription includes no Studio credits, and vice versa — buying the wrong product is the most common pricing mistake.
- Last verified
- Jul 19, 2026
- Confidence
- High — read on vendor pages
- Evidence
- 4 checks
- Sources
- 2 source links
Evidence used
- Premium and Studio tier prices, credit pools and rates were read on Speechify's live pages (verified July 2026).
- Studio's metering (voiceover 1 credit/second, dubbing 3, avatar video 30; unchanged re-exports free) comes from the same verification.
- Per-minute dollar figures are pure division from the verified prices and pools.
- This is a third-party explainer; Speechify's live pages are the authority and can change.
How we checked this
- We treat the two products separately throughout, because that's the decision that actually costs buyers money.
Speechify plans at a glance (verified Jul 2026)
| Plan | Product | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free (listening) | Premium app | $0 | 10 basic voices, up to 1.5× speed |
| Premium | Listening app | $29/mo | 1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, 5× speed, AI summaries (annual toggle advertises "SAVE 60%") |
| Studio Free | Production suite | $0 | 600 credits ≈ 10 min voiceover — no commercial rights |
| Studio Starter | Production suite | $19/mo | 7,200 credits = 2 hrs voiceover (≈ $0.16/min), cloning, commercial rights |
| Studio Creator | Production suite | $49/mo | 28,800 credits = 8 hrs voiceover (≈ $0.10/min) |
Premium is the listening app; Studio is the production suite with per-second credit metering (voiceover 1/sec · dubbing 3/sec · avatars 30/sec). Neither includes the other.
The two-product split: which one you actually need
Premium ($29/mo) is for consuming — it reads articles, PDFs and emails to you at up to 5× speed. Studio (from $19/mo) is for producing — voiceover, dubbing and avatar video with commercial rights from Starter up. They share a brand and nothing else.
The rule of thumb: if the audio is for your own ears, you want Premium; if the audio ships to an audience, you want Studio. The confusion is expensive in both directions — Premium includes zero Studio credits, and Studio won't read your PDFs on your phone. Speechify's checkout doesn't go out of its way to disambiguate, which is why "Reader vs Studio confusion" is a recurring theme in user reviews.
Studio's metering is the cleanest in the voice field — [1 credit = 1 second of voiceover](/blog/speechify-studio-credits) — with two rate cliffs to know: dubbing burns 3 credits per second and avatar video 30. The same Starter pool that covers two hours of voiceover lasts exactly 4 minutes in avatar mode. Convert any pool across the three modes in our [Speechify credits calculator](/tools/speechify-credits-calculator).
Sources checked
Official vendor pages used for pricing, rights and feature claims; checked Jul 19, 2026.
- Speechify pricing - listening plans and product tier positioning
- Speechify AI voice generator - voiceover product page for Studio-style generation and commercial-use positioning