ElevenLabs vs Soundraw vs Suno vs Udio
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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Soundraw
AI music for content creators
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Suno
AI music generation from text prompts
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Udio
AI music generator with strong studio-quality output
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 10,000 characters per month, access to pre-made voices | No ongoing free tier — generation is testable, but downloads/commercial rights require a subscription | 50 credits/day (~10 songs/day), v4.5-all model only, no commercial rights | 10 credits per day plus 100 bonus credits per month (approximately 1–3 songs per day); generated songs are public by default |
| Paid from | $6/month (Starter, current site price; $5/mo was the annual-equivalent rate) | $9.99/month (Creator) — $5.99/month billed annually | Pro $8/mo (annual) or $10/mo (monthly); Premier $24/mo (annual) or $30/mo (monthly) | $10/month (Standard, ~2,400 credits/month) or $30/month (Pro, ~6,000 credits/month, commercial use) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 1M+ users | — | 100M+ (2M paid subscribers) | — |
| Founded | 2022 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski | — | — | — |
| 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... |
Soundraw is a royalty-free AI music generator that lets creators produce original instrumental tracks by selecting mood, genre, length and energy, then fine-tune sections, tempo and instrumentation. Its emphasis on custo... |
Suno remains the standout consumer AI music generator: a short text prompt returns a complete song — instrumentation, vocals, lyrics — and v5.5's vocal quality leads the category. For hobbyists, content creators and mark... |
Udio still generates some of the most convincing AI vocals and full-band arrangements you can get from a text prompt, and its segmented workflow gives real compositional control. But since the October 2025 UMG settlement... |
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