Pricing

Pay for what you use.

Pay-as-you-go by modality. No subscription, no seats. Every model is metered per token, per character, or per minute.

Usage is billed in ETB. USD and EUR figures are indicative, converted at the latest exchange rate.

Models and rates

TTS · VoiceNew

Addis Voices 2

$0.032/ mingenerated audio
Batch$0.016/ minresults within 24 hours

Lifelike speech in 7 African languages at one flat rate. Streaming and real time in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta.

Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama, WolayttaVoice apps, narration & IVR
LLM · Multimodal

Addis-Aleph-1

Input$0.0019/ 1k tokens
Output$0.0051/ 1k tokens

Translation is included, no separate endpoint pricing.

Flagship African-language model for chat, generation, and translation.

Amharic, Afaan OromoChatbots, content & translation
STT · Speech

Addis Scribe

$0.022/ 1,000 output characters

Billed on transcribed text only, audio input is free, one rate for Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Hausa, Sidama, Wolaytta and Swahili. About ETB 1.40 per minute of speech. Hausa, Sidama, Wolaytta and Swahili are written in the Latin alphabet, which takes about twice as many characters, so a minute costs about twice as much.

Accurate speech to text, live or from uploads, in 7 African languages.

Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama, WolayttaTranscription

Voice is metered per generated audio minute, the same flat rate in every voice language. Character limits still protect generation quality, but billing follows the final audio duration.

In beta available now, pricing may change

Realtime · AudioBeta

Addis Live

Audio input$0.013/ 1k tokens
Audio output$0.051/ 1k tokens

Native-like speech to speech with under 300ms response. Built for live audio.

AmharicLive audio agents

Deprecated existing integrations only, use Addis Voices 2 for new work

TTS · VoiceDeprecated

Addis Voice Legacy · AM

$0.0063/ min

Previous-generation Amharic voice. Superseded by Addis Voices 2.

Amharic
TTS · VoiceDeprecated

Addis Voice Legacy · OM

$0.032/ min

Previous-generation Afaan Oromo voice. Superseded by Addis Voices 2.

Afaan Oromo

Worked examples

New to tokens? A token is a small chunk of text the model reads, roughly a short word or a couple of characters. Text models bill per token and voice bills per generated minute, so the examples below show what real tasks come to.

TaskDetailCost
Narrate a 500-word articleAddis Voices 2, ~4 minutes of generated audio$0.13
Summarize an articleAddis-Aleph, ~400 input + 150 output tokens$0.0015
Transcribe a 1-minute voice noteAddis Scribe, ~400 output characters (input free)$0.0089
Addis Live example1K audio input + 1K audio output tokens$0.063

Frequently asked questions

Voices (text-to-speech) and Addis Scribe (speech-to-text) work in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta, including streaming voice and Realtime Audio. The Addis-፩-አሌፍ language model and translation work in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya.