PlayHT / PlayAI (sunset / Meta)

Dead independent SKU. New TTS → Cartesia/ElevenLabs/Deepgram. Included as a warning entry.

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Sunset / deprecated. Kept for historical reference and warnings. Excluded from active leaderboards.

Dead independent SKU. New TTS → Cartesia/ElevenLabs/Deepgram. Included as a warning entry. Strengths: Historically competitive TTS/cloning API; Now inside Meta voice stack; Warning catalog entry.

Overall

2.2

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

2.0

Price / performance

2.0

Latency / reliability

1.0

Developer & agent DX

3.0

Privacy / data retention

4.0

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

9.0

Maturity / track record

2.5

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: PlayAI no longer active: https://www.therundown.ai/tools/playai · PlayHT: https://play.ht

Dead independent SKU. New TTS → Cartesia/ElevenLabs/Deepgram. Included as a warning entry.

Strengths

· Historically competitive TTS/cloning API
· Now inside Meta voice stack
· Warning catalog entry

Weaknesses

· Standalone API gone
· No public successor SKU for indie builders
· Do not migrate toward PlayAI

Pricing notes

HISTORICAL: PlayAI (ex-PlayHT) acquired by Meta ~July 2025; standalone subscriptions/API no longer active. Legacy figures (~$20/1M chars Play 3.0 Mini, ~$60/1M PlayDialog) are not usable. Do not build new TTS on play.ht / play.ai.

Regions: global, usLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: deprecated

Sourced pricing

Contract status unavailable · no_sourced_price. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=playht

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