ANALYSIS VERDICT
Deepgram leads on autonomy (73 vs 67), while ElevenLabs starts at $0/mo. Select ElevenLabs for industry-best voice expressiveness and natural human inflection; consider Deepgram if you prioritize industry-benchmark nova-3 speech recognition accuracy.
| Metric / Feature | ElevenLabs Visit elevenlabs.io ↗ | Deepgram Visit deepgram.com ↗ |
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| Autonomy Score (AES) | 67/100 Core 72 · -5 setup | 73/100 Core 83 · -10 setup |
| Value-to-Cost Ratio | 6.26 | 5.89 |
| Starting Price | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Pricing Model | freemium | freemium |
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Pricing tier comparison
ElevenLabs tiers
Free
$0 /month
- 10k credits per month
- Text to Speech & Speech to Text
- Sound Effects, Voice Design, Music
- 3 Projects in Studio
Starter
$6 /month
- 30k credits per month ($1 for first month)
- Commercial License
- Instant Voice Cloning
- 20 Projects in Studio
- Music commercial use & Dubbing Studio
Creator
$22 /month
- 121k credits per month ($11 for first month)
- Professional Voice Cloning
- Additional Credits
- Commercial License
Pro
$99 /month
- 600k credits per month
- 44.1kHz PCM audio output via API
- 192kbps quality audio
- Everything in Creator
Scale
$299 /month
- 1.8M credits per month
- 3 Workspace seats
- Team Collaboration
- 3 Professional Voice Clones
Business
$990 /month
- 6M credits per month
- Low-latency TTS as low as 5c/minute
- 10 Professional Voice Clones
- 10 Workspace seats
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Custom number of credits and seats
- Custom terms & assurance around DPA/SLAs
- BAAs for HIPAA customers
- Custom SSO & priority support
Deepgram tiers
Pay as you go
$0 /month
- Free $200 credit, then pay-as-you-go
- No minimums, no expiration, no credit card required
- Speech-to-text from $0.0077/min (Flux STT / Nova-3)
- Text-to-speech from $0.0150/1k characters (Aura-1)
- Voice Agent API from $0.075/min
- Up to 150 concurrent streaming STT connections
Growth
$4,000 /year
- $4,000+ / year pre-paid credits against usage
- Save up to 20% across STT, TTS, and Voice Agent
- Up to 225 concurrent streaming connections
- Volume discounts
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Custom volume commitments & discounted rates
- Self-hosted VPC / on-prem container deployment
- HIPAA BAA & enterprise SLA
- Custom concurrency & named account team
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