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ElevenLabs vs Voicestars

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, Voicestars at $8.99. Only ElevenLabs has a free tier. Only ElevenLabs ships a public API.

ElevenLabsSynthetic voices, cloning and dubbing sold by the creditVoicestarsSwap the vocal in a track for one of 600+ AI voices, or train a voice on your own recordings.

Side by side

FactElevenLabsVoicestars
CategoryText-to-SpeechVoice Changer
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$6 month$8.99 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, API, iOS, AndroidWeb
CompanyElevenLabsVoicestars
Launched20222023
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

Voicestars

Cheap for what it does and unusually complete for a cover tool - stem splitting, cleanup, lyrics and text-to-song sit next to the voice conversion, so you can go from a raw take to a finished cover without another app. The problem is the catalogue: hundreds of the voices imitate named artists and public figures, and the terms simultaneously ban commercial use of the output. Treat it as a toy, not a production tool.

Pros

  • 600+ voices with credit costs published per action
  • Voice cloning from your own audio included in the same subscription
  • Stem splitter plus noise, echo and reverb removal built in
  • Text-to-song and lyrics generation cover the whole chain
  • Entry plan is $8.99/month with 12,000 credits, well below cloning-focused rivals

Cons

  • Terms explicitly prohibit any commercial use, including reselling generated audio
  • The voice library is largely impressions of named artists and public figures
  • Company identified only by a trademark name and a Gmail address
  • No free tier is shown on the pricing table
  • Web only, no API

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 Voicestars if you need

  • Making covers for personal listening or social posts
  • Cloning your own voice from a few recordings
  • Quick stem separation and vocal cleanup on a small budget

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