Google Cloud Text-to-Speech Pricing
cloud.google.com · Text To Speech · refreshed 2026-05-06Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is a pay-as-you-go API — sign up for an API key, then pay per call. Free credits at signup: Free usage limits vary by model: WaveNet/Standard voices 0-4M characters/month, Chirp 3/Neural2/Studio 0-1M characters/month, Gemini-TTS models not available in free tier.
Page fetched 2026-05-09 · cloud.google.com · Pay-as-you-go API
cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Self-serve checkout with public pricing — an autonomous agent can complete the purchase without a sales call.
11 SKUs priced in mixed units (characters, tokens)
| Model / SKU | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
F977-2280-6F1B | — | $30 / 1M characters |
A247-37D7-C094 | — | $60 / 1M characters |
9D01-5995-B545 | — | $4 / 1M characters |
84AB-48C0-F9C3 | — | $160 / 1M characters |
FEBD-04B6-769B | — | $16 / 1M characters |
242A-EA16-C1EC | $0.5 / 1M tokens | — |
9228-79EF-B162 | — | $10 / 1M tokens |
EB3F-1051-05D7 | $1 / 1M tokens | — |
7976-330B-8F17 | — | $20 / 1M tokens |
8FF1-7E5B-5BB7 | $1 / 1M tokens | — |
DCF3-CB17-8262 | — | $20 / 1M tokens |
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Google Cloud Text-to-Speech bills per usage. Set your expected monthly volume below.
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Monthly usage (tokens)
$0.000001 per tokens · billed monthly
$0.5000
per monthGoogle Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing FAQ
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing starts at $0.00003 per character ($30 per 1 million characters) for Chirp 3 HD voices after free usage; free tier includes up to 4 million characters monthly depending on model.
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is priced per usage rather than per seat. Sign up for an API key, then pay per call.
Yes — Google Cloud Text-to-Speech offers free starter access on signup. Free usage limits vary by model: WaveNet/Standard voices 0-4M characters/month, Chirp 3/Neural2/Studio 0-1M characters/month, Gemini-TTS models not available in free tier.
Yes — Google Cloud Text-to-Speech's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.
xpay scored Google Cloud Text-to-Speech as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech publishes a pricing page with 2 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. All advertised paths route to a sales conversation rather than a self-serve checkout. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.
In the Text To Speech category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech to compare with 3 nearest peers.
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Can an AI agent buy from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech?
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/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS IndexGoogle Cloud Text-to-Speech scores 85/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token …
See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift Google Cloud Text-to-Speech into the Agent-Ready Verified band.At a glance
Credits: Free usage limits vary by model: WaveNet/Standard voices 0-4M characters/month, Chirp 3/Neural2/Studio 0-1M characters/month, Gemini-TTS models not available in free tier
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Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing summary derived from a live read of https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing on 2026-05-06. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech.
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