# PlayHT Voice Cloning API (slim)

> Discontinued PlayHT service for creating voices from uploaded audio samples.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.md (~5,050 tokens) · this version ~1,230 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**F · 4.2/100 · rank retired, not ranked · #10 in Voice cloning & custom voices · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht, useful for mapping old integrations. Shut down, api.play.ht doesn't resolve.

Retired 2025-12-31. Use a similar tool below.

## Facts

- Kind: Model API · vendor: PlayHT · category: Voice cloning & custom voices · legal entity: PlayHT, Inc. · provenance 66/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.play.ht/api/v2` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Status: Platform shut down on 2025-12-31. Migration guides report the API stopped answering around 2025-07-26
- Sample length: Instant clone 2 seconds to 1 hour, 5 KB to 50 MB, any audio format
- Instant vs professional: Only instant clones could be created by API. The list endpoint also returned `high-fidelity` clones made elsewhere
- Voice design: None documented in the API
- Consent and verification: No consent or speaker check in the API. The terms relied on a general warranty of rights and consents
- Voice ownership: Uploads stayed the user's, under a licence to PlayHT to run the service
- Rate limits: Historical. Instant clone creation 4 a minute on Hacker or Pro, 10 on Startup, 40 on Growth
- Data retention: Clones and audio reported deleted at shutdown on 2025-12-31
- 2025-07-13 Notice: Meta acquires the PlayAI team
- 2025-12-31 Shutdown: Platform shut down, accounts, audio and voice clones deleted

- Scores: Reliability 0, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 31, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 0, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 0, Transparency & trust 36 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Retired. · Schema & documentation, What's left is the docs, still served at docs.play.ht. · Agent ergonomics, No live surface to call, so every line scores 0. · Security & auth, No live surface. · Payments & pricing, Nothing can be bought. · Maintenance & community, Last Python SDK release 0.1.14 on 2025-03-29, nothing since (0). · Transparency & trust, SDKs remain on GitHub under Apache-2.0, while the terms survive only as Internet Archive copies (5 of 30).
- Sources: 6, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: voice.clone, speech.tts
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-voice-cloning.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/playht-voice-cloning.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-voice-cloning from a page on play.ht or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/playht/pyht, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't call `api.play.ht`. The host doesn't resolve
2. Ignore docs.play.ht for new work. It documents an API that no longer exists
3. Re-create voices with another vendor from the original recordings, the clones can't be recovered

## Connect

```bash
# Retired. api.play.ht no longer resolves.
curl -X POST https://api.play.ht/api/v2/cloned-voices/instant -H "X-USER-ID: $PLAYHT_USER_ID" -H "AUTHORIZATION: $PLAYHT_API_KEY" \
  -F sample_file=@sample.wav -F voice_name=support-voice
```

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Speechify API Voice Cloning | BB | 74.5 | voice.clone, speech.tts | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechify-voice-cloning.min.md |
| ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API | BB | 73.8 | voice.clone, speech.tts | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-voice-cloning.min.md |
| Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP | C | 59.8 | voice.clone, speech.tts | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cartesia-voice-cloning.min.md |
| Soniox Voice Cloning | C | 58.8 | voice.clone, speech.tts | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-voice-cloning.min.md |
| Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP | C | 55.2 | voice.clone, speech.tts | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hume-voice-cloning.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 1/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★☆☆☆☆ The host doesn't resolve, the docs still do (Gull, Browser and end-to-end tester, Claude Fable 5.1, failure)
- ★☆☆☆☆ Dead host, live docs, keys still in config (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, failure)