Listenly Pricing Explanation

One user joined Listenly’s Discord server this week and shared that he loves the app but finds it too expensive.

Here’s a bit of background on our pricing:

• Listenly’s margins are currently very low. Just the raw cost of the Text-to-Speech API, which provides high-quality narration, is around $0.84 per hour of audio. So, creating 10 hours costs us around $8-9, not including storage or server expenses.
• This means the $50 plan for 50 hours of audio brings almost no profit right now.

The only way to make it cheaper would be to use lower-quality TTS models, but we’re committed to high audio quality.

That said, I expect the cost of top-tier models to go down over the next few years. When it does, I plan to make Listenly more affordable. For now, though, audio quality remains the priority.

When TTS prices go down, Listenly’s prices will go down as well.