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ElevenLabs alternatives ranked by cost per minute
For 120 minutes of speech a month, ElevenLabs' cheapest app plan that covers it is Creator at $22. 1 app plan from 1 other vendor costs less, starting at $8.33 (Speechify Studio Starter, which is billed yearly).
This ranks price only. Voice quality, languages, cloning and licences differ, so shortlist on price and then listen. Minutes assume 900 characters a minute for text-billed plans.
Apps with an editor, at 120 minutes a month
For creators making voiceovers, audiobooks or videos in a studio app rather than through code.
| # | Option | Per month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speechify Studio Starter Billed annually. $100 a year for 24 hours of voiceover. | $8.33 | $0.069 |
| 2 | ElevenLabs Creator (app) | $22 | $0.183 |
| 3 | Speechify Studio Creator Billed annually. $300 a year for 96 hours of voiceover. | $25 | $0.208 |
| 4 | Murf Creator (Studio) Commercial rights. Annual billing pools 24 hours a year. | $29 | $0.242 |
| 5 | WellSaid Pro Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | $49 | $0.408 |
| 6 | ElevenLabs Pro (app) | $99 | $0.825 |
| 7 | Murf Business (Studio) Business licence. Annual billing pools 96 hours a year. | $99 | $0.825 |
| 8 | WellSaid Business (per user) Billed annually. 2,880 downloaded minutes a year per user. | $160 | $1.33 |
| 9 | ElevenLabs Scale (app) | $299 | $2.49 |
| 10 | ElevenLabs Business (app) | $990 | $8.25 |
Apps with an editor, at 300 minutes a month
At 300 minutes ElevenLabs needs its Pro plan at $99. 1 plan undercuts it; the cheapest is Speechify Studio Creator at $25 a month, billed yearly.
| # | Option | Per month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speechify Studio Creator Billed annually. $300 a year for 96 hours of voiceover. | $25 | $0.083 |
| 2 | ElevenLabs Pro (app) | $99 | $0.33 |
| 3 | Murf Business (Studio) Business licence. Annual billing pools 96 hours a year. | $99 | $0.33 |
| 4 | ElevenLabs Scale (app) | $299 | $0.997 |
| 5 | ElevenLabs Business (app) | $990 | $3.30 |
At 600 minutes a month, no other app plan we track includes that many minutes or publishes a price for extra ones, so ElevenLabs Pro at $99 is the only app option short of an enterprise contract.
APIs for developers
ElevenLabs' cheapest API model, Flash/Turbo, costs $0.036 a minute. 15 pay-as-you-go voice tiers from other vendors cost less per minute, though many of the cheapest are older standard voices. At 600 minutes a month, here is every API option by monthly cost:
| # | Option | Per month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Cloud Standard voices Google lists these under legacy models. | $0 | $0 |
| 2 | Google Cloud WaveNet voices Listed at the same price and billing code as Standard. | $0 | $0 |
| 3 | Google Cloud Neural2 voices | $0 | $0 |
| 4 | Google Cloud Chirp 3: HD voices | $0 | $0 |
| 5 | Google Cloud Studio voices | $0 | $0 |
| 6 | Amazon Polly Standard | $2.16 | $0.004 |
| 7 | Murf API, Falcon | $5.40 | $0.009 |
| 8 | OpenAI tts-1 | $8.10 | $0.013 |
| 9 | Azure AI Speech Neural East US price; varies by region. | $8.10 | $0.013 |
| 10 | Deepgram Aura-1 | $8.10 | $0.013 |
| 11 | Amazon Polly Neural | $8.64 | $0.014 |
| 12 | Azure AI Speech Neural HD East US price; varies by region. | $11.88 | $0.02 |
| 13 | Murf API, Gen2 | $16.20 | $0.027 |
| 14 | OpenAI tts-1-hd | $16.20 | $0.027 |
| 15 | Amazon Polly Generative | $16.20 | $0.027 |
| 16 | Deepgram Aura-2 | $16.20 | $0.027 |
| 17 | ElevenLabs API, Flash / Turbo | $21.20 | $0.035 |
| 18 | Resemble AI Flex pay-as-you-go $0.00067 per second of audio, so text length doesn't matter. | $24.12 | $0.04 |
| 19 | Cartesia Pro | $33.60 | $0.056 |
| 20 | ElevenLabs API, v2 Multilingual | $42.40 | $0.071 |
| 21 | Cartesia Startup | $49 | $0.082 |
| 22 | Amazon Polly Long-Form | $54 | $0.09 |
| 23 | Cartesia Scale | $299 | $0.498 |
Things that change the ranking
- Annual billing: Murf, WellSaid and ElevenLabs all cost less per month if you pay yearly, and Speechify Studio is sold yearly only. Switch billing in the calculator.
- Free allowances: Google Cloud's monthly free tier makes small API workloads free.
- Overage: several app plans publish no price for extra minutes, so a busy month forces an upgrade.
- What counts as a minute: WellSaid counts downloaded audio only, while ElevenLabs and Murf charge for everything you generate.
Play.ht and LOVO used to be common alternatives, but neither site loaded when we checked on 5 October 2026.
Sources
Every price comes from the vendors' own pricing pages, read on 5 October 2026; see the API price comparison for links to each one.
Prices on this page were checked against the official pricing pages on .