What will your audio cost? Voice and music calculator
Pick a vendor price, enter how much finished audio you need, and set how many takes you keep. The calculator divides the price by your keep rate, because redone takes are billed too. Prices come from each vendor's own page and carry the date they were checked.
Worked example
Ten minutes of finished narration on the ElevenLabs API, v2 Multilingual ($0.08 per 1,000 characters), at 1,000 characters a minute:
- Keep every take: 10,000 characters, $0.80.
- Keep half: 20,000 characters billed, $1.60, or $0.16 per finished minute.
Ten full songs from Google Lyria 3.5 ($0.08 per song), keeping 1 in 4: 40 generations, $3.20.
Spot a price that changed? Report the change. Prices are updated only when the new figure can be read on the vendor's own page.
FAQ
Why does the keep rate matter?
Vendors bill every generation, including takes you redo. Halving the keep rate doubles the cost of each finished minute.
Why is there no Suno cost per generation?
Suno's pricing page does not say how many credits a song uses. The calculator shows Suno's cost per download at full use instead.
Where do the prices come from?
Each preset cites the vendor's own pricing page and the date it was checked. See Methodology.