ElevenLabs
AI voice generation, cloning, and dubbing for creators, publishers, and developers.
ElevenLabs sells synthetic voice at every altitude: the Eleven v3 flagship model for expressive speech in 70+ languages, Flash v2.5 for low-latency agents, Scribe for speech-to-text, Eleven Music for songs, and a conversational-agents platform tying them together. Credits meter everything at roughly one per character, and the $6 Starter tier includes a commercial license — an unusually low paywall for monetizable output. Professional voice cloning, the feature serious users actually want, starts at the $22 Creator plan.
Best for
Creators, publishers, and localization teams producing narration, audiobooks, and dubbed content at volume — plus developers wiring voice into products through the API. If your output is measured in hours of audio per month, the credit tiers map cleanly onto real workloads.
Against OpenAI's TTS and Google's commodity cloud voices, ElevenLabs competes on expressiveness and breadth: v3 handles emotional delivery and multi-speaker dialogue that generic TTS APIs flatten, and no rival bundles cloning, dubbing, transcription, music, and an agents runtime into one credit pool. Murf and Play.ht undercut it on price; neither matches the cloning quality that made ElevenLabs the default name in AI voice.
Core features
Text-to-speech
Eleven v3 for expressive, contextual speech; Multilingual v2 for stable long-form narration; Flash v2.5 when latency matters more than nuance.
Dubbing and localization
Automated dubbing re-voices video across dozens of languages while preserving the original speaker's vocal identity — the workflow publishers use to multiply one recording.
Voice APIs
Text-to-speech, speech-to-text (Scribe), sound effects, music, and agent orchestration exposed through one API and a single credit system.
Pros
- + Eleven v3's expressive delivery — emotion, pacing, multi-speaker dialogue — across 70+ languages is still the reference point rivals get compared to
- + The ladder is priced for individuals: commercial license at $6, professional voice cloning at $22, with dubbing and transcription drawing from the same credit pool
- + Full API surface plus a conversational-agents platform, with low-latency Flash v2.5 and Scribe v2 Realtime models built for production voice apps
Watchouts
- - Cloning-quality voices at consumer prices create real impersonation exposure — the safeguards are policies, not technical impossibilities
- - Consent, disclosure, and rights management fall on the buyer; teams without a written synthetic-media policy shouldn't be cloning anyone's voice
Alternatives
Frequently asked
What is ElevenLabs?
AI voice generation, cloning, and dubbing for creators, publishers, and developers.
Who builds ElevenLabs?
ElevenLabs is built by ElevenLabs.
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
ElevenLabs uses freemium. Current tiers: Free · $6/mo Starter · $22/mo Creator · $99/mo Pro. Check the official site before buying — AI pricing changes often.