ElevenLabs Conversational AI is a voice-first agent layer built on the company's well-known TTS. SpeechifyAI is all-in — LLM, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech in one per-minute rate (from $0.07/min, LLM included) with no passthrough and no token math — plus deterministic workflows, tool calling, evals, and enterprise governance, and 60 free minutes a month.
| Capability | Speechify | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From $0.07/min all-in — LLM included · 60 free min/mo | $0.08/min platform fee + LLM & telephony passthrough |
| What's included | LLM + STT + TTS + orchestration in one rate | Platform only; LLM and telephony billed "at cost" on top |
| Free tier | 60 min/mo, commercial use | 15 min/mo, non-commercial |
| Pricing surprises | No burst multipliers, no token billing | 2x rate ($0.16/min) above your concurrency limit |
| Voice library | 20+ curated real-time voices | 10,000+ voices including the community library (their core strength) |
| Workflow editor | Visual + code, deterministic | Prompt-based |
| Integrations | Tool calling + webhooks | Via webhooks / functions |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II | SOC 2 |
Building a voice agent on ElevenLabs Agents means three separate bills: one for ElevenLabs by subscribed minutes, one for whichever LLM provider you wire in, and one for telephony. When a rate moves, working out which of the three vendors moved it is its own debugging task. SpeechifyAI is a single per-minute rate from $0.07 on Pro that already covers the LLM, the voice, and the workflow runtime, so the bill is one line and the rate stays put when the platform improves.
ElevenLabs Agents gives you 15 free minutes a month, and the free tier is not for commercial work. SpeechifyAI gives you 60 free minutes a month with full commercial use, so you can put it in front of real customers from the first call. You also get the parts a production team actually needs in the platform fee, not as add-ons: a visual workflow editor with deterministic branching for the spots where the agent must follow the script, tool calling and webhooks for your CRM and your backend, simulated test callers to catch regressions before they hit a real number, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
If you're shipping a voice agent in production, SpeechifyAI gives you the lot in one rate: the LLM, the speech stack, workflows, tool calling, simulated callers, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. The free tier supports commercial use from the first call.