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 Analyze Audio Extract Texts Generate Transcripts Remove Piis

ElevenLabs Capabilities

Audio generation

Best for:
Generate Voice Generate Audio translate texts Edit Voice

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

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Pros & Cons

AssemblyAI

ElevenLabs

Integrations

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