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ElevenLabs

Voice engine Best voice quality

The most natural-sounding AI voice we have heard, whether you are voicing a video or putting it on a live phone line.

Best for video, narration and premium-voice phone agents where the voice is the point
Watch for pricier than bundled platforms for a high-volume phone campaign

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Reviewed by Voxrater Last reviewed 2026-06-03 Methodology

Our scores editorial preview
8.4 Excellent overall / 10
Voice quality 10
Voice range 10
Ease of use 7
Value 6
All-in /min $0.10–0.30
headline /min $0.08
voices 10,000+
languages 70+
narration /1k $0.11
✓ HIPAA✓ SOC 2 Type II✓ GDPR

Scored on the same voice-agent rubric as the full platforms, so a building block like this scores low on the axes it does not address. Read its value score against its job.

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The pick when the voice itself is the point. Over 10,000 voices, the best cloning around, and on a blind listen most people cannot tell it from a human. Not the cheapest, and aimed more at narration and video than busy phone lines, but the quality leader by a clear margin.

What you'll pay

About $0.10 to 0.30 for a minute of conversation, once the phone line and the AI are added in.

That's roughly $6.00–18.00 an hour. Plans: from $0/mo (Free) up to $990/mo (Business).

Pricing

$ 0.10–0.30/min The total you actually pay for one minute of conversation once every piece is added up: the platform, the AI, the voice and the phone line. ≈ €0.09–0.26≈ £0.07–0.22≈ ₹9.57–28.71≈ R$0.50–1.51≈ A$0.14–0.42 headline $0.08 /min
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What the platform charges to run the agent, before the phone line and the AI usage are added on. $0.08 /min
The step that turns what the caller says out loud into text the AI can read. —
The AI 'brain' that reads what the caller said and works out what to say back. —
The step that turns the AI's written reply back into a spoken voice. —
The phone line itself: the service that connects the call to a real phone number. Usually billed on top of the platform. $0.02 /min
The total you actually pay for one minute of conversation once every piece is added up: the platform, the AI, the voice and the phone line. $0.10–0.30 /min

Priced by use. Voice AGENTS (conversational AI) have a $0.08/min base call rate (same on every plan tier; the /pricing/agents page) for the premium voice; add your LLM (pass-through, varies by model) and about $0.02/min telephony for a typical $0.10 to 0.30 all-in. NARRATION/video is per character on subscription tiers: Free (10k credits/mo), Creator $11/mo (121k), Pro $99/mo (600k), Scale $299/mo (1.8M), Business $990/mo (6M). Roughly $0.09 to 0.20 per 1,000 characters by tier and model (1 char = 1 credit on v2 models; Flash/Turbo can be less). HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR are Enterprise-plan features.

Plans & what you get

Every plan in one place: the monthly fee, what each one includes, and the features it unlocks. Anything beyond a plan's allowance, or on a pay-as-you-go tier, is billed at the per-minute rate above. A blank in the features means the vendor's plan page does not state it for that plan, not that it is unavailable.

FreeCreatorProScaleBusiness
Price Free$11/mo$99/mo$299/mo$990/mo
Included 10,000 credits ≈ 11 min of audio 121,000 credits ≈ 2.2 hrs of audio 600,000 credits ≈ 11 hrs of audio 1,800,000 credits ≈ 33 hrs of audio 6,000,000 credits ≈ 111 hrs of audio
What each plan unlocks
Commercial licence No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Voice cloning No Instant + Professional Instant + Professional 3 Professional clones 10 Professional clones
API access Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Team seats — — — 3 10
Audio quality 128 kbps MP3 128 kbps MP3 192 kbps MP3 + PCM 192 kbps MP3 + PCM 192 kbps MP3 + PCM
  • Free Free
    10,000 credits · ≈ 11 min of audio
    Commercial licence
    No
    Voice cloning
    No
    API access
    Yes
    Team seats
    —
    Audio quality
    128 kbps MP3
  • Creator $11/mo
    121,000 credits · ≈ 2.2 hrs of audio
    Commercial licence
    Yes
    Voice cloning
    Instant + Professional
    API access
    Yes
    Team seats
    —
    Audio quality
    128 kbps MP3
  • Pro $99/mo
    600,000 credits · ≈ 11 hrs of audio
    Commercial licence
    Yes
    Voice cloning
    Instant + Professional
    API access
    Yes
    Team seats
    —
    Audio quality
    192 kbps MP3 + PCM
  • Scale $299/mo
    1,800,000 credits · ≈ 33 hrs of audio
    Commercial licence
    Yes
    Voice cloning
    3 Professional clones
    API access
    Yes
    Team seats
    3
    Audio quality
    192 kbps MP3 + PCM
  • Business $990/mo
    6,000,000 credits · ≈ 111 hrs of audio
    Commercial licence
    Yes
    Voice cloning
    10 Professional clones
    API access
    Yes
    Team seats
    10
    Audio quality
    192 kbps MP3 + PCM

Credits are a prepaid balance you spend as you generate, like topping up a card. Here about one credit buys one character of speech and roughly 1,000 characters is a minute, so the bracketed figure is the speaking time each plan covers.

Prices in USD as set by the vendor · last checked 2026-06-03 · vendor pricing →

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What are you using ElevenLabs for?
(~33 hours)
Estimated monthly cost$200–600≈ €172.21–516.62≈ £148.73–446.20≈ ₹19,142.00–57,426.00≈ R$1,003.68–3,011.04≈ A$279.28–837.84all-in per-minute estimate
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A rough estimate from ElevenLabs's sourced rates, not a quote. Always confirm on the vendor's own pricing page before you commit.

At a glance

✓ Plugging in your own phone-number supplier instead of using the platform's numbers. Handy if you already run your own phone setup. ✓ Handing the call to a human with context: the AI briefs the person first, instead of a cold drop where the caller repeats themselves. ✓ Kicking off a whole list of outbound calls at once, rather than dialling one at a time. ✓ A standard way to let the agent use outside tools mid-call, like a booking system or your CRM. (MCP stands for Model Context Protocol.)
Speech-to-text
ElevenLabs Scribe
Text-to-speech
ElevenLabs · Bring your own voice: you can upload or clone a custom voice instead of being limited to the platform's stock ones.
Languages
en, es, fr, de, pt, hi
Integrations
Twilio, SIP trunk providers, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Native SDKs (web/mobile)

Compliance

✓ HIPAA✓ SOC 2 Type II✓ GDPR

Our full take

ElevenLabs is the one you pick when the voice itself is the product. The library runs past 10,000 voices in 70-plus languages, the cloning is the best in the business (instant for speed, professional for a long-term brand voice), and on a blind listen it is the one most people cannot tell from a human. That is the pitch, and it largely holds.

Pricing splits by what you are doing. For a voice agent you pay by the minute: $0.08 for the premium voice (the same base rate on every plan tier), plus your own AI model and about $0.02 for the phone line, so a realistic all-in lands $0.10 to 0.30. For narration and video you pay by the character on a subscription: Creator is $11 a month for 121,000 credits, Pro $99 for 600,000, and up from there, which works out around $0.09 to 0.20 per 1,000 characters depending on tier and model. One character is one credit on the v2 models; the faster Flash and Turbo models can cost less.

The model line-up matters here. Flash v2.5 is built for real-time agents at about 75ms; Multilingual v2 and the newer v3 trade a little speed for richer, more emotional delivery. Scripting a YouTube voiceover, you want v3 or Multilingual. Running a live phone agent, you want Flash.

On compliance, HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR sit on the Enterprise plan, with EU data residency and a zero-retention mode. If you are in healthcare or the EU and need those guarantees, budget for Enterprise rather than the self-serve tiers.

We have not scored ElevenLabs’ voices in our own listening tests yet, so the quality and range numbers on this page are an editorial preview, not a measured result. The pricing and capability detail is from ElevenLabs’ pricing page and docs, captured 2026-05-30.

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Alternatives to ElevenLabs

Other platforms that overlap with ElevenLabs on the same kind of work, ranked by how many capabilities they share, then by cheaper all-in cost per minute. Compare any of them side by side on the compare page.

PolyAI $0.00– 0.00/min Enterprise voice assistants for big contact centres, with brand-name customers and quote-only pricing. View PolyAI → Sierra $0.00– 0.00/min Enterprise AI agents for customer support, voice and chat, billed per resolved conversation rather than per minute. View Sierra → Hume AI $0.05– 0.13/min A voice that picks up how the caller is feeling and answers in kind, for warmer and more human conversations. View Hume AI →

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Sources

  1. ElevenLabs Agents pricing page: $0.08/min base call rate (same on every plan tier), LLM billed separately (pass-through, varies by model). · captured 2026-06-02
  2. ElevenLabs pricing page re-captured 2026-06-02 for the quarterly re-verification; pricing reviewed against the live page (screenshot in evidence/). · captured 2026-06-02
  3. ElevenLabs plan page: per-plan feature matrix (commercial licence, cloning, API, seats, audio quality) · captured 2026-05-31
  4. ElevenLabs pricing page: subscription tiers, credits, per-character model · captured 2026-05-30
  5. ElevenLabs docs: voice library (10,000+) and capabilities · captured 2026-05-30
  6. ElevenLabs voice-cloning page: instant and professional cloning · captured 2026-05-30
  7. ElevenLabs voice generator: 10,000+ voices in 70+ languages · captured 2026-05-30