Is Gemini 3.8 TTS Free? Pricing and Limits
Summary: Gemini 3.8 TTS in 30 Seconds Yes, it is free to use. Both Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are “Free of charge” on the Gemini API free tier, and you can use them in Google AI Studio with just a Google account. The catch: on the free tier, Google uses what you submit to improve its products, and human reviewers may read your inputs and outputs. Outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, keep private text and voices off the free tier. Free limits are not published. Google shows your per-model rate limits inside AI Studio, not in the docs. Paid pricing: about $0.81 per hour of audio with Flash TTS and $0.54 with Flash-Lite, at launch prices that run until December 31, 2026. On January 1, 2027 they double. Voice cloning works from a roughly 30-second sample, but only with a spoken consent recording from the voice’s owner. Commercial use: Google does not claim ownership of generated audio. You are responsible for how you use it. Google shipped two new text-to-speech models on September 23, 2026, and announced them in a launch post: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. They follow Gemini 3.8 Flash and the Gemini 3.8 Live API, and they do three things: read your script aloud, design a brand-new voice from a text description, and clone a real voice from a short recording. ...