Google Cloud Text-to-Speech Pricing Change — April 2026
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April 2, 2026 Price increase AI Voice Tools

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech raises top-tier pricing 433.3% to $160/per 1M characters in April 2026

On April 2, 2026, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech raised its top plan from $30/per 1M characters to $160/per 1M characters (433.3% higher).

Before & after

Before
$30
Range: $4 – $30
5 plans
Free TierStandard VoicesWaveNet VoicesNeural2 VoicesStudio Voices
After
$160
Range: Free – $160
10 plans
Free TierStandard VoicesWaveNet VoicesNeural2 VoicesPolyglot VoicesStudio VoicesChirp 3: HD VoicesInstant Custom VoiceGemini 2.5 Flash TTSGemini 2.5 Pro TTS
Top-tier change +433.3% $30 → $160/per 1M characters

Current price (live)

Today's range
Free – $160/per 1M characters
Plans
10
Last verified
Apr 2, 2026
See Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing →

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on April 2, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

cloud.google.com Official Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing page

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