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Hybrid hosted + open-weights play: SSE/WebSocket streaming TTS API at app.neuphonic.com, and tiny CPU-only on-device models (NeuTTS-Air ~360M Apache-2.0, NeuTTS-Nano ~120M) in GGUF for phones/Raspberry Pi - privacy/edge-deployment angle. NOTE: the site's pricing page returned 404 at verification time; hosted-plan pricing treated as not published.

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools we track, Neuphonic has the 33rd-widest language coverage.

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What we know about Neuphonic

Neuphonic sits in the text-to-speech apis category, where it is hybrid hosted + open-weights play: SSE/WebSocket streaming TTS API at app.neuphonic.com, and tiny CPU-only on-device models (NeuTTS-Air ~360M Apache-2.0, NeuTTS-Nano ~120M) in GGUF for phones/Raspberry Pi - privacy/edge-deployment angle. NOTE: the site's pricing page returned 404 at verification time; hosted-plan pricing treated as not published. We keep this Neuphonic profile grounded in primary sources, each fact dated to when we last confirmed it.

Neuphonic 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 Neuphonic quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

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

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools in our matrix, Neuphonic leads with the 33rd-widest language coverage; the fact sheet below has the raw numbers behind that placement.

In total we track 9 verified facts for Neuphonic today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the Neuphonic fact sheet below.

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Fact sheet

Capabilities
Capabilities facts
Streaming audio output✓ YesJul 20
Realtime websocket API✓ YesJul 20
Instant voice cloning✓ YesJul 20
Minimum audio for voice cloning3 secondsJul 20
Languages supported7 languagesJul 20
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
Self-host / on-prem option✓ YesJul 20
Model weights licenseNeuTTS-Air: Apache-2.0; NeuTTS-Nano: NeuTTS Open License 1.0Jul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsPython SDK (Python 3.9+), JavaScript SDK (Node 18+)Jul 20
Output formatsWAV (raw audio buffer also available)Jul 20

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