Is Amazon Polly still around? (2026)

What sets it apart Four selectable voice engines at distinct price/quality tiers behind a single API, including a Generative engine driven by a billion-parameter transformer that produces streamable audio; billing is metered per character with no per-seat fee

Best for Developers and enterprises adding programmatic text-to-speech to applications via API, from IVR and mobile apps to content narration and media production · Pricing model Pay-as-you-go, billed per character of text processed. Per 1 million characters: Standard $4, Neural $16, Generative $30, Long-Form $100. Free tier: Standard 5M characters/month ongoing; Neural 1M, Long-Form 500K, Generative 100K characters/month for the first 12 months.

Part of AWS, Amazon Polly converts text into speech using deep learning, with more than 100 voices across 40-plus languages. It offers four voice engines that trade cost against realism: Standard, Neural, Long-Form, and a Generative engine built on a billion-parameter transformer that streams audio incrementally. Developers shape output through SSML markup and custom pronunciation lexicons, and billing is per character processed rather than per seat, which suits teams embedding synthesized speech into interactive voice response systems, mobile apps, or media production. List pricing ranges from $4 per million characters for Standard voices to $100 for Long-Form.

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