Overview
ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform offering text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning and design, sound effects and music generation, plus a Studio editor and voice agents. It serves creators, businesses and developers, with a widely used API and workspace plans for teams.
Label: Vendor-described — Captured from the vendor's own materials. Not independently verified.
Best for
- Creators and marketers needing realistic voiceovers for videos, ads and podcasts
- Businesses localizing content with AI dubbing and voice cloning
- Developers adding text-to-speech or voice agents through an API
Key features
- Text-to-speech with thousands of voices in the Voice Library
- Instant and Professional Voice Cloning
- AI Dubbing that keeps the original voice across 32 languages
- Sound effects, voice changer, voice isolator and AI music
- Studio for long-form projects like audiobooks
- API and conversational voice agents (ElevenAgents)
What it does
- Text-to-speech
- Speech-to-text
- Instant and professional voice cloning
- Voice design
- Sound effects and music generation
- Studio projects for long-form audio
Use cases
- Clean up audio and produce voiceovers — Text-to-speech, voice design and voice cloning for narration.
- Create training or explainer videos with AI avatars — Text-to-speech and voice cloning for narration you can pair with any video.
Drawbacks & cautions
- Free plan has no commercial license and about 10 minutes of TTS
- Professional voice cloning requires Creator plan or higher
- Usage is credit-based per plan
What users say
Across Capterra and Trustpilot reviews, users widely praise ElevenLabs' voice realism and ease of use. Complaints centre on credit costs, needing retries to get delivery right, and support and billing problems, which drag the Trustpilot score down.
What people like
- Voices sound realistic and human, good enough for narration and translation capterra.com, trustpilot.com
- Simple interface that is easy to get started with capterra.com, trustpilot.com
- Voice cloning and wide language and accent coverage are useful capterra.com
Common complaints
- Credits feel expensive and drain fast, including on retries of poor outputs capterra.com, trustpilot.com
- Pronunciation, tone or emotion often need several regenerations to get right capterra.com
- Hard to reach a human in support; chatbot-first help trustpilot.com
- Some report unexpected charges after cancelling and difficult refunds trustpilot.com
Scores are shown as each site published them on the date checked. They come from those sites' reviewers, not from us, and they never affect our rankings. Ratings based on fewer than 10 reviews are left out. The summaries are our own words, gathered Oct 22, 2026; follow the links to read the reviews.
Alternatives
- Synthesia — Create training, sales and marketing videos with AI avatars and voiceovers in 140+ languages
Evidence
| Fact | Label | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Vendor-described | elevenlabs.io | Oct 17, 2026 |
| pricing | Vendor-described | elevenlabs.io | Oct 17, 2026 |
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