A comprehensive comparison of Amazon Polly and Speechify text-to-speech services. Compare pricing, voice quality, language support, and features to find the best TTS API for your project.
Summary: Amazon Polly offers better enterprise pricing and AWS integration, while Speechify provides more voices, celebrity options, and superior user experience.
We ran the identical sentence through both Amazon Polly and Speechify so you can judge the voices yourself instead of reading about them. Press play to compare.
“Hello! Welcome to our service. I'm here to help you with anything you need today. How can I assist you?”
Samples generated by TextToLab through each provider’s own API (February 2026). Every voice reads the identical sentence above, at normal speed, so differences you hear are the voices — not the script.
| Feature | AAmazon Polly | SSpeechify |
|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | $4.00/1M chars | Free tier available |
| Pricing Model | Pay per character | Subscription |
| Voice Count | 60+ | 1000+ |
| Languages | 33 languages | 60 languages |
| Models Available | Standard, Neural, Long-form, Generative | Natural, Standard |
| Special Features | SSML SupportSpeech MarksLexicons | Celebrity VoicesVoice CloningBrowser Extension |
| Latency | Streaming supported | 300ms |
AWS cloud TTS with multiple engine options
Fast TTS with celebrity voices and cloning
Pay per character
Subscription
Amazon Polly aws cloud tts with multiple engine options, while Speechify fast tts with celebrity voices and cloning. Amazon Polly offers 60+ voices across 33 languages, whereas Speechify provides 1000+ voices in 60 languages.
Amazon Polly starts at $4.00/1M chars (pay per character), while Speechify starts at Free tier available (subscription). The best value depends on your usage patterns and specific needs.
Both services offer high-quality voices, but they excel in different areas. Amazon Polly's strengths include: aws integration, ssml support. Speechify's strengths include: huge voice library, celebrity voice options.
Speechify supports more languages with 60 languages compared to 33. However, language quality and accent options vary between services.
Amazon Polly does not currently offer voice cloning. Speechify supports voice cloning.
For real-time applications, consider latency and streaming support. Amazon Polly offers streaming support. Speechify has ~300ms latency.