Activeverified September 19, 2026
Amazon Polly free tier
AWS text-to-speech service offering natural sounding voices and multiple languages; integrated with AWS ecosystem. Monthly for 12 months: 5M Standard, 1M Neural, 500K Long-Form, and 100K Generative characters. New AWS customers may separately qualify for up to $200 under the six-month AWS Free Plan.
5.0M characters/mo1.0M characters/mo500K characters/mo100K characters/mo12-months trial
Free-tier allowances
- Standard voice characters
- 5,000,000 characters per month
- Monthly free usage during the first 12 months.
- Evidence: official pricing page (accessed 2026-09-19)
- Neural voice characters
- 1,000,000 characters per month
- Monthly free usage during the first 12 months.
- Evidence: official pricing page (accessed 2026-09-19)
- Long-Form voice characters
- 500,000 characters per month
- Monthly free usage during the first 12 months.
- Evidence: official pricing page (accessed 2026-09-19)
- Generative voice characters
- 100,000 characters per month
- Monthly free usage during the first 12 months.
- Evidence: official pricing page (accessed 2026-09-19)
Requirements and restrictions
Restrictions
- Character allowances are separate by voice type and apply during the first 12 months.
- Any general AWS Free Plan account credit is separate from these Polly quotas.
Provider snapshot
Also serves: Speech synthesis
Developer experience
Monthly for 12 months: 5M Standard, 1M Neural, 500K Long-Form, and 100K Generative characters. New AWS customers may separately qualify for up to $200 under the six-month AWS Free Plan.
Features
- Monthly for 12 months: 5M Standard, 1M Neural, 500K Long-Form, and 100K Generative characters.
- Amazon Polly API
- Built for Enterprises, developers
Core products
Official links and evidence
- Amazon Polly official pricing page — pricing, accessed 2026-09-19Official source reviewed for the recorded free-tier claim.
- Amazon Polly official website page — website, accessed 2026-07-17Official provider destination recorded during verification.
Categories
Subcategories: Speech synthesis