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Speechify

Speechify

speechify.ai

Speechify grew from one of the most used consumer reading apps into a full voice platform, and SpeechifyAI Build exposes the same text to speech stack that powers its products as a developer API.

Best ranked model
#7 Simba 3.2
Humanness
83

Standings as of Jul 27, 2026, 22:56 UTC

Speechify
Models on the Index
1
Languages
30+
Price / 1M chars
$10
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Speechify models on the Humanness Index™

RankModelHumannessLatencyLanguagesPrice / 1M chars
#7Simba 3.283—English$10

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About Speechify

Speechify grew from one of the most used consumer reading apps into a full voice platform, and SpeechifyAI Build exposes the same text to speech stack that powers its products as a developer API. The Simba model family spans the streaming native Simba 3.2 flagship, the earlier streaming Simba 3.0, and the legacy multilingual and English models.

Sources: speechify.ai, docs.speechify.ai

Platform and pricing

The API serves batch and streaming endpoints with SSML, emotion controls, speech marks, and voice cloning, billed per character at a flat rate per plan: $10 per 1M characters on Starter, $8 on Pro, and $6 on Scale. Simba 3.2 serves a curated voice allow list, and cloned voices on it currently require manual Speechify approval of the voice key.

Sources: speechify.ai, docs.speechify.ai

Speechify stats

Languages
30+1
Price / 1M chars
$102
  1. docs.speechify.ai/build/guides/concepts/models (checked 2026-07-23) Simba Multilingual covers 30+ languages; the streaming-native Simba 3.2 on the Index is English only, encoded per model.
  2. speechify.ai/text-to-speech-api (checked 2026-07-23) Flat per-character rate by plan: $10 per 1M characters on Starter, $8 on Pro, $6 on Scale; no credit conversion.

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