ElevenLabs vs Speechify

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

ElevenLabs Expressive AI voices, cloning, dubbing and voice agents on one credit... Visit Speechify Text-to-speech reader for documents, web pages and photographed print Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8.6 / 10 7.2 / 10
Capability 9 7.5
Value for money 7 6
Ease of use 8 8.5
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 9 4
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier 10,000 credits a month across all products, no commercial licence, no credit rollover Free plan: listening at up to 1.5x speed with 10 basic voices, text-to-speech features only
Paid from $6/month Starter (30,000 credits), or $5/month billed annually $11.58/month billed yearly (about $139/year) for Premium, or $29 billed monthly
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users 1M+ users 50m+ users
Founded 2022 2017
Maker Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski Cliff Weitzman
Verdict

ElevenLabs remains the reference point for synthetic voice. Eleven v4 adds finer control through audio tags and natural-language direction, v4 Turbo targets live agents at about 100 milliseconds of median inference by th...

Speechify is one of the most polished consumer reading apps available: natural voices, synced highlighting, scan-and-listen for printed pages and clients on every major platform, recognised by Apple's 2025 Design Award f...

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