Altered vs ElevenLabs (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, we pick ElevenLabs: it is first in our ranking of AI voice generators, and it grades higher too, 3.0 against 2.6.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Altered grades higher on value for money. ElevenLabs grades higher on features and ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Altered
Real-time voice changer, accent translation and voice studio
ElevenLabs
AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents
Which one is for you
Pick Altered if
- Fits if you want a different voice on Discord or in games
- Works for a call center that wants accent translation on live calls
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you won't let it train on your voice, since the cheapest and free tiers require it
- Tight if you stay free: 20 minutes of processing a day
- Watch out: real-time use suits a machine with 8 or more cores, as it runs on your CPU
- Watch out: Altered Studio is a separate product, and the site footer still shows 2022-2023
- Skip it if you want a phone app, as none is listed
Pick ElevenLabs if
- Fits if you voice videos, podcasts or audiobooks and will pay for a commercial license
- Works for apps that need an API and voice agents on the same account
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you're staying free, since the free plan carries no commercial license or cloning
- Tight if you dub a lot, as dubbing costs 2,000 to 10,000 credits a minute from the same pool as speech
- Not for you if you need a professional clone of a voice that isn't yours
- Pricey if you need more than 30 minutes a month: Creator is $22 monthly for about 121 minutes, Pro $99 for about 600
- Watch out: downgrading or cancelling forfeits rolled-over credits, and there's no desktop app
How we grade them
| 2.6GPAAlteredGood | 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | AVoice Skins is $2.50 a month billed yearly ($5 monthly), under 60% of the category's cheapest quarter of $5. The $10 plans for accent translation or voice restoration are $6 yearly if you accept the data terms. | CAn hour of voiceover a month means Creator: $18.33 a month billed yearly ($22 monthly) for 121,000 credits, about 121 minutes of speech. Starter at $5 covers only about 30 minutes. That's the middle of what this category charges, and dubbing and music eat the same credits. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree is 20 minutes of processing a day with Isolate and 4 voice skins daily, but it requires consent to anonymized voice data training. | C10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech, and 3 Studio projects. There's no commercial license and no cloning, so nothing you make on it can go in a video you publish. Enough to hear the voices, not to do the job. |
| Features | CVoice skins, accent translation, speaker isolation, voice restoration and a studio. Altered Studio is a separate product with pricing we couldn't read. | AText to speech in 70+ languages, instant and professional cloning, voices designed from a prompt, dubbing, a long-form Studio, transcription, music, sound effects and voice agents. That covers more than any other tool here, and the listing shows no gap. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It needs audio routing into your call app, and a powerful enough computer. | A4.84 from 22,674 App Store ratings, the highest in this category. Paste text, pick a voice, press play. Working out what each product costs in credits is the fiddly part. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWindows, Mac and web, with Discord, Zoom, Teams, Meet, Skype, WhatsApp and Minecraft. No phone apps are listed. | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with an API and SDKs, and Zapier, Make, n8n, Salesforce and Zendesk connections. No desktop app, which an A needs. |
| Best for | changing your voice live on calls | AI voiceovers, dubbing and voice cloning |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Altered and ElevenLabs. How we grade
Price against what you get
Altered starts at $2.50 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. ElevenLabs starts at $5 a month and scores 3.7.
ElevenLabs scores higher, and starts $2.50 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than Altered for less, and none scores higher than ElevenLabs for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Altered also covers noise cancellation.
- ElevenLabs also covers video generation.
At a glance
| Altered | ElevenLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $2.50 per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly) | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 20 minutes of processing a day, Isolate speech enhancement and 4 voice skins each day, on AI Improvement Program terms. | 10,000 credits a month (about 10 minutes of text to speech) and 3 Studio projects. No commercial license and no voice cloning. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
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| Made by | Altered Ltd | Eleven Labs Inc. |
| Price read from | altered.ai | elevenlabs.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Altered
- The cheapest and free tiers require consenting to anonymized voice data being used to improve Altered's models.
- Altered Studio is a separate product; its pricing was not readable on the pages we checked.
- Processing runs on your CPU; Altered says real-time use suits a machine with 8 or more cores.
- The site footer still shows a 2022-2023 copyright date, so some marketing text may lag the product.
ElevenLabs
- The Free plan has no commercial license or voice cloning; both start on Starter, and Professional Voice Cloning starts on Creator.
- One credit pool covers every product: text to speech costs about 1 credit per character, and dubbing 2,000 to 10,000 credits per minute.
- Professional Voice Clones are limited to your own voice and need a voice check; for instant clones you must confirm you have the right and consent.
- Unused credits roll over for up to two months on paid plans, but downgrading or cancelling forfeits them at the end of the cycle.
Key features
Altered
- Real-time voice skins
- Changes both the timbre and the accent of your voice live through a virtual microphone any Windows or Mac app can select. The FAQ lists 20 voice skins.
- Accent translation
- Converts an accent to American or British English during calls while keeping the speaker's own voice; aimed at call centers.
- Speaker isolation
- Isolate suppresses background noise and competing speakers by locking on to the user's voiceprint.
- Euphonia voice restoration
- A real-time model for people with dysphonia and voice disfluencies, used in voice and video calls.
- Altered Studio
- A separate production tool for speech-to-speech morphing, text to speech in 70+ languages, transcription, translation and voice cloning from a few seconds of audio.
- Local or cloud processing
- Real-Time Pro processes audio on your own CPU, and can hand it to cloud servers in the US, EU or India for $2 per hour of daily quota per month.
ElevenLabs
- Text to speech
- Generate speech from text in more than 70 languages with Eleven v3 and other models, using stock voices, the shared voice library or voices you design from a prompt.
- Instant and Professional Voice Cloning
- Instant clones are made from a short sample and start on Starter. Professional clones are trained on longer recordings, start on Creator and must be of your own voice.
- Dubbing
- Translate a video's speech into another language automatically, or edit the result line by line in Dubbing Studio, which starts on the Starter plan.
- Studio editor
- A long-form editor for audiobooks, podcasts and voiceovers. The Free plan allows 3 Studio projects and Starter allows 20.
- Speech to text, music and sound effects
- Transcribe audio, generate music and sound effects, isolate voices from noise and change one voice into another, all paid from the same credit pool.
- ElevenAgents and API
- Build voice and chat agents for phone, chat and WhatsApp, or call the speech, transcription and dubbing models from your own app through the API and SDKs.
Plans
Altered
Free$0
20 minutes of processing a day, Isolate models and 4 voice skins daily. Requires consent to anonymized voice data training.
Voice Skins$2.50
per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly)
120 minutes of processing a day, all voice skins and Isolate models. On AI Improvement Program terms.
Call Center$10
per month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly)
Unlimited processing with accent translation, voice skins and Isolate; $6 yearly or $8 monthly on AI Improvement Program terms.
Euphonia$10
per month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly)
Unlimited processing with voice-restoration models, voice skins and Isolate; $6 yearly or $8 monthly on AI Improvement Program terms.
EnterpriseCustom
Priced per seat. Adds usage analytics, on-premise compute, SLA-backed uptime and priority support. Sold through sales.
ElevenLabs
Free$0
10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of text to speech, and 3 Studio projects. Not licensed for commercial use.
Starter$5
per month for 30,000 credits, billed annually ($6 billed monthly)
About 30 minutes of speech a month, a commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, Dubbing Studio and 20 Studio projects.
Creator$18.33
per month for 121,000 credits, billed annually ($22 monthly)
About 121 minutes of speech a month, 1 Professional Voice Clone and the option to buy more credits. The first month is $11 on monthly billing.
Pro$82.50
per month for 600,000 credits, billed annually ($99 monthly)
About 600 minutes of speech a month, 192 kbps audio and 44.1 kHz PCM output through the API.
Scale$249.17
per month for 1.8M credits, billed annually ($299 monthly)
About 1,800 minutes of speech a month, 3 workspace seats, team collaboration and 3 Professional Voice Clones.
Business$825
per month for 6M credits, billed annually ($990 monthly)
About 6,000 minutes of speech a month, 10 seats and 10 Professional Voice Clones. Enterprise above it is custom-priced, with SSO and BAAs.
Ways to pay less
Altered
- Annual discount
Yearly billing saves up to 50%
Billed yearly, Real-Time Pro plans cost between half and five-sixths of the monthly rate, for example $2.50 against $5 a month for Voice Skins.
ElevenLabs
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
ElevenLabs prices a year at ten times the monthly price: Starter works out to $5 a month instead of $6, and Creator to $18.33 instead of $22.
- Other savings
First month of Creator for $11
The pricing page shows Creator at 50% off for the first month on monthly billing.
- Startups
Startup Grants: 12 months free
Startups building conversational AI agents can apply for a grant of 33 million characters, valid for 12 months.
- Nonprofit
Impact Program for nonprofits
The Impact Program gives free access to nonprofits in healthcare, education and culture, and to people with accessibility needs or permanent voice loss.
- Education
Impact Program for professors and students
Professors and their students can apply to the Impact Program for free access to ElevenLabs.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Altered or ElevenLabs?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Altered is cheaper to start with: $2.50 a month, against $5 a month for ElevenLabs. Altered starts at $2.50 per month, billed yearly ($5 billed monthly), and ElevenLabs starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Altered or ElevenLabs?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Altered and ElevenLabs have a free plan.
Which platforms do Altered and ElevenLabs run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Altered lists macOS and Windows apps and only ElevenLabs lists iOS and Android apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.