Turn text into life-like speech

Reduce Amazon Polly costs with these tips

Amazon Polly cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Polly costs with these tips

Right-Size Polly Resources

Analyze your text-to-speech usage patterns and adjust your Polly resources such as number of voices and text length based on your needs. This will help you avoid paying for unused features.

Leverage Reserved Capacity

Reserved capacity can provide significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing for predictable workloads. Note that this requires a 1 or 3 year commitment.

Integrate Services Like S3

For temporary audio file storage needs, consider using services like S3 to optimize Polly resource allocation. This can help minimize costs over time.

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Service information & pricing

About Amazon Polly

About Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly provides superior human-like voices in multiple languages. It allows speech output customization, supports lexicons and SSML tags, and enables storing and sharing speech in MP3 and OGG formats. Using deep learning technology, it produces high-quality speech synthesis for businesses to create speech-enabled apps. It's useful for content creation, e-learning, and telephony sectors.

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Amazon Polly pricing

Amazon Polly bills based on text characters converted to speech or Speech Marks metadata. You pay monthly for processed characters. Standard voices cost $4/1M characters, and Neural voices $16/1M. The Free Tier covers 5M characters/month for Standard and 1M for Neural voices for a year. For AWS GovCloud (US) government users, Standard voices are $4.80/M, and Neural voices are $19.20/M.

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