ElevenLabs alternatives.
Six alternatives to ElevenLabs, on what each publishes, normalised to one unit, with a verdict for each. Every figure is dated and linked to the vendor's own site.
| Tool | Published rate | Roughly per minute |
|---|---|---|
 ElevenLabs | $0.10 per 1,000 characters (v3 API); plans $6–$990 per month | ~$0.10 |
 Svara TTS Turbo | ₹1 / $0.01 per 1,000 characters, every plan | ~$0.01 |
 OpenAI TTS | $15 per 1M characters | ~$0.015 |
 Deepgram Aura-2 | $0.030 per 1K characters (pay as you go) | ~$0.03 |
 Cartesia | Credit plans; Pro is $5 per month for ~133 minutes | ~$0.04 |
 Fish Audio | $15 per 1M, billed per UTF-8 byte | ~$0.015 Latin, ~3× for Indic and CJK scripts |
 Murf | Studio subscriptions | , |
Per-minute estimates use the rule of thumb that 1,000 characters is about a minute of audio.
Which one, for what.
ElevenLabs
The reference point. Choose it if you want the suite around the model, dubbing, sound effects, a marketplace, and the rate that comes with it.
Svara TTS Turbo
Choose it for voice agents and multilingual products: 82 languages in one model, mid-sentence code-switching, ~80 ms to first audio, and both OpenAI- and ElevenLabs-compatible endpoints, at a tenth of ElevenLabs' rate.
OpenAI TTS
Choose it if you are already on OpenAI's platform and need straightforward English-centric narration from a small voice set.
Deepgram Aura-2
Choose it if your agent stack already runs on Deepgram's speech-to-text and you want one vendor for both directions.
Cartesia
Choose it for low-latency realtime work and voice design controls, priced in minutes rather than characters.
Fish Audio
Choose it for budget English work, but per-byte billing roughly triples the effective rate for Devanagari, Tamil, Chinese or Japanese text.
Murf
Choose it if you want a voiceover studio with editing workflows rather than an API to build on.
Head-to-head with the reference point: Svara TTS Turbo vs ElevenLabs. Building for India: Svara TTS Turbo vs Sarvam.
Questions
Competitor rates as of September 2026, read from each vendor's own site, check the sources before deciding, since prices change. Sources, with our own pages beside them: elevenlabs.io/pricing · murf.ai/pricing · openai.com/api/pricing · deepgram.com/pricing · cartesia.ai/pricing · fish.audio/pricing · kenpathlabs.com/pricing.