Chirp 3: HD
FAIR · middle third for this operationGoogle Cloud Text-to-Speech (Chirp 3: HD) costs $0.027 for one minute of speech. That is the middle third of the 8 entries we price on the same operation.
Chirp 3: HD · the arithmetic
the unit$0.00003 per character · Pay-as-you-go, no plan to buy: 'US$0.00003 per character (US$30 per 1 million characters)', free for the first 1 million characters each month.
the meterBilled per character of the input string, spaces and newlines included; SSML tags count too (except ‹mark›).
the sumGoogle publishes no characters-per-minute equivalence for this model, so we apply our own declared conversion: 1 minute of speech = 900 characters. 900 x $0.00003 = $0.027 per minute.
the verdictFAIR · middle third for this operation
the catchSame page, same arithmetic, for the other voice families: Standard and WaveNet $4/1M = $0.0036/min; Neural2 and Polyglot $16/1M = $0.0144/min; Studio $160/1M = $0.144/min; Instant custom voice (cloning) $60/1M = $0.054/min.
read on 14 sep 2026 · pricing page ↗ · documentation ↗
Is Chirp 3: HD worth the credits?
nobody has voted yet. be the first.
one vote per person per day. click your side again to take it back.
How much does Chirp 3: HD cost on Google Cloud?
$0.027 for 1 min of speech, read from Google Cloud's own pages on 14 sep 2026. The meter: Billed per character of the input string, spaces and newlines included; SSML tags count too (except ‹mark›)..
Where does this number come from?
Google publishes no characters-per-minute equivalence for this model, so we apply our own declared conversion: 1 minute of speech = 900 characters. 900 x $0.00003 = $0.027 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.