Polly (Neural)
CHEAP · cheapest third for this operationAmazon Polly (Neural voices) costs $0.0144 for one minute of speech. That is the cheapest third of the 8 entries we price on the same operation.
Polly (Neural) · the arithmetic
the unit$0.000016 per character · Pay-as-you-go, no plan to buy: '$16.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requested'. Free tier 1 million characters/month for the first 12 months.
the meterBilled per character submitted.
the sumAWS publishes no characters-per-minute equivalence, so we apply our own declared conversion: 1 minute of speech = 900 characters. 900 x $0.000016 = $0.0144 per minute.
the verdictCHEAP · cheapest third for this operation
the catchSame page, same arithmetic: Standard voices $4/1M = $0.0036/min; Generative voices $30/1M = $0.027/min; Long-form voices $100/1M = $0.09/min.
read on 14 sep 2026 · pricing page ↗ · documentation ↗
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How much does Polly (Neural) cost on Amazon Web Services?
$0.0144 for 1 min of speech, read from Amazon Web Services's own pages on 14 sep 2026. The meter: Billed per character submitted..
Where does this number come from?
AWS publishes no characters-per-minute equivalence, so we apply our own declared conversion: 1 minute of speech = 900 characters. 900 x $0.000016 = $0.0144 per minute.
What counts as one operation here?
1 min of speech. Every entry in the same operation is priced on that same unit, which is what makes the comparison mean anything.