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.
For production voice agents, SpeechifyAI is the best value on the market: one all-in rate from $0.07/min with the LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and orchestration included — no passthrough, no token math. ElevenLabs charges a $0.08/min platform fee and bills the LLM and telephony on top, so its platform fee alone already costs more than SpeechifyAI's entire bill. The only reason to pick ElevenLabs is its 10,000+ voice library.
| Capability | SpeechifyAI | 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 |
SpeechifyAI is one per-minute rate with the LLM included. Most competitors quote a platform fee, then bill the LLM and telephony on top. Drag your monthly minutes and switch the competitor to see the difference. Rates are from each vendor's public pricing.
One line item. No passthrough, no token math.
Rates vary by usage, region, and contract.
SpeechifyAI at the $0.07/min Pro rate, LLM included; Scale drops to $0.068 and Enterprise to $0.06. Competitor "+" items are billed separately on top of the platform fee, so a competitor's true all-in is higher than its headline rate.
| Monthly volume | SpeechifyAI, all-in ($0.07/min) | ElevenLabs platform fee ($0.08/min) | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 min · ≈200 calls | $70/mo | from $80/mo | $10/mo + |
| 6,000 min · ≈1,200 calls | $420/mo | from $480/mo | $60/mo + |
| 20,000 min · ≈4,000 calls | $1,400/mo | from $1,600/mo | $200/mo + |
The "+" marks the LLM and telephony ElevenLabs bills separately on top of the platform fee — so the true saving is larger than the platform-fee gap shown.
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.
In most cases, yes. SpeechifyAI is one all-in rate from $0.07/min with the LLM included. ElevenLabs charges a $0.08/min platform fee and bills the LLM and telephony on top — so its platform fee alone already exceeds SpeechifyAI's all-in rate, before the passthrough.
The LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and orchestration — in one per-minute rate, with no token math and no passthrough. Telephony via BYOC is available on every tier. ElevenLabs sells the agent platform and bills the LLM and telephony separately.
SpeechifyAI has no burst multipliers and no token billing. ElevenLabs charges 2× its rate ($0.16/min) above your concurrency limit, so a traffic spike can double the platform fee on the minutes over the cap.
Yes. SpeechifyAI's 60 free minutes a month allow commercial use from the first call. ElevenLabs' 15 free agent minutes a month are non-commercial.
Voice variety. ElevenLabs' 10,000+ voice library, including the community library, is their core strength — if a large catalog of distinct voices is the deciding factor, that's the reason to pick them.
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.