ElevenLabs vs Voice.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 2.4.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
ElevenLabs grades higher on features and ease of use. Voice.ai grades higher on value for money. 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.
ElevenLabs
AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents
Voice.ai
Real-time voice changer, text to speech and voice agents
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 Voice.ai if
- Fits if you want a free real-time voice changer for games or chat
- Works for creators who need cloned voices with a commercial license
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want cloning on the free plan, which has none
- Tight if you stay free: 5k credits and 500 characters a conversion
- Watch out: credits are shared across speech, agents and audio tools
- Watch out: Enterprise features such as SSO and HIPAA BAAs are custom-priced and not listed
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | 2.4GPAVoice.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. | BStarter is $5 a month billed monthly, inside the cheapest quarter. Launch is $24, Core $99, Scale $330, Business $880. |
| 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. | C5k credits a month, about 5 minutes of speech, 500 characters a conversion, no instant clones. Tight for anything past a try. |
| 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. | CVoice changer, TTS, 5 to 2,200 instant clones, agents and audio tools. One credit pool covers everything, so heavy use of one drains the others. |
| 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. | CNo store rating on record. Install the changer or open the web app and go, with credits to watch. |
| 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, Windows and Mac, with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Zoom and Discord listed. No phone app. |
| Best for | AI voiceovers, dubbing and voice cloning | a free real-time voice changer, plus cloned voices |
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 Voice.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. Voice.ai starts at $5 a month and scores 2.3.
ElevenLabs scores higher for the same starting price. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than ElevenLabs for less, and none scores higher than Voice.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 transcription and video generation.
- Voice.ai also covers chatbots.
At a glance
| ElevenLabs | Voice.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) | $5 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. | 5k credits a month, no instant voice clones, 500 characters per conversion. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
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| Made by | Eleven Labs Inc. | Voice AI, Inc. |
| Price read from | elevenlabs.io | voice.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.
Voice.ai
- The Free plan has no instant voice clones and caps each conversion at 500 characters.
- Credits are shared across text to speech, voice agents and audio tools, so heavy use of one drains the others.
- Enterprise is custom-priced, adding SSO, HIPAA BAAs and custom SLAs, and is not listed here as a plan.
- Prices shown are monthly; a yearly toggle on the page advertises 2 months free.
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.
Voice.ai
- Real-time voice changer
- A free voice changer for PC and Mac that works across Zoom, Discord, games and chat apps, plus a recording mode for short clips.
- Text to speech
- Generates speech in over 15 languages, with a text to speech studio and file downloads on paid plans.
- Instant voice cloning
- Paid plans include instant voice clones, from 5 on Starter up to 2,200 voice clones on Business.
- AI voice agents
- Agents that handle inbound and outbound phone calls, with concurrent-call and phone-number limits that grow by plan.
- Audio tools
- Includes a vocal remover, echo and reverb remover, stem splitter, audio enhancer and key and BPM finder, all drawing on the same credits.
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.
Voice.ai
Free$0
5k credits a month, about 5 minutes of text to speech; 500 characters per conversion and no instant voice clones.
Starter$5
per month, billed monthly
15k credits, 5 instant voice clones, file downloads and a commercial license.
Launch$24
per month, billed monthly
200k credits and 10 instant voice clones. First month is $12 at 50% off.
Core$99
per month, billed monthly
1M credits, 50 instant voice clones and priority support.
Scale$330
per month, billed monthly
4M credits, 200 instant voice clones and higher-priority generations.
Business$880
per month, billed monthly
22M credits, 2,200 voice clones and technical success manager support.
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.
Voice.ai
- Annual discount
Yearly billing gives 2 months free
The pricing page's yearly toggle is labeled 2 months free; the yearly prices were not readable in the page text.
- Other savings
50% off the first month of Launch
The Launch plan is shown at $12 for the first month, then $24 a month.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ElevenLabs or Voice.ai?
As of Nov 12, 2026, they start at the same price. ElevenLabs starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly), and Voice.ai starts at $5 per month, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, ElevenLabs or Voice.ai?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both ElevenLabs and Voice.ai have a free plan.
Which platforms do ElevenLabs and Voice.ai run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only ElevenLabs lists iOS and Android apps and only Voice.ai lists macOS and Windows 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.