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PlayHT 2.0

Name: PlayHT 2.0
Brand: PlayHT
Price: 30 USD
Availability: Discontinued

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playht/playht-2 · by PlayHT · neural-tts

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PlayHT

Text characters (API)

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$30.00 / 1M characters Historical 2023-07-01 → 2025-12-31

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Capability profile

voice naturalness strong

language support strong

voice variety strong

streaming latency moderate

cloning support strong

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Config	Source
MOS (naturalness)	—	No independently published MOS. Community evaluations consistently rate PlayHT 2.0 among the top 3 TTS APIs for naturalness alongside ElevenLabs and Azure. Checked 2026-08-19 (SCO-462 sweep) against the Artificial Analysis Text to Speech Arena (artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice, 98 voices tracked) — PlayHT does not appear anywhere on it. Confirmed still genuinely unavailable via that source.	—

Operator guidance

The best option when voice cloning from short samples matters and the ElevenLabs credit-based pricing is limiting. At ~$30/1M chars (effective Creator plan rate) it sits between OpenAI TTS-1 HD and ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 on price. 142 languages is broader than ElevenLabs (29–32). For ultra-low-latency real-time applications, Cartesia Sonic's SSM architecture is faster. Verify current PAYG pricing at the pricing page before committing.

Use cases

Voice cloning for consistent brand voices from short reference audio
High-quality multilingual TTS across 142 languages
Emotionally expressive voiceover and narration content
Applications requiring instant custom voice creation without enterprise contracts

Limitations

PAYG API pricing is not prominently published; verify current rate before use
Credit-based plan pricing; effective per-character cost is plan-dependent
Professional Clone voice quality requires 1–30 minutes of reference audio