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Vercel AI Gateway audio pricing cliff on 18 September 2026, UTF-8 byte billing

artificial-intelligence · Aug 20, 2026 · 12 min read

Vercel AI Gateway's 18 September 2026 audio cliff: TTS bills per UTF-8 byte, not per character

Vercel's 19 August 2026 changelog quotes Fish Audio text-to-speech at $15.00 per million characters. Fish Audio's own rate card says per million UTF-8 bytes. For Hindi or Chinese the two are not the same number.

Manu Shukla

#vercel #AI gateway #text-to-speech

Studio microphone beside a glowing audio waveform and processor chip

AI Tools · Jul 28, 2026 · 14 min read

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS build guide: 30 voices, audio tags and real 2026 pricing

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS turns text into controllable speech with inline audio tags, 30 voices and 70+ languages. A 2026 developer guide to the API, streaming, pricing and the OpenAI and ElevenLabs comparison.

Manu Shukla

#Gemini #text-to-speech #AI voice