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ElevenLabs vs TTSLabs

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, TTSLabs at $25. Both have a free tier. Only ElevenLabs ships a public API.

ElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the creditTTSLabsCustom text-to-speech voices and sound clips for Twitch donation and channel-point alerts.

Side by side

FactElevenLabsTTSLabs
CategoryText-to-SpeechText-to-Speech
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$6 month$25 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, API, iOS, AndroidWeb
CompanyElevenLabsTTSLabs LLC
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

TTSLabs

A narrow tool that does one job for one audience: making donation alerts worth listening to. Because it layers on Streamlabs and StreamElements rather than replacing them, adoption costs nothing to reverse. The jump from free to $25 a month is abrupt with no middle tier, and 400 alerts a month runs out fast on an active channel.

Pros

  • 80+ custom voices available on the free tier as well as Pro
  • Sound clips triggerable from inside a donation message
  • Profanity filtering and per-voice controls to keep alerts safe on stream
  • Layers onto Streamlabs and StreamElements instead of replacing them
  • Desktop app for managing playback

Cons

  • Only two tiers — free, then $25/month with nothing between
  • Free tier caps enabled voices at 10 and clips at 25
  • No public API
  • No country or address published for TTSLabs LLC

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 TTSLabs if you need

  • Twitch streamers with steady donation volume
  • Channels that want viewer-triggered sound clips
  • Anyone already on Streamlabs or StreamElements

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