ElevenLabs vs Inworld AI (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 2.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
ElevenLabs grades higher on features, ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money and the free plan.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
ElevenLabs
AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents
Inworld AI
Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and LLM API with monthly credit plans
Which one is for you
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
Pick Inworld AI if
- Fits if you are building a real-time voice agent or companion
- Works for game or app teams that need many custom voices
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to paste a script and download, because this is an API product
- Watch out: the 70 free minutes aren't described as monthly, so don't count on them renewing
- Watch out: zero data retention starts at Developer ($300), and HIPAA and BAA are Growth add-ons
- Pricey if you go over the credit: overage bills at the plan's own rates, and extra credits expire after a year
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | 2.0GPAInworld AIFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | CCreator is $25 a month in credits, with TTS-2 at $20 per 1M characters, dropping to $12.50 at the $1,500 Growth tier. The cheapest plan is in the dearer half of the category. |
| Free plan and trial | 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. | COn-Demand is $0 pay as you go with up to 70 minutes of speech included. The page doesn't say it renews monthly, so treat it as a trial amount. |
| Features | 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. | BTTS, speech to text and an LLM API, 100 to 30,000 custom voices by plan, professional clones from Creator. It covers the job for agents and games. |
| Ease of use | 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. | DNo store rating on record. It is an API-first product that expects developers. |
| Platforms and 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. | CWeb and an API. No integrations or apps are listed. |
| Best for | AI voiceovers, dubbing and voice cloning | real-time voice for agents and companions |
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: ElevenLabs and Inworld AI. How we grade
Price against what you get
ElevenLabs starts at $5 a month and scores 3.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Inworld AI starts at $25 a month and scores 2.0.
ElevenLabs scores higher and starts $20 a month lower. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than ElevenLabs for less, and 19 score higher than Inworld AI 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.
At a glance
| ElevenLabs | Inworld AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) | $25 per month, billed monthly |
| Free plan | 10,000 credits a month (about 10 minutes of text to speech) and 3 Studio projects. No commercial license and no voice cloning. | On-Demand: $0 pay as you go with up to 70 minutes of text to speech included; 100 custom voices, commercial license. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Eleven Labs Inc. | Inworld AI |
| Price read from | elevenlabs.io | inworld.ai |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Inworld AI
- Overage is billed at the plan's own rates, and extra credits expire one year after purchase.
- The 70 free minutes on On-Demand are not described as monthly, so treat them as a trial amount.
- Zero data retention starts at Developer, and HIPAA and BAA are Growth add-ons.
- The page showed monthly prices; a Yearly toggle advertises 2 months free, so the annual amounts were not read.
Key features
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.
Inworld AI
- Realtime TTS-2 and TTS-2 Flash
- Two text-to-speech models priced per million characters, with steering on TTS-2, speaking rate and temperature controls, and 200+ languages.
- Voice cloning and design
- Instant cloning and voice design are on every plan; professional voice clones are capped by tier, from 2 to 40 and 100+ on Enterprise.
- Speech to text and speech to speech
- Real-time STT from $0.15 an hour on On-Demand and low-latency speech-to-speech conversations on the same credits.
- LLM inference
- Hosted open and third-party models are billed per token from the same credit balance, from $0.07 per 1M input tokens.
- Credits that roll over
- Unused subscription credits carry over for up to 3 months while a paid plan of equal or higher value stays active.
Plans
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.
Inworld AI
On-Demand$0
Pay as you go: TTS-2 $25 per 1M characters, TTS-2 Flash $15. Up to 70 min of TTS included.
Creator$25
per month, billed monthly
$25 in credits a month. TTS-2 $20 per 1M characters, Flash $10. 500 custom voices, 4 professional clones.
Builder$100
per month, billed monthly
$100 in credits. TTS-2 $17.50 per 1M characters, Flash $9. 3,000 custom voices, higher concurrency.
Developer$300
per month, billed monthly
$300 in credits. TTS-2 $15 per 1M characters, Flash $8. 10,000 custom voices, zero data retention.
Growth$1,500
per month, billed monthly
$1,500 in credits. TTS-2 $12.50 per 1M characters, Flash $7. 30,000 voices, HIPAA and BAA as add-ons.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom limits and terms, SLA, DPA, EU and India data residency; TTS-2 from as low as $5 per 1M.
Ways to pay less
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.
Inworld AI
- Annual discount
2 months free on yearly billing
Inworld's pricing page has a Yearly toggle labeled as giving 2 months free compared with monthly billing.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ElevenLabs or Inworld AI?
As of Nov 12, 2026, ElevenLabs is cheaper to start with: $5 a month, against $25 a month for Inworld AI. ElevenLabs starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly), and Inworld AI starts at $25 per month, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, ElevenLabs or Inworld AI?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both ElevenLabs and Inworld AI have a free plan.
Which platforms do ElevenLabs and Inworld AI 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.