Cost is the wall in front of consumer AI. We are taking it down.

https://inworld.ai/blog/consumer-ai-cost-pricing

Vendor price list as of June 2026: Realtime TTS-2 about $10 per 1M characters at scale ($25 on demand), TTS-1.5 Mini about $5 at scale, speech-to-text about $0.10 per hour; ElevenLabs API cited at about $100 per 1M characters. Claims about 3 in 100 consumer AI users ever pay, paying users spend $5-20 per month.

Realtime speech-to-speech and expressive TTS for characters