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Grok TTS

Usage-priced hosted TTS from xAI, part of the Grok Voice stack (TTS, STT, and a speech-to-speech Voice Agent API), aimed at developers who want low-latency voice output alongside Grok models.

Among the 16 text-to-speech tools we track, Grok TTS has the 3rd-cheapest flagship rate - a fit for cost-sensitive, high-volume work.

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Facts verified Jul 20, 2026Try Grok TTS

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What we know about Grok TTS

Grok TTS is a text-to-speech apis platform: usage-priced hosted TTS from xAI, part of the Grok Voice stack (TTS, STT, and a speech-to-speech Voice Agent API), aimed at developers who want low-latency voice output alongside Grok models. This profile tracks what we have verified about Grok TTS, each fact linked to a primary source and dated.

Grok TTS does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Grok TTS quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Grok TTS covers streaming audio output, realtime websocket api, instant voice cloning, and emotion / style controls, and does not offer self-host / on-prem option. Each of those is verified against Grok TTS's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

In total we track 12 verified facts for Grok TTS today, and add coverage as the ingestion pass revisits it. Where a number is a vendor claim rather than our own measurement, it is labeled as such on the Grok TTS fact sheet below, and each row links the primary source it came from so you can check our work.

Whether Grok TTS is the right call depends on your use case more than any single spec, which is why the head-to-head verdicts below score it per scenario rather than crowning one overall winner. Use the fact sheet for the raw numbers, and the matchups for how Grok TTS actually fares against the platforms buyers most often weigh it against.

Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Price per 1M characters (flagship model)15 $/1M charsJul 20
Pricing modelusage-based per character, no subscriptionJul 20
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
Streaming audio output✓ YesJul 20
Realtime websocket API✓ YesJul 20
Voice library size5 voicesJul 20
Instant voice cloning✓ YesJul 20
Languages supported20 languagesJul 20
Emotion / style controls✓ YesJul 20
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
Self-host / on-prem option✗ NoJul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Concurrency on base plan50Jul 20
Output formatsMP3 (default, 24 kHz / 128 kbps), WAV, PCM, mu-law, A-lawJul 20
Max input per request15000Jul 20

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