Actually Free → Audio → ElevenLabs
Free, with a catchIs ElevenLabs actually free?
The text-to-speech most people mean when they say AI voice.
- What you get free
- 10,000 characters per month.
- Account required
- Yes
- Card required
- No
- Commercial use
- Not on the free tier
- Watermark
- None
- Works offline
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Last checked
- 2 Aug 2026
The catch
10k characters is roughly 10 minutes of speech per month — it goes fast. Check the current licence before commercial use.
Why it made the list
Quality is the reason it's here. The allowance is small enough that you should treat it as a sampler, not a workflow.
How this was checked
The limits above were read directly from ElevenLabs's own pricing or documentation pages on 2 Aug 2026 — not taken from a roundup article. That distinction matters more than it sounds: 11 tools were rejected from this site specifically because the widely-repeated free-tier numbers did not survive contact with the vendor's own page.
Free tiers change without announcement, and they usually shrink. If you are reading this well after 2 Aug 2026, open the pricing page yourself before committing to anything.