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Altered vs ElevenLabs

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. ElevenLabs publishes a starting price ($6); Altered does not. Both have a free tier. Only ElevenLabs ships a public API.

AlteredSpeech-to-speech voice morphing, cloning and TTS for media work, plus a live voice changerElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the credit

Side by side

FactAlteredElevenLabs
CategoryVoice ChangerText-to-Speech
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at—$6 month
Public APINoYes
PlatformsWeb, Windows, macOSWeb, API, iOS, Android
CompanyAlteredElevenLabs
Launched—2022
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Altered

Altered is one of the few voice tools built around editing a performance you already recorded rather than generating one from scratch, and the licence attached to each tier is spelled out plainly. The catch is the two-axis meter: you can run out of morphing minutes or tokens independently, and the commercial licence only starts at the EUR 87 tier.

Pros

  • Speech-to-speech morphing keeps the original delivery instead of re-reading a script
  • Free tier plus a card-free week-long Creator trial
  • Desktop apps for Windows and Mac in addition to the browser studio
  • Token consumption rates per provider are published on the pricing page

Cons

  • API access, multi-seat and custom voice models are Enterprise-only
  • Two separate meters (minutes and tokens) make cost harder to forecast
  • Commercial licensing requires the Professional tier; lower tiers carry attribution or creator terms

ElevenLabs

The quality bar for synthetic speech and the easiest voice API to start on, but the credit meter is the actual product and it empties faster than the plan names imply.

Pros

  • Output quality and language coverage remain ahead of most rivals
  • One account spans speech, dubbing, recognition, effects and agents
  • The first paid tier is $6, so testing commercially costs almost nothing

Cons

  • Credits rather than minutes, so cost per finished second shifts with model and settings
  • Commercial licence and instant cloning are both withheld from the free tier
  • Professional voice cloning starts only at Creator ($22)
  • Team seats do not appear until the $299 Scale plan

Which one fits

Choose Altered if you need

  • Post-production teams replacing or repairing voices in existing recordings
  • Call centres and streamers who need a live desktop voice changer
  • Localisation work combining transcription, translation and speech in one place

Choose ElevenLabs if you need

  • Product teams adding narration or voice agents without training a model
  • Creators dubbing video into other languages with the speaker's timbre kept
  • Audiobook and podcast producers who need a licensable cloned voice

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