PlayHT / PlayAI

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PlayHT / PlayAI Compute

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play.ht/pricing/ · inference API · compute/playht-playai · JSON · compare

Free tier	No offer: the service is gone. Meta acquired the PlayAI team in July 2025 and the platform was switched off at the end of 2025. Measured on 2026-10-22: the resolver returns the name play.ht with no address record, and api.play.ht returns 'Non-existent domain'. The broker could not read the site at all (its own upstream returned HTTP 530 on two attempts), and the closest Wayback capture of the pricing page is 2026-02-10, already a 522 error page. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none-withdrawn
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	anonymous not published
Binding	none nothing binds because nothing answers: no credential can be issued and no endpoint resolves, so any tutorial that still recommends PlayHT for a free TTS tier sends its reader to a dead domain.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	nothing composes with a dead provider. The replacement in this corpus is Cartesia or ElevenLabs for dialogue-capable TTS, both recorded separately.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	These were inference credits, not general compute, and they are no longer purchasable. The measured evidence is the DNS answer, which is a resolver observation made on this machine on 2026-10-22 and not a vendor statement. The HTTP 530 from the broker is the broker's own upstream failure, so it establishes nothing about the target on its own; the DNS check and the archived 522 carry the finding. PlayHT remains recommended in older articles and course material, which is why the record is worth its space.
Evidence rung	measured
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-12-06

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	play.ht/pricing/	nslookup returned 'Name: play.ht' with no address record, and nslookup api.play.ht returned 'Non-existent domain' [receipt: dns:play.ht]
2026-10-22	play.ht/pricing/	broker read failed twice with 'broker-side failure (HTTP 530); nothing established about the target'
2026-10-22	play.ht/pricing/	the nearest Wayback capture returned timestamp 20260210213038 with status 522 and record_length 686, an error page rather than a pricing table
2026-10-22	www.everydev.ai/developers/play-ai	'Dec 31, 2025 PlayAI platform and services officially shut down completely' and 'July 26, 2025 Public API services began winding down following the Meta acquisition', reported
2026-10-22	getcartsignal.com/tools/playht	Meta confirmed the acquisition of the team on 13 July 2025 and the voice API was deprecated within weeks; 'as of 22 September 2026 the play.ht domain still returns no DNS record at all', reported and corroborated by the DNS check

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated