{ "title": "Speechify Alternatives 2027: 15 Paid, Free & Open-Source", "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/speechify/", "summary": "The best Speechify alternatives in 2027 are ElevenLabs (best overall, $6/mo), Fish Audio (best free plan: 8,000 credits monthly) and Piper (best open source, GPL-3.0-or-later). Speechify itself starts at $29/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 11 Nov 2026; 12 more are compared below, including 3 with a free plan and 7 open source.", "tool": { "name": "Speechify", "starting_price": "$29/mo", "free_plan": "10 voices, up to 1.5x speed", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://speechify.com/pricing/" }, "task": "AI voice generator / TTS", "prices_checked": "2026-11-11", "date_modified": "2026-11-13", "alternatives": [ { "name": "ElevenLabs", "type": "Free plan + paid", "starting_price": "$6/mo", "free_plan_limit": "10k credits per month, about 10 minutes", "best_for": "Realistic voices for narration and apps", "difference": "ElevenLabs sells credits and Studio projects: its free plan lists 10k credits a month and 3 Studio projects, and a Business tier cites low-latency TTS, where Speechify's free tier is capped at 10 voices.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing", "website": "https://elevenlabs.io", "zekai_score": 9.2, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/elevenlabs/" }, { "name": "Murf.ai", "type": "Paid", "starting_price": "Not checked", "free_plan_limit": "No free plan", "best_for": "Studio voiceovers for video and slides", "difference": "Murf positions itself as a voiceover studio with 120+ voices in 20 languages per its page metadata; its plan table needs JavaScript and could not be read, so prices are unverified.", "website": "https://murf.ai", "zekai_score": 8.5, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/murf-ai/" }, { "name": "WellSaid Labs", "type": "Free plan + paid", "starting_price": "$19/mo", "free_plan_limit": "3 download minutes per month, no commercial rights", "best_for": "Commercial voiceover for teams", "difference": "WellSaid's Starter plan lists $19 a month for one seat, with seats up to 5 on Business at $160 per user, and its free trial gives 3 download minutes with no commercial rights.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://www.wellsaid.io/ai-voice-pricing", "website": "https://www.wellsaid.io", "zekai_score": 8.2, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/wellsaid-labs/" }, { "name": "Fish Audio", "type": "Free plan + paid", "starting_price": "$11/mo", "free_plan_limit": "8,000 credits monthly, 500 characters per generation", "best_for": "Cloned voices on a generous free tier", "difference": "Fish Audio's free tier lists 8,000 monthly credits capped at 500 characters per generation, and its FAQ limits free output to non-commercial use, unlike Speechify's fixed 10-voice free set.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://fish.audio/plan/", "website": "https://fish.audio", "zekai_score": 7.9, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/fish-audio/" }, { "name": "Voicemaker", "type": "Free plan + paid", "starting_price": "$5/mo", "free_plan_limit": "250 characters per conversion, personal use", "best_for": "Low-cost text-to-audio conversions", "difference": "Voicemaker's Starter plan is $5 a month with commercial use included, and its free plan caps each conversion at 250 characters for personal use only.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://voicemaker.in/pricing", "website": "https://voicemaker.in", "zekai_score": 7.5, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/voicemaker/" }, { "name": "Notevibes", "type": "Paid", "starting_price": "$15.83/mo billed yearly", "free_plan_limit": "No free plan", "best_for": "Credit-based TTS with a personal plan", "difference": "Notevibes sells a Personal plan with 6M TTS credits for $190 a year and a separate Pro plan with full commercial usage rights, and its pricing page shows no free plan.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://www.notevibes.com/pricing", "website": "https://www.notevibes.com", "zekai_score": 6.4, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/notevibes/" }, { "name": "Resemble AI", "type": "Free plan + paid", "starting_price": "$350/mo", "free_plan_limit": "Flex: pay per use, no subscription fee", "best_for": "Custom and cloned voices for developers", "difference": "Resemble's Flex plan has no subscription and charges per use, while its Team plan costs $350 a month, so it is priced for developers and companies rather than individual listeners.", "price_checked": "2026-11-11", "pricing_url": "https://www.resemble.ai/pricing/", "website": "https://www.resemble.ai", "zekai_score": 8.4, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/resemble-ai/" }, { "name": "Piper", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "GPL-3.0-or-later", "best_for": "Offline voices used by Home Assistant and NVDA", "difference": "Piper is a GPL-3.0 engine with a command line, HTTP server and C/C++ library, and its README says the Open Home Foundation is looking for new maintainers.", "website": "https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl", "repository": "https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/piper/", "commercial_use": "Yes; GPL-3.0 copyleft applies if you distribute it; each voice has its own licence.", "runs_on": "Local engine installed with pip; the README lists no GPU or RAM figure.", "setup": "moderate: pip install piper-tts, then download a voice model.", "github_stars": 6300, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-13", "last_release": "2026-09-04", "zekai_score": 7.5, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/piper/" }, { "name": "Kokoro", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "Apache-2.0", "best_for": "Small open voice model with Apache weights", "difference": "Kokoro is an 82-million-parameter model whose weights are Apache-licensed, so you can ship it in a product without a licence fee; voices are picked by name, such as af_heart.", "website": "https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro", "repository": "https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/kokoro/", "commercial_use": "Yes; the code and the model weights are Apache-2.0.", "runs_on": "82M-parameter model installed with pip plus espeak-ng; Apple MPS acceleration is supported.", "setup": "moderate: pip install kokoro, install espeak-ng, then a few lines of Python.", "github_stars": 10100, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2025-08-06", "zekai_score": 5.8, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/kokoro/" }, { "name": "sherpa-onnx", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "Apache-2.0", "best_for": "Offline TTS inside mobile and embedded apps", "difference": "sherpa-onnx is a toolkit rather than one voice: it runs TTS, speech recognition, speaker diarization and VAD offline, with builds for Android, iOS, WebAssembly and NodeJS.", "website": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx", "repository": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/sherpa-onnx/", "commercial_use": "Yes (Apache-2.0).", "runs_on": "x86 or ARM CPUs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi.", "setup": "moderate: Install a language package, then download a pretrained model for TTS.", "github_stars": 15900, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-13", "last_release": "2026-11-11", "zekai_score": 7.5, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/sherpa-onnx/" }, { "name": "VoxCPM", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "Apache-2.0", "best_for": "Multilingual voice cloning and voice design", "difference": "VoxCPM2 is a 2B-parameter model with 30 languages, voice design from a text description and cloning from a short clip, with Apache-2.0 weights and code.", "website": "https://voxcpm.readthedocs.io", "repository": "https://github.com/OpenBMB/VoxCPM", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/voxcpm/", "commercial_use": "Yes; the README says weights and code are Apache-2.0, free for commercial use.", "runs_on": "Python 3.10-3.12, PyTorch 2.5+, CUDA 12+; CPU and Apple MPS are selectable.", "setup": "hard: Needs a CUDA-ready PyTorch environment, then pip install voxcpm.", "github_stars": 42400, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-09", "last_release": "2026-05-11", "zekai_score": 7.7, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/voxcpm/" }, { "name": "Chatterbox", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "MIT", "best_for": "MIT-licensed voice agents with laugh tags", "difference": "Chatterbox embeds Resemble AI's PerTh watermark in every file it generates, and its README says the code now stays public as an archive with no support or updates.", "website": "https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox", "repository": "https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/chatterbox/", "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT); the README adds a watermark to every output file.", "runs_on": "Nano (110M) runs on CPU, 3x real-time on 8 cores; others want CUDA.", "setup": "moderate: pip install chatterbox-tts; the README develops on Python 3.11.", "github_stars": 27800, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-04", "last_release": "2025-06-13", "zekai_score": 7.2, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/chatterbox/" }, { "name": "Coqui TTS (Idiap fork)", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "MPL-2.0", "best_for": "Maintained fork of the original Coqui toolkit", "difference": "This Idiap fork continues the original Coqui repository, which its README calls unmaintained, and offers training tools, dataset utilities and pre-trained models in over 1,100 languages.", "website": "https://coqui-tts.readthedocs.io", "repository": "https://github.com/idiap/coqui-tts", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/coqui-tts/", "commercial_use": "Yes for the code (MPL-2.0); check each model's own licence, including XTTS.", "runs_on": "Python 3.10 to 3.14 with PyTorch; the README gives no VRAM figure.", "setup": "moderate: uv pip install coqui-tts after installing PyTorch; models download on use.", "github_stars": 2400, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-13", "last_release": "2026-10-19", "zekai_score": 6.8, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/coqui-tts/" }, { "name": "F5-TTS", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "MIT", "best_for": "Flow-matching TTS driven by reference audio", "difference": "F5-TTS code is MIT, but its README says the pre-trained models are CC-BY-NC because of the Emilia training data, which rules out commercial output.", "website": "https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS", "repository": "https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/f5-tts/", "commercial_use": "No for the pre-trained models (CC-BY-NC); the code itself is MIT.", "runs_on": "Nvidia, AMD or Intel GPU through PyTorch; a Docker image with --gpus=all is provided.", "setup": "hard: Install the right PyTorch build for your GPU first, then pip install f5-tts.", "github_stars": 15600, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2026-11-03", "last_release": "2026-07-23", "zekai_score": 6.8, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/f5-tts/" }, { "name": "WhisperSpeech", "type": "Open source", "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)", "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)", "licence": "MIT", "best_for": "Commercially safe TTS trained on licensed data", "difference": "WhisperSpeech inverts OpenAI Whisper to make speech, says its models are trained only on properly licensed data, and currently ships English only.", "website": "https://github.com/WhisperSpeech/WhisperSpeech", "repository": "https://github.com/WhisperSpeech/WhisperSpeech", "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/whisperspeech/", "commercial_use": "Yes; the README says code is Apache-2.0 or MIT and training data is licensed.", "runs_on": "README reports 12x real-time on an RTX 4090; no minimum is stated.", "setup": "moderate: Run the Colab notebook, or run the notebook locally.", "github_stars": 4700, "stars_checked": "2026-11-13", "last_commit": "2025-06-08", "zekai_score": 6.3, "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/whisperspeech/" } ], "faq": [ { "q": "What is the best alternative to Speechify in 2027?", "a": "ElevenLabs is the best overall Speechify alternative on this page ($6/mo). For no cost, Fish Audio has a free plan (8,000 credits monthly, 500 characters per generation). To self-host, Piper is open source (GPL-3.0-or-later)." }, { "q": "Is there a free version of Speechify?", "a": "Yes. Speechify has a free plan: 10 voices, up to 1.5x speed. Paid plans start at $29/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026." }, { "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Speechify?", "a": "Yes. Piper, Kokoro, sherpa-onnx, VoxCPM, Chatterbox, Coqui TTS (Idiap fork), F5-TTS, WhisperSpeech are open source and free to self-host. ElevenLabs, WellSaid Labs, Fish Audio, Voicemaker, Resemble AI have a free plan with limits, shown in the table." }, { "q": "What is cheaper than Speechify?", "a": "Voicemaker starts at $5/mo, against $29/mo for Speechify, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026." }, { "q": "How much do Speechify alternatives cost for a team of 5?", "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 11 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Voicemaker $25/mo, ElevenLabs $30/mo, Fish Audio $55/mo, against Speechify $145/mo for Speechify. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size." }, { "q": "Which is better, ElevenLabs or Speechify?", "a": "ElevenLabs sells credits and Studio projects: its free plan lists 10k credits a month and 3 Studio projects, and a Business tier cites low-latency TTS, where Speechify's free tier is capped at 10 voices. Choose ElevenLabs if you want to generate voiceovers or product audio with credit-based plans and an API. Stay with Speechify if you mainly want to listen to PDFs, articles and books on your phone with a reader app." }, { "q": "Why are people leaving Speechify?", "a": "The documented reasons are: Speechify's free plan is limited to 10 voices and speeds up to 1.5x, while the 1000+ voices, 60+ languages and 5x speeds are Premium-only (11 Nov 2026); Speechify Premium is priced at $29 per month billed monthly or $139 billed yearly, a gap the pricing page frames as saving 60% on the annual toggle (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above." }, { "q": "What is better than Speechify?", "a": "It depends on the job. ElevenLabs and Fish Audio suit people generating voiceovers or cloned voices, while open projects like VoxCPM suit self-hosting." } ], "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.", "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/speechify/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted." }