Speechify Studio Credits Explained (2026): 1 Credit = 1 Second, but Avatars Cost 30x

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In Speechify Studio, 1 credit equals 1 second of voiceover, so 3,600 credits buy an hour of audio. Dubbing costs 3 credits per second and avatar video costs 30 credits per second — so avatars burn credits 30 times faster than plain voiceover. Re-exporting unchanged audio is free; only new generations cost credits. Plans give 600 credits free, 7,200 on Studio Starter ($19/month, about 2 hours of voiceover), and 28,800 on Studio Creator ($49/month). Note that Studio (the creation tool) is a separate product from Speechify Reader (the listening app). Verified on Speechify's pricing page July 2026.

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Jul 13, 2026

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• Per-second credit costs, the free-re-export rule and per-plan credit amounts were read from Speechify's Studio pricing page on Jul 13, 2026 (via a reader proxy).
• The Reader-vs-Studio product distinction is drawn from Speechify's two separate pricing pages.

How we checked this

• We quote Speechify's own pricing-page wording; the credits-to-minutes conversions are arithmetic from the per-second rate, labeled as such.
• We earn an affiliate commission if you subscribe through our links, which is why the avatar-burn math is spelled out rather than glossed.

The per-second math: voiceover, dubbing, avatars

Speechify Studio charges 1 credit per second of voiceover, 3 per second of dubbing, and 30 per second of avatar video. So 3,600 credits make an hour of voiceover but only two minutes of avatar footage.

Speechify Studio's pricing page lists the three rates directly: "Voiceover [1 credit per second]… Dubbing [3 credits per second]… Avatar [30 credits per second]." That 30x gap between voiceover and avatar is the single most important number to internalize before you pick a plan.

Worked out: 3,600 credits = 1 hour of voiceover, 20 minutes of dubbing, or 2 minutes of avatar video. On the Creator plan's 28,800 monthly credits, that's about 8 hours of voiceover — but if your work is avatar video, the same allowance is roughly 16 minutes of footage. If avatars are your main use case, budget credits accordingly or you'll hit the ceiling in a single project.

Re-exports are free — edits that re-process aren't

Only new generations cost credits. Re-exporting speech you already generated is free, and a volume change is free, but changing pitch, speed or emotion re-processes the audio and costs credits again.

A genuinely useful detail Speechify states: "Each new generation consumes credits, but re-exporting unchanged speech does not." So exporting the same clip in a different file format, or re-downloading it, doesn't cost anything.

The line to watch is what counts as a change. Adjusting volume is free (it's applied on export). But pitch, speed and emotion changes re-run the generation and bill credits again — so iterating on delivery is where a project's credit cost quietly grows. Lock the read before you fine-tune, not after.

Reader vs Studio — two different products

Speechify Reader is the listening app that reads books, PDFs and articles aloud; Speechify Studio is the creation tool for voiceover, dubbing and avatars. They're separate subscriptions, and credits belong to Studio.

This trips up a lot of searches. Speechify sells two things under one brand: Reader (the consumption app — it reads your documents and web pages aloud, priced at speechify.com/pricing) and Studio (the production tool — you generate voiceovers, dubs and avatar videos, priced at speechify.com/pricing-studio). Credits are a Studio concept; the Reader app doesn't meter voiceover generation because it isn't a generation tool.

If your goal is making voiceovers to publish, you want Studio. Per-plan credits are 600 on the free tier (~10 minutes of voiceover), 7,200 on Studio Starter at $19/month (~2 hours), and 28,800 on Studio Creator at $49/month (~8 hours). For where Speechify lands against dedicated voice tools, see our [Speechify review](/reviews/speechify) and the [text-to-speech ranking](/ai-voice/text-to-speech-tools).

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