# Unreal Speech Review

> Unreal Speech review: Pure price play: markets itself as up to 11x cheaper than ElevenLabs with a simple 3-endpoint API (stream/speech/synthesisTasks); smaller.

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Pure price play: markets itself as up to 11x cheaper than ElevenLabs with a simple 3-endpoint API (stream/speech/synthesisTasks); smaller voice/language catalog and no voice cloning documented.

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools we track, Unreal Speech has the 30th-widest language coverage.

From $49/mo · facts verified Jul 20, 2026

## What we know about Unreal Speech

Unreal Speech sits in the text-to-speech apis category, where it is pure price play: markets itself as up to 11x cheaper than ElevenLabs with a simple 3-endpoint API (stream/speech/synthesisTasks); smaller voice/language catalog and no voice cloning documented. We keep this Unreal Speech profile grounded in primary sources, each fact dated to when we last confirmed it.

On pricing, Unreal Speech starts at $49 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, Unreal Speech covers streaming audio output, realtime websocket api, and word-level timestamps. Each of those is verified against Unreal Speech's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools in our matrix, Unreal Speech leads with the 30th-widest language coverage and lags at the 15th-fastest time-to-first-byte; the fact sheet below has the raw numbers behind that placement.

In total we track 15 verified facts for Unreal Speech 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 Unreal Speech fact sheet below.

## Unreal Speech pricing

Cheapest paid plan $49/mo with 3,000,000 characters included, verified Jul 20, 2026 ([source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing)).

| Monthly volume | $ / 1M chars | $ / audio-min | Monthly bill |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 200K chars/mo | $245 | $0.23 | $49 |
| 2M chars/mo | $24.50 | $0.0233 | $49 |
| 20M chars/mo | Higher plan | Higher plan | Higher plan |

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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription character bundles: Free (250K chars) | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing) |
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing) |
| Characters included on cheapest plan | 3,000,000 chars/mo | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing) |
| Free tier quota | 250K characters (6 hours of audio) | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing) |
| Enterprise / contact-sales threshold | Enterprise $4999/mo for 625M characters | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/pricing) |

### Capabilities

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TTFB latency (vendor-claimed) | ~300 ms | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Streaming audio output | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Realtime websocket API | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Voice library size | 48 voices | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Languages supported | 8 languages | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Word-level timestamps | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |

### Build experience

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Official SDKs | Python, Node.js, React Native | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.unrealspeech.com/) |
| Concurrency on base plan | Requests per second: Free 2, Basic 8, Pro 32 | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.unrealspeech.com/) |
| Output formats | MP3 (libmp3lame; 320k/256k/192k/128k bitrates), PCM mu-law | Jul 20 | [source](https://unrealspeech.com/) |
| Max input per request | /stream up to 1,000 chars | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.unrealspeech.com/) |

Source: https://www.versusref.com/tts/tools/unreal-speech/