Play.ht
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Ultra-realistic TTS. 12,500 chars/month free.
Speechest. 2019 · San Francisco, CA
89
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
12,500 chars/month · no card
Category
Speech
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
PlayDialogPlayHT2.0Voice cloning
Monthly Requests
12,500 characters/month
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
"text">-purple-400">curl "text-amber-400">-X POST "https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/stream" \
"text-amber-400">-H "X">-USER">-ID: YOUR_USER_ID" \
"text-amber-400">-H "AUTHORIZATION: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"text-amber-400">-H "Content">-Type: application/json" \
"text-amber-400">-d '{"text": "Hello world", "voice": "s3://voice-cloning-zero-shot/...", "output_format": "mp3"}' \
"text-amber-400">--output speech.mp3// Overview
Play.ht's PlayDialog model produces near-human speech with emotion and interruption support. PlayAI API gives 12,500 characters/month on the free plan.
// Pros
- Natural-sounding Dialog model
- 12.5K free chars/month
- Streaming support
// Cons
- Free tier smaller than ElevenLabs
- Voice cloning is paid
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)82/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)78/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
PodcastsVoiceoversVoice agents