ElevenLabs vs MiniMax Audio
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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MiniMax Audio
Studio-grade multilingual TTS and voice cloning from China's most-fund...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 10,000 characters per month, access to pre-made voices | 100,000 characters/month personal use; 5 trial Music generations for new accounts |
| Paid from | $6/month (Starter, current site price; $5/mo was the annual-equivalent rate) | Starter $5/mo (100K chars); API from ~$0.04/1K chars (Speech 2.5 Turbo) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 1M+ users | Used across MiniMax's Hailuo AI and platform apps worldwide |
| Founded | 2022 | 2021 |
| Maker | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski | MiniMax Group (listed on HKEX, January 2026) |
| 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... |
MiniMax Audio is one of the strongest multilingual TTS platforms available as of mid-2026, particularly for East and Southeast Asian languages where Western competitors tend to underperform. The Speech model family toppe... |
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