Set expected usage; each row estimates monthly cost from official unit prices.
8 official USD rows - checked 2026-06-16 - sorted by official source order.
| Model | Provider | Published price | Region | Source | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Official price row | OpenAI Official API | $0.034 per minute Realtime speech translation | $35.02 | Global | OpenAI API pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | OpenAI also lists gpt-realtime-whisper at $0.017/minute. |
ELOfficial price row | ElevenLabs Official API | $0.05 per 1K characters Ultra-low latency text to speech | $51.50 | ElevenAPI | ElevenAPI pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | Multilingual v2/v3 is listed at $0.10 per 1K characters. |
ELOfficial price row | ElevenLabs Official API | $0.22 per hour Speech to text, bulk transcription | $22.66 | ElevenAPI | ElevenAPI pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | Realtime Scribe v2 is listed at $0.39 per hour. |
 Official price row | xAI Official API | $0.05 per minute Realtime voice API | $51.50 | xAI API | xAI API pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | xAI also lists TTS at $15 per 1M characters and STT at $0.10/hour REST. |
 Official price row | Mistral Official API | $0.016 per 1K characters Text-to-speech generation and voice cloning | $16.48 | Mistral API | Mistral pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | Available on /v1/audio/speech. |
 Official price row | MiniMax Official API | $60 per 1M characters Text to audio | $61.80 | MiniMax API | MiniMax pay-as-you-go pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | HD speech model is listed at $100 per 1M characters. |
 Official price row | Alibaba Cloud Official API | $0.10 per 10K input characters Output is not billed | $10.30 | International deployment | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | TTS voice cloning and realtime variants have separate character prices. |
 Official price row | Z.AI Official API | $0.03 / MTok, approximately $0.0024 per minute Speech recognition | $2.47 | Z.AI API | Z.AI pricing Checked 2026-06-16 | The per-minute figure is the provider's equivalent value. |