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Play.ht Alternative

Play.ht shut down.
Your API still needs to work.

Meta acquired Play.ht and shut it down in late 2025. If your product relied on their TTS API, you need a drop-in replacement — fast. Audexum has 43 voices, 33 languages, the same REST shape, and plans from €4/month.

Migration guide

Migrate in 5 minutes.

Three changes. No new SDKs. Your existing integration logic stays intact.

[01]Replace the base URL
// Before
fetch("https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts", { ... })

// After
fetch("https://audexum.com/api/tts", { ... })
[02]Swap your API key
// Before
Authorization: Bearer <play_ht_key>

// After
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_<audexum_key>
[03]Pick a voice and ship
// Same field, new voice ID
{
  "text": "Hello world",
  "voice": "af_heart",
  "output_format": "wav"
}
Feature comparison

What you get with Audexum.

FeatureAudexumPlay.ht
API still works
Free tier
Pay-as-you-go billing
EU servers / GDPR
33+ languages
Bearer key auth
WAV output
No VC lock-in
Pricing

Priced for real projects.

Play.ht charged €31/mo for 100K characters. Audexum charges €4.

VolumeAudexumPlay.ht
250K credits/mo€4
1.2M credits/mo€12
4M credits/mo€30
Free tier30K credits/moGone
Monthly EUR · 2026-05 · 30K credits/mo free, no card required
Languages

33 languages, including the rare ones.

Play.ht covered the major Western languages. Audexum adds the underserved ones most services skip: Bulgarian, Tamil, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Malay, and more.

English (US & UK)
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese (BR)
Hindi
Tamil
Bulgarian
Vietnamese
Polish
Dutch
Turkish
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Slovenian
Estonian
Lithuanian
Malay
Slovak
Romanian
Ukrainian
Croatian
Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Greek
Hungarian
Czech
Afrikaans
Mandarin

Ready to migrate?

Free tier is 30,000 credits per month. No credit card. Takes 5 minutes to get your first WAV back from the API.

Questions? [email protected]