Gnani.ai vs Sarvam AI vs BHASHINI vs ElevenLabs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Gnani.ai
Bengaluru voice AI for Indian contact centres, now with its own models
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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BH BHASHINI India's government platform for AI translation and speech in Indian la... Visit |
ElevenLabs
Expressive AI voices, cloning, dubbing and voice agents on one credit...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Custom | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) | Free API access for proof-of-concept only, after organisation registration and approval; production use requires a paid agreement | 10,000 credits a month across all products, no commercial licence, no credit rollover |
| Paid from | Quoted per deployment, no public price list | Sarvam 105B API from ₹29.28 per million input tokens | Production or commercial API use: paid version, pricing on request from the Bhashini team | $6/month Starter (30,000 credits), or $5/month billed annually |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM | — | 1M+ users |
| Founded | 2016 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Sarvam AI | Digital India Corporation (MeitY), Government of India | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski |
| Verdict | Gnani.ai is one of the more credible Indian-language voice vendors: it trains its own speech models on telephone audio, ships a documented developer API, and can deploy on-premise or air-gapped, which matters to RBI- and... |
Sarvam is the most credible vehicle for India's sovereign-AI push: Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B were trained end-to-end on IndiaAI compute, cover 22 Indian languages, and ship under Apache-2.0, so builders can self-host wi... |
BHASHINI is a serious public investment in Indian-language AI, with broad language coverage and real deployments across government services, from grievance redress to Aadhaar and railway enquiries. Its APIs are free only... |
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... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.