← News & Changelog

2 entries on this day.

  1. Pricing

    Text-to-speech moves to per-character pricing on Sep 9 — 200 AP per 1,000 characters

    Speech synthesis is billed per character from 2026-09-09 05:00 UTC, matching how our upstream (ElevenLabs) meters it: 200 AP per 1,000 characters, about $0.02 — roughly one-eighth of ElevenLabs’ own list price for the same voices, and with the character licensing already cleared. Until now we billed on estimated audio seconds, and the estimate ran about 2x the audio we actually produced; that is fixed in the same release. Announced 13 days ahead per our price-revision rule (increases get 7-day notice; cuts are immediate).

    TTS pricing →
  2. Pricing

    Free alpha evaluation extended to Sep 8 — paid usage starts Sep 9

    Everything stays free through 2026-09-08, one week longer than previously planned: we are holding rates flat across the Sep 1–4 student-lecture week. From 2026-09-09 05:00 UTC, usage is metered against your AP balance. Nothing is charged automatically — the platform is prepaid, so if your balance runs out the API simply returns 402, and no invoice or card charge follows. Free tiers, the signup bonus and the first-use bonus all continue to work after that date.

    What "billing starts" means →