TTS 1 is OpenAI's text to speech model, available from 3 providers, starting at $15.00 / 1M input. A text-to-speech model optimized for realtime speech synthesis, converting written text into natural-sounding spoken audio.
Specifications
Canonical IDopenai-tts-1
TypeText to Speech
StatusDeprecating
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesAudio
Release Date · 3 years ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Elo Rating
#142

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio✓
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1K chars
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
azure/tts-1
N/A$0.015
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
tts-1
N/A$0.015
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
openai/tts-1
$15.00N/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Inworld Realtime TTS 2————Available
Realtime TTS-2————Available
Realtime TTS-2 Research Preview————Available
Soniox TTS 2 RT————Available
Step TTS 2————Available
StyleTTS 2————Available
TTS HD 2.5————Available
VoxCPM2————Available
TTS 1—$15.00—Current
TTS 1 HD—$30.00—Deprecating
Inworld Realtime TTS 1.5 Max————Available

Model IDs

azure/tts-1
openai-tts-1
openai/tts-1
tts-1
tts-1-1106