Google Cloud Text-to-Speech vs NVIDIA Magpie TTS
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
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| Figure | Google Cloud Text-to-Speech | NVIDIA Magpie TTS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4/mo | $375/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 14 | 2 |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 9.2 (#8) | 9.4 (#1) |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 9.0 (#13) | 9.0 (#14) |
| API access | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | Yes | NVIDIA marks this release as ready for commercial use under its stated terms. |
| Company founded | Google's official history dates the company's beginnings to 1998. | LinkedIn lists NVIDIA as founded in 1993. |
| Company headquarters | Google's official history identifies the Googleplex in Mountain View, California as its headquarters. | LinkedIn lists NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California. |
| Company legal name | Google's terms identify the provider as Google LLC. | LinkedIn identifies the maker as NVIDIA, a public computer-hardware company. |
| Company size | LinkedIn lists Google as a public software-development company with 10,001-plus employees and headquarters in Mountain View, California. | LinkedIn places NVIDIA in the 10,001-plus employee size category. |
| Documentation depth | Documentation includes product basics, quickstarts, SSML tutorials, voice catalogs, API references, authentication, samples and release notes. | NeMo documentation covers training manifests, Hydra configuration, DPO and GRPO preference optimization, inference parameters and long-form generation. |
| Export formats | MP3,LINEAR16,OGG_OPUS,MULAW,ALAW | WAV |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Platforms | web,api | web,linux,api,self_hosted |
| Voice cloning | Yes | Yes |
| What it does | Cloud Text-to-Speech converts text or SSML input into natural human speech audio. | Magpie TTS Multilingual is a neural text-to-speech model for generating speech in twelve languages. |
Plans
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
- Standard voices$4 a month
- WaveNet voices$4 a month
- Neural2 voices$16 a month
- Polyglot voices$16 a month
- Chirp 3: HD voices$30 a month
- Studio voices$160 a month
- Instant custom voice$60 a month
- Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview TTSPrice not published
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSPrice not published
- Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS / Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview TTSPrice not published
NVIDIA Magpie TTS
- NVIDIA Developer ProgramFree
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise$4,500 a year
In their own words
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is an API that converts text or SSML into audio data for applications. It offers more than 380 voices across more than 75 languages and variants, with REST or gRPC integration and output formats including MP3, LINEAR16, OGG_OPUS, MULAW, and ALAW. Gemini-TTS supports single- or multispeaker speech guided by natural-language prompts for style, accent, pace, tone, and emotional expression. Chirp 3 instant custom voice can create a personalized voice model from as little as 10 seconds of audio and is available in more than 30 locales. Streaming synthesis supports real-time conversations, while long-audio synthesis accepts up to 1 million bytes of input. Speech controls include pitch, speaking rate, and volume gain. Billing counts input characters, including spaces, newlines, and SSML tags except the mark tag, and billing must be enabled. Standard and WaveNet voices cost US$4 per 1 million characters, with 0 to 4 million characters free. Other voice models have different rates and free-use limits. New customers can receive $300 in Google Cloud credits.
NVIDIA Magpie TTS
NVIDIA Magpie TTS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.