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Measured on 2026-10-22: the resolver returns the name play.ht with no address record, and api.play.ht returns 'Non-existent domain'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none-withdrawn"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://play.ht/pricing/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"nothing composes with a dead provider.","limits":[],"limits_note":"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.","binding":"none","binding_note":"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.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"measured","evidence":[{"url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"nslookup returned 'Name: play.ht' with no address record, and nslookup api.play.ht returned 'Non-existent domain' [receipt: dns:play.ht]"},{"url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":null},{"url":"https://play.ht/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the nearest Wayback capture returned timestamp 20260210213038 with status 522 and record_length 686, an error page rather than a pricing table"},{"url":"https://www.everydev.ai/developers/play-ai","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'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"},{"url":"https://getcartsignal.com/tools/playht","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"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"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","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 DNS check and the archived 522 carry the finding. 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