Amazon (Transcribe / Polly) pricing

STT from $0.006 per minute; TTS from $4.00 per 1M characters.

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Speech-to-text

Product / tierPrice per minute$/minPer hourAs listedSource
Transcribe batch (us-east-1)
Taken from AWS's own worked pricing example for US East (N. Virginia).
$0.006$0.36$0.006 /minsource
2026-10-28
Transcribe streaming (us-east-1)
Taken from AWS's own worked pricing example for US East (N. Virginia).
$0.01$0.60$0.01 /minsource
2026-10-28

Text-to-speech

Product / tierPrice per 1M characters$/1M charsAs listedSource
Polly Standard$4.00$4 /1M charssource
2026-10-28
Polly Neural$16.00$16 /1M charssource
2026-10-28
Polly Generative$30.00$30 /1M charssource
2026-10-28

Price history

ProductTodayHistory
Transcribe streaming (us-east-1) STT$0.01 9 checks since 2026-10-20
Transcribe batch (us-east-1) STT$0.006 9 checks since 2026-10-20
Polly Neural TTS$16.00 9 checks since 2026-10-20
Polly Standard TTS$4.00 9 checks since 2026-10-20
Polly Generative TTS$30.00 9 checks since 2026-10-20

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