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ElevenLabs vs AssemblyAI

ElevenLabs (ElevenLabs) and AssemblyAI (AssemblyAI) both sit in Audio. AssemblyAI is the cheaper entry point at Free tier with $50 free credits, then pay-as-you-go starting at $0.15/hr for pre-recorded STT (Universal-2). AssemblyAI shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (5 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeElevenLabs

ElevenLabs

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI

SegmentAudioAudio
VersionEleven v3Universal-3.5 Pro
Entry costFree tier · from $6/moFree tier with $50 free credits, then pay-as-you-go starting at $0.15/hr for pre-recorded STT (Universal-2)
Pricing tiersFree free · Starter $6 · Creator $22 · Pro $99 · Scale $299 · Business $990Free Credits free
Model stackDubbing v2 · Eleven Flash · Eleven Flash v2.5 · Eleven Multilingual v2 · Eleven Music · Eleven Music v2 · Eleven Scribe v2 · Eleven Turbo v2 · Eleven v3 · Flash v2.5 · Kling · Music v2 · Scribe · Scribe v2 · Veo · WanClaude · Claude 4.6 Sonnet · Claude 4.8 Opus · Gemini 2.5 Pro · Gemini 3.5 Flash · GPT-5.5 · Qwen3 Next 80B A3B · u3-rt-pro · Universal-2 · universal-3-pro · Universal-3.5 Pro · Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime · Universal-Streaming English · Universal-Streaming Multilingual
Context windown/an/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d35
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesVoice cloning, 70+ languages, Dubbing studio, Conversational agents, Sound effects, Music, Text to Speech, Speech to TextSpeaker diarization, Summarisation, Topic detection, PII redaction, LeMUR framework, Pre-recorded STT, Real-time STT, Voice Agent API
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