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Amazon Polly Pricing

With Amazon Polly, you only pay for what you use. You are charged based on the number of characters of text that you convert either to speech or to Speech Marks metadata. In addition, you can cache and replay Amazon Polly’s generated speech at no additional cost.

Amazon Polly Pricing Details

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go model

You are billed monthly for the number of characters of text that you processed. Amazon Polly is priced at ¥ 27.47 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requests.

Pricing Examples

Example	Text Length	Speech Duration	Cost
1,000 requests, 1,000 characters per request	1 million characters	~23 hours, 8 min	¥27.47
10,000 requests, 100 characters per request	1 million characters	~23 hours, 8 min	¥27.47
2016 Amazon Shareholders Letter	1.3k characters, single page	~1 min. 40 sec	¥0.04
Average email message	~3.1k characters	~4 min	¥0.09
Typical news article	~6.5k characters, three pages	~9 min	¥0.18
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens	~165k characters, 64 pages	~3 hours 50 min	¥4.53
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain	~600k characters, 224 pages	~13 hours 50 min	¥16.48
Animated video: - Average length of a single narration text: 100 characters - Number of narration texts per animated production: 25	2.5k characters per animation	~3.5 min	¥0.07
Conversational application: - Average spoken response length: 100 characters - Requests per user per month: 300	30k characters per user per month	~42 min	¥0.82
Animated avatar: - Average length of single phrase from avatar: 100 characters - Number of phrases produced by avatar: 25 - Need for Speech Marks to synchronize lips	2.5k characters of synthesized speech 2.5k characters of Speech Marks data	~3.5 min	¥0.07
Storytelling with highlightext text for children: - Length of text for the story: 10k characters - Need for Speech Marks to synchronize highlighted text	10k characters of synthesized speech 10k characters of Speech Marks data	~13 min	¥0.27