VoiceLabs vs ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs pricing and product breadth below were read from elevenlabs.io/pricing as of 2026-09-28; their MCP details from their hosted MCP documentation and their original MCP repository, read 2026-09-28. Their plans change; check their site for the current list. VoiceLabs prices come straight from our own plan configuration.
| DIMENSION | VoiceLabs | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Live. The studio, the seven TTS engines, instant voice cloning, downloads and captions all run today, as do accounts, the Pro plan with billing, the REST API and our MCP server for AI agents. | Shipped and generally available — you can sign up and generate today. |
| Entry price | US$8/month, or US$59/year (US$4.92/mo billed annually). A 7-day free trial, card upfront. No free PLAN, but signed-in free accounts get a monthly allowance of 30 minutes of generated audio. | A Free plan at US$0/month with 10,000 credits, then Starter at US$6/month. |
| Tiers to choose between | One. VoiceLabs Pro — no tiers, no seats, no add-ons. | 6 with published prices — Free US$0, Starter US$6, Creator US$22, Pro US$99, Scale US$299, Business US$990 — plus custom-priced Enterprise. |
| How usage is counted | Flat: 2 hours 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 1 credit per character on the V2 Multilingual models, and between 0.5 and 1 on their Flash/Turbo models through the API; speech-to-text about 330 credits a minute. |
| Where it runs | 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 original local MCP server is open source on GitHub, and deprecated since they moved to a hosted one. 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, seven tools, revocable per agent. Nothing to install and no API key to paste. | A hosted MCP server too (api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp): OAuth sign-in with a consent screen, revocable, scoped to their agents platform and text-to-speech. Their earlier local server, run with a pasted API key, is deprecated. |
| Product breadth | Focused: text-to-speech, voice cloning, and transcription with captions. 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. ElevenLabs is the category leader, and it does far more than VoiceLabs does: dubbing, music, sound effects, voice design, conversational agents, and a mature API with a real free tier to try it on. If you need breadth, need a proven vendor, or need seats for a team, use ElevenLabs — that is the honest recommendation, and we would rather say it than win a click we would not deserve.
Who might prefer VoiceLabs
People who want one flat US$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, or who like that the foundation is open source (MIT VoiceBox). If that is you, the trial is the cheapest way to find out — and the breadth gap in the table above is the thing to weigh against it.
If you are trying to work out what an ElevenLabs credit balance is worth in minutes, or what the same volume would cost here, the credit calculator does the arithmetic and shows its working.
Questions about VoiceLabs and ElevenLabs
- Is VoiceLabs cheaper than ElevenLabs?
- Not at the entry price. ElevenLabs has a Free plan at US$0 and a Starter plan at US$6 a month (elevenlabs.io/pricing, read 2026-09-28); VoiceLabs Pro is US$8 a month. What differs is how usage is counted: VoiceLabs is one flat plan with 2 hours of generated audio a month, where ElevenLabs text-to-speech costs 1 credit per character on its V2 Multilingual models.What your ElevenLabs credits are worth
- Can I clone a voice?
- Yes — instant voice cloning from a short reference clip, in seconds. You may only clone a voice from a sample you are authorized to use, and our Responsible Use policy applies to every generated voice.Responsible Use policy
- Does VoiceLabs have an API and an MCP server?
- Yes. VoiceLabs runs a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so an AI agent can work with your VoiceLabs data on your behalf after you sign in and consent. It uses OAuth 2.1, exposes seven tools, and you can revoke any agent's access at any time. VoiceLabs Pro also includes a REST API at /v1, with an OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint. ElevenLabs has a hosted MCP server too, at api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp: you sign in with OAuth and approve a consent screen, no API key is copied into the client, and access covers their agents platform and text-to-speech (elevenlabs.io/docs/agents-platform/operate/hosted-mcp, read 2026-09-28). Their earlier local server, run with an API key, is deprecated (github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-mcp, read 2026-09-28).MCP server docsDeveloper API docs
- How do I move from ElevenLabs to VoiceLabs?
- Bring your scripts and the original recording of any voice you cloned on ElevenLabs, then clone it again here: no platform, VoiceLabs included, can import another vendor's clone. VoiceLabs does not carry ElevenLabs's stock voices, so anything narrated by one needs a new voice. If your code calls ElevenLabs, its requests need rewriting for the VoiceLabs REST API at /v1.Developer API docs
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