Pick ElevenLabs if
podcast, product, and localization teams who need controllable multilingual speech.
Read the ElevenLabs pageElevenLabs vs MiniMax Audio
Our take
Pick ElevenLabs if you're on a podcast, product, and localization team who need controllable multilingual speech. Pick MiniMax Audio if you're on a team who will pay per million characters for Speech 2.8. Skip ElevenLabs if you're someone who only want chat, or teams that cannot send scripts to a US-hosted voice API. Skip MiniMax Audio if you're people who want MIT local TTS (Piper) or a phone pathway (Bland).
Best for
ElevenLabs TTS, voice cloning, or dubbing
MiniMax Audio A multilingual VO or clone billed per million characters
Free plan
ElevenLabs $0 · , 10,000 credits
MiniMax Audio No free plan
Lowest paid
ElevenLabs Starter $6/mo
MiniMax Audio speech-2.8-turbo $60
Next step up
ElevenLabs Creator $22/mo
MiniMax Audio speech-2.8-hd $100
Coding agent
ElevenLabs Agents / dubbing / image-video
MiniMax Audio
Runs where
ElevenLabs Hosted
MiniMax Audio Local or hosted
Watch out
ElevenLabs Credits are not minutes
MiniMax Audio Characters are the meter
Last checked
ElevenLabs 2026-10-19 · elevenlabs.io/pricing
MiniMax Audio 2026-10-27 · platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo
Which one, then?
Pick MiniMax Audio if
teams who will pay per million characters for Speech 2.8.
Read the MiniMax Audio page