ElevenLabs vs NaturalReader
We give ElevenLabs a 3.0 GPA and NaturalReader a 2.8, out of 4.0. ElevenLabs grades higher on features and ease of use. NaturalReader grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on value for money and platforms.
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
NaturalReader
Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | 2.8GPANaturalReaderGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CAs a reader, Plus is $9.92 a month billed yearly ($20.90 monthly), a bit under Speechify's Premium. For voiceovers you need Commercial Starter: $16.5 a month billed yearly for 500,000 credits, spent per character at a rate that depends on the voice. Middle of the road both ways. |
| Free plan and trial | C10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech, and 3 Studio projects. But there's no commercial license and no cloning, so nothing you make on it can go in a video you publish. Fine for hearing the voices, not for the job. | BGraded as a reader, it's one you can live on: unlimited listening with the free voices, plus 5 minutes a day of the better ones, and no card needed. For voiceovers it's no use, as it's personal use only with no MP3 downloads. |
| 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. Nothing else here covers as much, and nothing in the listing shows a gap. | BIt reads PDFs, Word files, ePubs, web pages and photographed pages aloud, turns documents into podcast-style episodes and quizzes, and has a Commercial app with Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs voices and cloning. Both jobs are covered, in separate apps. |
| Ease of use | A4.84 from 22,674 App Store ratings, the best in this category. Paste text, pick a voice, press play. Working out what each product costs in credits is the only fiddly part. | B4.55 from 9,134 App Store ratings. Open a document and press play. The only confusing part is that reading and voiceovers are two apps with two subscriptions. |
| 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. | BWeb, iPhone, Android, a Chrome extension, and Windows and Mac software. That's every device, but no API or integrations are listed, which keeps it off an A. |
| Best for | AI voiceovers that sound like people | listening to documents, with voiceovers on the side |
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 NaturalReader. 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. NaturalReader starts at $9.92 a month and scores 3.0.
ElevenLabs scores higher and starts $4.92 a month lower. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than ElevenLabs for less, and 1 scores higher than NaturalReader 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 starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly). NaturalReader starts at $9.92 per month, billed annually ($20.90 billed monthly).
- Only NaturalReader lists Windows and macOS apps.
- Only NaturalReader lists a browser extension.
- ElevenLabs also covers transcription and video generation.
At a glance
| ElevenLabs | NaturalReader | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) | $9.92 per month, billed annually ($20.90 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. | Free personal plan: unlimited listening with the free voices, 5 minutes a day of Plus AI voices and limited AI features. For personal use only, with no MP3 downloads. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
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| Made by | Eleven Labs Inc. | NaturalSoft Limited |
| Price read from | elevenlabs.io | naturalreaders.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Who each one suits
ElevenLabs
- Creators voicing videos, podcasts and audiobooks
- Dubbing existing videos into other languages
- Developers adding speech or voice agents to their own product
NaturalReader
- Students and readers who prefer to listen to documents and web pages
- People with dyslexia or other reading difficulties
- Schools that want group or site licenses
- Creators who need licensed voiceovers from several AI voice models
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.
NaturalReader
- Audio from the Free, Plus and Pro plans is for private listening only; publishing it, even for internal training or a nonprofit, needs a Commercial plan.
- Commercial is a separate app and subscription, and its downloads need a paid plan. Commercial subscriptions are non-refundable.
- Paid personal plans cap MP3 conversion at 1 million characters a month, and Commercial credits are spent per character at a rate that varies by voice.
- The desktop software is sold apart from the subscriptions, as one-time licenses of $99.50, $129.50 or $199.50.
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.
NaturalReader
- Read anything aloud
- Listen to text, PDFs, Word files, ePubs, web pages and photos of printed pages, with an OCR scanner on the paid personal plans.
- AI reading tools
- Turn a document into a podcast-style episode, get a recap of its key points, ask questions about it or generate quizzes.
- Chrome extension and mobile apps
- A Chrome extension reads web pages where you find them, and iOS and Android apps let you listen on the go.
- Commercial voiceover app
- A separate app for voiceovers you may publish, with voices from Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs models in more than 90 languages and delivery set by prompt.
- Voice cloning
- Commercial plans include cloning, which NaturalReader describes as recording or uploading your own voice to make a multilingual AI voice.
- Desktop software
- Windows and Mac software for personal use, free with basic voices or sold as one-time licenses that add natural voices and MP3 export.
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.
NaturalReader
Free$0
Unlimited listening with free voices and 5 minutes a day of Plus AI voices, for personal use only.
Plus$9.92
per month, billed annually ($20.90 billed monthly)
Personal use: Plus AI voices for 500,000 characters a day, MP3 downloads of 1 million characters a month, AI features and an OCR scanner.
Pro$13.25
per month, billed annually ($25.90 billed monthly)
Personal use: everything in Plus, with Gemini and OpenAI voices whose tone and emotion you set with a prompt.
Commercial Starter$16.5
per month for 500,000 credits, billed annually ($29 monthly)
Commercially licensed voiceovers for a single user, with Gemini, OpenAI, Azure and ElevenLabs voices and voice cloning.
Commercial Creator$24.75
per month for 2M credits, billed annually ($49 monthly)
The Starter features with 2 million credits a month, for a single user.
Commercial Team$16
per user / month, billed annually ($33 billed monthly)
Sold from 2 users with 4 million shared credits a month. Each extra user is $16 a month and adds 2 million credits.
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.
NaturalReader
- Annual discount
Save about 50% with yearly billing
Plus is $119 a year ($9.92 a month) against $20.90 monthly, and Commercial Starter is $198 a year ($16.5 a month) against $29 monthly.
- Education
Discounted group and site licenses for schools
NaturalReader EDU sells discounted group licenses, or site licenses for a whole school, with one license covering several platforms. The page lists no prices.
