We timed 13 text-to-speech endpoints from US East on 9 Oct 2026 and published every request.
Simba 3.2 had the lowest first audible audio of the 13: a median of 47 ms over our WebSocket, 64 ms over HTTP.
Our Text-to-Speech API can now limit or block one end user of your app, not your whole account.
Send safety_identifier, a hash of your own user id, and ask us to cap or block that user. They get a 429 or a 403; your other users never notice.
$91 a month for 10M characters of text to speech on SpeechifyAI, subscription included. Among per-character prices the next is $150, and ElevenLabs v3 is $800.
Priced from each vendor's page on 28 Sep 2026. The post puts every model's blind-listening score beside its price.
Two independent benchmarks in two days: @covaldev measured Simba 3.2 at 106 ms to first audio, @voicearena_ai at 123 ms, the fastest on their US English board.
Same voices, same price, no code change. Chart: Voice Arena
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SpeechifyAI's Simba 3.2 is now the fastest model on the @voicearena_ai US English 🇺🇸 latency board: 123.0 ms to first audio at the median, climbing from #9 at 392.5 ms in its earlier series.
SpeechifyAI shipped serving-side updates, our latest measurement series picked them up,
Coval (@covaldev) clocked Simba 3.2 and 3.0 about 4x faster to first audio on their independent benchmark: Simba 3.2 went from 379 ms on 13 Sep to 106 ms today.
Same voices, same $10 per million characters, no code change. Every streaming call already gets it.