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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

ElevenLabs vs. Granola

At a glance

At a glance

ElevenLabs

Best for

Best for realistic long-form narration, dubbing and voice cloning.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Granola

Best for

Best for laptop-first teams in back-to-back external calls who want structured notes without a recording bot in the room.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion ElevenLabs Granola
Starting price Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Commercial rights start with the paid Starter tier. API from around $300 per million characters at low volume. Free tier, then $14 / user / month Business is $14 per user per month and Enterprise $35. The free Basic plan takes unlimited notes but limits how far back the history reaches.
Free trial Free tier, restricted Free Basic plan with AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders and custom templates
Commercial use From the paid Starter tier Not stated
Output Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Transcripts and structured meeting notes with summaries and action items
API Yes Yes, on Business and Enterprise, alongside an MCP server
Hosting Not stated Cloud, with desktop apps for macOS and Windows, iOS and Android apps and Apple Watch support
Voice cloning Yes, from a sample of around one minute No, Granola transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices
Real-time use Yes. Eleven Flash v2.5 is built for real-time use at around 75 ms latency, Eleven v3 Conversational runs at around 280 ms, Scribe v2 Realtime transcribes at around 150 ms, and the ElevenAgents platform runs live voice agents over phone, chat and messaging channels Yes, it transcribes the computer's own audio live during a call without joining as a bot, and on mobile it captures in-person meetings and phone calls
Languages 70+ languages on Eleven v3 and Eleven v3 Conversational, 32 on Flash v2.5 and 29 on Multilingual v2; speech to text with Scribe v2 covers 90+ Multi-language support, included from the free Basic plan upwards
Speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, speech-to-speech and dubbing No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation
Editing and controls Stability set to Creative, Natural or Robust, speed from 0.7x to 1.2x, audio tags such as [whispers] or [excited] to direct delivery, a seed value for repeatable output, and pronunciation set through IPA, phoneme tags or an uploaded pronunciation dictionary Customisable note templates, shorthand typed during the call expanded against the transcript, AI chat across the whole meeting history, shared folders and search
Consent and trust Professional voice cloning is gated behind technological verification of the speaker, cloning of celebrity and other high-risk voices is blocked, and an AI Speech Classifier tells whether a clip was made with ElevenLabs Opt-out of model training on every plan, with an org-wide opt-out, SSO, admin controls over sharing and API use, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion and an org-wide usage notification on Enterprise
MCP-ready Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk, Community forum Not stated
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Not stated
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations more entries Twilio, Genesys Cloud, Five9, Vonage, LiveKit, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Telegram, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Cal.com, Calendly Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity, Zapier

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price ElevenLabs Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Granola Free tier, then $14 / user / month
  • Free trial ElevenLabs Free tier, restricted Granola Free Basic plan with AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders and custom templates
  • Output ElevenLabs Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Granola Transcripts and structured meeting notes with summaries and action items
  • API ElevenLabs Yes Granola Yes, on Business and Enterprise, alongside an MCP server
  • Voice cloning ElevenLabs Yes, from a sample of around one minute Granola No, Granola transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

ElevenLabs

Strengths

  • Most realistic voice and cloning
  • 70+ languages on the v3 models
  • Speech-to-speech and dubbing
  • Strong API

Limitations

  • Commercial use only from the paid Starter tier
  • API pricey at high volume
  • Credits are shared across every product and roll over for at most two months

Granola

Strengths

  • No bot joins the call, so nothing appears in the attendee list
  • Expands shorthand typed during the meeting instead of replacing note-taking
  • AI chat runs across the whole meeting history, not a single transcript
  • Opt-out of model training on every plan, including the free one
  • MCP server and API on Business, so meeting context reaches other AI tools

Limitations

  • Capture depends on a machine being in the meeting, since it records local computer audio
  • The free plan limits how far meeting history reaches back
  • Integrations, API and MCP start on the Business plan

Plans

Pricing

ElevenLabs

  • Free $0 Restricted, no commercial rights.
  • Starter ~$5 Per month. Commercial rights start here.
  • API From ~$300 Per million characters at low volume.
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Granola

  • Basic $0 Per user per month. AI meeting notes, limited meeting history, AI chat, shared folders, customised templates, multi-language support and opt-out of model training.
  • Business $14 Per user per month. Adds unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI thinking models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, centralised billing, MCP integration and API access.
  • Enterprise $35 Per user per month. Adds enterprise security and admin controls, SSO, priority support, usage analytics, org-wide auto-deletion, admin control over sharing and API, a team-wide model training opt-out and an org-wide usage notification.
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What users say

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Granola

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io · checked against the official source on 2026-08-21

Granola https://www.granola.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-15

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.