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ElevenLabs vs Typecast

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, Typecast at $5. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the creditTypecastText-to-speech with 700+ voices, emotion and pace controls, voice cloning and video export

Side by side

FactElevenLabsTypecast
CategoryText-to-SpeechText-to-Speech
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$6 month$5 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, iOS, AndroidWeb, iOS, Android, API
CompanyElevenLabsNeosapience, Inc.
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

Typecast

One of the few text-to-speech tools where the emotional delivery is a real control surface rather than a preset, and it exports finished video rather than just audio. Pricing is honest about being metered, but the controls that make it interesting are gated to the $29 Pro tier, and everything is denominated in credits rather than minutes.

Pros

  • 700+ voices across 35+ languages with adjustable emotion, speed and dynamics
  • Both instant and higher-quality voice cloning, with slot counts by tier
  • Exports video up to 4K, not only audio files
  • Mobile apps on iOS and Android plus a separately priced API
  • Entry paid plan is $5 a month, low for the category

Cons

  • Emotion controls only appear on the $29 Pro tier and above
  • Free tier is 3,000 lifetime credits — around five minutes — and requires attribution
  • Everything is billed in credits, so minutes are an estimate rather than a guarantee
  • Watermark-free export starts at the $19 Plus tier

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 Typecast if you need

  • Narration where delivery and emotion matter more than raw voice count
  • Creators who want the voiceover and the video export in one tool
  • Teams producing multi-language versions of the same script

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