Amazon Polly Free Tier
Millions of free text-to-speech characters a month across Polly voices
What you get from Amazon Polly Free Tier for free
Amazon Polly enables developers to convert text into natural-sounding speech across multiple voice engines and languages. The service offers both ongoing free character quotas and 12-month introductory allocations across all voice tiers.
Monthly Free Tier Limits
- Standard Voices: 5 million characters per month for speech synthesis or Speech Marks metadata requests.
- Neural Voices: 1 million characters per month for speech synthesis or Speech Marks metadata requests (available for the first 12 months).
- Long-Form Voices: 500,000 characters per month for speech synthesis or Speech Marks metadata requests (available for the first 12 months).
- Generative Voices: 100,000 characters per month for speech synthesis requests (available for the first 12 months).
Additional Offer Details
- AWS Free Tier Credits: Eligible new AWS accounts can receive up to $200 in Free Tier credits applicable toward Amazon Polly and other eligible AWS infrastructure within 12 months of account setup.
- No Replay Fees: Generated speech audio can be cached, stored, and replayed indefinitely without incurring additional charges.
- Metadata Support: Free character allowances cover both raw audio generation and Speech Marks for visual synchronization, such as animated avatar lip-syncing and children's book text highlighting.
Models served free
Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard voices5 million characters/month; no RPM on the pricing page | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Neural voices1 million characters/month for the first 12 months | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Generative voices100 thousand characters/month, first 12 months | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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