Text to speech · 2026
Free text to speech tools 26 tools ranked by verified data
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
We scored 27 tools with a free plan among text to speech tools with the same 8-criterion scorecard; 26 have enough verified data to be ranked.
Every listed tool has a free plan; the table shows exactly what each free plan allows, as the vendor states it.
Uberduck ranks first with 100/100, followed by Vidnoz (99) and Cartesia (98).
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.
Free plans compared
| # | Tool | Score | Coverage | Free plan allows | From, billed monthly | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Uberduck | 100/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | – | Not offered | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  Vidnoz | 99/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Free | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  Cartesia | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $5/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 4 |  Fliki | 97/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | 3 credits per month | Free | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 5 |  ElevenLabs | 93/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | 10,000 credits per month | $6/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 6 |  Typecast | 92/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Not offered | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 7 |  cboard | 92/100 | 70%5 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $8/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 8 |  VocalLab AI | 92/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | – | $9/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 9 |  mlx-serve | 92/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Free | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 10 |  OpenCreative | 91/100 | 90%7 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $9/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 11 |  Verbatik AI | 90/100 | 90%7 of 8 criteria | 0 credits per month, 2 users | $20/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 12 |  ZenMic | 88/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | – | Free | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 13 |  HeyGen | 85/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $29/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 14 |  VoiceStudio | 84/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Not offered | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 15 |  cvoice.ai | 83/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Free | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 16 |  Murf AI | 83/100 | 70%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | Contact sales | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 17 |  Fish Audio | 82/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | 8,000 credits per month | $15/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 18 |  WellSaid Labs | 82/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $19/user/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 19 |  Rask AI | 80/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $39/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 20 |  Elai | 78/100 | 100%8 of 8 criteria | 1 user, 1 video minute per month | $29/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 21 |  BritishAccent | 76/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $14.27/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 22 |  Wispr Flow | 76/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $15/user/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 23 |  Speechify | 71/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $29/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 24 | Vozexo | 62/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $49/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 25 |  voice-ai | 51/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | No limits stated | $500/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 26 | Resemble AI | 47/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | 1 user | $350/user/mo | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Amazon Polly | Not ranked | 50%4 of 8 criteria | – | – | 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. Vidnoz 99/100
AI video generator with avatars, voices and templates for creating videos from text, plus AI image and photo tools.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- 3. Cartesia 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.
- Entry price (100/100): $5/month billed monthly on Pro (scored on the monthly price)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $5 per month billed monthly on the Pro plan.
- 4. 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)
- 5. 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. cboard 92/100
Open-source communication board app that pairs symbols and text with spoken output for people with speech and language impairments.
- Entry price (100/100): $8/month billed monthly on Pro Monthly Plan; $6.58/month billed annually on Pro Yearly Plan (scored on the monthly price)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $6.58 per month billed yearly on the Pro Yearly Plan plan.
- 8. 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.
- 9. mlx-serve 92/100
Open-source Mac app that runs open AI models locally for chat, document questions, image, music, voice, video and 3D generation without cloud upload.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- 10. OpenCreative 91/100
Creative platform for generating images, video, voice, music and avatars from one brief, plus voice and text customer-support agents, on a monthly credit allowance.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Verified features (100/100): 4 of 5 tracked features verified: commercial use on paid plans, text-to-speech api, ai dubbing / translation, team access
From $9 per month billed monthly on the Starter plan.
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 free text to speech tool?
Uberduck, with 100/100 on our scorecard; Vidnoz is second with 99/100.
What is the cheapest free text to speech tool?
By entry price among ranked tools, Uberduck: $2 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan.
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.