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Yoob vs ElevenLabs: an ElevenLabs alternative

Expressive text to speech and transcription at a quarter of ElevenLabs' API rate or less, with the same kind of inline emotion tags and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Price, at published list rates

YoobElevenLabs
Text to speech$0.01 (Fast) or $0.02 (Best) per 1K characters$0.04 per 1K characters (Flash / Turbo), $0.08 (Multilingual)
Speech to text, files$0.055 an hour$0.22 an hour
Speech to text, live$0.10 an hour$0.39 an hour

ElevenLabs rates from elevenlabs.io/pricing/api, read 1 November 2026. Yoob rates from yoob.com/pricing. Prices exclude tax; volume and enterprise discounts on either side are not shown. Spotted an outdated number? Tell us and we fix it.

What you get with Yoob

  • Emotion, sound and delivery tags written into the text: [tender], [sigh], [laughing], 17 feelings and 16 sounds.
  • 493 voices in 24 accents, 48 kHz audio, streamed over HTTP or a WebSocket that takes text as your model writes it.
  • Transcripts that carry emotion, sounds and delivery, word timings, a voice profile and a human-or-AI score.
  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech and /v1/audio/transcriptions: switch with a base URL.
  • One key and one balance for speech, transcription, voice agents, AI-voice detection and avatars.
  • A Free plan every month: 5 minutes of speech and 10 minutes of transcription.

Where ElevenLabs is stronger

  • Many more languages. Yoob's voices speak English today, in 24 accents.
  • A larger voice marketplace and dubbing tools for video.

Switching takes two lines

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://tts-api.yoob.com/v1", api_key=YOOB_API_KEY)
audio = client.audio.speech.create(
    model="yoob-tts-1", voice="w1243",
    input="[excited] Okay, do not freak out. [gasp] They want me to start on Monday!")
audio.write_to_file("line.wav")

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