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Speechify vs WellSaid Labs

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.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan
WellSaid Labs — $10/mo vs $29/mo for Speechify
Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Both have one
Best fit
Speechify: Students and professionals working through long PDFs and articles by ear · WellSaid Labs: Corporate training and e-learning teams that need cleared commercial rights
Platforms
Speechify: iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Web, macOS · WellSaid Labs: Web

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

SpeechifyReads PDFs, web pages and email out loudWellSaid LabsText-to-speech built on licensed voice-actor recordings, aimed at corporate audio

Side by side

FactSpeechifyWellSaid Labs
CategoryText-to-SpeechText-to-Speech
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$29/mo$10/mo
Public APIYesYes
Trust score94 / 10091 / 100
PlatformsiOS, Android, Chrome extension, Web, macOS, APIWeb, API
CompanySpeechify Inc.WellSaid Labs, Inc.
Launched20172019
Last verifiedOct 15, 2026Oct 15, 2026

What our research says

Speechify

The most complete listen-to-anything reader on a phone, but the $29 monthly sticker is a trap — the same thing is $139 a year, and the free tier is deliberately unpleasant.

Pros

  • Handles almost any input, including scanned pages captured through the camera
  • Voices stay intelligible all the way up to 5x playback
  • One library syncs between phone, browser extension and Mac

Cons

  • Monthly billing costs about 2.5x the annual rate for the same features
  • Free tier is held to 10 robotic voices and 1.5x speed
  • Studio and the developer API are separate products on a separate domain with their own bills

WellSaid Labs

The reason to pick WellSaid over cheaper rivals is provenance: every voice is licensed from a named actor, which is the answer legal will want before a training video ships. The catch is that minutes are metered tightly and the useful ceiling — all languages, translation, SSO — sits behind a quoted enterprise contract.

Pros

  • Voices built in partnership with professional actors and licensed for commercial use
  • Per-line control over pronunciation, pacing and delivery in the Studio editor
  • Public API plus Adobe Express and Premiere Pro integrations
  • Shared workspaces and version management for team review

Cons

  • Free tier is 3 minutes a month and grants no commercial rights
  • Non-English languages, translation and SSO are enterprise-only
  • Allowances are counted in downloaded minutes, so exporting several revised takes eats into quota

Which one fits

Choose Speechify if you need

  • Students and professionals working through long PDFs and articles by ear
  • Readers with dyslexia or low vision who need OCR capture plus playback
  • Developers who want the Simba voices without building a reader app

Choose WellSaid Labs if you need

  • Corporate training and e-learning teams that need cleared commercial rights
  • Marketing teams re-cutting narration often and wanting version history
  • Buyers who must be able to say where a synthetic voice came from

Speechify vs WellSaid Labs: the questions people ask

Is Speechify cheaper than WellSaid Labs?

On published entry prices, WellSaid Labs starts lower — $10/mo against $29/mo for Speechify. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Speechify or WellSaid Labs have a free tier?

Both: Speechify has a free tier, and WellSaid Labs has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Speechify or WellSaid Labs?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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