# Airy

> Fast, low-cost text-to-speech API and studio for creators and developers

Airy is a high-speed, budget-friendly text-to-speech platform developed by Out of Set. It delivers speech generation with very low latency (around 200ms) and high throughput at a fraction of standard market costs. The platform provides both a web-based studio interface for content creators and an API for real-time application pipelines.

Website: https://airy.so/

## What it is for

- Integrate low-latency voice output into conversational AI agents and real-time assistants
- Generate voiceovers for video content and game dialogue at scale
- Convert long-form text and news articles into audio cheaply

## Features

- High throughput reaching up to 2,283 characters per second
- Sub-second end-to-end latency suitable for real-time voice applications
- Web studio for manual generation and REST API for programmatic access
- Support for English and Korean voice profiles
- Library of over 100 character and narrator voices

## Pricing

Freemium. Free studio tier; API billed at approximately $2 per 1M characters

## Details

- Type: AI model
- Category: [AI](https://xiry.app/topics/ai.md)
- Topic: [Text to Speech](https://xiry.app/topics/ai/text-to-speech.md)
- Open source: no
- Platforms: Web, API
- For: Developers building voice agents, game designers, and digital content creators needing fast, affordable TTS
- Alternative to: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Fish Audio
- Tags: tts, voice, speech synthesis, audio, ai voice, api

## Why it was saved

- [@anlgboy, 18 September 2026](https://x.com/anlgboy/status/2100738398780793153): Very cheap and fast TTS for production use: 100+ voices aimed at gaming, news and other production workloads.

## Compare

- [Alternatives to ElevenLabs](https://xiry.app/alternatives/elevenlabs.md)

## Related

- [ElevenLabs](https://xiry.app/resources/elevenlabs): AI voice generator, voice cloning, and conversational agent platform (Web app, Freemium)
- [Cartesia Sonic](https://xiry.app/resources/cartesia-sonic): Ultra-low-latency streaming text-to-speech and instant voice cloning model. (AI model, Freemium)
- [Dia](https://xiry.app/resources/dia): Open-source 1.6B text-to-speech model generating multi-speaker dialogue in one pass. (AI model, Open source)
- [AudioPen](https://xiry.app/resources/audiopen): Converts spoken thoughts into structured, polished writing in customizable styles. (Web app, Freemium)
- [cartesia-python](https://xiry.app/resources/cartesia-python): Official Python library for Cartesia's real-time text-to-speech API (GitHub repo, Paid)
- [Chatterbox](https://xiry.app/resources/chatterbox): Open-source zero-shot text-to-speech and voice cloning model (AI model, Open source)

Updated 10 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/airy

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