Maya (Maya Research) vs ElevenLabs vs Hume AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Maya (Maya Research)
Open-source emotionally intelligent voice AI built for the 90% of the...
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ElevenLabs
Realistic AI voice synthesis and cloning
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Hume AI
Empathic voice AI that responds to emotion
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Full Apache 2.0 model weights free — self-host with no usage fees | 10,000 characters per month, access to pre-made voices | — |
| Paid from | Hosted API via console.mayaresearch.ai (pricing not publicly listed as of June 2026) | $6/month (Starter, current site price; $5/mo was the annual-equivalent rate) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 3M+ consumer app installs; 440K+ HuggingFace model downloads | 1M+ users | — |
| Founded | 2025 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Maker | Maya Research | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski | — |
| Verdict | Maya-1 is a genuinely impressive technical feat from a two-person Indian startup that trained a globally competitive open-weight TTS model on free cloud credits alone. At launch (November 2025) it ranked #2 among open-we... |
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... |
Hume AI specialises in emotionally expressive voice, with its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) and speech models that detect vocal emotion and respond with natural, prosody-rich speech. It is a genuine differentiator for v... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.