Oleh KemPick an AI voice generator by what it will bill you, not by the tier name: 10 engines, every plan checked one at a time, all of them on the same price scale. Free tiers, the point where commercial rights begin and the meter under each plan are flagged.
Paid AI voice plans cost $5 to $29 per month across the 10 engines reviewed here, median entry $10, last verified July 29, 2026. Underneath every tier price runs a meter: characters, credits, listened words, or hours of generated voice. The meter, not the tier, decides how much audio the money buys.
Ranked by a transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. Capability is not scored. It is the condition grid below. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked per product on the dates shown. ComparEdge sells no AI voice generators and takes no payment for placement. How the score is built.
Two columns read disclosure: does a free tier exist, and is a price printed against every tier. The other five read capability: voice cloning, real-time streaming, multilingual output, emotional control, and an API or SDK. The axis is drawn logarithmically, so equal gaps mean equal ratios, and a mark on the far right costs orders of magnitude more than one on the left.
Reading the console
Each row is one tool. Its mark shows the cheapest paid plan on a shared logarithmic price axis, so tools line up by real cost. A tick is a per-seat price, a diamond is a flat account fee, and a dashed bar means the vendor lists no monthly figure. The score ranks pricing transparency and user ratings, not capability; capability is the grid to the right. Drag the lens across the axis to grey out anything above a budget.
Scroll the console sideways to reach the remaining conditions.
The shortlist ranks by what the plan actually costs your team, not by list price. Flat plans are folded into a per-team number so they compare like for like. Only vendors rated 85 and up are eligible.
For 6 seats at $10 per seat, start with these
Ranked by monthly team cost, vendors rated 85 and up · Your ceiling for this team: $60 / mo
ElevenLabs
CE 86 free tierLong scripts and audiobook chapters that have to sound like the same person in several languages.
Flat, not per seat. Past 1 seats it undercuts every per-seat plan here.
LMNT
CE 92 free tierShort spoken replies inside an app, cloned from a sample a user recorded on a phone.
Flat, not per seat. Past 2 seats it undercuts every per-seat plan here.
Adobe Podcast
CE 92 free tierThe podcaster whose best interview was recorded in a room with a hard floor and no curtains.
Ratings blend our composite score with G2 where it exists. Prices are lifted from each pricing page we opened, checked July 29, 2026. Where billing is metered, the plan figure is the opening balance, not the sum.
Transparency scorePricing transparency 60%User satisfaction 40%
The podcaster whose best interview was recorded in a room with a hard floor and no curtains. Adobe Podcast repairs speech rather than generating it, and its Premium step carries an Adobe Express subscription that is not priced separately.
Critical gapThe cloud-only architecture prevents local offline audio enhancement.
Adobe Podcast: expert take
Anyone cleaning one file at a time may never pay: the free tier allows an hour a day and half-hour files. Premium lifts that to four hours a day, adds video, and carries an Adobe Express subscription that is not sold on its own.
Where Adobe Podcast holds up
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 13 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2022Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Premium | $9.99 | Not published |
The student or commuter who gets through reading by listening to it. Speechify meters its best voices by the word, and the ones you get for nothing are the plain robotic set, by the vendor's description.
Critical gapThe platform frequently triggers unauthorized annual subscription charges following trial period cancellations.
Speechify: expert take
Anyone keeping it past a month should not pay monthly. Premium falls to $11.58 a month on annual billing, students and educators take a further cut, and the Studio voiceover product and the API sit on separate price lists altogether.
Where Speechify holds up
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 47 reviewsCapterra 4.8Founded 2017Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Premium | $29 | $11.58 |
Short spoken replies inside an app, cloned from a sample a user recorded on a phone. LMNT counts characters, and its $10 Indie plan is what turns on commercial use and the paid character pool.
Critical gapSevere search ambiguity exists between this software and nutritional electrolyte brands.
LMNT: expert take
The overage rate falls as the plan rises, which is the whole pricing argument here: characters past the included pool cost less on Pro than on Indie, and less again on Premium. The free playground keeps unlimited clones and asks only for a mention.
Where LMNT holds up
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6Founded 2022Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Indie | $10 | Not published |
| Pro | $49 | Not published |
| Premium | $199 | Not published |
Finished songs with vocals, written from a text prompt in a couple of minutes. Suno makes music rather than speech. Free credits refill every day, paid credits once a month, and neither kind carries over.
Critical gapThe platform lacks isolated stem outputs for professional audio mastering.
Suno: expert take
Daily users get the better end: the free plan refills fifty credits every day, while paid credits land once a month and expire unused. Top-ups keep working only while a subscription is live, and commercial rights follow the plan a song was made on.
Where Suno holds up
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 8 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2022Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free Plan | Free | Free |
| Pro Plan | $10 | $8 |
| Premier Plan | $30 | $24 |
Lyrics and half-formed hooks a songwriter wants to hear sung back at full fidelity. Udio is the second music generator on this page, and its credits hard-reset each cycle, with top-up packs sold separately once a month runs dry.
Critical gapThe system exhibits frequent performance latency during periods of high computational processing demand.
Udio: expert take
Anyone testing free is capped by the day as well as the month, and the Standard trial hands over less than the plan it advertises. Credits hard-reset every cycle, so top-up packs are the only way through a dry week.
Where Udio holds up
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5Capterra 4.4Founded 2023Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Standard | $10 | $8 |
| Pro | $30 | $24 |
Long scripts and audiobook chapters that have to sound like the same person in several languages. ElevenLabs counts in credits. Its $6 Starter plan is where the commercial license and instant voice cloning begin.
Critical gapMonthly credit resets limit high-volume cloning operations for users requiring consistent, large-scale output capacity.
ElevenLabs: expert take
The same tier names sit on three different price tabs. ElevenLabs runs creative, agent and API views that share Starter through Business but count different units under each, and a dubbed minute costs more once the watermark comes off. Read the tab before the number.
Where ElevenLabs holds up
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 1,134 reviewsCapterra 4.8Founded 2022Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Starter | $6 | $5 |
| Creator | $22 | $18.33 |
| Pro | $99 | $82.50 |
| Scale | $299 | $249.17 |
| Business | $990 | $825 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
A live conversation that has to answer before the caller notices a pause. Cartesia bars commercial use until you pay, so the right to ship arrives with the $5 Pro plan, one step up.
Critical gapItalian language support remains limited for enterprise-grade multilingual deployments.
Cartesia: expert take
Two balances run at once here. Credits pay for generated audio, while voice agent minutes draw on a separate prepaid dollar balance that tops up with the tier. Rollover terms change when you switch tiers, so read them before an upgrade.
Where Cartesia holds up
Founded 2023Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Pro | $5 | Not published |
| Startup | $49 | Not published |
| Scale | $299 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
The training team that has moved past booking a freelance voice actor for every module. Murf meters generation in hours, and broadcasting rights are still sold separately at the enterprise step.
Critical gapAI output requires extensive manual fine-tuning to achieve human-equivalent inflection quality.
Murf AI: expert take
Dubbing multiplies by language, not by video length: two credits for every minute of every language added. Studio seats, dub credits and the API each bill on their own logic, and full broadcasting rights stay a paid add-on even on the enterprise agreement.
Where Murf AI holds up
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 1,412 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2020Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Creator | $29 | $19 |
| Business | $99 | $66 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
| Dub Free Trial | Free | Free |
| Dub Pay as you go | Contact sales | |
| Dub Enterprise | Contact sales | |
| API Free Trial | Free | Free |
| API Pay as you go | Contact sales | |
| API Enterprise | Contact sales | |
The security or games team that has to keep voice data inside its own network. Resemble runs no monthly tier at all: usage draws down credits that never expire, while seats and stored voices are recurring charges on top.
Critical gapNew users are pushed toward paid usage before they can fully test the models.
Resemble AI: expert take
Heavy users get invited off the price list: past roughly five hundred dollars a month the vendor points you toward volume pricing. Flex carries no monthly tier at all, credits never expire, and seats and stored voices bill every month on top of usage.
Where Resemble AI holds up
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 21 reviewsCapterra 4.4Founded 2019Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Flex | Free | Free |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Play.ht is on this page as a record, not an option. Meta acquired it and wound it down, both domains stopped resolving, and the plans below are what it charged before that.
Critical gapThe platform experiences frequent network failures during long-form audio generation sessions.
Play.ht: expert take
Meta acquired Play.ht and wound it down, and both domains stopped resolving. Lifetime buyers were left holding nothing, and the export window has closed. What sits here is a price record of a product nobody can subscribe to now.
Where Play.ht holds up
4.3CE scoreG2 4.2 · 89 reviewsCapterra 4.4Founded 2019Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Professional | $39 | $29.25 |
| Premium | $99 | $74.25 |
| Team | $198 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
What the records say
Adobe Podcast starts cheaper: $9.99 / seat against $29 from Speechify, 2.9× apart at the door.
For 6 seats, Adobe Podcast bills $59.94 / mo and Speechify bills $174 / mo, $114.06 / mo between them.
Speechify carries 3 of the 5 capability columns on the record; Adobe Podcast shows 0.
Users side with Adobe Podcast: 4.6 on G2 against 4.4 for Speechify.
Both run a free tier, so either can be tried before the bill starts.
Both publish every tier they sell.
Pick Adobe Podcast for: The podcaster whose best interview was recorded in a room with a hard floor and no curtains.
Pick Speechify for: The student or commuter who gets through reading by listening to it.
Adobe Podcast
CE 92 · G2 4.6Verified July 8, 2026
Speechify
CE 92 · G2 4.4Verified July 8, 2026
Both price lists on the category axis
Where they differ
Only Adobe Podcast has on the record
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Only Speechify has on the record
Two plans priced alike on this page buy different things. One counts characters, one counts credits that resolve into seconds, one counts words you listen to, one counts hours of generated voice. Nothing converts cleanly between them. Rank the market on the monthly figure by itself and a reading app lands next to a cloning API as though they competed.
The order that works is the reverse. Decide first whether you want a reader, a dubbing tool or a cloning API, then look at money. Each of those has two or three real candidates, and inside one job the prices finally line up.
The rights question is worth more money than the tier choice and gets less room on the page. Free plans on ElevenLabs, Murf, Cartesia and LMNT grant no commercial use, so anything you generate while evaluating cannot ship. Publishing rights begin one payment later, and that is what those cheap plans are really selling.
Cloning adds a second layer. A cloned voice can carry its own recurring charge, so the library bills on its own schedule. Check which price includes the right to publish what comes out, then compare.
Name the job first. Reading a document, dubbing a video and cloning a voice are three purchases, metered in characters, in minutes and in tier gates, and no arithmetic converts one into another. Comparing a price across two of them is comparing nothing.
The second question costs more than the first, and almost nobody puts it on the pricing page. What are you allowed to do with the voice, and what happens to it when you stop paying? Broadcast rights and clone retention live in the fine print. The score tracks how plainly each vendor prices, which is why a small engine with a published rate card can sit above a household name.
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How this review is made. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked on the dates shown against each product. Condition columns reflect the feature set recorded on the vendor’s own pages on that date. ComparEdge sells no AI voice generators and takes no vendor payment for placement. Where a vendor publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating. Ranking is by transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. What a product can do is shown in the condition columns and carries no weight in the number.
