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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-tts.json",
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      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Sold as monthly API plans named Hacker or Pro, Startup, Growth and Enterprise, with rate limits set by plan. The plan prices couldn't be recovered from a primary source, since the API pricing tab wasn't archived and play.ht is gone. The last archived pricing page shows Studio plans only (https://web.archive.org/web/20250625003728/https://play.ht/pricing/).",
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          "The old API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht for anyone porting code",
          "SDKs remain on GitHub under Apache-2.0"
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          "docs.play.ht documents live-looking endpoints with no shutdown notice",
          "Accounts, audio and voice clones were reportedly deleted at shutdown with no export",
          "No notice from PlayHT itself found on the live site, only third-party migration guides"
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          "Don't call api.play.ht, it doesn't resolve.",
          "Ignore docs.play.ht code samples, they describe a closed service.",
          "Map PlayDialog or Play 3.0 Mini work to another TTS listing before writing code."
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        "provenanceScore": 66
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      "connect": {
        "http": "# Retired. api.play.ht no longer resolves.\ncurl -X POST https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/stream -H \"X-USER-ID: $PLAYHT_USER_ID\" -H \"AUTHORIZATION: $PLAYHT_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -H \"accept: audio/mpeg\" -d '{\"text\":\"Hello\",\"voice_engine\":\"PlayDialog\"}'"
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        "terms": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250222123504/https://play.ht/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250202131353/https://play.ht/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
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          "On 2026-10-01 api.play.ht didn't resolve, while play.ht and docs.play.ht still served old marketing and API reference pages with no shutdown notice",
          "Terms and privacy links point to Internet Archive copies from February 2025"
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.json"
    },
    "summary": "Murf TTS API + MCP has a score of 70.9 (BB) against PlayHT Text-to-Speech API's 4.2 (F). Both do speech tts. The largest gap is reliability, 90 points."
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    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-playht-tts",
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    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-playht-tts.md",
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  "markdown": "Murf TTS API + MCP has a score of 70.9 (BB) against PlayHT Text-to-Speech API's 4.2 (F). Both do speech tts. The largest gap is reliability, 90 points.\n\n- Murf TTS API + MCP: grade BB, 70.9/100, rank #91 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/murf-tts.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/murf-tts.json\n- PlayHT Text-to-Speech API: grade F, 4.2/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-tts.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Murf TTS API + MCP for reliability (+90), schema \u0026 documentation (+54), agent ergonomics (+71), security \u0026 auth (+68), payments \u0026 pricing (+40), maintenance \u0026 community (+53), transparency \u0026 trust (+33).\n\nPick PlayHT Text-to-Speech API for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Murf TTS API + MCP | PlayHT Text-to-Speech API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 0 | Murf TTS API + MCP +90 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 31 | Murf TTS API + MCP +54 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 0 | Murf TTS API + MCP +71 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 0 | Murf TTS API + MCP +68 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 0 | Murf TTS API + MCP +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 0 | Murf TTS API + MCP +53 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 36 | Murf TTS API + MCP +33 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.9 · BB** | **4.2 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Murf TTS API + MCP | PlayHT Text-to-Speech API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Murf | PlayHT |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.murf.ai/v1` | `https://api.play.ht/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDK and MCP server) | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-20 | 2025-05-21 |\n| Popularity | 108 stars, 669 PyPI/wk | 218 stars, 14k npm/wk, 6.6k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 1/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Murf TTS API + MCP.** Falcon 2 costs 1 cent per 1,000 characters on pay as you go, with a $2 minimum purchase. Falcon 2 concurrency is 2 outside US-East on free and pay as you go, 5 on US-East.\n\n**PlayHT Text-to-Speech API.** The old API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht for anyone porting code. api.play.ht doesn't resolve, so every call fails.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Murf TTS API + MCP\n\n1. Send `locale` on every request, since `multiNativeLocale` was replaced on 2026-03-05.\n2. Split text into chunks under 3,000 characters per request.\n3. Use the US-East host for 5 concurrent Falcon 2 calls instead of 2.\n4. Set `encodedAsBase64` to get audio inline and skip the expiring download link.\n5. Back off on 429 and close WebSocket contexts with `end: true` to free slots.\n\n### PlayHT Text-to-Speech API\n\n1. Don't call api.play.ht, it doesn't resolve.\n2. Ignore docs.play.ht code samples, they describe a closed service.\n3. Map PlayDialog or Play 3.0 Mini work to another TTS listing before writing code.\n\n## Other comparisons with Murf TTS API + MCP or PlayHT Text-to-Speech API\n\n- [Amazon Polly vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Azure AI Speech text-to-speech vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-text-to-speech-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [Azure AI Speech text-to-speech vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-text-to-speech-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-tts-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-tts-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-tts-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Murf TTS API + MCP vs Resemble AI Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-resemble-ai-tts.md)\n- [Murf TTS API + MCP vs Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-rime-tts.md)\n- [Murf TTS API + MCP vs Soniox Text-to-Speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-soniox-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Resemble AI Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-resemble-ai-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-rime-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Soniox Text-to-Speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-soniox-tts.md)\n",
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