Every voice. Every language.Fraction of the price.
322 neural voices across 75 languages, plus speech to text — from $0.0025 per 1,000 characters. That's up to 32× cheaper than ElevenLabs and 40× cheaper than MiniMax, with no per-seat fees and no watermark.
Free
20,000 charsFor tinkering
billed monthly
- ~22 min of speech
- 30 min speech to text
- All 322 voices
- 75 languages
- Playground + API key
- 60 requests / min
- Community support
Creator
2,000,000 charsFor content at scale
billed monthly
- ~37 hrs of speech
- 12 hrs speech to text
- Everything in Hobby
- Dubbing: 30 min / mo
- SRT / VTT export
- Priority queue
- Commercial license
Studio
6,000,000 charsFor teams
billed monthly
- ~111.1 hrs of speech
- 40 hrs speech to text
- Everything in Creator
- Dubbing: 3 hours / mo
- 3 team seats
- Usage dashboard + spend caps
- 99.9% uptime target
Hobby
500,000 charsFor side projects
billed monthly
- ~9.3 hrs of speech
- 3 hrs speech to text
- Everything in Free
- Batch API
- Pronunciation dictionary
- Webhooks
- Email support
Scale
20,000,000 charsFor products
billed monthly
- ~370.4 hrs of speech
- 150 hrs speech to text
- Everything in Studio
- Dubbing: 12 hours / mo
- 10 team seats
- Custom rate limits
- Priority support
Enterprise
Millions of characters, custom voices, SSO, data residency, SLA and invoice billing. Priced below your current provider — send us the bill.
We are the cheapest. Here's the math.
Published list prices per 1,000 characters of speech (≈1 minute of audio), October 2026.
| Provider | TTS / 1K chars | Vs. Parexa |
|---|---|---|
| Parexa | $0.0025 – $0.004 | — |
| Qwen3-TTS (self-hosted GPU) | $0.006 | 2× more expensive |
| Fish Audio | $0.015 | 4× more expensive |
| OpenAI TTS | $0.015 | 4× more expensive |
| Azure Neural | $0.016 | 4× more expensive |
| Deepgram Aura-2 | $0.030 | 8× more expensive |
| Google Chirp 3 | $0.030 | 8× more expensive |
| ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 | $0.040 | 10× more expensive |
| Cartesia Sonic | $0.050 | 13× more expensive |
| MiniMax speech-2.8-turbo | $0.060 | 15× more expensive |
| ElevenLabs v4 | $0.080 | 20× more expensive |
| MiniMax speech-2.8-hd | $0.100 | 25× more expensive |
Speech to text
$0.10 / hour
MiniMax $0.38 · OpenAI $0.36 · Deepgram $0.26
Cheapest paid plan
$2 / month
ElevenLabs $6 · MiniMax $5+ · Fish pay-as-you-go
Free tier
20,000 chars + 30 min STT
ElevenLabs 10,000 credits · MiniMax none
What's included
| Feature | Free | Hobby | Creator | Studio | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech (322 voices, 75 languages) | |||||
| Speech to text | |||||
| OpenAI-compatible API | |||||
| Batch API + long-form chunking | |||||
| SRT / VTT + word timestamps | |||||
| Pronunciation dictionary | |||||
| Dubbing pipeline | |||||
| Team seats | |||||
| Usage dashboard + spend caps | |||||
| Priority queue | |||||
| Custom rate limits |
FAQ
How can you be cheaper than everyone?
We only do speech. No voice-clone research lab, no music or sound-effects models, no per-seat sales team — those are what you pay for elsewhere. You pay for characters, at near pass-through rates.
What counts as a character?
Each character of input text, including spaces. Roughly 900 characters ≈ 1 minute of speech. No charge for regenerating the same text within 24 hours.
Do unused characters roll over?
Yes — unused monthly characters roll over for one billing cycle on paid plans. The Free plan resets monthly.
Do you watermark audio?
Never. Every plan, including Free, returns clean audio with commercial usage rights.
Do I need a card for the Free plan?
No. Sign up, create an API key, and start calling the API in under a minute.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Billing is handled by Dodo Payments, and you can cancel from your billing portal — access continues until the end of the period.
Switch in one line of code
Our API matches OpenAI's speech endpoints. Change the base URL, keep your code.
const res = await fetch("https://parexa.xyz/api/v1/audio/speech", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PAREXA_API_KEY}` },
body: JSON.stringify({ text, voice: "en-IN-PrabhatNeural" }),
});Competitor prices from published list rates, October 2026. Character counts approximate 900 characters per minute of speech. Prices in USD, excluding tax. Payments processed by Dodo Payments.