WellSaid vs ElevenLabs on price
ElevenLabs is cheaper at every volume from 1 to 1 hours of speech a month; WellSaid has no plan for 5 hours a month or more. WellSaid sells an editor app; ElevenLabs sells an editor app and an API.
| Speech a month | WellSaid | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $49 ($0.817/min) Pro | $1.76 ($0.029/min) API, Flash / Turbo |
| 5 hours | No published price | $10.40 ($0.035/min) API, Flash / Turbo |
| 10 hours | No published price | $21.20 ($0.035/min) API, Flash / Turbo |
| 50 hours | No published price | $108 ($0.036/min) API, Flash / Turbo |
| 100 hours | No published price | $216 ($0.036/min) API, Flash / Turbo |
Each side's cheapest option for the volume, monthly billing where offered, free allowances included; bold marks the cheaper. Per-minute figures assume 900 characters of text per minute of speech.
What the numbers say
- How fast the speech is changes the bill for text-billed plans: at 2 hours a month, WellSaid costs $49 either way; ElevenLabs $3.06 and $4.40.
- ElevenLabs gives 10,000 characters a month free (API, v2 Multilingual, about 11 minutes); WellSaid lists no free allowance on its pricing page.
- Paying yearly at 2 hours a month: WellSaid drops from $49 to $33 (33% off); ElevenLabs costs the same.
- On ElevenLabs, the API is cheaper than the editor app at every volume from 1 to 100 hours a month.
Every WellSaid option at 10 hours a month
| Option | A month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Starter Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | Bigger plan | – |
| Pro Counts downloaded minutes; generating is unlimited. | Bigger plan | – |
| Business (per user) Billed annually. 2,880 downloaded minutes a year per user. | Bigger plan | – |
Every ElevenLabs option at 10 hours a month
| Option | A month | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| API, Flash / Turbo | $21.20 | $0.035 |
| API, v2 Multilingual | $42.40 | $0.071 |
| Pro (app) | $99 | $0.165 |
| Scale (app) | $299 | $0.498 |
| Business (app) | $990 | $1.65 |
| Starter (app) | Bigger plan | – |
| Creator (app) | Bigger plan | – |
"Bigger plan" means the plan's minutes run out before 10 hours and no extra-minute price is published.
Price only: voices, languages, latency and licences differ, so try both. Compare every voice tool for your own monthly minutes, or see every text-to-speech API.
Prices on this page were checked against the official pricing pages on .