ElevenLabs
by ElevenLabs · voice
Verified Jul 13, 2026
ElevenLabs is the reference point for AI voice: text-to-speech realistic enough for audiobooks and video narration, voice cloning, multilingual dubbing, and a well-documented API that powers voice features across thousands of apps.
The free tier is enough to hear the quality for yourself. Costs scale with audio volume, and cloned voices demand responsible, consented use — but for creators and developers, nothing else matches the output quality today.
Pros & Cons
- +Best-in-class voice realism
- +Free tier to experiment
- +Mature developer API
- –Costs scale quickly with heavy audio use
- –Voice cloning requires care around consent
Latest models & API cost
Eleven v3The most expressive TTS available — emotion, pacing, and multi-speaker dialogue.Priced per character/minute of audio, not per token.
ScribeHigh-accuracy speech-to-text for transcription workflows.Priced per hour of audio.
What it can do
—Live web search—Image understanding—Image generation✓Voice conversations✓File upload & analysis—Code execution / data analysis—Deep research / agentic mode◐Custom bots / assistants (limited)—Persistent memory✓Mobile apps—Desktop app✓Developer API—Open-weight models✓Opt out of data training
Highlights
- ›Ultra-realistic text-to-speech
- ›Voice cloning and design
- ›Dubbing across 70+ languages
- ›Speech-to-text and conversational agents