Cloud or on-premise, at half the cost of ElevenLabs. Available today.
Speech-2.5-HD ties with ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 in blind MOS evaluations and outperforms it on emotional range. Speaker identity is preserved across long-form output without drift, making it usable for audiobook and podcast production end-to-end. No chunking, no manual stitching.
Two unedited first-take samples from Speech 2.8. No mastering, no EQ, no post-processing. What you hear is what the API returns.
Hey, it's me. How are ya? (chuckle) I hope you're having an awesome day! We actually had a bit of a crazy launch day yesterday, but I'm just recovered and ready to roll. You're listening to this and probably thinking I'm just chatting into a microphone, but here's the twist: I'm actually not human. I am the new Speech 2.8 model from MiniMax.
Breaths, chuckles, throat-clears. Every disfluency you'd expect from a human.
Oh my gosh, you won't believe it, 今日は本当にすごかったの! I was running late for work, それから電車が止まっちゃって, and I'm like, 'Seriously?!' でも大丈夫, because guess what, 道で昔の友達にばったり会ったの!
Native prosody on both sides. Same voice through the switch, no model swap.
Need a specific language or persona? Mention it on the demo form and we'll generate one before the call.
Pick HD for content that ships to humans, Turbo for high-volume conversational workloads. Same SDK, same voices, same auth.
Cinematic delivery for content that ships to humans.
Built for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads.
Air-gapped deployments, GPU-aware scaling, full audit controls. Available today, not a 2026 roadmap promise.
| Plan | Monthly volume | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 5M chars / month | $2,500 / mo |
| Growth | Up to 25M chars / month | $9,500 / mo |
| Scale | Up to 100M chars / month | $28,000 / mo |
| Enterprise | Unlimited + SLA + GPU sizing | Custom |
Two cloning paths so you can match the quality bar to the use case. Both work across all 40+ supported languages.
Upload 10 seconds of audio and start generating in under a minute. Built for prototypes, character voices, and personalized assistants.
We fine-tune a dedicated model on a curated studio recording. Indistinguishable from the source speaker, even on long-form narration.
Drop into LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio, or your own stack. The same TTS that powers our cloud API, tuned for real-time conversation.
Time-to-first-byte under 200ms on Turbo. Fast enough for natural turn-taking inside a voice loop.
Stream raw 24kHz PCM directly into LiveKit, Pipecat, or your custom WebRTC pipeline.
Per-sentence prompts for tone, pace, energy, and emphasis. No prompt engineering tricks required.
Cut audio cleanly when the user barges in, then resume with state intact.
Switch language inside a conversation without swapping models or reloading voices.
Drop into Twilio, Telnyx, or any SIP trunk. Tested for telephony codecs and 8kHz fallback.
Where each platform actually wins. Numbers reflect public pricing and documented capabilities at the time of writing.
| Capability | MiniMax Voice | ElevenLabs | Cartesia |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD model, per 1M chars | $100 | ~$300 | $99 |
| Turbo model, per 1M chars | $60 | ~$99 | $25 |
| Languages supported | 40+ | 70+ | 15+ |
| Streaming TTFB | <200 ms | ~250 ms | <90 ms |
| Voice cloning | IVC + PVC | IVC + PVC | IVC only |
| On-premise deployment | Available now | Early access, Apr 2026 | Not offered |
| Emotion / style control | Native, per-sentence | Native | Limited |
| Long-form audio (>10 min) | Single call up to 30 min | Chunking required | Chunking required |
Sources: vendor pricing pages and product changelogs as of April 2026. ElevenLabs on-premise is in early access announced for April 2026 and not yet production-proven.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough with our solutions team. We'll generate samples in your target language and scope a deployment that fits your constraints, whether cloud, hybrid, or fully on-premise.