| Field | Speechify API | Scaleway Generative APIs |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota | Trial credit · trial-credit |
| What's free | 50,000 characters/month TTS (hard cap) + 60 min/month voice agents | 1,000,000 tokens free + 60 min Whisper transcription; billing starts at token 1,000,001 |
| Rate limits | 3 concurrent calls; hard cap pauses at the limit (no overages) | With a validated payment method: 300 RPM / 200k TPM per model; 600 RPM and higher TPM once identity is verified |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | Commercial use is allowed on the free tier. No credit card required. Hard monthly cap that pauses at the limit. | European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. Official rate limits apply once a valid payment method is registered; identity verification raises them. |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not required | not confirmed |
| Commercial use | allowed | not confirmed |
| OpenAI-compatible | no | yeshttps://api.scaleway.ai/v1 |
| Modalities | audio | text, audio |
| Free models (sample) | no sample | llama-3.3-70b-instruct qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 gpt-oss-120b gemma-4-26b-a4b-it qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct |
| Official docs | speechify.ai/pricing | www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/ |
| Last verified | 2026-08-14 | 2026-10-08 |