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AssemblyAI vs ElevenLabs

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
AssemblyAI
Audio
ElevenLabs
Audio
TaglineSpeech-to-text API with diarisation, summarisation, and topic detection.The gold standard for AI voice cloning and TTS.
CategoryAudioAudio
PricingFreemium· Free credits; pay-per-useFreemium· Free 10k chars; from $5/mo
Model——
Editorial score8.7 / 109.4 / 10
Use cases
transcriptiondiarisationpodcast indexing
TTSvoice cloningaudiobooksdubbing
Pros
  • High accuracy
  • Strong streaming API
  • Lots of post-processing features
  • Best-in-class voice quality
  • Hundreds of voices + cloning
  • Multilingual
Cons
  • More expensive than Whisper for high volume
  • Latency varies
  • Pro features are pricey
  • Voice clone abuse policy needs care
Websitewww.assemblyai.comelevenlabs.io
Pick AssemblyAI if
  • ✅ High accuracy
  • ✅ Strong streaming API
  • ✅ Lots of post-processing features
Pick ElevenLabs if
  • ✅ Best-in-class voice quality
  • ✅ Hundreds of voices + cloning
  • ✅ Multilingual
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