Murf alternative

Voices made for the phone call.

Fourier TTS is made for calls: Hindi that slips into English mid-sentence, 8 kHz audio for the line, and a rupee wallet.

Murf’s numbers checked 25 October 2026.

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The Frequency console: Agent Studio with four agents in Hinglish, Hindi, Tamil and Gujarati, and a test call in the browser.

Why switch

Why people switch to Frequency.

Everything a phone call in India needs, from one team, priced in rupees.

Fourier TTS

₹1.80 per 1,000 characters.²

And ₹18 an hour to transcribe a recorded call. Both from one rupee wallet.

Five languages, live.

Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu. And the Hinglish in between, mid-sentence.

Every call runs on our own GPUs in India.

The listening, the thinking and the voice are ours: Fourier STT, Gemma 4 26B and Fourier TTS.

Ready for the phone line.

Ask for 8 kHz μ-law or A-law and send it straight down the line. Or take 48 kHz PCM for everything else.

Phone agents, on the same key.

When you want the whole call, the same key and wallet run our voice agents.

AI agents from ₹1 a minute.¹

Hear it before you decide.

Real lines from Fourier TTS, one request each, unedited. Pick a language and press play.

Hear it

Murf costs less per character, so here is what you get for more

Here is how Murf and Frequency differ.

Murf charges less per character than we do, and it speaks more languages. Falcon is $0.01 per 1,000 characters against our ₹1.80. We spend the difference on voices built for phone calls in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and English, five concurrent requests on pay as you go, GPUs in India on every plan, and full phone agents on the same key.

Let’s start with the number that is not in our favour. Murf’s Falcon costs $0.01 per 1,000 characters. Fourier TTS costs ₹1.80. At the ECB rate, Falcon is about half our price. Murf also speaks 35 languages to our five, and its voice library runs to 27 rows of Hindi voices.

So why pay more? Because our voices were made for one job: the phone call in India. They were trained on the way people here actually talk, with English words landing inside Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil or Telugu sentences, and they are served from our own GPUs in India on every plan. Murf’s India region is an Enterprise option, and its account data stays in the United States.

Voices made for the phone

Murf’s catalogue was built for creators first. Its site sells a Studio app for voiceovers, dubbing in 25 languages and a voice changer, alongside the API. That breadth is real, and it shows in the voice count.

Ours is narrower. Four voices, each speaking Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu, each tested on the line it will be heard on. Ask for 8 kHz μ-law and the audio goes straight down a phone line. Murf streams the same formats, so the test is fair: play both on a real call and listen for which one your customers trust.

Hear it.

Real lines from Fourier TTS. Pick one, press play.

Text149 characters

Hi, मैं नेहा बोल रही हूँ Acme Store से। आपका order dispatch हो गया है और Friday तक deliver हो जाएगा। Address में कोई change करना हो तो अभी बता दीजिए।

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:09

voice
Neha
language
Hinglish
speech
0:09
characters
149

Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text119 characters

नमस्ते, मैं श्रुति बोल रही हूँ, दाँतों के क्लिनिक से। कल सुबह डॉक्टर साहब से आपका मिलना तय है। क्या आप समय पर आ पाएँगे?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Shruti
language
Hindi
speech
0:08
characters
119

Fourier TTS, voice shruti, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text117 characters

નમસ્તે, હું આશુ બોલું છું. તમારી લોનનો હપ્તો આવતા અઠવાડિયે ભરવાનો છે. તમે કહો તો હું અત્યારે જ ભરવાની રીત સમજાવી દઉં.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Ashu
language
Gujarati
speech
0:08
characters
117

Fourier TTS, voice ashu, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text167 characters

வணக்கம், நான் நேஹா பேசுகிறேன். உங்கள் பார்சல் நாளை மாலைக்குள் வந்து சேரும். அந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள் வீட்டில் இல்லையென்றால் சொல்லுங்கள், வேறு நாளுக்கு மாற்றி விடுகிறோம்.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:10

voice
Neha
language
Tamil
speech
0:10
characters
167

Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text114 characters

నమస్కారం, నేను సమీర్ మాట్లాడుతున్నాను. నిన్న మీరు మా కొత్త ఇళ్ళ గురించి అడిగారు. ఇప్పుడు కొంచెం సేపు మాట్లాడవచ్చా?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Sameer
language
Telugu
speech
0:08
characters
114

Fourier TTS, voice sameer, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Side by side

Here is Murf beside Frequency.

Every price in rupees³, from their own pages and ours.⁴

Price

What 10 lakh characters cost

Ten lakh characters of Falcon cost ₹950 at the ECB rate, and Gen2 costs ₹2,849. Fourier TTS costs ₹1,800, on pay as you go and on Business alike. One thing to check: Murf’s API landing page prices Falcon at $0.01 a minute, while its pricing FAQ and docs say per 1,000 characters. We charted per 1,000 characters, and your account will show which one applies.

An hour of Murf’s speech to text is ₹22.79, in Beta and India region only. Ours is ₹18, with speaker labels included.

Room to talk at once

On Murf’s free tier and pay as you go, Falcon allows 5 requests at a time on its US-East endpoint and 2 on its India endpoint. More needs an Enterprise plan. Our pay-as-you-go plan allows 5, and Business allows 25. Once a few calls are speaking at the same moment, that limit matters more than the price per character.

Text to speech, ₹ per 10 lakh characters
Text to speech, Murf and Frequency, in rupees per 10 lakh characters
OptionBar₹ per 10 lakh characters
Falcon 2.1 ₹950$10
Gen2 ₹2,849$30
Fourier TTS every plan, from the first character ₹1,800
How we read these numbers

Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  • Falcon 2.1: “$0.01 per 1,000 characters”, murf.ai
  • Gen2: “$0.03 per 1,000 characters”, murf.ai
  • Fourier TTS: 1.80 rupees per 1,000 characters, on every plan, from our price list.

Murf prices per 1,000 characters, so 10 lakh is 1,000 of them: $0.01 × 1,000 = $10 for Falcon, and $30 for Gen2. Murf's API landing page says $0.01 / min; its pricing FAQ and docs say per 1,000 characters, and we charted those.

From murf.ai/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

Speech to text, ₹ per hour of audio
Speech to text, Murf and Frequency, in rupees per hour of audio
OptionBar₹ per hour of audio
Murf Speech to Text Beta, India region only ₹22.79$0.24
Fourier Transcribe recorded calls, speaker labels included ₹18
How we read these numbers

Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  • Murf Speech to Text: “$0.24 per hour”, murf.ai
  • Fourier Transcribe: 18 rupees an hour of recorded audio, speaker labels included, from our price list.

Murf prices by the hour already, so there is no arithmetic. Ours includes speaker labels; Murf's docs we read don't say either way.

From murf.ai/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

What speech costs, Murf and Frequency, in their words
DetailMurfFrequency
Published price Falcon TTS API: $0.01 per 1,000 characters and Gen2 TTS API: $0.03 per 1,000 characters on pay as you go, after $10 worth of free credits the API landing page says $0.01 / min instead murf.ai ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters, on pay as you go and on Business (₹50,000/month commitment), before GST
Speech to text Speech to Text API: $0.24 per hour, in Beta and India region only, with English (India) and 11 Indian languages and automatic language detection murf.ai ₹18 per hour of audio, speaker labels included, charged once when the job completes

Languages and voices

Languages and voices, Murf and Frequency
DetailMurfFrequency
Hindi and Hinglish voices Falcon 2.1's voice library lists 27 rows under Hindi - India, 8 under Hinglish - India, 5 under Tamil - India and 10 under Telugu - India one voice can appear under several languages murf.ai Four voices, neha, ashu, shruti and sameer, each speaking Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu, with English words in Latin script
Languages 150+ voices in 35 Languages, and Falcon 2.1 voices switch between Hindi and English inside one sentence murf.ai Hindi, Gujarati, English, Tamil and Telugu, plus Hinglish, in speech recognition and voice Bengali, Marathi and Kannada are coming

Where it runs

Where it runs, Murf and Frequency
DetailMurfFrequency
Where it runs 11 regional environments for Falcon 2.1, India (in.api.murf.ai) among them, for Enterprise customers account metadata stays in the United States; Speech to Text is India region only murf.ai Every call and every request runs on our own GPUs in India

Telephony

Phone numbers, Murf and Frequency
DetailMurfFrequency
Telephony No phone numbers, SIP trunking, campaigns or transfer in the API docs Murf sells text to speech, speech to text, dubbing, translation, a voice changer and the Studio app murf.ai Phone agents on the same key: ₹5 a minute pay as you go with the line included, +91 numbers from us or your own Plivo number

For developers

For developers, Murf and Frequency
DetailMurfFrequency
Concurrent requests Falcon 2.1 on the free tier and pay as you go: 5 for US-East 2 for global and regional endpoints; Enterprise up to 10,000 murf.ai 5 on pay as you go, 25 on Business more on Enterprise
Phone-line audio HTTP streaming returns MP3, FLAC, WAV, ALAW, ULAW, OGG, or PCM speech to text accepts 8 kHz µ-law and A-law murf.ai Raw 8 kHz μ-law or A-law PCM or WAV, 48 kHz by default

Cloning your own voice

More, Murf and Frequency
DetailMurfFrequency
Cloning your own voice Instant Voice Cloning is available on the Enterprise plan only, from one sample of up to 30 seconds professional cloning takes 1 to 4 weeks murf.ai Custom voices: talk to us

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Which to pick

Which is right for you?

Sometimes it's them. We'll say so.

Choose Murf if…

  • You want the lowest price per character. Falcon is $0.01 per 1,000 characters, and Fourier TTS is ₹1.80.
  • You need Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia or Assamese voices today.
  • You also make dubbed videos, translations or studio voiceovers, and want one supplier for all of it.
  • You need data residency in the UAE, Japan, Korea, the EU or South America, on an Enterprise plan.

Choose Frequency if…

  • Your voice goes on a phone line, where English words land inside Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil or Telugu sentences.
  • You want more than two requests at once without an Enterprise contract. Pay as you go allows 5.
  • You want the speech made on GPUs in India on every plan, not as an Enterprise region.
  • You'd like phone agents and call transcripts on the same key and the same rupee wallet.

Where Murf is ahead

Price per character, by a clear margin. Languages: 35 to our five, with Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia and Assamese voices we don’t have yet. Eleven data-residency regions on Enterprise. Dubbing, translation and a voice changer from the same account. If you need any of those today, Murf is the better fit.

Moving

Moving your code across is easy.

Your code stays. Three values change.

  1. Step 1

    Open the sandbox.

    Look around with no sign-up. When you are ready, create a key in Developers.

  2. Step 2

    Change three values.

    The base URL, the model and the voice. The rest of your OpenAI code stays as it is.

  3. Step 3

    Pick a voice.

    Four voices, each speaking Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.

Open the sandbox

Switching

Fourier TTS speaks OpenAI’s speech API, so there is no Murf-shaped request to translate. Point an OpenAI client at our URL, set the model to mira-tts, pick a voice and send the text. For live calls, our WebSocket endpoint takes text as your model writes it and returns audio a sentence at a time. The OpenAI-compatible TTS guide has the first request in Python and cURL.

Test both on a phone line

Take twenty lines from your real calls, with names, rupee amounts and the English words your customers use. Render them on Falcon and on Fourier TTS, play them blind to people who speak the language every day, and then once more over an actual phone line. The Hindi TTS comparison lists what the other Hindi voices cost.

And if the voice is for an agent, we can take the whole call: ₹1 a minute on the volume plan.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["MIRA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://sandbox.voice.miraiminds.co/v1",  # 1. our URL
)

with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="mira-tts",       # 2. our model
    voice="ashu",           # 3. one of our voices
    response_format="pcm",  # always send it
    input="चलिए, आपका order कल deliver होगा।",
) as response:
    for chunk in response.iter_bytes():
        ...  # raw 16-bit mono PCM at 48 kHz, playable as it arrives

Questions

Here is what people ask before switching from Murf.

Which is cheaper per character?

Murf. Falcon is $0.01 per 1,000 characters, about ₹950 per 10 lakh at the ECB rate. Fourier TTS is ₹1,800 per 10 lakh. If price per character is the whole decision, Murf wins it. We charge more and spend it on voices built for Indian phone calls, five requests at once on pay as you go, and GPUs in India on every plan.

Is Murf priced per minute or per character?

Both appear on Murf's site. The API landing page says $0.01 / min, and its pricing FAQ and docs say $0.01 per 1,000 characters. We charted per 1,000 characters, which is how its docs describe billing. Check which one your account shows.

Does Murf do phone calls?

Its API docs cover text to speech, speech to text, dubbing, translation and a voice changer, with 8 kHz formats for telephony audio. Phone numbers, SIP trunks and campaigns are not in those docs. With us, the same key runs full phone agents at ₹5 a minute pay as you go, line included.

Is Fourier TTS ₹1 a minute?

No. ₹1 a minute is a whole phone agent on our volume plan. The voice on its own is ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters.

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  1. AI agents from ₹1 a minute: on our volume plan, ₹1,00,000 a month. Pay as you go is ₹5 a minute. Prices exclude GST.

  2. Fourier TTS is ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters on pay as you go and on Business (₹50,000 a month); Fourier Transcribe is ₹18 an hour of recorded audio. All prices exclude GST.

  3. Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  4. Murf’s figures are from its own pages, linked beside each one and listed under Sources, checked . Ours are from our price list and docs.