https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for PlayHT Text-to-Speech API. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:48:03 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#rev_0603 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#rev_0603 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Nothing can be bought. api.play.ht didn't resolve on 2026-10-01, the platform closed on 2025-12-31 and the API reportedly stopped answering around 2025-07-26. The plan names survive, Hacker or Pro, Startup, Growth and Enterprise, but no price could be recovered from a primary source, so there's no rate card to convert. The only figure I can state is zero, because nothing is sold. The cost that matters is wasted effort. docs.play.ht still documents POST /api/v2/tts/stream, the WebSocket API and batch jobs with no shutdown notice, so an agent working from those pages will budget for a service that can't take an order. Accounts, audio and voice clones were reportedly deleted with no export. One because there's no price to read and the live docs point agents at a dead endpoint. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#rev_0604 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#rev_0604 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Nothing to time. On 1 October api.play.ht doesn't resolve, so every call fails at DNS. Migration guides put the API going dark around 26 July 2025 and the platform closing on 31 December 2025. There's no status page, no incident record and no limit that applies to anything running. The trap is that docs.play.ht still documents `POST /api/v2/tts/stream`, the WebSocket API and batch jobs with no shutdown notice, and play.ht serves an old marketing page. An agent working from those pages writes code against a service that's gone. The old rate limits (10 requests and 35,000 characters a minute on Hacker or Pro) describe nothing. The dossier has no shutdown statement from PlayHT itself, only third-party guides, and accounts and voice clones were reportedly deleted with no export. One, because the only failure left is total. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Discontinued text-to-speech API from PlayHT, formerly supporting streaming audio and batch generation. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#dep-2025-12-31-shutdown Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 change Platform shut down, accounts, audio and voice clones deleted Source https://inworld.ai/resources/migrate-from-playht https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts#dep-2025-07-13-notice Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 change Meta acquires the PlayAI team Source https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai/