Differences between AssemblyAI and ElevenLabs

AssemblyAI Description

AssemblyAI offers real‑time and batch speech‑to‑text transcription across 99+ languages, featuring speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and language identification. It supports medical terminology, PII redaction, and custom prompts for precise conversational insights.

AssemblyAI Features

  • Real-time streaming transcription
  • 1500-word contextual prompting
  • Speaker diarization and labeling
  • Automatic language detection code-switching
  • Auto punctuation and casing
  • Multilingual support 99+ languages
  • LLM gateway integration

ElevenLabs Description

ElevenCreative is an AI tool that generates ultra-realistic speech, videos, music, and sound effects, offering text-to-speech, voice cloning, and a library of pre-recorded voices for creating personalized content for various applications.

ElevenLabs Features

  • Text to Speech
  • Speech to Text
  • Voice Cloning
  • Music Generation
  • AI Agents
  • Transcription
  • Voice Editing

User Satisfaction & Ratings

AssemblyAI Feedback

of 9 users recommend
Output Quality 44.4%
Fair Pricing 55.6%
Ease of Use 55.6%
Feature Set 44.4%
Integrations 55.6%

ElevenLabs Feedback

of 21 users recommend
Output Quality 61.9%
Fair Pricing 81.0%
Ease of Use 71.4%
Feature Set 61.9%
Integrations 38.1%

Pricing Breakdown

AssemblyAI Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium

Starting at: $0.37

Available Plans:

Key Phrases: $0.01 Profanity Filtering: $0.01 Sentiment Analysis: $0.02 Custom Formatting: $0.03 Summarization: $0.03 Keyterms Prompting Add-on: $0.04 PII Audio Redaction: $0.05 GPT-5 Nano: $0.05 Translation: $0.06 gpt-oss-20b: $0.07 Entity Detection: $0.08 Auto Chapters: $0.08 PII Redaction: $0.08 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: $0.10 Speaker Diarization Add-on: $0.12 Start building as low as $0.15/hr: $0.15 Universal-2: $0.15 Universal-Streaming: $0.15 Universal-Streaming Multilingual: $0.15 Topic Detection: $0.15 Content Moderation: $0.15 gpt-oss-120b: $0.15 Qwen3 Next 80B A3B: $0.15 Qwen3 32B: $0.15 Universal-3 Pro: $0.21 GPT-5-Mini: $0.25 Claude 3 Haiku: $0.25 Whisper-Streaming: $0.30 Gemini 2.5 Flash: $0.30 Gemini 3 Flash: $0.50 Kimi K2.5: $0.60 Claude 3.5 Haiku: $0.80 Claude 4.5 Haiku: $1.00 GPT-5.1: $1.25 GPT-5: $1.25 Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 GPT-5.2: $1.75 GPT 4.1: $2.00 Gemini 3 Pro: $2.00 Claude 4.6 Sonnet: $3.00 Claude 4.5 Sonnet: $3.00 Claude 4 Sonnet: $3.00 ChatGPT-4o: $5.00 Claude 4.6 Opus: $5.00 Claude 4.5 Opus: $5.00 Claude 4 Opus: $15.00 Pay as you go: varies Speech Understanding: varies

ElevenLabs Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium

Starting at: $5/mo

Available Plans:

Free: $0/forever Starter: $5/mo Independent Publisher: $99/mo Creator: $11/mo

Platform Availability & Capabilities

AssemblyAI Capabilities

Speech-To-Text Development Audio

Best for
transcribe:audio>text extract:audio>structured_data analyze:audio>structured_data

ElevenLabs Capabilities

Audio generation

Best for:
generate:text>audio generate:voice>audio transcribe:voice>text transcribe:audio>text

Who Should Use Each?

AssemblyAI Users

Software Developers Technology Startups Large Enterprises Technical Architects Innovation Leaders

ElevenLabs Users

Software Developers Content Creators Digital Marketers Podcast Creators Language Learners

Screenshots & Media

AssemblyAI

ElevenLabs

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Pros & Cons

AssemblyAI

ElevenLabs

Integrations

AssemblyAI

ElevenLabs

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