Edge TTS
394 Microsoft Edge neural voices at 10 characters per credit — 90% cheaper than the premium tiers.
At a glance
- Starting price
- 100 credits
- Voices
- 394 Microsoft neural voices
- Cost
- 10 characters per credit (90% cheaper)
- Controls
- Rate, pitch, volume
Edge TTS costs a tenth of the premium tiers: ten characters per credit instead of one character per credit. For internal videos, drafts, long-form narration and anything where the voice does not have to sell something, it is the obvious choice.
The 394 Microsoft neural voices cover a wide language range and expose rate, pitch and volume controls. They are noticeably less expressive than ElevenLabs, which is exactly the trade you are making.
A practical workflow: draft the whole script on Edge, listen for pacing problems, then re-render the final on ElevenLabs. The draft costs almost nothing.
Edge TTS pricing
| What you get | Credits | Approx. USD |
|---|---|---|
| Per 1,000 characters | 100 | <$0.01 |
| Per 10,000 charactersThe same script costs 10,000 credits on ElevenLabs. | 1,000 | <$0.01 |
USD figures use the 3,000,000-credit package at $21.99. Credits never expire and there is no subscription — the same balance covers every model on the platform. See credit packages.
What it can do
- ✓90% cheaper than the premium tiers
- ✓Wide language coverage
- ✓Rate, pitch and volume control
Limitations
- —Less expressive than ElevenLabs or Minimax
- —No voice cloning
Compared with other models
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest text-to-speech on DubVoice.ai?
Edge TTS at 10 characters per credit — 100 credits per 1,000 characters, a tenth of the premium tiers. Kokoro is the next cheapest at 0.3 credits per character.
Is Edge TTS good enough for YouTube?
For informational and tutorial content, generally yes. For anything selling something, the expressiveness gap against ElevenLabs is audible. Drafting on Edge and re-rendering the final on ElevenLabs costs almost nothing extra.
Alternatives on DubVoice.ai
Kokoro TTS
Open-source Kokoro at 0.3 credits per character — 70% off the premium tier, 55 voices.
from 300 credits
ElevenLabs TTS
15,112 ElevenLabs voices at 1 credit per character, with inline performance tags and 10-second voice cloning.
from 1 credits
Minimax TTS
Minimax speech models at 1 credit per character, with pitch, volume and language-boost controls.
from 1,000 credits
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