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by fakedang 385 days ago
> But in the end OpenAI's biggest feature is that it's 10x cheaper and completely pay-as-you-go. (Why are all these TTS services doing subscriptions on top of limits and credits? Blech!)

Is it so, after all the LLM and overheads have been considered? Elevenlabs conversational agents are priced at 0.08 per minute at the highest tier. How much is the comparable at Open AI? I did a rough estimate and found it was higher there than at Elevenlabs. Although my napkin calculations could also be wrong.
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ianbicking 384 days ago
It's confusing, but if I look closer then 10x is an exaggeration, it's more like 5x...

https://elevenlabs.io/pricing

Creator tier (lowest tier that's full service) is $22/mo for 250 minutes, $0.08/minute. Then it's $0.15/1000 characters. (So many different fucking units! And these prices are actually "credits" translated to other units; I fucking hate funny-money "credits")

https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#transcription-and-s...

Estimated $0.015/minute (actually priced based on tokens; yet more weird units!)

The non-instruction models are $0.015/1000 characters.

It starts getting more competitive when you are at the highest tier at ElevenLabs ($1320/month), but because of their pricing structure I'm not going to invest the time in finding out if it's worth it.

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fakedang 384 days ago
> It starts getting more competitive when you are at the highest tier at ElevenLabs ($1320/month), but because of their pricing structure I'm not going to invest the time in finding out if it's worth it.

They do have a grant programme through, which gives 3 months free of the largest tier.

https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants

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