ElevenLabs alternative
ElevenLabs is a strong product, and for a large class of jobs it is simply the right one. It leads on realism, its catalogue of speaker options is the deepest available, and its credit system buys access to a wide spread of models. If your work genuinely depends on any of that, this page is not trying to talk you out of it.
Try the live product
Type, choose a voice, then press play.
Type a script, pick a voice, and hear it read back.
Free to try — no sign-up.
161/500The argument for switching is narrower, and it is mostly about volume. Credits are not characters: different models consume them at different rates, so the quota printed on a plan is not the amount of narration you will actually get out of it. Creators shipping long scripts week after week end up doing arithmetic before they write, which is a strange place to be spending attention.
What sits here instead is a flat character allowance, one rate, and no conversion to reason about. Paste a script, and the character count of that script is what gets deducted. The number on your plan means the same thing in month twelve as it did in month one.
No signup needed — the demo speaks up to 500 characters.
What ElevenLabs publishes
Published monthly pricing and quota details, with the original source and check date kept alongside the figures.
| Plan | Monthly price | Published quota |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $6/mo | 30,000 charspublished as 30k credits per month; credit-to-character conversion varies by modelchecked August 11, 2026 |
| Creator | $22/mo | 121,000 charspublished as 121k credits per month; the page also advertised a promotional half-price first month when checkedchecked August 11, 2026 |
| Pro | $99/mo | 600,000 charspublished as 600k credits per monthchecked August 11, 2026 |
Their figures as published on their pricing page, checked August 11, 2026. Prices change — verify before you decide.
Side by side
| Feature | ToneCraft | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Quota unit | Characters | Credits, converted per model |
| Entry paid plan | Flat monthly character allowance | $22/mo for 121k credits |
| Voice cloning | Not offered | Core feature |
| Bulk CSV production | Included from the mid plan upward | Via their developer toolingas published — check their site |
| Timed captions | Exported with every generation | Available in their editoras published — check their site |
What the comparison means in practice
Characters, not credits
The quota is measured in the same unit your script is, so what you spend is simply the length of what you wrote.
One rate across models
There is no per-model multiplier to work through before deciding whether a given script is affordable to generate.
Built for long scripts
Chapter and episode length material is split, generated in parallel and rejoined into a single continuous track.
Bulk production from a spreadsheet
A CSV of rows becomes a zip of finished files, and a failed row refunds itself instead of halting the whole batch.
When ElevenLabs is the better choice
You need voice cloning. Building a speaker from a recording of a real person is their core capability and is not offered here at any tier.
You want the widest available catalogue of ready-made speakers, or model variants tuned for latency-sensitive work rather than long-form narration.
Your work is short and high-stakes rather than long and repetitive — a single advert where absolute realism outweighs the cost per character.
Not offered here at any tier: voice cloning, realtime voice agents, video dubbing.
Pricing that doesn't punish volume
Simple monthly plans plus one-time top-up packs that never expire.
free
$0/mo
Try everything, every month
- 25,000 characters/mo
- Bulk: 5 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- Spoken outro on audio
creator
$7/mo
≈ 3 hours of audio
- 300,000 characters/mo
- 50 AI scripts/mo
- Bulk: 25 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- 30 premium voices (4× characters)
- No watermark
channel
$15/mo
≈ 7.5 hours + priority queue
- 750,000 characters/mo
- Unlimited scripts
- Bulk: 50 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- 30 premium voices (4× characters)
- No watermark
- Priority queue
agency
$39/mo
≈ 20 hours · multi-seat coming soon
- 2,000,000 characters/mo
- Unlimited scripts
- Bulk: 50 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- 30 premium voices (4× characters)
- No watermark
- Priority queue
- Multi-seat coming soon
| Entry paid plan | Price | Credits / chars | Audio / month | Cost per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ToneCraft | $7/mo | 300,000 chars | ≈ 3 hours | ≈ $2.33 |
| ElevenLabs (Creator) | $22/mo | 121,000 credits | ≈ 1.2 hours | ≈ $18 |
| Murf (Creator) | $29/mo | —* | 2 hours | $14.50 |
* Murf's Creator plan is sold by voice-generation time (2 hours/month), not a characters or credits pool — so we leave that cell blank rather than invent a number.
≈ hours assume ~100,000 characters per finished hour; where a provider sells characters or credits we convert with the same rule. Verified against published pricing as of July 13, 2026 — check their sites for current plans.
Questions, answered
Is this actually cheaper than ElevenLabs?
Per character on the entry paid plan, yes — the table above shows the published figures alongside the date each was checked. Whether it is cheaper for you depends entirely on how much you generate in a month.
What does ElevenLabs do that this does not?
There is no voice cloning here, and that gap is deliberate rather than temporary. Their speaker catalogue is also considerably larger, and they ship model choices this does not carry at all.
What is the difference between credits and characters?
A character is a character. A credit is a unit whose conversion rate depends on which model produced the audio, so an identical printed quota can yield very different amounts of finished narration depending on settings.
Can I move my existing scripts across?
Yes, because scripts are only text. What will not transfer is any custom speaker you built there, since that capability is not available here at any tier.
Which should I pick for a weekly show?
If the show needs one recognisable narrator and a predictable monthly volume, a flat character allowance is the simpler fit. If it depends on a speaker identity that cannot be produced without cloning, theirs is the right answer.