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Top ZenMic competitors 10 competitors in ZenMic's market
- Competitors listed
- 10
- Ranked on the scorecard
- 8
- ZenMic's rank
- #13 of 41
- With a free plan
- 7
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
These are the 10 tools closest to ZenMic in its own market: text to speech tools that list text to speech too, picked by shared categories and how close their entry price is to ZenMic's (the rules are below).
8 of them are ranked on the text to speech tools scorecard; Cartesia is the highest at 98/100 (#3 of 41 in the category).
ZenMic itself is #13 of 41 with 88/100, so 3 competitors on this list rank above it.
7 competitors have a free plan, and so does ZenMic.
ZenMic vs its competitors: market position
| Rank | Tool | Score | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Public API | Features verified | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #13 | ZenMicThis tool | 88/100 | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | 2 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #3 |  Cartesia | 98/100 | $5/mo | Not offered | Yes | Yes | 3 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #5 |  ElevenLabs | 93/100 | $6/mo | $5/mo | Yes, 10,000 credits per month | Yes | 5 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #7 |  cboard | 92/100 | $8/mo | $6.58/mo | Yes | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #16 |  cvoice.ai | 83/100 | Free | Free | Yes | Yes | 1 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #18 |  Fish Audio | 82/100 | $15/mo | $11/mo | Yes, 8,000 credits per month | Yes | 3 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #22 |  BritishAccent | 76/100 | $14.27/mo | Not offered | Yes | – | 1 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #30 |  Audixa AI | 63/100 | $14/mo | Not offered | No | Yes | 2 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #37 |  Glossa.live | 53/100 | $99/mo | $299/mo | No | Yes | 3 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Amazon Polly | Not ranked | – | – | Yes | Yes | 1 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Google Cloud Text-to-Speech | Not ranked | – | – | – | Yes | 1 of 5 | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the page it was read from (hover for the check date).
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
How each competitor differs from ZenMic
- Cartesia · #3, 98/100
Voice AI platform offering text-to-speech, speech-to-text and managed voice agents through one API, deployable in the cloud, on-premise or on-device.
- Score: 98/100, #3 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $5 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Matches ZenMic: has all 2 features we verified for ZenMic
4 of 10 tracked details verified
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - ElevenLabs · #5, 93/100
AI audio platform for generating speech, music, sound effects and dubbing, with a separate conversational agents platform and developer APIs.
- Score: 93/100, #5 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $6 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Matches ZenMic: has all 2 features we verified for ZenMic
8 of 10 tracked details verified
- cboard · #7, 92/100
Open-source communication board app that pairs symbols and text with spoken output for people with speech and language impairments.
- Score: 92/100, #7 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $8 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- In numbers: 3 published plans and a free plan. source
3 of 10 tracked details verified
- cvoice.ai · #16, 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.
- Score: 83/100, #16 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: free; no paid plans published source
- Verified features: Text-to-speech API
4 of 10 tracked details verified
- Fish Audio · #18, 82/100
AI voice platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning and speech-to-text, with a voice library, an API and lip-synced talking-avatar tools.
- Score: 82/100, #18 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $15 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Matches ZenMic: has all 2 features we verified for ZenMic
6 of 10 tracked details verified
- BritishAccent · #22, 76/100
British English text-to-speech service with a library of regional UK voices, plus voice cloning, transcription and lip sync, sold through credits.
- Score: 76/100, #22 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $14.27 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Verified features: Voice cloning
3 of 10 tracked details verified
- Audixa AI · #30, 63/100
Text-to-speech service with a multilingual voice library, voice cloning and a REST API, billed by usage balance.
- Score: 63/100, #30 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $14 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (ZenMic: yes) source
- Matches ZenMic: has all 2 features we verified for ZenMic
3 of 10 tracked details verified
- Glossa.live · #37, 53/100
Real-time AI translation service for church services and events that delivers translated audio and captions to listeners' phones in many languages.
- Score: 53/100, #37 of 41 (ZenMic: 88/100, #13)
- Entry price: $99 billed monthly; not compared with ZenMic, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (ZenMic: yes) source
- Matches ZenMic: has all 2 features we verified for ZenMic
5 of 10 tracked details verified
- Amazon Polly
Managed AWS service that converts text to speech through an API, offering standard, neural, long-form and generative voices billed by characters processed.
- Score: not ranked (50% coverage)
- Verified features: Text-to-speech API
2 of 10 tracked details verified
- Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Cloud API that converts text into synthetic speech with a large catalogue of voices and languages, plus custom voice creation from short audio samples.
- Score: not ranked (45% coverage)
- Verified features: Voice cloning
3 of 10 tracked details verified
How we picked
- Pool: tools in the same market as the tool on this page: they list its primary category, and their own primary category is one it lists too. Explicit competitor links count as well.
- Closest first, at most 10: explicit competitors, then the same primary category, then more shared categories, then the smallest gap in entry price (per month, on a log scale), then more shared platforms, then name.
- Order on the page: tools ranked on the category scorecard by their category rank, then tools that are not ranked (no scorecard, or under 60% of the weight with verified data) in closeness order.
- Prices are compared only on the same billing basis (billed monthly with billed monthly, billed annually with billed annually). A feature counts as missing only when the vendor's page states it; a feature the vendor does not mention is not listed either way.
Every value is read from the vendor's own pages (or GitHub for licences and stars) and shown with the date we checked it. A value we could not verify is shown as a dash, never estimated, and never read as a “no”. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Methodology
The scorecard behind the ranks
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
Who are ZenMic's main competitors?
By our scorecard, the highest-ranked of its closest competitors are Cartesia (98/100), ElevenLabs (93/100) and cboard (92/100).
Which ZenMic competitor is cheapest?
Billed monthly, Cartesia starts lowest at $5 a month (Pro). Entry plans differ in limits.
How does ZenMic rank against its competitors?
ZenMic is #13 of 41 ranked text to speech tools with 88/100.
Which ZenMic competitors have a free plan?
Cartesia, ElevenLabs, cboard, cvoice.ai and Fish Audio and 2 more.