Rime Labs vs ElevenLabs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Rime Labs
Low-latency text-to-speech for phone agents, built by linguists
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ElevenLabs
Expressive AI voices, cloning, dubbing and voice agents on one credit...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Freemium |
| Free tier | One-time trial credit for new accounts, no card required; Rime gives it as ~800 minutes on the pricing hero and 3,000 minutes in its FAQ and docs | 10,000 credits a month across all products, no commercial licence, no credit rollover |
| Paid from | $0.03 per 1,000 characters (Mist v3), or $0.05 on Coda | $6/month Starter (30,000 credits), or $5/month billed annually |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Serves Fortune 500 and major restaurant brands | 1M+ users |
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Maker | Lily Clifford (CEO, Stanford NLP PhD dropout), Brooke Larson (PhD linguist, ex-Amazon Alexa), Ares Geovanos (Stanford engineer, product veteran) | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski |
| Verdict | Rime is a strong choice for English-first voice agents on the phone: Coda and Mist v3 stream fast enough for live conversation, handle codes and numbers carefully, and can run inside your own network with SOC 2 Type II r... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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