Amazon Polly review
Amazon Polly is a text to speech tool: Managed AWS service that converts text to speech through an API, offering standard, neural, long-form and generative voices billed by characters processed.
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
- Score
- Not ranked
- Coverage (4 of 8 criteria)
- 50%
- Free plan
- Yes
There is a free plan.
Amazon Polly has a public API.
Amazon Polly is not ranked among text to speech tools yet: only 50% of the scorecard weight (4 of 8 criteria) has verified data, under the 60% we require.
Amazon Polly at a glance
- Pricing model
- Free plan + paid plans source, Oct 14, 2026
- Free plan
- Yes source, Oct 14, 2026
- Free trial
- No source, Oct 14, 2026
- Public API
- Yes source, Oct 14, 2026
Amazon Polly plans
Standard voices
Not stated
- Billed monthly
- Not stated
- Billed yearly
- Not stated
- Charged per
- usage-based
Published limits
None statedNeural voices
Not stated
- Billed monthly
- Not stated
- Billed yearly
- Not stated
- Charged per
- usage-based
Published limits
None statedLong-Form voices
Not stated
- Billed monthly
- Not stated
- Billed yearly
- Not stated
- Charged per
- usage-based
Published limits
None statedGenerative voices
Not stated
- Billed monthly
- Not stated
- Billed yearly
- Not stated
- Charged per
- usage-based
Published limits
None stated
Prices in USD per month, before tax. Read from the vendor's pricing page on Oct 14, 2026. "Not stated" means the page does not publish it.
Full Amazon Polly pricing and plan limitsHow Amazon Polly scores
Score
Not ranked
Partial score 80/100
Coverage 50%
4 of 8 criteria. Ranked at 60% or more.
Not ranked: insufficient verified data: 4 of 8 criteria, 50% of the weight (needs 60%)
Entry price
Excluded
Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.
Free plan or trial
100/100
Weight 30%Free plan source
Pricing transparency
100/100
Weight 20%4 of 4 plans have a public price source
Verified features
33/100
Weight 30%1 of 5 tracked features verified: text-to-speech api source
API, integrations and export
100/100
Weight 20%public API source
Languagescategory criterion
Excluded
Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.
Voice librarycategory criterion
Excluded
Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.
Cost per user (team of 3)category criterion
Excluded
Weight –No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted.
Amazon Polly features
- Text-to-speech API
- Yes source, Oct 14, 2026
8 more details we track are not published by the vendor or not verified yet (shown as – in tables). How we verify
Amazon Polly alternatives
| # | Tool | Score | Coverage | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Public API | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Uberduck | 100/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $2/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  Vidnoz | 99/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  Cartesia | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $5/mo | Not offered | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 4 |  Fliki | 97/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes, 3 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 5 |  ElevenLabs | 93/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | $6/mo | $5/mo | Yes, 10,000 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the vendor page it was read from (hover for the check date). Coverage is the share of the scorecard's weight with verified data, and "N of M criteria" how many criteria the score is based on; a tool is ranked at 60% or more.
All 44 Amazon Polly alternatives, rankedMore ways to weigh up Amazon Polly
Questions, answered from the data
Does Amazon Polly have a free plan?
Yes: Amazon Polly has a free plan (checked Oct 14, 2026).
Does Amazon Polly have an API?
Yes, a public API is documented (checked Oct 14, 2026).
How does Amazon Polly score?
Amazon Polly is not ranked among text to speech tools yet: only 50% of the scorecard weight (4 of 8 criteria) has verified data, under the 60% we require.
What are the best Amazon Polly alternatives?
By our scorecard the top-ranked alternatives are Uberduck (100/100), Vidnoz (99/100) and Cartesia (98/100).
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Pricing last read Oct 14, 2026. Vendors change prices; the linked page is the final word.