Bark vs ElevenLabs

In short

• Both: Text to speech, Makes music, Sound effects, Many languages, Commercial use
• Only ElevenLabs states: Voice cloning, Speech to text, Dubbing, API

Bark

Bark is an open-source text-to-audio model that generates multilingual speech, music, background noise, sound effects, and nonverbal sounds.

Plans

Free

Free

• Unlimited public/private repositories
• Dependabot security and version updates
• 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
• 500MB of Packages storage
• Issues & Projects
• Community support

Team

• $4 per user/month

• Access to GitHub Codespaces
• Repository rules
• Multiple reviewers in pull requests
• Draft pull requests
• Code owners
• 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month

Enterprise

• Starting at $21 per user/month

• Data residency
• Enterprise Managed Users
• User provisioning through SCIM
• Enterprise account to centrally manage multiple organizations
• Environment protection rules
• 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month

Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to speech — “Bark is Suno's open-source text-to-speech+ model.” source
• Not: Voice cloning — “Bark tries to match the tone, pitch, emotion and prosody of a given preset, but does not currently support custom voice cloning.” source
• Makes music — “Bark can generate all types of audio, and, in principle, doesn't see a difference between speech and music.” source
• Sound effects — “It can therefore generalize to arbitrary instructions beyond speech such as music lyrics, sound effects or other non-speech sounds.” source
• Many languages — “Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.” source
• Commercial use — “The model also attempts to preserve music, ambient noise, etc.” source

ElevenLabs

AI platform for generating speech, music, sound effects, transcriptions, dubbing, images, video, and conversational agents.

Plans

Free

Free

• Text to Speech
• Speech to Text
• Sound Effects
• Voice Design
• 3 Projects in Studio
• 10k credits per month

Starter

• $6 per month
• $5 per month

• Commercial License
• Instant Voice Cloning
• 20 Projects in Studio
• Music commercial use
• Dubbing Studio
• 30k credits per month

Creator

• $22 per month
• $18.33 per month

• Professional Voice Cloning
• Additional Credits
• 121k credits per month

Pro

• $99 per month
• $82.50 per month

• 44.1kHz PCM audio output via API
• 192kbps quality audio
• 600k credits per month

Scale

• $299 per month
• $249.17 per month

• 3 Workspace seats
• Team Collaboration
• 3 Professional Voice Clones
• 1.8M credits per month

Business

• $990 per month
• $825 per month

• Low-latency TTS as low as 5c/minute
• 10 Professional Voice Clones
• 10 Workspace seats
• 6M credits per month

Enterprise

Price on request

• Custom terms & assurance around DPA/SLAs
• BAAs for HIPAA customers
• Custom SSO
• More seats and voices
• Elevated concurrency limits
• Priority support

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to speech — “Convert text into lifelike speech” source
• Voice cloning — “You can also clone a voice from an audio recording or generate one from a text description.” source
• Speech to text — “Transcribe spoken audio into text” source
• Makes music — “Generate music from text” source
• Sound effects — “Create cinematic sound effects” source
• Dubbing — “Dub audio and videos seamlessly” source
• Many languages — “70+ languages supported” source
• Commercial use — “Commercial rights vary by subscription tier.” source
• API — “ElevenAPI exposes every capability as a REST interface with official Python and TypeScript SDKs, so developers can embed voice into their own applications and workflows.” source

Security

• SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II Bridge Letter 2026-09-03.pdf” source
• SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
• ISO 27001 — “ISO 27001:2022” source
• ISO 42001 — “ISO/IEC 42001:2023” source
• GDPR — “GDPR CCPA CPRA LGPD” source
• HIPAA — “HIPAA HDS GDPR” source
• Not: Not trained on your data — “LLM Services may also be used for research, development, training, and product improvement purposes, to the extent permitted under the applicable agreement with the customer.” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-23 Image & Video

  Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro have been removed from the model picker; Seedance 1.5 Pro is no longer offered for new generations.

• 2026-09-21 ElevenAgents

  Added enable_parallel_tool_calls, gpt-6-astra, Slack alerting, phone number search, GPT Image 2.5 models and cascade_timeout_seconds.

• 2026-09-14 ElevenAgents

  Added call queueing and hold audio, music_v2_5 support, and test version metadata.