Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to xAI Text To Speech
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for xAI Text To Speech by xAI? We compared every Audio model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 1 option is meaningfully cheaper.
Category: Audio
Voxtral TTS100% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0 in · $16 out / 1M Chars 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview
Google
More modalitiesSame category
$0.75 in · $4.5 out / 1M Tokens 80%
Whisper Large v3 Turbo
Groq
Same category
$0.04 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
xAI Speech To Text REST
xAI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Whisper V3 Large
Groq
Same category
$0.111 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Universal-2
AssemblyAI
Same category
$0.15 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Universal-3 Pro
AssemblyAI
Same category
$0.21 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Universal-3 Pro Streaming
AssemblyAI
Same category
$0.45 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Nova-3 Monolingual Streaming
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0048 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Nova-3 Multilingual Streaming
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0058 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Flux English Streaming
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0065 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Flux Multilingual Streaming
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0078 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Voice Agent API
AssemblyAI
Same category
$4.5 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 96%
ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5
ElevenLabs
Same category
$0.3 in · $0 out / 1k Characters 90%
Suno v5
Suno
Same category
$0.05 in · $0 out / 1 Song (Credit) 90%
Suno v3.5
Suno
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Song 90%
Udio v1.5
Udio
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Song (Credit) 90%
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview
Google
Same category
$1 in · $20 out / 1M Tokens 80%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.