Alternatives to ElevenLabs Text to Speech.
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ElevenLabs Text to Speech is Watch. Speech generation with plan-dependent voice features, credit usage and licensing.
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text with a published hourly rate, plus text to speech.
$50 in free credits. Universal-3.5 Pro pre-recorded is $0.21 an hour. Streaming bills the open socket, not just the audio. Text to speech is $15 per million characters.
Read the profile →Deepgram
Deepgram
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents.
$200 free credit, then pay as you go. Nova-3 monolingual pre-recorded is $0.0043 a minute. Aura-2 is $0.030 per 1,000 characters.
Read the profile →Whisper
OpenAI
OpenAI's open speech-recognition models and code.
The repository is free to download. OpenAI's hosted transcription API is a separate, metered product.
Read the profile →Cartesia
Cartesia
Speech models and voice agents sold as credits.
Free is 20,000 credits a month. A $49 plan includes 1.25 million credits. Voice-agent minutes are a separate prepaid balance.
Read the profile →ElevenLabs Scribe
ElevenLabs
Speech-to-text tools for recorded and real-time transcription, with timestamps and speaker features.
Free and paid shared-credit plans. The speech-to-text page lists plan-specific minutes; Starter is $6/month before taxes after promotion.
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