Amazon Web Services

Amazon Polly

Scalable text-to-speech service with natural voices.

Wide range of voices and languagesNeural TTS voicesSpeech marks for synchronizationIntegration with AWS ecosystem
Today's score
89.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • Content narration
  • Application voiceovers
  • Interactive voice response (IVR) systems
  • Language learning tools
Not great for
  • Speech-to-text
  • Music generation
  • Complex emotional inflection without SSML
  • Zero-shot voice cloning

Why it ranks here

Amazon Polly remains a reliable and widely used TTS service, offering a vast selection of natural-sounding voices and seamless integration with other AWS services, making it a staple for many cloud-based applications.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends89
Benchmarks90
Developer buzz88
News mentions88

Pricing

API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo

Pricing plans

Free Tier
Includes 5 million characters per month.
Free
  • 5 million characters free
  • Standard voices
  • Limited neural voices
  • 12 months duration
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Pay as you go
Per-character pricing.
$0 /usage
  • Neural TTS ($0.000016/char)
  • Standard TTS
  • Custom Lexicons
  • Speech Marks
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Compare with another modelHow is this score calculated? →Snapshot 2026-07-07