Speechify vs ElevenLabs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Speechify
Text-to-speech reader for documents, web pages and photographed print
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ElevenLabs
Expressive AI voices, cloning, dubbing and voice agents on one credit...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan: listening at up to 1.5x speed with 10 basic voices, text-to-speech features only | 10,000 credits a month across all products, no commercial licence, no credit rollover |
| Paid from | $11.58/month billed yearly (about $139/year) for Premium, or $29 billed monthly | $6/month Starter (30,000 credits), or $5/month billed annually |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 50m+ users | 1M+ users |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| Maker | Cliff Weitzman | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski |
| Verdict | 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... |
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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