AI Text-to-Speech API

Amazon Polly Alternative — PixelAPI AI Text-to-Speech API

Looking for a Amazon Polly alternative for ai text-to-speech api? PixelAPI is built for developers who want ai text-to-speech api at a fraction of the cost without losing quality.

Quick comparison

Feature	Amazon Polly	PixelAPI
AI Text-to-Speech API price	$4 per 1M chars	$0.015 per 30s
Free tier	varies	500 credits, no card
Other AI tools bundled	AWS-native TTS service.	14 tools (image gen, BG removal, upscale, face restore, object removal, audio, voice, 3D, more)
API auth	API key	API key
Cold starts	varies	None — always warm
GST invoice (India)	varies	Yes — registered Indian business

Why teams switch from Amazon Polly to PixelAPI

Polly is AWS-tied. PixelAPI is REST API anywhere.

Code sample (drop-in replacement)

curl -X POST https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/tts/generate \
  -H "X-API-Key: $PIXELAPI_KEY" \
  -d '{"text":"Hello world","voice":"female_indian_neutral","language":"en-IN"}'

When Amazon Polly might still be the right choice

AWS-native TTS service.

Try PixelAPI free

500 free credits, no credit card. Run your own quality benchmark on real data, compare to Amazon Polly's output, and decide.

Try free — 500 credits, no card See pricing REST API docs