VoiceLabs vs ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs pricing and product breadth below were read from elevenlabs.io/pricing as of 2026-07-30; their MCP details from their official MCP repository on the same date. Their plans change; check their site for the current list. VoiceLabs prices come straight from our own plan configuration.
| DIMENSION | VoiceLabs | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Pre-launch. The site, accounts, and the Pro plan with billing are live, as is our MCP server for AI agents. The studio itself is in development. | Shipped and generally available — you can sign up and generate today. |
| Entry price | $8/month, or $59/year ($4.92/mo billed annually). A 7-day free trial, card upfront. No free tier. | A Free plan at $0/month with 10,000 credits, then Starter at $6/month. |
| Tiers to choose between | One. VoiceLabs Pro — no tiers, no seats, no add-ons. | Seven: Free $0, Starter $6, Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299, Business $990, and custom Enterprise. |
| How usage is counted | Flat: 120 minutes of generated audio a month as fair use. No per-character fee, no per-generation fee, no metered overage bill. | One shared monthly credit pool across all their products. Text-to-speech costs about 1 credit per character on the V2 Multilingual models; speech-to-text about 330 credits a minute. |
| Where it runs | At launch, in a browser tab: inference runs on our GPU servers and streams back to you. No install, no drivers, no local GPU. | Their hosted web app plus an API, with Studio projects for longer work. |
| Open-source foundation | Built on the open-source VoiceBox project (MIT), and that attribution is permanent. The hosted service around it is commercial. | Their official MCP server is published on GitHub. We have not verified their model licensing, so we make no claim about it here. |
| AI agent access (MCP) | A remote MCP server, live now: streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with a consent screen, five tools, revocable per agent. Nothing to install and no API key to paste. | An official MCP server exists, run locally (uvx elevenlabs-mcp) with your ElevenLabs API key in the client config. |
| Product breadth | Focused: text-to-speech and voice cloning at launch. Nothing else. | Much broader — text-to-speech, speech-to-text, sound effects, voice design, music, dubbing, image and video, plus conversational agents and a separate API product. |
Who should pick ElevenLabs
Most people, today. ElevenLabs is the category leader, it works right now, and it does far more than VoiceLabs plans to: dubbing, music, sound effects, speech-to-text, conversational agents, and a mature API with a real free tier to try it on. If you need breadth, need a proven vendor, need seats for a team, or need to ship this week, use ElevenLabs — that is the honest recommendation, and we would rather say it than win a click we cannot yet deserve.
Who might prefer VoiceLabs
People who want one flat $8-a-month bill instead of a credit budget to reason about, who only need text-to-speech and voice cloning and do not want to pay for eight other products, who like that the foundation is open source (MIT VoiceBox), or who want their AI agent to reach a voice studio over a hosted MCP server with an OAuth consent screen rather than a pasted API key. If that is you, the trial is the cheapest way to find out — and the launch status above is the thing to weigh against it.
7-day free trial, card upfront, cancel anytime before it ends.
ElevenLabs is a trademark of its respective owner. VoiceLabs is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ElevenLabs. Comparison compiled 2026-07-30 — see our changelog for what has actually shipped on our side.