Tag: text to speech
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ElevenLabs vs Open Source TTS in 2026: Cost Per Finished Minute, and the Licence That Decides It
ElevenLabs costs $0.148 a finished minute at best on a plan and $0.045 on the Flash API. Self-hosted open source costs $0 to licence. We audited all 13 open source voice projects in our catalogue against their own repositories on 2 September 2026: 2 publish model weights you are not permitted to sell the output…
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ElevenLabs Pricing in 2026: What One Finished Minute of Narration Costs on Every Plan
We measured 899 characters per finished minute across 280,485 characters of shipped narration, then priced every ElevenLabs plan against it. $0.148 a minute at best on a plan, $0.090 on the API for the same model. Verified 1 September 2026.
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Best AI Voice Generators in 2026: What Paid Actually Buys You Over Free
Short answer, as of August 2026: for narration at volume, free is now good enough, and we can prove it because our own YouTube channels run on a $0 voice stack. Pay for ElevenLabs when you need emotional range, cloning, or a language you cannot get elsewhere. If you are producing long-form narration on a…