# Murf AI: what's new, verdict & setup Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/murf-ai · First covered by us (no vendor release date published): 2026-10-25 · Last verified: 2026-10-25 · Evidence: Reported (not run by us) · Vendor: Murf AI · Official site: https://murf.ai/ > Text-to-speech platform with a $10 free API trial, pay-as-you-go credits and per-character API pricing. ## Verdict **Text-to-speech platform with a $10 free API trial, pay-as-you-go credits and per-character API pricing.** Good for: - Developers who want low per-character TTS pricing - Teams building voice agents that need fast first audio Skip if: - You need a published monthly studio subscription price (not shown on the page we read) - You need on-device open-source TTS Status: Reported. Written from official release notes and docs; we have not run this release ourselves. Pricing: Official page, dated. Read from murf.ai/pricing on 2026-10-25. The page focuses on API pricing; Studio subscription prices were not shown. (checked 2026-10-25) ## Best for - [Best AI tool for AI voice and speech](https://theagenticweekly.com/best/voice-ai) (#-): Text-to-speech, voice changer and speech-to-text with API pricing per character. ## Key facts Murf's pricing page lists a free trial with $10 of API credit, pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, and Enterprise. API rates shown: its Falcon text-to-speech at $0.01 per 1,000 characters (time to first audio under 100 ms), studio-quality Gen2 at $0.03 per 1,000 characters, speech-to-text (beta) at $0.24, voice changer at $0.10 per minute and translation at $0.02 per 1,000 characters. - License: Proprietary - Platforms: API and web studio - Pricing model: Free API trial, pay as you go and enterprise - Free tier: $10 of free API credit - Paid plans: Pay as you go (credits never expire); Falcon TTS $0.01 per 1,000 characters; Gen2 TTS $0.03 per 1,000 characters; voice changer $0.10 per minute; Enterprise custom - How to start: Open murf.ai/pricing and start with the $10 free API trial. - Catalog entry: facts read from the vendor's pages on 2026-10-25. We do not track release notes for this entry. ## How to set it up: Get started with Murf AI These steps come from the vendor's own pages as read on 2026-10-25. We have not run Murf AI. 1. **Get access.** Open murf.ai/pricing and start with the $10 free API trial. 2. **Check the limits and costs first.** $10 of free API credit. Paid: Pay as you go (credits never expire); Falcon TTS $0.01 per 1,000 characters; Gen2 TTS $0.03 per 1,000 characters; voice changer $0.10 per minute; Enterprise custom. Read from murf.ai/pricing on 2026-10-25. The page focuses on API pricing; Studio subscription prices were not shown. ## Pros and cons Pros: - Credits never expire - Per-character API prices are published Cons: - Studio plan prices not captured - Speech-to-text is labelled beta ## Alternatives - [ElevenLabs](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/elevenlabs): Voice, speech, music and voice-agent platform with a detailed API changelog. - [Cartesia](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/cartesia): Realtime voice AI: text-to-speech, speech-to-text in 44 languages and voice agents, with a free plan and credit tiers. - [Speechify](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/speechify): Text-to-speech app that reads PDFs, books and web pages aloud, with a Free plan and a $29 monthly premium price. - [AssemblyAI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/assemblyai): Speech AI APIs for transcription and understanding; start free, pay as you go. - [Deepgram](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/deepgram): Voice AI APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and agents with $200 in free credit. - [Resemble AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/resemble-ai): Resemble AI now leads with real-time deepfake detection and watermarking for audio, video and images; plans from free to $1,000 a month. - [Retell AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/retell): Voice AI agents for phone calls with pay-per-minute pricing and 20 free concurrent calls. - [Vapi](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/vapi): Developer platform for voice agents; $5 free credits, then pay for the minutes you run. - [Piper](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/piper): Fast local neural text-to-speech that runs on CPU. - [faster-whisper](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/faster-whisper): Speech-to-text library that runs OpenAI Whisper models with CTranslate2. ## FAQ ### What is Murf AI? Murf's pricing page lists a free trial with $10 of API credit, pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, and Enterprise. API rates shown: its Falcon text-to-speech at $0.01 per 1,000 characters (time to first audio under 100 ms), studio-quality Gen2 at $0.03 per 1,000 characters, speech-to-text (beta) at $0.24, voice changer at $0.10 per minute and translation at $0.02 per 1,000 characters. ### Is Murf AI free? $10 of free API credit. Paid: Pay as you go (credits never expire); Falcon TTS $0.01 per 1,000 characters; Gen2 TTS $0.03 per 1,000 characters; voice changer $0.10 per minute; Enterprise custom. Read from murf.ai/pricing on 2026-10-25. The page focuses on API pricing; Studio subscription prices were not shown. Checked 2026-10-25; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page. ### What license is Murf AI under? Its license: Proprietary. Read from the project's own pages on 2026-10-25. ## What we have not verified - Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry) - Voice quality compared with other providers (not tested) - Studio subscription pricing ## Sources - [Murf pricing](https://murf.ai/pricing) (fetched 2026-10-25) ## How to cite Agentic Weekly, "Murf AI: what's new, verdict & setup", last updated 2026-10-25, https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/murf-ai Keep the Reported or Tested label when you quote the verdict.