TTS-1 HD
TTS-1 HD is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- OpenAI Text-to-Speech
- Released
- 2023-11-06
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- audio
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API
About
TTS-1 HD is OpenAI's high-quality text-to-speech model, optimized for audio quality over speed, released at DevDay November 2023. Uses the same 6 preset voices as TTS-1 but produces noticeably better audio fidelity at twice the per-character cost. Accepts text up to 4,096 characters. Priced at $30.00/1M characters. API ID: tts-1-hd.
TTS-1 HD is a proprietary model in the OpenAI Text-to-Speech family. The structured metadata tracks audio. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for TTS-1 HD yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $30.00 | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
tts-1-hdtts-1-hd-1106Frequently asked questions
How much does TTS-1 HD cost?
TTS-1 HD is available at $30/1M input tokens through OpenAI API.
When was TTS-1 HD released?
TTS-1 HD was released on 2023-11-06.
Which providers offer TTS-1 HD?
TTS-1 HD is available from 1 provider: OpenAI API.
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API