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Unreal Speech

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, 2026Try Unreal Speech

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What we know about Unreal Speech

Unreal Speech is a text-to-speech apis platform: 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. This profile tracks what we have verified about Unreal Speech, each fact linked to a primary source and dated.

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. Every Unreal Speech comparison on the site works from that all-in figure rather than the headline number, because the headline number is rarely what the invoice says.

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.

In total we track 15 verified facts for Unreal Speech 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 Unreal Speech fact sheet below, and each row links the primary source it came from so you can check our work.

Whether Unreal Speech 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 Unreal Speech actually fares against the platforms buyers most often weigh it against.

Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Pricing modelMonthly subscription character bundles: Free (250K chars)Jul 20
Cheapest paid plan$49Jul 20
Characters included on cheapest plan3,000,000 chars/moJul 20
Free tier quota250K characters (6 hours of audio)Jul 20
Enterprise / contact-sales thresholdEnterprise $4999/mo for 625M charactersJul 20
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
TTFB latency (vendor-claimed)~300 msJul 20
Streaming audio output✓ YesJul 20
Realtime websocket API✓ YesJul 20
Voice library size48 voicesJul 20
Languages supported8 languagesJul 20
Word-level timestamps✓ YesJul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsPython, Node.js, React NativeJul 20
Concurrency on base planRequests per second: Free 2, Basic 8, Pro 32Jul 20
Output formatsMP3 (libmp3lame; 320k/256k/192k/128k bitrates), PCM mu-lawJul 20
Max input per request/stream up to 1,000 charsJul 20

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