Observed arrival · 2026-11-01

Modelworks, a speech API priced by the character

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A hosted text-to-speech API offering 54 voices, with a 250,000-character free tier and paid usage at $12 per million characters.

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For: Teams integrating text-to-speech into products
Worth noticing: The published DPA includes EU Standard Contractual Clauses, Module Two; the site says request content is discarded on completion and metadata kept for 30 days.

Field notes

The page identifies Kokoro v1.0 as the model behind the API and specifies 24 kHz mono audio output. Its cost examples translate the per-character rate into estimated per-hour and monthly use, while noting that speaking pace changes those estimates. The vendor also says voice quality varies with the amount of training audio available for each voice, and recommends testing with the free tier.

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