price tracker · updated 2026-07-20
Cheapest Hume Octave TTS API
tts · per 1M characters
Hume's Octave 2 emotional TTS is $7.60 per 1M characters at pay-as-you-go rates, roughly half OpenAI's tts-1 and a fraction of premium voices like ElevenLabs.
Across the 4 endpoints we track for Hume Octave TTS, posted prices span $7.60 at Hume Octave 2 to $100 at ElevenLabs Multilingual v2. That is a 13x gap for the same model, so provider choice matters more than most teams expect. Rates below are normalized to tts · per 1M characters and re-checked weekly.
Hume Octave TTS
tts · per 1M characters
save up to 92%
Cheapest verified endpoint: Hume Octave 2 at $7.60 (tts · per 1M characters). Prices normalized per unit, ex. egress.
How we track this
We re-pull every known provider that serves Hume Octave TTS weekly, normalize to a single unit (tts · per 1M characters), and pin the price the moment a provider posts it — we don't average across stale snapshots. Switching providers is usually a one-line base-URL change. Spot a stale price? tell us.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest Hume Octave TTS API?
Hume Octave 2 currently has the lowest price for Hume Octave TTS at $7.60 (tts · per 1M characters), based on our 2026-07-20 check across 4 providers.
How much does the Hume Octave TTS API cost?
Prices for Hume Octave TTS range from $7.60 at Hume Octave 2 up to $100 at ElevenLabs Multilingual v2, measured as tts · per 1M characters. Same model, different bill: picking the right provider saves up to 92%.
Which providers offer Hume Octave TTS?
We currently track 4 endpoints for Hume Octave TTS: Hume Octave 2, OpenAI tts-1, Google Chirp 3 HD, ElevenLabs Multilingual v2. The table above ranks them by effective price, cheapest first.
How often are these prices updated?
We re-check every provider weekly and pin the exact posted price rather than averaging stale snapshots. This table was last refreshed on 2026-07-20.
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