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ElevenLabs vs Google Cloud Text-to-Speech comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Ranking in Text-To-Speech Services
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
3
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 ElevenLabs is 11.1%, up from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is 11.0%, down from 23.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Text-To-Speech Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech11.0%
ElevenLabs11.1%
Other77.9%
Text-To-Speech Services
 

Featured Reviews

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.
reviewer2252211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect & NLP Python Developer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Support issues overshadow solid features in daily operations
The support is inadequate. We are dealing with them on our development talk today. There's a lot of finger-pointing going on in terms of whose problem it is. Moving our stuff up to the Google Cloud and getting it to work just as well as it does on people's development machines is problematic. Their support for that, even though we paid for it, isn't really very helpful. That's prevalent in the computer business. You need to have your own experts, otherwise you're really in trouble. The product is an eight out of 10. The support is at best a five. We have to write certain features ourselves because their offerings aren't very powerful. When I don't have a problem, it works pretty well, better than anybody else. But when I do have a problem, I'm severely impacted. It takes a lot of time and money to go back and fix it. What has gotten better with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is their stuff sounds so natural, it really brings a smile to my face. I wish their support would be better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ElevenLabs has positively impacted my organization by cutting our voiceover turnaround time by roughly 70% and significantly lowering our reliance on external voice talent."
"For organizations considering ElevenLabs, I would say to start as soon as possible because it is a pretty useful platform."
"It's very stable, and the translation capabilities are better than, for example, Microsoft."
"What has gotten better with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is their stuff sounds so natural, it really brings a smile to my face."
"It's not complex to set up."
"Precision is the most valuable feature of Google Cloud Text-to-Speech because the text is perfectly voiced."
 

Cons

"The main frustration with ElevenLabs is character allowance consumption."
"The workflow section, where I am building the bots, could use enhancements."
"We had some problems with Dialogflow."
"Google Cloud Text-to-Speech has just one female voice and one male voice in Brazil, while it has a lot of voices in other countries."
"Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is 100 out of 100 when it works, and when it doesn't work, which is fairly often, it gets a zero."
"I don't like the sentiment analysis. I don't feel like it's that realistic."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I rate Google Cloud Text-to-Speech three out of ten for pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
10%
Wholesaler/Distributor
10%
Educational Organization
10%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Construction Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech?
Our experience is we didn't have any other choice. We can't really say that it's well-priced or badly priced. We just didn't have another choice as far as we were concerned.
What needs improvement with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech?
The support is inadequate. We are dealing with them on our development talk today. There's a lot of finger-pointing going on in terms of whose problem it is. Moving our stuff up to the Google Cloud...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Text-to-Speech?
We use Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech to be able to talk to our users. We have an AI meaning engine that back-ends that. Once we get the speech, we can tell what it means. That's our use case. W...
 

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Sample Customers

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Home Depot, Paypal, Target, HSBC, McKesson
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