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ElevenLabs vs ListenHub

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 starts at $6, ListenHub at $9. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the creditListenHubTurns documents and links into podcasts, narrated video and slides from one credit pool

Side by side

FactElevenLabsListenHub
CategoryText-to-SpeechPodcast Tools
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$6 month$9 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, iOS, AndroidWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, API
CompanyElevenLabsMarsWave
Launched2022—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

ListenHub

ListenHub is broader than the podcast label suggests: one credit pool covers audio, video, images and narrated decks, and the API plus SDK and CLI make it usable as a backend rather than only a web app. Giving even the free tier API access is unusual. The trade-off is that a shared credit pool makes cost forecasting hard when you mix media types.

Pros

  • Documented HTTP endpoints plus a JS/TS SDK and CLI, available even on the free tier
  • Web, iOS, Android and Chrome extension clients, not just a browser app
  • One credit pool spans audio, video, images and narrated slides
  • Usage rights to output are stated as unchanged across plans

Cons

  • A shared credit pool across four media types makes monthly cost hard to predict
  • Advertised entry price requires annual billing; monthly is a third more
  • Only a trading name, MarsWave, is published, with no country or company address

Which one fits

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

Choose ListenHub if you need

  • Turning research documents or links into a listenable podcast episode
  • Developers wanting generation endpoints behind a small monthly plan
  • Creators who need audio, video and slides from the same source material

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