IBM Watson Text to Speech pricing
7 plans read from ibm.com
LitePriced on request 10,000 characters per month Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
StandardPriced on request As low as USD 0.02 per thousand charactersStandard characters · Unlimited characters · High-value features · Guaranteed uptime Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
PremiumPriced on request Contact us for pricingPrivate usage and training data in an isolated environment · High availability and service-level uptime guarantee · Single-tenant environment · Mutual authentication · HIPAA enabled in selected IBM Cloud regions · Custom-branded neural voice Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.ibm.com
LiteFree 10,000 characters per month Read 12 Oct 2026 · ibm.com
StandardPriced on request As low as USD 0.02 per thousand charactersUnlimited characters · high-value features · guaranteed uptime Read 12 Oct 2026 · ibm.com
Deploy AnywherePriced on request Contact us for pricingUnlimited characters per month · 35 neural voices · 16 supported languages and dialects · deploy behind your firewall or on any cloud with IBM Cloud Pak for Data Read 12 Oct 2026 · ibm.com
PremiumPriced on request Contact us for pricingMore capacity and data protection · custom-branded neural voice · 99.9% high availability and service level uptime guarantee Read 12 Oct 2026 · ibm.com
In short
- IBM Watson Text to Speech has a free plan (Lite).
- A free trial is offered.
- Paid plans published: 1.
- 6 plans are priced on request (Lite, Standard, Premium, Standard, Deploy Anywhere, Premium).
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Magpie TTS | $375/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Voicebox | $1/mo | Yes | No |
| Speechify | $10/mo | Yes | No |
| Resemble AI | $280/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Baidu Text-to-Speech | — | Yes | Yes |
| Altered Studio | $30/mo | Yes | Yes |
| ElevenLabs | $6/mo | Yes | No |
| Google Cloud Text-to-Speech | $4/mo | No | Yes |