Cheapest voice cloning
Vendors rarely sell “a clone” as a one-off SKU. They fold cloning into a monthly plan, or into a credit balance. Here are the official plan gates we could copy on Nov 10, 2026. We are not ranking how close the clone sounds to you.
| Vendor | What the official page says about cloning | Lowest official paid price we could attach to that feature | Source, Nov 10, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs — Instant Voice Cloning | Listed on the Starter plan (“Everything in free, plus… Instant Voice Cloning”). Starter also lists a commercial license. | $1 first month, then $6 per month (30,000 credits). Annual equivalent listed as $5 / month if you pay 10 months up front. | elevenlabs.io/pricing; cloning overview: voice cloning docs (IVC uses about 1–2 minutes of audio) |
| ElevenLabs — Professional Voice Cloning | Docs: “available on our Creator plan or above.” Pricing page: Creator includes Professional Voice Cloning; Free and Starter have no PVC slots; Creator / Pro 1 slot; Scale 3; Business 10. | Creator: $11 first month, then $22 per month (121,000 credits). Annual equivalent listed as $18.33 / month. | Pricing and docs (PVC recommended audio 30–180 minutes; you may only PVC your own voice) |
| Cartesia — Professional Voice Clone | FAQ: “Training a Professional Voice Clone is free. Speech from a clone costs 1 credit per character, unless your Enterprise plan says otherwise.” Slots: Startup 2, Scale 4, Enterprise custom; “Free and Pro: none.” | Lowest plan that includes slots: Startup $49 / month (1.25M credits). Scale is $299 / month (8M credits). | cartesia.ai/pricing |
| Descript — custom voice clones | Hobbyist plan text includes “AI Speech with custom voice clones and video regenerate.” | Hobbyist is printed at $16 “per person / month.” The page also has Monthly / Annual toggles and the line “Saving up to 35% over monthly plan,” so we cannot confirm from the fetched text whether $16 is the monthly-billed or annual-billed figure. Creator is printed at $24; Business at $50; Free at $0. | descript.com/pricing |
Speechify’s official Studio pricing page, checked Nov 10, 2026, did not print a “voice cloning” line item in the text we fetched, so Speechify is not ranked in this table. Studio paid plans start at $100 / year. See How much does Speechify cost?
ElevenLabs’ terms, quoted in their docs, say you can only create a Professional Voice Clone of your own voice, even with someone else’s consent. Other vendors have their own rules — read them before you upload audio.
Sources (as of Nov 10, 2026)
- ElevenLabs pricing and API pricing
- ElevenLabs voice cloning docs
- Speechify: How much does Speechify cost? (updated Oct 1, 2026)
- Speechify pricing and Speechify Studio pricing
- Murf pricing and Murf API pay-as-you-go
- Google Cloud Text-to-Speech pricing
- Amazon Polly pricing
- Deepgram pricing
- Cartesia pricing
- AssemblyAI pricing
- OpenAI API pricing and deprecations
- Descript pricing
- Synthesia pricing
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