Rime pricing
What Rime charges per million characters, what that costs at real volumes, and when a cheaper or pay-once option makes sense.
Prices are list prices from the official pricing page of Rime, read October 8, 2026. They change; confirm before you decide. Source: https://rime.ai/pricing
What Rime charges
| Item | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech, Mist v3 | $30 | per 1M characters | Lowest time to first audio per Rime's docs |
| Text to speech, Coda | $50 | per 1M characters | |
| Voice cloning | Not priced on the Starter plan | - | See the page for higher plans |
Cost at real volumes
| Model | 1M characters | 10M characters | 100M characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mist v3 | $30 | $300 | $3,000 |
| Coda | $50 | $500 | $5,000 |
| Speakvora catalog voices | $3 | $30 | $300 |
One million characters is very roughly 15 to 20 hours of speech. Cost only: these models sound different, and we do not claim ours match theirs. Listen to the free samples and decide.
What Rime offers
- Text to speech for conversational and phone use (Mist v3, Coda)
- WAV or raw PCM output over a single HTTP call
What we did not find in Rime's official material
- Curated industry phrase packs
- Downloadable ready-generated industry audio
- A self-serve cloning price on the Starter plan
How it compares with Speakvora
Rime sells low-latency conversational voices at $30 (Mist v3) and $50 (Coda) per million characters. Speakvora is cheaper per character, but we do not claim lower latency than Rime.
Pay once instead
If most of your audio repeats (greetings, confirmations, prompts), a one-time bundle plays offline with no per-play fee. See pay-once text to speech and the speech API alternative page.
More on Rime: · · cheapest text to speech API · .
Questions
How much does Rime cost?
For text to speech, Rime lists between $30 and $50 per million characters depending on the model, on its pricing page read October 8, 2026. Prices change, so confirm at the source: https://rime.ai/pricing.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Rime?
On list price per character, yes. Speakvora's catalog voices are $3 per million characters and your own voice is $6. That is a cost comparison only; the models, languages and voices differ, and we do not claim equal quality. Rime sells low-latency conversational voices at $30 (Mist v3) and $50 (Coda) per million characters. Speakvora is cheaper per character, but we do not claim lower latency than Rime.
What does Rime do that Speakvora does not?
Rime offers: Text to speech for conversational and phone use (Mist v3, Coda); WAV or raw PCM output over a single HTTP call. Speakvora is smaller, with fewer models and languages.
Can I pay once instead of per character?
For lines that repeat, yes. Speakvora sells ready-made voice bundles you buy once (audio from $14, or $214 to $399 with a local agent) and play offline with no per-play fee. If you generate a line once and keep the file, per-character pricing is already very cheap, and we say so on the comparison pages.