ElevenLabs vs Maya (Maya Research)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ElevenLabs
Realistic AI voice synthesis and cloning
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Maya (Maya Research)
Open-source emotionally intelligent voice AI built for the 90% of the...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 10,000 characters per month, access to pre-made voices | Full Apache 2.0 model weights free — self-host with no usage fees |
| Paid from | $6/month (Starter, current site price; $5/mo was the annual-equivalent rate) | Hosted API via console.mayaresearch.ai (pricing not publicly listed as of June 2026) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 1M+ users | 3M+ consumer app installs; 440K+ HuggingFace model downloads |
| Founded | 2022 | 2025 |
| Maker | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski | Maya Research |
| Verdict | ElevenLabs is still the benchmark for synthetic voice: the most natural prosody in the category, strong cloning and dubbing, and v3's audio tags for emotional control across 70+ languages. For audiobooks, video voiceover... |
Maya-1 is a genuinely impressive technical feat from a two-person Indian startup that trained a globally competitive open-weight TTS model on free cloud credits alone. At launch (November 2025) it ranked #2 among open-we... |
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