Speechify
- Free tier
- Yes
- Source
- speechify.com/pricing
About Speechify
A reader app that speaks text, documents and web pages, plus a separate developer API.
Speechify’s main product is a reader app: you give it text, documents or web pages and it reads them aloud, with a listening speed you can raise. The plan page lists a free plan and a paid plan; the paid plan adds more voices and languages, a Scan & Listen feature, AI summaries and chat, voice typing and AI podcasts. Speechify also runs a separate developer API with streaming, SSML and voice cloning. Its documentation lists Japanese among the languages of its current model. The terms forbid automated use of the services, so TierDiff does not read the pricing page automatically.
Characteristics
- Reads text, documents and web pages aloud, with listening speed you can raise
- Paid plan lists more voices and languages, a Scan & Listen feature, AI summaries and chat, and voice typing
- Separate developer API with streaming, SSML and voice cloning, billed apart from the reader app
- API model simba-3.5 lists Japanese among 48 languages and its docs name four Japanese voices
Summarized by TierDiff from the vendor's own documentation, checked on Oct 22, 2026. Sources: Speechify — Pricing and plan features, SpeechifyAI API — Language support, SpeechifyAI API — Welcome, Speechify — Terms of service
What the free tier includes
TierDiff can't read this pricing page automatically, so it shows no free-tier numbers here. Check the official pricing page for current details.
Speechify next to other text to speech
The same limits for 10 services in this category. Speechify is the highlighted row.
| Service | Characters per month | Credits | Usage credit | Team members | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speechify Reader app that reads text, documents and web pages aloud; a separate API covers Japanese voices. This page Not read automatically | not published | not published | not published | not published | speechify.com |
| Amazon Polly AWS speech with lexicons and speech marks (viseme timing); free tier lasts 12 months. Trial only | not published | not published | not published | not published | pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Azure AI Speech Speech synthesis with fine SSML control of pitch, rate and pronunciation; custom voices. | 500K | not published | not published | not published | azure.microsoft.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Cartesia Speech API built around response speed for voice agents; one model covers 44 languages. | not published | 20K | $1 | not published | cartesia.aichecked Oct 23 |
| CoeFont Japanese-centered voice synthesis: 10,000+ voices incl. voice actors, or record your own. | 800 | not published | not published | 1 | coefont.cloudchecked Oct 23 |
| ElevenLabs Speech generation that can shape regional accents; voice cloning and Voice Design. | not published | 10K | not published | not published | elevenlabs.iochecked Oct 22 |
| Fish Audio Voice AI platform with text to speech, voice cloning and speech to text in a web app, API and SDKs. Not read automatically | not published | not published | not published | not published | fish.audio |
| Google Cloud Text-to-Speech Speech API with voice families chosen by use; JPY billing and a Tokyo region available. | 4M | not published | not published | not published | cloud.google.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Murf AI Voiceover editor plus an API; Japanese voices with rate, pitch and pause controls. Not read automatically | not published | not published | not published | not published | murf.ai |
| VOICEVOX Zundamon and other character voices, free on your own PC; commercial use with a credit. Free software | not published | not published | not published | not published | voicevox.hiroshiba.jpchecked Oct 16 |
