Pricing

Buy takes, not subscriptions.

Credit packs never expire. The first paid tier removes the watermark and includes a commercial license. Packs are launching shortly; free takes are live today.

Free$0 3 takes, 00:30 cap, watermarked, all voicesStart free

Basic$9.9 one-time~25 min rendered audio, no watermark, commercial licenseBuy Basic

ProPOPULAR$29.9 one-time~90 min, voice cloning with consent flow, priority queueBuy Pro

Studio$49.9 one-time~180 min, API access, 3 seats, webhook deliveryBuy Studio

Every way to buy Seed-Audio 1.0 output, cheapest honest rate first

Prices are per minute of generated audio, verified July 2026. Billing units differ between hosts, which is where most confusion comes from.

BytePlus (official)$0.15/min pay-as-you-go, sold by the second. Prepaid annual packages go down to $0.12/min. 300 free minutes on activation. Needs business verification and a card

Volcano Engine (official, CN)Invited beta, production pricing unpublished. Personal accounts get a 30-minute trial in the Ark experience center

fal.ai (partner)$0.1875/min, self-serve with prepaid credits. The easiest official-supply route for individuals

Relay aggregatorsAdvertised as low as $0.013/min equivalent, usually by billing input characters instead of output minutes

Why the cheapest rate is a trap

Seed-Audio is a scene model: a 200-character prompt can legitimately render 2 minutes of audio. Hosts that bill input characters are charging cents for output that costs them dollars upstream. That gap gets closed eventually, through repricing, throttling, or disappearing. Build your workflow on output-minute billing and you will never be surprised.

What Yif charges and why

Our packs price a rendered minute between roughly $0.28 and $0.40 depending on pack size. That covers official supply at $0.15 to $0.19 per minute, payment fees, storage and the free tier. No subscription, no expiry, commercial license from the first paid pack. If you outgrow packs, the API routes page shows how to go direct.