Camb AI 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 2.4.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Camb AI 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.
Camb AI
AI dubbing, text to speech and translation priced in monthly credits
ElevenLabs
AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents
Which one is for you
Pick Camb AI if
- Fits if you dub short videos into several languages and want to start under $10
- Works for developers who want MARS speech models through an API
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you rely on the free plan: 5K credits once, 500 characters a generation, watermarked video
- Skip it if you need live dubbing on a normal plan, since live minutes show N/A until Enterprise
- Watch out: one credit balance covers every tool, so minutes or characters change with the model you pick
- Pricey if you scale up: $75 buys about 16 minutes of dubbing on Premier
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
| 2.4GPACamb AIFair | 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B$5 a month for 10K credits is inside the cheapest quarter of the category, but credits are small: Premier at $75 gets about 16 minutes of dubbing. Yearly prices weren't read. | 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 | C5K credits once, not monthly. Each generation is capped at 500 characters and dubbed video carries a watermark. Whether a card is asked for isn't stated. | 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 | CDubbing, three MARS speech models, audiobooks, speech to text, audio separation and more. The pricing table shows live streaming minutes as N/A on every self-serve plan, so that part is Enterprise. | 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. A web studio and an API share the credit balance, so you learn how credits map to minutes before you can budget. | 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 | BWeb only, with Google Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock and NVIDIA Holoscan for Media as listed integrations. | 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 | dubbing video into other languages from credits | 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: Camb AI and ElevenLabs. How we grade
Price against what you get
Camb AI starts at $5 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 for the same starting price. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than Camb AI 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
- ElevenLabs also covers video generation and voice cloning.
At a glance
| Camb AI | ElevenLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month for 10K credits, billed monthly | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 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 | Free plan with 5K credits, granted once | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | CAMB.AI | Eleven Labs Inc. |
| Price read from | camb.ai | elevenlabs.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Camb AI
- The Free plan's 5K credits are a one-time grant, and its dubbed video carries a watermark.
- Everything draws on one credit balance, so the number of minutes or characters depends on the tool and model chosen.
- A Yearly toggle says up to 2 months free; yearly prices were not read here.
- The pricing table shows live streaming minutes as N/A on every self-serve plan; live work is sold through Enterprise.
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
Camb AI
- AI dubbing
- Dubs video into other languages; the site cites 150+ languages across dubbing, live translation and captions.
- MARS text to speech
- Three TTS models (MARS-Flash, MARS-Pro, MARS-Instruct) consume credits at different rates, in the web studio and via API.
- Wider audio toolkit
- The calculator also lists audiobooks, speech to text, audio description, document and image translation, sound and music generation.
- Live localization
- Live dubbing, captions and AI commentary for broadcasters, with case studies from football and NASCAR.
- Enterprise extras
- Enterprise adds workspace analytics, audio mastering, custom storage and highest queue priority; the page prices it as custom.
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
Camb AI
Free$0
5,000 credits, one-time. 500 characters per generation, watermarked dubbed video.
Essentials$5
per month for 10K credits, billed monthly
10,000 credits a month, 3,000 characters per text-to-speech generation, 500MB video uploads.
Pro$20
per month for 42K credits, billed monthly
42,000 credits a month, 5,000 characters per generation, 1GB video uploads.
Premier$75
per month for 165K credits, billed monthly
165,000 credits a month, about 16 minutes of dubbing, 10,000 characters per generation.
Advanced$250
per month for 575K credits, billed monthly
575,000 credits a month, 2.5GB video uploads, 50,000 characters per generation.
Expert$900
per month for 1.35M credits, billed monthly
1,350,000 credits a month, unlimited characters per generation and MXF file support.
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
Camb AI
- Annual discount
Up to 2 months free on yearly billing
The pricing page's Yearly toggle carries an up-to-2-months-free badge; the yearly amounts were not read.
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, Camb AI or ElevenLabs?
As of Nov 12, 2026, they start at the same price. Camb AI starts at $5 per month for 10K credits, billed monthly, and ElevenLabs starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Camb AI or ElevenLabs?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only ElevenLabs has a free plan. Camb AI does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Camb AI and ElevenLabs run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, 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.