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ElevenLabs vs Sonic

ElevenLabs or Sonic? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

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

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

  • 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.

  • ElevenAgents

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

  • ElevenAgents

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

About ElevenLabs

Sonic

Sonic is Cartesia's text-to-speech model for real-time voice applications, with voice cloning, localization, and multilingual speech.

Plans

Free

Free

  • 20K credits / month
  • $1 prepaid agents / month
  • Text to Speech
  • Speech to Text

Pro

  • $5 /mo
  • 100K credits / month
  • $5 prepaid agents / month
  • Commercial use license
  • Instant voice cloning

Startup

  • $49 /mo
  • 1.25M credits / month
  • $49 prepaid agents / month
  • Pro voice cloning
  • Organizations

Scale

  • $299 /mo
  • 8M credits / month
  • $299 prepaid agents / month
  • Priority support
  • High concurrency limits

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Custom credits & agent usage
  • Volume pricing
  • Custom concurrency limits
  • DPAs and BAAs for compliance
  • Shared Slack channel
  • SSO

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

Capabilities

  • Text to speech — “Sonic: The fastest and most natural text to speech model” source
  • Voice cloning — “Clone any voice instantly with 10 seconds of audio.” source
  • Speech to text — “Speech to Text” source
  • Dubbing — “Dubbing Go global with localized voices and accents for every language.” source
  • Many languages — “Reach international markets with Sonic — 44 languages and a wide range of accents, all with native-speaker quality voices.” source
  • Commercial use — “Commercial use license” source
  • API — “Access our models via API and bring a voice agent into production in minutes.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Soc 2 Type II Report” source
  • SOC 2 — “Soc 2 Type II Report” source
  • GDPR — “Compliance PCI DSS 4.0.1 HIPAA SOC 2 Type 2 GDPR” source
  • HIPAA — “Cartesia AI Inc. HIPAA.pdf” source

Latest updates

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