Alternatives to ElevenLabs

For each task ElevenLabs is listed in, the highest-ranked other options of the same kind, ranked only from public benchmarks.

Text to speech: apps

S ElevenLabs · Cloud · via Eleven v4 Turbo

Alternatives to ElevenLabs for text to speech
Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill
A	Speechify Speechify	Apps	Cloud	via Simba 3.2	Free tier · $29/mo	beginner
A	Fish Audio Fish Audio	Apps	Cloud	via Fish Audio Drama 3 (Preview)	Free tier · $15/mo	beginner
B	Murf Murf AI	Apps	Cloud	via Falcon 2	Free tier · $29/mo	beginner
C	Voicebox Jamie Pine (open source)	Apps	Local	via Kokoro-82M v1.0	Free	beginner

S ElevenLabs · Cloud · via Scribe v2

Alternatives to ElevenLabs for transcription
Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill
A	Voicebox Jamie Pine (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free	beginner
A	Handy CJ Pais (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free	beginner
A	Buzz Chidi Williams (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free	beginner
A	Vibe thewh1teagle (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free	beginner
A	VoiceInk Prakash Joshi Pax (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	—	beginner
A	Whishper pluja (open source)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free	advanced
A	Aiko Sindre Sorhus	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free tier	beginner
A	MacWhisper Jordi Bruin (Good Snooze)	Apps	Local	via Whisper large-v3	Free tier	beginner

S ElevenLabs · Cloud · 998 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (cascaded agent platforms)

Alternatives to ElevenLabs for voice agents
Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill	Compare
S	Cartesia Line Cartesia	Voice-agent platforms	Cloud	1,034 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (cascaded agent platforms)	Free tier · $5/mo	intermediate	vs ElevenLabs
B	Deepgram Voice Agent API Deepgram	Voice-agent platforms	Cloud	916 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (cascaded agent platforms)	Free tier	intermediate	vs ElevenLabs
B	Retell AI Retell AI	Voice-agent platforms	Cloud	via GPT-Realtime-2.1	Free tier	intermediate

B ElevenLabs · Cloud · via Eleven Music v2.5

Alternatives to ElevenLabs for music generation
Tier	Name	Approach	Runs	Rated by	Price	Skill
S	Suno Suno	Apps	Cloud	via Suno v6	Free tier · $10/mo	beginner
S	Mureka Kunlun Tech	Apps	Cloud	via Mureka V9.5	$8/mo	beginner
S	Tunee Qustar Technology Pte. Ltd.	Apps	Cloud	via Mureka V9.5	Free tier	beginner
A	Flow Music (formerly ProducerAI) Google	Apps	Cloud	via Lyria 3.5	Free tier	beginner
A	Gemini Google	Apps	Cloud	via Lyria 3.5	Free tier · $4.99/mo	beginner
B	WanGP (Wan2GP) deepbeepmeep (community project)	Apps	Local	via MiniMax Music 3.0	Free	intermediate
B	Treblo (formerly Sonauto) Treblo (Sonauto, Inc.)	Apps	Cloud	via Melodia v3	—	beginner

Tiers come only from public benchmarks; tools without a result of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer. How we rank.