AssemblyAI vs ElevenLabs
A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.
 AssemblyAI Audio |  ElevenLabs Audio | |
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| Tagline | Speech-to-text API with diarisation, summarisation, and topic detection. | The gold standard for AI voice cloning and TTS. |
| Category | Audio | Audio |
| Pricing | Freemium· Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API: $0.21 /hr · Universal-2: $0.15 /hr · Realtime Speech-to-Text API: $0.45 /hr · Universal-Streaming: $0.15 /hr · Universal-Streaming Multilingual: $0.15 /hr | Freemium· Free: $0 · Starter: $6 · Creator: $11 · Pro: $99 · Scale: $299 |
| Model | Universal / Slam-1 | ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 |
| Editorial score | 8.7 / 10 | 9.4 / 10 |
| Use cases | transcriptiondiarisationpodcast indexing | TTSvoice cloningaudiobooksdubbing |
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| Website | www.assemblyai.com | elevenlabs.io |
Pick AssemblyAI if
- ✅ High accuracy
- ✅ Strong streaming API
- ✅ Lots of post-processing features
- ✅ Excellent SDKs and docs
Pick ElevenLabs if
- ✅ Best-in-class voice quality
- ✅ Hundreds of voices + cloning
- ✅ Multilingual
- ✅ Strong API