Free alternatives to ElevenLabs
The directory has one other text-to-speech tool with a free plan: Speechify. It is for listening, not for publishing a cloned voice. ElevenLabs' own free plan exists, and the listing says that audio is not licensed for commercial use. Recorders and cleanup tools are a different job. They are on the voice guide, not listed here as substitutes.
The tool itself
ElevenLabs
- What it does
- Turns text into spoken audio, clones a voice, and can make sound effects and music. Everything draws from one credit pool.
- Who it is for
- People who need a voiceover and do not want to record one, and who will read the license.
- Free plan
- The free plan includes a monthly credit allotment and does not include the commercial license that Starter adds.
- Price we checked
- Free is $0 with 10,000 credits a month. Starter is $6 a month for 30,000 credits. Creator is $22 a month. Pro is $99 a month. A first-month discount was posted through October 18, 2026 ($1 for Starter and $11 for Creator). Those discounts are not the ongoing price. Annual billing is 10 months' price for the year.
- The catch
- Free audio is not licensed for commercial use. Credits are shared across voice, music, and dubbing, and free credits do not roll over. Say when a voice is synthetic, especially if it could be mistaken for a real person.
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1 · Free tier
Speechify
- What it does
- Reads text aloud and offers a large set of text-to-speech voices on the paid plan.
- Who it is for
- People who want to listen to their own drafts or articles, more than people recording a podcast.
- Free plan
- You can start on the free plan. Premium is the paid voice library.
- Price we checked
- A free plan is listed. Premium is $29 per month, billed monthly. The page said prices shown are per month, billed monthly.
- The catch
- An annual price was not in the text we read, so the $29 figure is the monthly bill. This is a listening tool. It is not a license to clone someone else's voice.
Questions
- Why is there only one alternative?
- Speechify is the other text-to-speech listing with a free plan. This page does not add tools that are not in the directory, and it does not call a recorder a voice generator.
- Can I publish ElevenLabs free audio?
- The listing says free audio is not licensed for commercial use. Read it before you publish.
- Is Speechify an affiliate link?
- No. ElevenLabs is the affiliate Visit link on this page. That does not make it the better tool.
- Will a different voice get listeners?
- No.