PlayHT (Play.ai)
Former voice-cloning TTS API. Meta took the team in July 2025; the API went offline in July 2025 and the platform closed on December 31, 2025.
Overview
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At a glance
Service has shut down (API offline since July 2025 per third-party reports).
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Features
None listed.
Pricing
No public price list.
Service shut down
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Source: texttolab.com
Setup
- Remove PlayHT integrations; migrate to another provider.
Endpoint
N/AAuthentication
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Warnings
Dead service
Multiple sources report the API went offline on July 26, 2025, earlier than the announced December 31, 2025 shutdown, and user data was deleted without export tools.
Lesson for vendor choice
Keep your own copies of voice-clone source audio and abstract the TTS provider so a vendor exit is a config change, not a rewrite.
PlayAI models also gone from Groq
Groq hosted PlayAI voices (playai-tts) until December 2025; that path is retired too and now serves Canopy Labs Orpheus instead.
Plus 12 warnings that apply to all text-to-speech, streaming APIs. See category warnings.
Limits
None listed.
Models and products
| Name | Status |
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| Play3.0-mini, PlayDialog | Shut down |
Docs and sources
Sources used
- texttolab.com/blog/play-ht-shutdown-alternatives
- anyspeech.io/playht-alternatives
- aiwiki.ai/wiki/playht
Shutdown dates come from third-party reporting, not an official PlayHT page.