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ElevenLabs

by ElevenLabs, Inc. · Platform · also known as Eleven Labs, ElevenAPI, ElevenAgents

Hosted voice AI platform: text-to-speech and speech-to-text models, voice cloning, dubbing, music and sound effects, a voice-agent builder and a REST API with Python and TypeScript SDKs

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidUsage-basedEnterpriseCloud
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Overview

ElevenLabs is a hosted platform for synthetic speech and audio. Its documentation groups the offering into ElevenCreative, a no-code studio for voiceovers, dubbing, music and long-form projects; ElevenAgents, a visual and programmatic builder for conversational voice agents; ElevenAPI, the REST interface with official Python and TypeScript SDKs; and Reception.ai, a packaged phone receptionist. Underlying capabilities include several generations of text-to-speech models tuned for quality or latency, the Scribe speech-to-text models, instant and professional voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, music and sound-effect generation, text-to-dialogue, voice changing and isolation, forced alignment and newer image and video generation.

Plans run from Free through Starter, Creator, Pro, Scale and Business to Enterprise, sharing a credit pool across products and differing in credits, seats, commercial license and voice-cloning tiers; pay-as-you-go API pricing is listed separately. All processing happens on ElevenLabs' servers, voice cloning carries consent and policy obligations, and credit accounting makes cost estimation for long audio projects something to plan. For research transcription workloads, open models such as Whisper remain the self-hosted alternative.

Editorial note on uncertainty. Integration list is based on documentation navigation and may be incomplete.

Capabilities

  • Text-to-speech models across quality and latency tiers
  • Scribe speech-to-text with diarization
  • Instant and professional voice cloning and voice design
  • Dubbing, music and sound-effect generation
  • Conversational voice agents (ElevenAgents) with visual builder
  • REST API with Python and TypeScript SDKs

Typical workflows

  1. Generate narration for course material from a script
  2. Build a phone or web voice agent with tools and a knowledge base
  3. Dub a recorded lecture into another language

Strengths

  • Broad audio product range under one credit pool
  • Developer API alongside no-code tools
  • Agent platform includes telephony

Limitations

  • Hosted only; audio is processed on vendor servers
  • Credit-based accounting complicates cost estimates
  • Voice cloning subject to consent and usage policies

Prerequisites

  • ElevenLabs account; paid plan for commercial use and cloning

Who it is for

  • Content creators and educators
  • Developers building voice agents
  • Localization teams

Alternatives & comparison

  • Gemini API

    Google's developer API for the Gemini model family, keyed from Google AI Studio, with function calling, Search grounding, Live API, image and video generation and a free tier

    ProprietaryFreemium
  • OpenAI API

    OpenAI's hosted developer platform: Responses and Chat Completions APIs, Realtime voice, embeddings, images, audio, fine-tuning, evals and managed agents

    ProprietaryUsage-based
  • Whisper

    OpenAI's open-source multilingual speech recognition model family with MIT-licensed code and weights, a Python package and CLI for transcription, translation and language identification

    Open sourceOpen source
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Sources & verification

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  • Official documentation
    ElevenLabs documentation

    https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/intro

    Supports: capabilities, interfaces, languages

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Official site
    ElevenLabs

    https://elevenlabs.io/

    Supports: name, summary

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Pricing page
    https://elevenlabs.io/pricing

    Supports: pricing_model

    Free, Starter, Creator, Pro, Scale, Business, Enterprise

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Repository
    elevenlabs-python

    https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-python

    Supports: languages

    checked Nov 1, 2026
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