# WellSaid Review

> WellSaid review: Enterprise voiceover specialist: polished Studio product for L&D/marketing narration with an API on the side; API pricing is contact-sales.

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Enterprise voiceover specialist: polished Studio product for L&D/marketing narration with an API on the side; API pricing is contact-sales, and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR) and ethical voice sourcing are the pitch.

From $10/mo · facts verified Jul 20, 2026

## What we know about WellSaid

WellSaid is a text-to-speech apis platform: enterprise voiceover specialist: polished Studio product for L&D/marketing narration with an API on the side; API pricing is contact-sales, and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR) and ethical voice sourcing are the pitch. This profile tracks every WellSaid fact we have verified, each linked to a primary source and dated.

On pricing, WellSaid starts at $10 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, WellSaid covers streaming audio output, emotion / style controls, ssml support, word-level timestamps, pronunciation dictionaries, and soc 2 type ii, and does not offer commercial use on free tier. Each of those is verified against WellSaid's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with WellSaid: SOC 2 Type II is in place. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with WellSaid before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

In total we track 13 verified facts for WellSaid 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 WellSaid fact sheet below.

## WellSaid pricing

Cheapest paid plan $10/mo, verified Jul 20, 2026 ([source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing)).

| Monthly volume | $ / 1M chars | $ / audio-min | Monthly bill |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 200K chars/mo | $50 | $0.0475 | $10 |
| 2M chars/mo | $5 | $0.0048 | $10 |
| 20M chars/mo | $0.50 | $0.0005 | $10 |

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 | subscription | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing) |
| Cheapest paid plan | $10 | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing) |
| Free tier quota | 3 download minutes/month | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing) |

### Capabilities

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Streaming audio output | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/reference/ttsstream) |
| Emotion / style controls | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/reference/using-ai-director-with-the-api) |
| SSML support | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/reference/ssml-capabilities) |
| Word-level timestamps | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/reference/word-timing) |
| Pronunciation dictionaries | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/reference/respellings) |

### Compliance & trust

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Commercial use on free tier | ✗  No | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing) |
| SOC 2 Type II | ✓  Yes | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/security) |

### Build experience

| Fact | Value | Verified | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Concurrency on base plan | 3 requests per 1 second (default) | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/docs/api-specifications) |
| Output formats | mp3, wav, ogg | Jul 20 | [source](https://www.wellsaid.io/pricing) |
| Max input per request | 1000 | Jul 20 | [source](https://docs.wellsaidlabs.com/docs/api-specifications) |

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