← Voice-over project rate calculator
Voices.com is a voice-over marketplace: you build a talent profile, upload demos, and audition for jobs clients post there. By publicly available pricing, a free Guest membership gives a limited profile with no ability to actively pursue postings, while a paid membership (reportedly around $499/year for the Premium tier) unlocks full search visibility and audition access. Book a project through the marketplace and Voices.com reportedly takes a 20% commission on top, plus a separate 4-6% payment-processing fee.
That makes Voices.com the right choice for finding clients you don't already have, through a marketplace that handles discovery, auditions, and payment. This page answers a narrower question: for a client you already have -- a returning client, a referral, your own outreach -- what should you actually charge, free, with no membership fee and no commission on what you negotiate directly.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I don't have a client yet -- where do I find one? | Voices.com's marketplace, or another casting platform. |
| I already have a client (or a lead) -- what should I quote them? | This calculator -- enter your script or manuscript, get a rate immediately, nothing listed. |
| What's a typical market rate by project type? | Voices.com's own published rate guide, or industry rate-guide resources like the GVAA guide. |
| What's a defensible rate for my word count, usage term, and rush/exclusivity needs? | This calculator's own per-word / per-finished-minute / per-finished-hour math. |
| Can I get an answer without a profile, a membership fee, or a commission? | This calculator -- a static page, no sign-up, no auditions, no cut. |
This tool needs no account and lists nothing: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and your script, manuscript details, and every other figure stay on this device -- nothing is uploaded anywhere, there is no marketplace profile, and no commission on whatever you and your client agree to.
They solve different problems. Voices.com is a marketplace: you build a profile, upload demos, and audition for jobs that clients post; if you book one, Voices.com handles discovery, escrow, and payment in exchange for a commission. This page is a free calculator: no profile, no auditions, no marketplace fee. You enter your script's word count or an audiobook manuscript's length, pick a pricing method and usage term, and it gives you a project rate to quote a client you already found yourself -- a returning client, a referral, or your own outreach.
By publicly available pricing, voice talent can join free as a Guest member with a limited profile and no ability to actively pursue postings, or pay for a paid membership (reported around $499/year for the Premium tier) for full search visibility and the ability to submit auditions to client jobs. On top of membership, Voices.com reportedly takes a 20% commission on the value of a booked project, plus a separate 4-6% payment-processing fee depending on payout method -- so on a $1,000 project you would net well under $800 after both. This calculator charges nothing at all and takes no percentage of anything you book.
Not the same mechanism. Voices.com clients typically post a job with a budget and voice talent submit competing auditions and quotes, so the price a project settles at is whatever the marketplace's auction dynamic produces -- Voices.com also publishes its own general rate guide as a reference. This calculator has no auction and no marketplace data; it applies commonly cited voice-over rate-guide conventions (a per-word or per-finished-minute base fee scaled by usage/licensing term for script work, or a per-finished-hour rate for audiobooks) to your own numbers, so the starting point is grounded in your own script and rate rather than what another talent happened to bid on a different job.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Voices.com, and this page is not a review of it. Voices.com is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is for. The membership and commission figures described above are drawn from publicly reported pricing rather than measured by us, and marketplace fees, tiers, and terms change -- check Voices.com's current terms on their site before relying on any number here.