Comparison guide
AI audio and voice tools compared: credits, characters and commercial rights
Three AI audio and voice tools side by side: what the entry plan costs, the unit it buys, and the commercial rights that decide whether you can publish. Every figure was read from official vendor pages on 2026-10-27, with the exact source linked per tool.
- Tools compared3
- Lowest checked entryElevenLabs Starter, US$6 per month
- Free tier with commercial rightsNot confirmed on any free tier
- Pricing checked2026-10-27
How we compare: the ten checks
Every figure in this guide comes from the vendor's own pages, read against the same ten checks. The matrix below fills each check from those pages; where a page does not state something, the cell says so rather than guessing.
- Entry priceThe lowest paid tier, with the billing cycle the vendor displayed.
- Billing cycleMonthly-billed and annual-billed views are different prices; neither is substituted for the other.
- Unit you buyCredits, characters, projects or minutes. The unit decides what the price buys.
- Free tier allowanceWhat the free tier includes, in the vendor's own unit.
- Commercial rightsWhether the tier allows publishing or client work.
- DownloadsWhether the free tier lets you take the file out at all.
- API meteringThe per-call or per-character rate when an API is priced separately.
- Add-on creditsFree credit offers outside the main plans.
- Per-feature ratesWhat one credit buys per model or feature.
- Checked dateEvery figure carries the day it was read from the source.
The matrix: three tools, the same checks
| Tool | Entry price | The unit you buy | Free tier | Commercial rights on free tier | Pricing checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | US$6 (Starter; US$5 when billed annually) | 30,000 credits per month | 10,000 credits per month | Not stated | 2026-10-27 |
| Murf | Annual-billed view only (US$19 and US$66 per month billed yearly) | Studio: projects and minutes; API: per character | 10 projects and 10 minutes of voice generation | No commercial rights | 2026-10-27 |
| Suno | US$10 (Pro; US$8 when billed yearly) | Credits per day or month | 50 credits per day | No downloads, no commercial rights | 2026-10-27 |
Alphabetical, not a ranking. Figures as displayed on each vendor's page on 2026-10-27. Murf's Studio page showed only the yearly-billed view when checked, so no monthly-billed Studio price is claimed.
The unit you buy is different on each
- ElevenLabs meters in credits: 30,000 per month at Starter. What a credit buys depends on the model and feature; the per-feature rate is not stated on the pages checked.
- Murf's API meters per character: Falcon TTS at US$0.01 per 1,000 characters, Gen2 TTS at US$0.03, and speech-to-text (beta) at US$0.24 per hour. The Studio side meters in projects and minutes.
- Suno meters in credits per day or month: 50 per day on Free.
Commercial rights are the real divider
- Suno Free: no downloads and no commercial rights. The free tier is for trying, not for publishing.
- Murf Studio Free: 10 projects and 10 minutes of voice generation, no commercial rights. Murf's API offers a US$10 free credit, and Dub offers 100 free credits.
- ElevenLabs Free: 10,000 credits per month. The record does not state the free tier's commercial-use terms, so they are not claimed here.
Common questions
Which audio or voice tool is the cheapest?
ElevenLabs Starter at US$6 per month (US$5 when billed annually) is the lowest entry figure captured on 2026-10-27. Suno Pro follows at US$10 per month. Listing is not a recommendation.
Can I publish what I make on a free tier?
Suno Free allows no downloads and no commercial rights, and Murf Studio Free carries no commercial rights. ElevenLabs' free-tier commercial terms are not stated in the record checked on 2026-10-27. For anything commercial, the rights column matters more than the price column.
How does Murf's API pricing work?
Per character for text to speech: Falcon TTS at US$0.01 per 1,000 characters and Gen2 TTS at US$0.03, with speech-to-text (beta) at US$0.24 per hour. The API carries a US$10 free credit, and Murf's Dub product offers 100 free credits.
What does one ElevenLabs credit buy?
It depends on the model and feature. Starter includes 30,000 credits per month; the per-feature consumption rate is not stated on the pages checked on 2026-10-27.
Does Murf have a monthly-billed Studio price?
Only the yearly-billed view was captured on 2026-10-27 (US$19 and US$66 per month billed yearly), so no monthly-billed Studio price is claimed here.
When were these figures checked?
All figures were read from official pricing pages on 2026-10-27, linked in Sources below.
Sources
- ElevenLabs pricing (accessed 2026-10-27)
- Murf pricing (accessed 2026-10-27)
- Suno pricing (accessed 2026-10-27)
Figures carry the date they were read from the vendor's own page. Listing a tool is not a recommendation, and no ratings or rankings are asserted.
Tools in this guide
Full records, with per-field sources and check dates, on each tool page.