Unreal Speech Pricing 2026

Unreal Speech is a freemium audio & music tool that offers 6 key features including Streaming audio starting in roughly 300ms, Single requests of up to 10 hours of generated audio, Per-word and per-sentence timestamps, including over websocket. Unreal Speech is a text-to-speech API that competes almost entirely on cost, claiming to be roughly eleven times cheaper than ElevenLabs and putting a side-by-side monthly comparison on its own homepage. It runs on Kokoro-82M, a small open-weights TTS model, which is what makes the price structure possible. The technical specifications are aimed at production rather than demos: audio starts streaming in about 300 milliseconds, a single request can produce up to ten hours of audio, and per-word timestamps come back with the synthesis so you can highlight words in sync with playback. Timestamps are available in three ways — a websocket endpoint that streams audio and timestamps together, or the /speech and /synthesisTasks endpoints with TimestampType set to word or sentence, which return a JSON URI of word/start/end/text_offset objects. The long-request ceiling matters for audiobook and long-form article narration, which is exactly where per-character billing on premium vendors becomes painful. There is a browser Studio for non-API use, a live demo with adjustable voice, language, speed, pitch, and bitrate, and a free tier of 250,000 characters — around six hours of audio, roughly half an audiobook — which is large enough to actually evaluate the quality on real content rather than on a sample paragraph. The team is based in San Francisco and publishes a technical blog on open TTS models.

✅ Unreal Speech is a good choice if you need:

• •Streaming audio starting in roughly 300ms
• •Single requests of up to 10 hours of generated audio
• •Per-word and per-sentence timestamps, including over websocket
• •Adjustable voice, language, format, speed, pitch, and bitrate
• •Browser Studio for non-developer use

💡 Value Assessment

With a free tier available, Unreal Speech is an easy recommendation for anyone looking to try audio & music tools without financial commitment. The paid plans offer good value for power users who need the additional features and higher usage limits.