Aura-2 API pricing

Aura-2 by Deepgram, priced on Deepgram API (pay as you go).

Aura-2 API pricing starts at $30.00/1M characters (official pricing page, verified Oct 9, 2026).

Voice typePrice100,000 characters1,000,000 characters
Single price$30.00/1M characters$3.00$30.00

Verified against the official pricing page on Oct 9, 2026. Official pricing page

Prices here are converted to one unit per category so models can be compared; the official figures are below. The official list price is $0.03 per 1K characters.

Examples are unit price × length or count. They do not include retries, free allowances, or inputs and options that the official page prices separately.

Other text-to-speech models

Starting prices from each model's official pricing page, verified Oct 9, 2026. Every tier and its source are on the model's own page.

Questions

How much does Aura-2 cost per 1M characters?
Aura-2: $30.00/1M characters.
How much does it cost to turn 100,000 characters into speech with Aura-2?
At the listed price, 100,000 characters with Aura-2 cost $3.00, before any separately priced inputs, options or retries.
Are there lower-priced alternatives to Aura-2?
Among the models listed on modelpick, these start lower: Google Cloud Text-to-Speech (Standard · legacy, $4.00/1M characters), Aura-1 ($15.00/1M characters), TTS-1 ($15.00/1M characters) (official pricing pages, verified Oct 9, 2026). Starting prices can be for a different tier, and output quality differs; compare the same tier and samples before switching.