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Microsoft Speech Services costs Free to $48 per 1M characters as of July 2026, with 3 plans available including a free tier. Plan: Free (F0) (free). Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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  • Free tier: Yes

Microsoft Speech Services offers 3 pricing tiers: Free (F0), Pay-as-you-go, Custom Neural Voice (Professional). The Pay-as-you-go plan is production applications with variable usage.

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Microsoft Speech Services lists $0-$48/1M characters, but hidden costs like implementation and support add to the total as of July 2026. Key hidden costs: endpoint hosting: $4.04 per model per hour for custom neural voices, voice training: $52 per compute hour for custom neural voice models, azure storage costs: audio file storage fees. Verified from 6 sources by CostBench.

Hidden Costs Breakdown

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Endpoint hosting: $4.04 per model per hour for custom neural voices

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Voice training: $52 per compute hour for custom neural voice models

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Azure storage costs: Audio file storage fees

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Data egress charges: Bandwidth costs for transferring audio files

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Azure Functions costs: If using serverless architecture for integration

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