Amazon Polly Hidden Costs 2026
What they don't show you on the pricing page
Amazon Polly costs $4 to $100 per million characters as of July 2026, with 4 plans available. Plans: Standard Voices at $4/million characters, Neural Voices at $16/million characters, Generative Voices at $30/million characters, and Long-Form Voices at $100/million characters. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.
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Amazon Polly offers 4 pricing tiers: Standard Voices, Neural Voices, Generative Voices, Long-Form Voices. Paid plans include Standard Voices at $4/million characters, Neural Voices at $16/million characters, Generative Voices at $30/million characters. The Neural Voices plan is high-quality voice applications and conversational interfaces.
Amazon Polly lists $4-$100/million characters, but hidden costs like implementation and support add to the total as of July 2026. Key hidden costs: data transfer costs: $0.09/gb for outbound data transfer, s3 storage costs for audio files: $0.023/gb per month, aws support plans: $29-$15,000/month depending on tier. Verified from 5 sources by CostBench.
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