ElevenLabs vs Wavel 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 1.8.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
ElevenLabs grades higher on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money.
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
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 Wavel AI if
- Fits if you localise videos into several languages and want dubbing and subtitles on one balance
- Works for course or training video that needs voiceover plus subtitles
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to test properly first: the free plan is 15 credits, watermarked, with no downloads
- Tight if you dub a lot, because dubbing costs 3 credits a minute and Basic is 100 credits a month on monthly billing
- Pricey if you need lip sync, which is a separate add-on
- Watch out: the annual Basic price is shown as limited-time with no end date on the page
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAElevenLabsVery good | 1.8GPAWavel AIWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | C$16 a month on annual billing, $25 monthly. The category's middle is $10 and its dearer quarter starts at $19, so this sits in the ordinary band, nearer the top. |
| 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. | D15 credits once, good for 7 days, with watermarks and no downloads. You can look at the tools, but you can't take anything away. |
| 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. | CDubbing, subtitles, text to speech, voice cloning and a voice changer. Lip sync is an add-on, and the listing shows no integrations. |
| 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. It's a web tool where you work in credits (3 for a minute of dubbing, 1 for voiceover), so there's some learning. |
| 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 only. The listing mentions a public API but names no integrations. |
| Best for | AI voiceovers, dubbing and voice cloning | AI dubbing and voiceover for video, paid by the credit |
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 Wavel 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. Wavel AI starts at $16 a month and scores 2.0.
ElevenLabs scores higher and starts $11 a month lower. Of the other AI voice generators on the chart, none scores higher than ElevenLabs for less, and 16 score higher than Wavel 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.
- Wavel AI also covers video editing.
At a glance
| ElevenLabs | Wavel AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) | $16 per month, billed annually ($25 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. | a one-time grant of 15 credits to try the tools for 7 days, with watermarks and no downloads. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Eleven Labs Inc. | Docle Pte. Ltd. |
| Price read from | elevenlabs.io | wavel.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.
Wavel AI
- The free plan is a one-time grant of 15 credits for 7 days, with watermarks and no downloads.
- Lip sync is an add-on rather than part of the plans.
- Credits are shared across all tools, so dubbing at 3 credits a minute uses the balance faster than voiceover at 1 credit a minute.
- Annual Basic is shown as a limited-time price with no end date on the page; the $25 figure is the one for monthly billing.
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.
Wavel AI
- AI dubbing and translation
- Dubs video into other languages with AI voices, with subtitles and video translation alongside. The site says it covers 40+ languages.
- Text to speech and voice cloning
- Generates voiceovers from text, can clone voices, and can build multi-character audio in a single track.
- Subtitles and noise cleaning
- Auto-generates subtitles and removes background noise from audio.
- Voice changer and lip sync
- A voice changer is included in the credit plans, and lip sync is sold as an add-on.
- Credit-based usage
- Per the pricing page, 3 credits buy a minute of dubbing and 1 credit buys a minute of subtitles or voiceover in any language.
- Video generation and editing
- Also makes AI videos from scripts, text or slides, and offers shorts clipping, upscaling and edits.
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.
Wavel AI
Free$0
15 credits, one time, to try the tools for 7 days. Watermarked output, no downloads, no editing.
Basic$16
per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)
1,200 credits a year ($198 billed annually; shown as limited-time); 100 a month if billed monthly. 10 voice clones.
Pro$26
per month, billed annually ($40 billed monthly)
3,600 credits a year on annual billing ($312 billed annually); 300 credits a month on monthly billing. 30 voice clones.
Scale$66
per month, billed annually ($100 billed monthly)
12,000 credits a year on annual billing ($792 billed annually); 1,000 credits a month on monthly billing. 100 voice clones and 10 AI twins.
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.
Wavel AI
- Annual discount
Save up to 33% on annual billing, with more credits
The pricing page says annual billing saves up to 33% and includes more credits than monthly billing.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ElevenLabs or Wavel AI?
As of Nov 12, 2026, ElevenLabs is cheaper to start with: $5 a month, against $16 a month for Wavel AI. ElevenLabs starts at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly), and Wavel AI starts at $16 per month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, ElevenLabs or Wavel AI?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both ElevenLabs and Wavel AI have a free plan.
Which platforms do ElevenLabs and Wavel 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.