# Typecast Review

> Typecast review: Expressiveness play from a Korean AI-actor studio: strongest on emotion prompts/presets and character voices for content and conversational.

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Expressiveness play from a Korean AI-actor studio: strongest on emotion prompts/presets and character voices for content and conversational AI; separate consumer studio subscription ($8.99+) and developer API plans (Free/Lite/Plus).

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools we track, Typecast has the 12th-widest language coverage and the 4th-largest voice library - a fit for multilingual and localization projects and content and character work.

From $15/mo · facts verified Jul 20, 2026

## What we know about Typecast

This is our verified profile of Typecast, a text-to-speech apis platform - expressiveness play from a Korean AI-actor studio: strongest on emotion prompts/presets and character voices for content and conversational AI; separate consumer studio subscription ($8.99+) and developer API plans (Free/Lite/Plus). Every fact about Typecast below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

On pricing, Typecast starts at $15 per month for its entry tier. That is the sticker rate: real production cost usually runs higher once you add a language model, a voice provider, and telephony minutes.

On capabilities, Typecast covers streaming audio output, instant voice cloning, emotion / style controls, and word-level timestamps. Each of those is verified against Typecast's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

Typecast ranks the 12th-widest language coverage of the 46 text-to-speech tools we track, but only 14th of 46 for price, so where it lands for you depends on which of those matters more.

In total we track 17 verified facts for Typecast 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 Typecast fact sheet below.

## Typecast pricing

Usage-priced at $70 per 1M characters (≈ $0.0665 per audio-minute), verified Jul 20, 2026 ([source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api)).

| Monthly volume | $ / 1M chars | $ / audio-min | Monthly bill |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 200K chars/mo | $70 | $0.0665 | $14 |
| 2M chars/mo | $70 | $0.0665 | $140 |
| 20M chars/mo | $70 | $0.0665 | $1,400 |

Effective rates from published pricing; subscription plans resolve to plan fee plus overage. ~950 characters ≈ 1 audio minute.

## Fact sheet

### Pricing

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price per 1M characters (flagship model) | 70 $/1M chars | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Pricing model | API subscription credit plans: Free $0 (30k credits/mo) | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Cheapest paid plan | $15 | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Characters included on cheapest plan | 200,000 chars/mo | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Free tier quota | 30k credits (= 30k characters) per month | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Enterprise / contact-sales threshold | Enterprise plan: custom pricing | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |

### Capabilities

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TTFB latency (vendor-claimed) | ~200 ms | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Streaming audio output | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Voice library size | 500 voices | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Instant voice cloning | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Minimum audio for voice cloning | 5 seconds | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Languages supported | 35 languages | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Emotion / style controls | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Word-level timestamps | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |

### Build experience

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Official SDKs | Python | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Concurrency on base plan | Free: 2; Lite: 5; Plus: 15 concurrent requests | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/developers/api) |
| Output formats | WAV (uncompressed PCM, 16-bit, mono, 44,100 Hz) and MP3 | Jul 20 | [source](https://typecast.ai/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech/text-to-speech) |

Source: https://www.versusref.com/tts/tools/typecast/