// At a glance
Free Tier
10k characters/month · no card
Category
Speech
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Eleven Multilingual v2Turbo v3
Monthly Requests
10,000 characters/month
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
"text">-purple-400">curl https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text"text-amber-400">-to"text-amber-400">-speech/21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM \
"text-amber-400">-H "xi">-api">-key: YOUR_ELEVENLABS_KEY" \
"text-amber-400">-H "Content">-Type: application/json" \
"text-amber-400">-d '{"text": "Hello world"}' \
"text-amber-400">--output speech.mp3// Overview
Industry-leading TTS with voice cloning, emotion control, and 30+ languages. Free tier gives 10k characters monthly.
// Pros
- Most natural-sounding voices
- Voice cloning in minutes
- 30+ languages
// Cons
- Free tier 10k chars is small
- Cloning requires paid plan
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)88/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)90/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
AudiobooksVoice agentsLocalization
// Recent changes
May 15, 2026Added Turbo v3 modeladded