ElevenLabs
Text to speech, voice design, sound effects and music, with Unity and Unreal plugins.
Overview
ElevenLabs: Text to speech, voice design, sound effects and music, with Unity and Unreal plugins. It scores 87/100 in our audio, voice & NPCs ranking. Best for: Character voices and dialogue for games.
ElevenLabs generates character voices, designs new voices, and creates sound effects and music. It offers Unity and Unreal plugins and an API.
Pros
- Free plan available
- Beginner friendly
- Works with Unity
- Voice cloning
- Design a voice from a description
- Emotion and delivery control
Cons
- Commercial use on paid plans only
- Seamless loops: limited (The Looping toggle is in Sound Effects (short clips like drum loops), not in Eleven Music)
ElevenLabs pricing
10k credits/mo
30k credits/mo
Monthly prices in USD as listed by ElevenLabs. Last checked 2026-10-21. Rights: All paid plans include a commercial licence (except Beta Services); the free plan cannot be used commercially
Features
- Voice cloning Yes
- Design a voice from a description Yes
- Emotion and delivery control Audio tags like [whispers] or [excited] direct emotion and delivery Yes
- Multiple languages Yes
- Speech to speech Yes
- API Yes
- Text to sound effect Yes
- Multiple variations Each sound effect generation creates four versions to choose from Yes
- Loopable sounds sound effects max 30 seconds with looping toggle Yes
- Separate stems Yes
- Seamless loops The Looping toggle is in Sound Effects (short clips like drum loops), not in Eleven Music Partly
- Vocals music generation includes lyrics Yes
- Set track length Music length from 3 seconds to 10 minutes Yes
Checked against ElevenLabs's own site, docs and pricing page. How we check
Score breakdown: 87/100
- Accessibility 21%100
- Output & integration 17%72
- Commercial rights 21%75
- Value 9%75
- Maturity 9%100
- Game focus 9%100
- Features 15%97
Based on price, free plan, commercial rights, exports and features. How we score
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- https://elevenlabs.io/affiliate
- https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- https://help.elevenlabs.io/hc/en-us/articles/13313564601361-Can-I-publish-the-content-I-generate-on-the-platform
- https://elevenlabs.io/api?trk=test
- https://elevenlabs.io/ja/text-to-speech-api-2
- https://docs.cdntest.elevenlabs.io/product-guides/playground/sound-effects?error=true
- https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/plexusone/elevenlabs-go
- https://www.usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/elevenlabs-2026-10-05-v4-launch-tts-price-cut
- https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/blob/main/text-to-speech/references/voice-settings.md
- https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/blob/main/music/references/api_reference.md
- https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-creative/playground/sound-effects
- https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/sound-effects