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AI Voice Generator Pricing Comparison Table
Showing the honest price picture for comparing published voice pricing side by side. Every figure below is copied verbatim from each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-22 — quoted, dated, and re-checked every 30 days.
◆ THE VERDICT
This table lists only pricing published on each vendor's own page: ElevenLabs credit tiers, Murf metered per-character rates, Listen2It monthly tiers, Speechify's $29/mo Premium and Descript seat-based editor pricing. Tools that publish no extractable tiers appear as disclosure rows, never filled with third-party figures.
Published pricing at a glance
Bar length = price. Green numbers mark the cheapest tier on each side. Numeric tiers machine-transcribed from the vendor's own page.
ElevenLabsMurf
Aligned tier comparison
| Tier | ElevenLabs | Murf |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 per month, 10k credits/month | Free Trial: $10 FREE every month, no credit card required |
| Entry paid | $6 per month (annual equivalent $5/mo), 30k credits | $0.01 / 1000 characters (Falcon model) |
| Mid tier | $22 per month, first month 50% off at $11 (annual equivalent $18.33/mo), 121k credits | $0.03 / 1000 characters (gen-2 model) |
| Advanced | $99 per month (annual equivalent $82.50/mo), 600k credits | $0.10 / minute |
| Scale | $299 per month (annual equivalent $249.17/mo), 1.8M credits, 3 seats | — |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | — |
| Other | $990 per month (annual equivalent $825/mo), 6M credits, 10 seats | — |
| Other | — | $0.02 / 1000 characters |
⚡ WORKLOAD COST CALCULATOR
What will it actually cost at your volume?
Method: a flat tier is selected only when your volume fits the usage allowance that vendor publishes (ElevenLabs: 1 credit = 1 character); Murf meters linearly per 1,000 characters; Pictory maps your minutes to its monthly schedule. Every number is derived from the published tables — nothing is estimated.
The two tools, plan by plan
TOP PICK
ElevenLabs
Pricing model: $/mo-billed-annually
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| free | $0 per month, 10k credits/month |
| starter | $6 per month (annual equivalent $5/mo), 30k credits |
| creator | $22 per month, first month 50% off at $11 (annual equivalent $18.33/mo), 121k credits |
| pro | $99 per month (annual equivalent $82.50/mo), 600k credits |
| scale | $299 per month (annual equivalent $249.17/mo), 1.8M credits, 3 seats |
| business | $990 per month (annual equivalent $825/mo), 6M credits, 10 seats |
| enterprise | Custom pricing |
AFFILIATE TERMS (DISCLOSED SEPARATELY)
Simple payout structure where for every new paid subscriber plan, you'll earn 22% of all payments for the first 12 months with no limits. — Network: PartnerStack. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Simple payout structure where for every new paid subscriber plan, you'll earn 22% of all payments for the first 12 months with no limits. — Network: PartnerStack. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
RUNNER-UP
Murf
Pricing model: per-character
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| free tier | Free Trial: $10 FREE every month, no credit card required |
| pay as you go tts | $0.01 / 1000 characters (Falcon model) |
| tts studio quality | $0.03 / 1000 characters (gen-2 model) |
| voice changer | $0.10 / minute |
| translation | $0.02 / 1000 characters |
| enterprise | Contact Sales |
AFFILIATE TERMS (DISCLOSED SEPARATELY)
Be a Murf affiliate and help your audience discover a new and simpler way of making voice overs, while you earn a recurring 20% commission for 24 months for every customer you send our way. — Network: PartnerStack · Cookie: 90 days. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Be a Murf affiliate and help your audience discover a new and simpler way of making voice overs, while you earn a recurring 20% commission for 24 months for every customer you send our way. — Network: PartnerStack · Cookie: 90 days. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Why ElevenLabs wins here
- Every price row is a first-party published tier, re-checkable against each vendor's own page.
- Tools without published tiers are disclosed by name, not filled with third-party figures.
- ElevenLabs and Murf publish first-party affiliate terms, so the commercial side is as sourced as the pricing side.
Where Murf still makes sense
- Five pricing models across seven tools make a like-for-like row impossible without interpretation.
- Play.ht and NaturalReader publish no extractable first-party tiers, so they are disclosure rows.
- A pricing table cannot tell you which tool sounds best; it is not a quality test.
Which one is right for you?
Choose ElevenLabs if…
widest voice range and language coverage when voice quality variety matters most
Choose Murf if…
cost-predictable script narration — every price is per-character, so any script's cost is arithmetic
How we verify prices
VERIFIED 2026-09-22 · NEXT CHECK ~2026-10-22
Every price and affiliate term on this page was copied verbatim from each vendor's own official page on 2026-09-22 — not from affiliate blogs, which we re-checked and found frequently outdated. Anything not on the vendor's own page is not asserted here. Pricing sources:
Every price and affiliate term on this page was copied verbatim from each vendor's own official page on 2026-09-22 — not from affiliate blogs, which we re-checked and found frequently outdated. Anything not on the vendor's own page is not asserted here. Pricing sources:
https://elevenlabs.io/pricing · https://murf.ai/pricing
Frequently asked questions
Why are some rows missing prices?
Play.ht and NaturalReader published no readable tier table on their pricing pages as of 2026-09-22, so their rows here are limited to the plans that were publicly listed that day. The other six tools show complete published tiers in the comparison above.
How do I read the table by volume?
Low volume favours Murf's metered rates or a free tier; steady monthly production favours Listen2It's flat $19/mo; heavy production favours ElevenLabs' high-credit tiers.
Are the dates current?
Every date on this page is the page's re-verification date. Prices change; the table is only as current as the re-verification stamp at the top of the page.