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Amazon Polly vs ElevenLabs comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Polly
Ranking in Text-To-Speech Services
1st
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ElevenLabs
Ranking in Text-To-Speech Services
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Text-To-Speech Services category, the mindshare of Amazon Polly is 10.8%, down from 26.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ElevenLabs is 11.1%, up from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Text-To-Speech Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Polly10.8%
ElevenLabs11.1%
Other78.1%
Text-To-Speech Services
 

Featured Reviews

AG
Senior Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Text has been converted to speech across multiple languages with customizable voice settings
The most beneficial aspect of Amazon Polly is its ability to convert text to speech in multiple languages. It allows us to change the voice configurations for both male and female voices, and enables adjustments in pronunciation and delays. These features help us effectively target our users. Additionally, the integration capabilities with AWS services like Lambda aid us in storing Polly voice messages in DynamoDB and S3. It also offers configurations in multiple languages, enhancing our service reach.
Prateek Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner & Managing Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
AI voiceovers have transformed content workflows and now deliver natural, consistent narration
The standout features for me in ElevenLabs are the instant voice cloning and incredibly natural inflection, which avoids that robotic cadence. The Voice Design tool is also quite good for quickly tweaking stability, clarity, and style to match whatever tone our content needs. The instant voice cloning and the Voice Design tool in ElevenLabs are extremely straightforward for my team to use. Our team got the hang of them almost immediately with practically zero learning curve. The quality has been very consistent across different projects, though we do occasionally regenerate a line and adjust the stability slider if the first take feels slightly off. I wish more people knew about ElevenLabs' AI dubbing and speech-to-speech. Being able to translate content into multiple languages while preserving the original speaker's exact tone, emotion, and cadence is an absolute game-changer. ElevenLabs has positively impacted my organization by cutting our voiceover turnaround time by roughly 70% and significantly lowering our reliance on external voice talent. More importantly, it made updating existing audio files instantaneous. Script revisions no longer stall our production schedules. That 70% reduction has cut our production cycle from nearly two weeks of booking and revisions down to just a couple of days. Cost-wise, we saved several thousand dollars per quarter on freelance voice talent and studio fees, which we've been able to reinvest back into video and design.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can use the SSML tags in Amazon Polly to modify text-to-speech by controlling speech patterns and behaviour."
"Amazon Polly is useful because it's helpful to hear the words on top of it when I can't take in information in a general way. Sometimes, it's very taxing if I'm trying to read cases. They have the neural voices, and they're so realistic. You don't even know that a person is not reading to you, making things much better. I know that they do have the ability to provide you with your own lexicon that's personal to you. I like that you can adjust the pitch and the speed of the voice because some people talk way too fast. Or if you're reading, I read slowly, so that's always helpful. One of the functions that I find helpful is that when reading material on the web, it's like it has its own browser. You go to the URL, and you don't have to read the whole thing, and you can stick the cursor on the place where you want it to start. Then if you want it to skip over something, you put it somewhere else, and that's ideal for reading case law because you skip around a lot. You don't really read it from start to finish. It helps if someone's going to read all those citations because they definitely want to be able to skip that."
"The most beneficial aspect of Amazon Polly is its ability to convert text to speech in multiple languages."
"The sound generated by Amazon Polly is very natural, and I appreciate the options to select different voices, including an expensive or cheaper one, and the Structured Speech Markup Language (SSML) feature allows me to specify if I want a warmer or higher tune, which has helped make the meditations sound very natural."
"They have the neural voices, and they're so realistic, you don't even know that a person is not reading to you, making things much better."
"Amazon Polly offers significant features like the ability to select different voice categories and language options, such as Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French, which is particularly useful for maintaining worldwide contact centers and enhances customer experience by allowing us to give voice responses instead of text-based responses."
"For organizations considering ElevenLabs, I would say to start as soon as possible because it is a pretty useful platform."
"ElevenLabs has positively impacted my organization by cutting our voiceover turnaround time by roughly 70% and significantly lowering our reliance on external voice talent."
 

Cons

"Amazon Polly's standard text-to-speech feature could be enhanced to deliver more natural and expressive human-like speech."
"The price could be better. I wish it weren't so expensive to do because it's really cool. I would love to see them have lexicon packages of them like, this is for lawyers, this is for accountants, and it's going to have a lot of things in it. I also think they could do a better job at showing use cases other than telemarketing or contact center stuff like bots that are very commercial. I know that's where the money is, but it's such a huge hole that's missing for people with disabilities that are even worse than mine. Some people cannot see or hear at all, but they're not just cognitively impaired."
"The price could be better; I wish it weren't so expensive to do because it's really cool."
"Another point is that Amazon Polly needs better hard phone capability compared to Cisco solutions, which easily connect with hard phones."
"When you put more tags inside Amazon Polly to define break time and instruct the speech to be conversational, sometimes it gives you an error."
"To get to the solution, there are many steps to go through, such as setting up AWS, which is a lot of hops."
"The workflow section, where I am building the bots, could use enhancements."
"The main frustration with ElevenLabs is character allowance consumption."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you must pay according to your usage."
"The price could be better. Neural voices are so realistic, and I want to say that they have it so that you can try to tell where the voice is coming from or something like that. But if I have more than one, it's so expensive to have to listen to a bunch of cases on my phone and have the neural voice read to me. It really wouldn't be worth it. It'd be paying probably more than what I make in the case. Right now, I'm on the free tier, and I think the number of minutes that you get is reasonable as long as you're not doing this all the time and you're using it judiciously. I have some credits that I think I can use, but I don't know how fast they'll go through."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Media Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
10%
Wholesaler/Distributor
10%
Educational Organization
10%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Polly?
Amazon Polly uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model. The standard voice type costs around $4 per one million characters, while the neural voice type costs approximately $10. It is free for the first tw...
What needs improvement with Amazon Polly?
Amazon Polly's standard text-to-speech feature could be enhanced to deliver more natural and expressive human-like speech. New speaking styles, emotions, more languages, and advanced features could...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Polly?
We are using Amazon Polly ( /products/amazon-polly-reviews ) to convert text into speech. It is being utilized to provide speech and voice messages to disabled users and also to deliver these speec...
What needs improvement with ElevenLabs?
The main frustration with ElevenLabs is character allowance consumption. Having to regenerate full paragraphs just to fix a slightly off pronunciation burns through the credits pretty quickly. I wo...
What is your primary use case for ElevenLabs?
My main use case for ElevenLabs is generating high-quality AI voiceovers and voice cloning across our regular content workflows. Recently, we produced a series of short product demo videos where we...
What advice do you have for others considering ElevenLabs?
My advice to others looking into using ElevenLabs is to start with short scripts to dial in your voice stability and clarity settings before committing to full-length audio, so you do not burn thro...
 

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