Text to speech · 2026
Best text to speech tools for creators 17 tools ranked by verified data
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
We scored 17 text to speech tools for creators with the same 8-criterion scorecard; 17 have enough verified data to be ranked.
Only tools listed for creators are included.
Uberduck ranks first with 100/100, followed by Fliki (97) and ElevenLabs (93).
The lowest starting price among ranked tools (the least you can pay for a paid plan, for one user or account) is Uberduck's: $2 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan.
The ranking
| # | Tool | Score | Coverage | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Public API | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Uberduck | 100/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $2/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  Fliki | 97/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes, 3 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  ElevenLabs | 93/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | $6/mo | $5/mo | Yes, 10,000 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 4 |  Typecast | 92/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $5/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 5 |  VocalLab AI | 92/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | $9/mo | $7.50/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 6 |  VideoDubber | 92/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $9/mo | Not offered | No | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 7 |  Verbatik AI | 90/100 | 90%7 of 8 criteria | $20/mo | Not offered | Yes, 0 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 8 |  ZenMic | 88/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 9 |  HeyGen | 85/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | $29/mo | Not offered | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 10 |  cvoice.ai | 83/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 11 |  Fish Audio | 82/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | $15/mo | $11/mo | Yes, 8,000 credits per month | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 12 |  WellSaid Labs | 82/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | $19/user/mo | $10/user/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 13 |  Rask AI | 80/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $39/mo | $28/mo | Yes | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 14 |  Pictory | 66/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $29/mo | $25/mo | No | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 15 |  Audixa AI | 63/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $14/mo | Not offered | No | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 16 |  Synthesys | 54/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $29/mo | $20/mo | No | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 17 |  Blipix | 43/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $39/mo | Not offered | No | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the vendor page it was read from (hover for the check date). Coverage is the share of the scorecard's weight with verified data, and "N of M criteria" how many criteria the score is based on; a tool is ranked at 60% or more.
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
Why each one ranks where it does
- 1. Uberduck 100/100
AI vocals and text-to-speech service that generates speech, singing and rapping from text, with voice cloning, an API and AI music generation.
- Entry price (100/100): $2/month billed annually on Starter; no monthly-billed price published (scored against annual-billed prices)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan
From $2 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan.
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - 2. Fliki 97/100
Web tool that turns text, scripts, blog posts and slides into videos with AI voiceovers, avatars, subtitles and voice cloning.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- 3. ElevenLabs 93/100
AI audio platform for generating speech, music, sound effects and dubbing, with a separate conversational agents platform and developer APIs.
- Entry price (100/100): $6/month billed monthly on Starter; $5/month billed annually on Starter (scored on the monthly price)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $6 per month billed monthly ($5 billed yearly) on the Starter plan.
- 4. Typecast 92/100
AI voice generator with a web editor, voice cloning, emotion and speed controls, video export, a mobile app and a text-to-speech API.
- Entry price (100/100): $5/month billed annually on Basic; no monthly-billed price published (scored against annual-billed prices)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $5 per month billed yearly on the Basic plan.
- 5. VocalLab AI 92/100
AI text-to-speech platform with a voice library, voice cloning and design, video dubbing, audiobook tools, an API and an MCP server.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan
- Verified features (100/100): 5 of 5 tracked features verified: voice cloning, commercial use on paid plans, text-to-speech api, ai dubbing / translation, team access
From $9 per month billed monthly ($7.50 billed yearly) on the Lite plan.
- 6. VideoDubber 92/100
AI video dubbing and translation service that clones voices, syncs lips and exports subtitles or dubbed video, available through plans and a REST API.
- Verified features (100/100): 4 of 5 tracked features verified: voice cloning, text-to-speech api, ai dubbing / translation, team access
- Pricing transparency (100/100): 4 of 4 plans have a public price
From $9 per month billed monthly on the Starter plan.
- 7. Verbatik AI 90/100
AI creative workspace for generating speech, cloned voices, music, sound effects, images and video from one dashboard, with an API.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Verified features (100/100): 4 of 5 tracked features verified: voice cloning, commercial use on paid plans, text-to-speech api, team access
From $20 per month billed monthly on the Standard plan.
- 8. ZenMic 88/100
AI audio studio that turns text, documents or links into editable multi-speaker scripts and voiced audio, with MP3 download and podcast RSS feeds.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan
- 9. HeyGen 85/100
AI video platform that generates videos with avatars and AI voices from scripts, translates videos with lip-sync and offers a text-based studio editor.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Verified features (100/100): 3 of 5 tracked features verified: voice cloning, ai dubbing / translation, team access
From $29 per month billed monthly on the Creator plan.
- 10. cvoice.ai 83/100
Free web text-to-speech service with a large library of character voices from anime, games, film and public figures, plus multi-language output and an API.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
How we picked
Every one of these text to speech tools is scored by the same 8 criteria (scorecard v1). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to text to speech tools. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other text to speech tools on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $8/month or less = 100, $99 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $5/month or less = 100, $28 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 5 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (voice cloning, commercial use on paid plans, text-to-speech api, ai dubbing / translation, team access). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 3 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Languages | 10% | Category | Number of languages the vendor says it offers.Linear scale: 100 or more = 100. No stated count = not scored. |
| Voice library | 10% | Category | Number of stock voices the vendor says it offers.Log scale: 1,000 or more = 100. No stated count = not scored. |
| Cost per user (team of 3) | 5% | Category | Monthly price per user for a team of 3, on the cheapest paid plan that is priced per seat or states room for at least 3 users.Log scale: $8.25 per user or less = 100, $99.67 or more = 0. Plans that do not state a user limit are not used. No such plan = not scored. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
What is the best text to speech tool for creators?
Uberduck, with 100/100 on our scorecard; Fliki is second with 97/100.
What is the cheapest text to speech tool for creators?
By entry price among ranked tools, Uberduck: $2 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan.
Which of these have a free plan?
12 of the 17 tools have a free plan; the highest-ranked is Uberduck.
How did you rank these text to speech tools?
Each tool gets 0 to 100 per criterion from its published pricing, limits and features; the total is the weighted average over the criteria with verified data. Tools with under 60% of the weight covered are not ranked.