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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

ElevenLabs vs. Rev

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

Rev

Best for

Best for teams who need a transcript accurate enough to be relied on in court or in the record, with a human pass available on top of the machine one.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion ElevenLabs Rev
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 from $25.49 / seat / month The $25.49 Essentials rate is billed annually at $305.90 a year; paid monthly it is $29.99. Pro is $47.99 billed annually or $59.99 monthly. Human services are bought separately by the minute or page and are pooled across seats at account level. The Rev AI developer platform is billed per hour of audio instead, from $0.10 an hour on Reverb Turbo.
Free trial Free tier, restricted Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
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, captions, subtitles and case documents
API Yes Yes, Rev AI for asynchronous and streaming speech-to-text, plus a human transcription API
Hosting Not stated Cloud or on-premises for the Rev AI platform
Voice cloning Yes, from a sample of around one minute No, Rev works only on incoming 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, a streaming speech-to-text API for live audio alongside asynchronous transcription of recorded files; human services are turnaround-based rather than real-time
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+ 57+ languages for speech-to-text through Rev AI, 37+ on the Pro subscription and English only on the free plan; human captions cover English and Spanish, and human subtitles 17 languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, speech-to-speech and dubbing No dubbing or synthesised speech. Translation is text-only, at $0.002 to $0.025 per minute through the API depending on standard or premium, plus human subtitles at $6.49 to $15.99 a minute
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 Transcript editor with clipping, multi-file evidence analysis with citations, image analysis, a document editor exporting to Word and PDF, AI templates for chronologies and affidavits, and API-side custom vocabulary, forced alignment with word-level timestamps, topic extraction and sentiment analysis
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 SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI compliant with data encrypted at rest and in transit, a stated 99.99% uptime, and on-premises deployment for the API; the Unlimited subscription adds HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist
MCP-ready stated Yes No
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
Support Email helpdesk, Community forum Not stated
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
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 Clio

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price ElevenLabs Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Rev Free tier, then from $25.49 / seat / month
  • Free trial ElevenLabs Free tier, restricted Rev Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, plus free Rev AI credits worth 5 hours of Reverb transcription
  • Deployment ElevenLabs Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Rev Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
  • MCP-ready ElevenLabs Yes Rev No
  • Output ElevenLabs Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Rev Transcripts, captions, subtitles and case documents

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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

Rev

Strengths

  • Human transcription at a stated 99%+ accuracy alongside the machine tier
  • Developer API priced per hour of audio, from $0.10 on Reverb Turbo
  • Runs on-premises as well as in the cloud on the API side
  • Free credits worth 5 hours of transcription, with no card required

Limitations

  • Speech-to-text only, no text-to-speech, dubbing or voice cloning
  • The subscription is built around legal and investigative work, which is dead weight for other uses
  • The free plan covers 45 minutes a month and English only
  • Human services are charged on top of the subscription rather than included

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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Rev

  • Free $0 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, English only, up to 5 files analysed at once, document editor and mobile app.
  • Essentials $25.49 Per seat per month billed annually at $305.90, or $29.99 billed monthly. Up to 3 seats, 5,000 AI minutes per seat per month in English and Spanish, up to 10 files analysed and 10% off human services.
  • Pro $47.99 Per seat per month billed annually at $575.88, or $59.99 billed monthly. Up to 5 seats, 10,000 AI minutes per seat per month across 37+ languages, up to 50 files analysed, image analysis, Clio integration and 15% off human services.
  • Unlimited Not stated Custom pricing. Unlimited seats and AI minutes, up to 500 files analysed, HIPAA and CJIS compliance, SSO and a dedicated specialist.
  • Rev AI pay-as-you-go $0.10 Per hour of audio on Reverb Turbo; Reverb is $0.20 an hour and foreign-language transcription $0.30 an hour across 56+ languages. Whisper Fusion and Large are $0.005 a minute. Human transcription through the API is $1.99 a minute. Insights are priced separately: language identification and forced alignment $0.003 a minute, topic extraction and sentiment analysis $0.0008 per 10 words, translation $0.002 to $0.025 a minute. Free credits equivalent to 5 hours of Reverb transcription to start.
  • Human services From $1.99 Per minute for human transcription and for human captions, with up to 15% off on a subscription. Legal rough drafts are $2.25 a page and legal premium transcripts $2.50 a page. Global subtitles run $6.49 to $15.99 a minute depending on the language, across 17 languages.
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What users say

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ElevenLabs

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Rev

Ease of use
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Support and service
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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

Rev https://www.rev.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-04

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