ElevenLabs
Voice & dialogue · Free tier + paid- Commercial use
- Commercial on paid plans only
- Free plan
- Free plan10,000 credits; non-commercial only
- Ship free-plan output?
- No: paid plan needed
- Engines
- Any (standard file export / engine-agnostic)
ElevenLabs vs Inworld AI
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Our ranking
In Voice & dialogue, ElevenLabs ranks #1 and Inworld AI ranks #2. Eleven v4 Turbo is #1 and Eleven v4 is #2 of 97 models on Artificial Analysis's blind-vote text-to-speech leaderboard. These are ElevenLabs' current models. AA text-to-speech leaderboard
Inworld AI
Voice & dialogue · Free tier + paid- Commercial use
- Commercial use allowed
- Free plan
- Free planFree pay-as-you-go account
- Ship free-plan output?
- Yes
- Engines
- Unity, Unreal
Bottom line for game devs
- Commercial use: ElevenLabs: commercial on paid plans only terms. Inworld AI: commercial use allowed terms.
- Free plan: ElevenLabs: free plan (10,000 credits; non-commercial only) pricing. Inworld AI: free plan (Free pay-as-you-go account) pricing.
- Shipping free-plan output in a paid game: only Inworld AI allows it, per their published terms.
- API and MCP: both: public API, official MCP server.
- Engine integrations stated by the vendor: ElevenLabs: none stated (standard file export). Inworld AI: Unity, Unreal.
Best for
NPC voice lines and SFX on a paid plan
Realtime TTS and LLM for voiced characters
What it does
Text-to-speech, voices, sound effects and music generation; usable for NPC voice lines and SFX.
Realtime text-to-speech and LLM inference platform that can power voiced, interactive characters.
Verdict
For NPC voice lines and SFX; free-plan output is non-commercial, so a paid plan is required to ship.
For realtime TTS and LLM-driven characters on pay-as-you-go pricing; its terms assign outputs to you.
Tasks●
Voice & dialogue, Music & SFX
Voice & dialogue, NPC & AI characters
Engines●
Any (standard file export / engine-agnostic)
Unity, Unreal
Free plan
Free plan 10,000 credits; non-commercial only
Free plan Free pay-as-you-go account
Pricing
Free US$0 (10,000 credits). Starter US$6, Creator US$22 (US$11 first month), Pro US$99, Scale US$299, Business US$990 per month. Enterprise custom. source
Free pay-as-you-go (US$25 per 1M chars TTS). Subscriptions US$25, US$100, US$300 and US$1,500 per month with included credits and lower rates. source
Commercial use●
Commercial on paid plans only
Terms: free-plan users may only use the Services for non-commercial purposes; paid-subscription users may use them commercially (subject to the Prohibited Use Policy). source
Terms: free-plan users may only use the Services for non-commercial purposes; paid-subscription users may use them commercially (subject to the Prohibited Use Policy). source
Commercial use allowed
Terms: subject to compliance, Inworld assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in Outputs. Pricing page also lists a commercial license. source
Terms: subject to compliance, Inworld assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in Outputs. Pricing page also lists a commercial license. source
Revenue share / caps
Not stated by vendor
Not stated by vendor
MCP server
Official MCP server. Hosted MCP server (OAuth) source
Official MCP server. MCP server via the Inworld CLI source
Last checked
Rows marked ● differ between the two tools. Licence badges: green = commercial use allowed (including any free plan or trial), amber = paid plans only, restricted, or allowed but with no free plan, red = not allowed, grey = not stated by vendor or not applicable. Read the vendor's current terms before you ship.