Azure AI Speech pricing & features

Microsoft's speech API for text to speech, speech to text and translation, with a free tier and pay-as-you-go billing.

Score in Text-to-Speech Tools5.5 /10

At a glance

Best for: Developers on Azure needing many languages and custom neural voices
Pricing model: Freemium
Free trial: 30 days
Rank: #20 of 27

What it does well

Free F0 tier includes 0.5 million neural TTS characters per month.

Watch for

Beyond the free F0 allowance, usage is billed per character on pay-as-you-go.

Free trial30 days“Get free cloud services and a $200 credit to explore Azure for 30 days.” — azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/speech-services

✓Voice cloning · YesClones a voice from a recording or sample.“With a verbal statement and a short speech sample as the audio prompt, you can create a personal voice” — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/personal-voice-overview
✓API · YesA public text-to-speech API documented on the maker's site.“provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, and speaker recognition” — azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-speech
–Commercial use · Not publishedThe maker says generated audio may be used commercially on at least one plan.
✓Multi-language · YesSpeech in more than one language.“High-quality neural voices available out of the box in 100+ languages and locales” — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/text-to-speech
✓Dubbing · YesTranslates or dubs existing audio or video into another language.“Film studios and production companies can dub their movies and TV shows for international distribution” — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/video-translation-overview

Azure AI Speech does not publish a price, and it has a free plan. Read from azure.microsoft.com on Oct 24, 2026.