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- Free allowance
- No offer: the service is gone.
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- measured5 sources; a live request was made and its output kept
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
| 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'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none-withdrawn |
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| Price | none stated |
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| 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. |
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| Identity | anonymous not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | nothing composes with a dead provider. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| 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. PlayHT remains recommended in older articles and course material, which is why the record is worth its space. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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/ | not published |
| 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
| facets | {"class": "refutation","free_tier_kind": "none-withdrawn","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field