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Y-PAD

Qwen3-TTS 1.7B

Text to speech, preset voices. Sold per 1,000 characters of text, 500 character minimum per file, up to 20,000.

List fare, per 1,000 characters
$0.0150
Launch fare, from 1 1,000 characters
$0.0150
Minimum, per submission
$0.0075
1,000 1,000 characterss, one batch
$15.00
$15.00 at the launch fare

The minimum stops mattering at 1 1,000 characters. Below that, a submission pays $0.0075 whatever its size.

Cold start: expect 10 to 30 s, occasionally minutes. This is a queue, and later items in a batch ride on the same start.

Using it.

  • Upload the text as a UTF-8 text/plain file. Units are characters after whitespace is folded.
  • Preset voices only. There is no voice cloning and no reference audio.
  • Every file is labelled as AI-generated speech in its tags.
Table 1 Limits
Model IDqwen3-tts
Input typestext/plain
Largest file0 MB
Largest item20 1,000 characterss
Default max_units10
Smallest max_units0.5
LicenceApache-2.0
Table 2 Parameters, all optional
NameTypeAllowedDefault
voice string aiden, dylan, eric, ono_anna, ryan, serena, sohee, uncle_fu, vivian ryan
language string auto, chinese, english, french, german, italian, japanese, korean, portuguese, russian, spanish auto
format string mp3, wav, flac mp3
Dry run, which writes nothing
curl -s https://www.y-pad.com/v1/batches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YPAD_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-tts",
    "items": [{"file": "FILE_ID", "params": {"voice":"ryan","language":"english","format":"mp3"}}],
    "dry_run": true
  }'

The first-run guide covers the upload before this and the rest of the batch after it.

Who charges less.

Table 3 Qwen3-TTS 1.7B, our launch fare first, then lowest first, per 1,000 audio minutes
Who Published price Per 1,000 Against our fares Checked Source
Y-PAD, launch fare $0.0150 per 1,000 characters$0.0075 minimum per submission $15.00 Ours 2 Nov 2026 Fares
Y-PAD, list fare $0.0150 per 1,000 characters$0.0075 minimum per submission $15.00 Ours 2 Nov 2026 Fares
Replicate $0.02 per 1,000 characterspublished price $20.00 More than both our fares 2 Nov 2026 replicate.com
fal $0.09 per 1,000 characterspublished price $90.00 More than both our fares 2 Nov 2026 fal.ai

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