Typecast Review
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
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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.
Reviewed by vsref Editorialfacts verified Jul 20, 2026Methodology →
Typecast pricing
Usage-priced at $70 per 1M characters (≈ $0.0665 per audio-minute), verified Jul 20, 2026 (source).
| Monthly volume | $ / 1M chars | $ / audio-min | Monthly bill |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200K chars/moHobby project | $70 | $0.0665 | $14 |
| 2M chars/moProduct feature | $70 | $0.0665 | $140 |
| 20M chars/moAt scale | $70 | $0.0665 | $1,400 |
Effective rates from published pricing; subscription plans resolve to plan fee plus overage. ~950 characters ≈ 1 audio minute. How we compute costs →
Fact sheet
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Distribute it
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