IBM Watson Text to Speech pricing & features

IBM's text-to-speech API, available as SaaS or self-hosted, with a free Lite plan and per-character Standard pricing.

Score in Text-to-Speech Tools4.5 /10

At a glance

What it does well

Lite plan gives 10,000 characters per month at no cost.

Watch for

Standard is billed per character; Premium and Deploy Anywhere need a sales quote.

Paid fromNot published“As low as USD 0.02 per thousand characters” — ibm.com/products/text-to-speech

Free planYes“Use 10,000 characters per month at no cost.” — ibm.com/products/text-to-speech

Free trialNot published

✓Voice cloning · YesClones a voice from a recording or sample.“Design your own unique branded neural voice modeled after your chosen speaker” — ibm.com/products/text-to-speech
✓API · YesA public text-to-speech API documented on the maker's site.“IBM Text to Speech is an API cloud service” — ibm.com/products/text-to-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.“natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices” — ibm.com/products/text-to-speech
–Dubbing · Not publishedTranslates or dubs existing audio or video into another language.

IBM Watson Text to Speech does not publish a price, and it has a free plan. Read from ibm.com on Oct 24, 2026.

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