Text to speech model
tts-1 pricing
OpenAI charges $15.00 per 1M characters for tts-1. Below: every price that applies and what common workloads cost.
- Price
- $15.00/ 1M characters
Retires 2027-01-06. Move to a current TTS model. npx @veqen/sdk scan finds every place your code uses it.
Every price
| Option | Per 1M characters |
|---|---|
| Standard | $15.00 |
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What common workloads cost
| Workload | Cost | |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 characters, about a minute of speech | $0.01 | |
| 1M characters | $15.00 |
Planning a mix of models? Simulate a workload with tts-1, alongside anything else you run.
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Last verified with price book 2026-10-22. Sources: OpenAI pricing and LiteLLM's MIT-licensed price file. Track every call to this model, per customer or project: install the SDK.