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ElevenLabs vs Uberduck

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, Uberduck at $2. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the creditUberduckSynthetic vocals that speak, sing and rap from typed lyrics

Side by side

FactElevenLabsUberduck
CategoryText-to-SpeechText-to-Speech
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$6 month$2 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, iOS, AndroidWeb, API
CompanyElevenLabsUberduck, Inc.
Launched20222021
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

Uberduck

The one mainstream vocal tool that will rap a lyric sheet in time, and it costs single-digit dollars, but voice naturalness sits well below dedicated TTS houses. Use it for hooks, demos and character audio, not for narration you are billing a client for.

Pros

  • Rap and singing output that competing TTS vendors simply do not offer
  • Entry pricing is a fraction of ElevenLabs-class tools
  • Speech-to-speech keeps the performance instead of re-reading the text
  • Thousands of community voices to audition before committing

Cons

  • The community voice library is full of impersonations with murky rights
  • Naturalness on plain narration lags dedicated speech engines
  • Credits rather than minutes make iteration expensive
  • Documentation and support are thin on the low tiers

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 Uberduck if you need

  • Producers sketching rap or sung hooks before booking a vocalist
  • Short-form and meme creators wanting character voices
  • Cheap voice-cloning experiments
  • Speech-to-speech takes that preserve the original timing and delivery

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