PlayHT 2.0
Available playht/playht-2 · by PlayHT · neural-tts
Pricing — 1 offering(s)
PlayHT
Text characters (API)
- $30.00 / 1M characters Current 2023-07-01 → present
Showing the active price and any recorded history. Full pricing history is available via the paid API — see API docs.
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. | — |
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