Best AI Voice Cloning Tools in 2026: Cost Per Minute and Consent Rules Compared
Seven tools that make a voice clone, compared on what each generated minute costs, which plan includes cloning and the consent rule each one sets, if any.
Cartesia is the cheapest per generated minute: its Pro plan includes instant cloning for $5 a month, about 4 cents a minute, and its Startup plan drops to about 3 cents. ElevenLabs is the clone we would start with when it has to pass as the real speaker, and its professional clone sits on the Creator plan at $22 a month, about 18 cents per generated minute. Developers who want no license fee can self-host Chatterbox or OpenVoice, both MIT-licensed, and carry the consent check themselves.
Key facts7 tools compared: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Typecast, Kits.ai, Murf AI, Chatterbox, OpenVoice
- 7 tools compared: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Typecast, Kits.ai, Murf AI, Chatterbox, OpenVoice
- Cartesia (best for: Developers and small teams that want the lowest cost per generated minute with a paid clone): Pro $5/mo for instant cloning; Startup $49/mo adds two professional clone slots
- Typecast (best for: Voice actors and small studios that test many takes and pay only for the audio they download): Basic $5/mo with one instant clone slot; Plus $19/mo adds one professional clone slot
- Kits.ai (best for: Makers who test many conversions and pay only for the minutes they download): Starter $10/mo with instant cloning; Producer $30/mo adds professional cloning and 60 download minutes
Searches for voice cloning mix three jobs: a free test of your own voice, a paid clone for a podcast or course, and a developer who wants to run the model. The cost question settles most of them, so this page starts there.
Every vendor bills in a different unit, from credits and characters to download minutes, so we converted each allowance into dollars per minute of audio. Then we checked what each vendor requires before a clone is saved. Vendor pages were read on 10 October 2026.
For the steps, read How to Clone Your Voice With AI in 2026 first; this page covers which tool to pay for. If you want the broader text-to-speech market, see the best text-to-speech software guide.
Top Picks
Based on features, real-world fit, and value for money.
Our first pick when the clone has to pass as the real speaker. Creator includes about 121 minutes a month, which works out to about 18 cents a generated minute.
Free has no cloning; Starter $6/mo for an instant clone; Creator $22/mo adds one professional clone
Creators and narrators who need the most convincing clone and a clear consent trail
The cheapest paid clone on this list. Pro is about 4 cents a minute and Startup or Scale about 3 cents, using the minute counts the pricing page states.
Pro $5/mo for instant cloning; Startup $49/mo adds two professional clone slots
Developers and small teams that want the lowest cost per generated minute with a paid clone
Generation and playback are unlimited, and credits are used only when you download audio. Basic works out to about 14 cents per downloaded minute.
Basic $5/mo with one instant clone slot; Plus $19/mo adds one professional clone slot
Voice actors and small studios that test many takes and pay only for the audio they download
| Tool | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | Free has no cloning; Starter $6/mo for an instant clone; Creator $22/mo adds one professional clone | Creators and narrators who need the most convincing clone and a clear consent trail |
| Cartesia | Pro $5/mo for instant cloning; Startup $49/mo adds two professional clone slots | Developers and small teams that want the lowest cost per generated minute with a paid clone |
| Typecast | Basic $5/mo with one instant clone slot; Plus $19/mo adds one professional clone slot | Voice actors and small studios that test many takes and pay only for the audio they download |
| Kits.ai | Starter $10/mo with instant cloning; Producer $30/mo adds professional cloning and 60 download minutes | Makers who test many conversions and pay only for the minutes they download |
| Murf AI | Professional voice cloning is quote-only; the cloning page shows no price | Companies that want a cloned voice inside a studio editor and can buy through a sales call |
| Chatterbox | Free and MIT-licensed; you pay only for the compute to run it yourself | Developers who want a clone with no license fee and can host it themselves |
| OpenVoice | Free under the MIT license for commercial and research use; self-hosted | Developers building a commercial product who want a free zero-shot clone they can run |
Pricing read from each vendor's own pricing page, checked Oct 2026. 1 of 7 sells by quote only and publishes no price; that entry says so rather than estimating.
ElevenLabs
Our first pick when the clone has to pass as the real speaker. Creator includes about 121 minutes a month, which works out to about 18 cents a generated minute.
- Pricing
- Free has no cloning; Starter $6/mo for an instant clone; Creator $22/mo adds one professional clone
Best for: Creators and narrators who need the most convincing clone and a clear consent trail
Pros
- Instant cloning from Starter, and the commercial license starts on the same tier
- Creator adds one professional clone and about 121 minutes of speech a month
- Instant cloning asks you to confirm consent before a clone is saved
Cons
- Starter's 30,000 credits cover only about 30 minutes, so regular narration pushes you to Creator
- Professional cloning covers only your own voice, even with another person's consent
Cartesia
The cheapest paid clone on this list. Pro is about 4 cents a minute and Startup or Scale about 3 cents, using the minute counts the pricing page states.
- Pricing
- Pro $5/mo for instant cloning; Startup $49/mo adds two professional clone slots
Best for: Developers and small teams that want the lowest cost per generated minute with a paid clone
Pros
- Pro includes instant voice cloning and a commercial use license
- Startup at $49 a month gives two professional clone slots and about 1,667 minutes
- The pricing page says training a professional voice clone is free
Cons
- Pro has instant cloning only, so a professional clone means moving up to Startup
- Credits run at 750 to 800 per minute of audio, so a heavy month can use up the 100,000-credit Pro pool quickly
Typecast
Generation and playback are unlimited, and credits are used only when you download audio. Basic works out to about 14 cents per downloaded minute.
- Pricing
- Basic $5/mo with one instant clone slot; Plus $19/mo adds one professional clone slot
Best for: Voice actors and small studios that test many takes and pay only for the audio they download
Pros
- Credits are charged only on download, so previewing a clone costs nothing extra
- Basic includes one instant clone slot, the cheapest Typecast plan that clones
- Business at $69 a month gives 10 clone slots and about 250 minutes of downloads
Cons
- Plus is the costliest tier per minute, about 38 cents a downloaded minute
- Free has no cloning and only 3,000 lifetime credits, about 5 minutes
Kits.ai
Conversions are unlimited from Starter, so the cost is the download allowance. At Starter, 15 download minutes for $10 works out to about 67 cents a minute.
- Pricing
- Starter $10/mo with instant cloning; Producer $30/mo adds professional cloning and 60 download minutes
Best for: Makers who test many conversions and pay only for the minutes they download
Pros
- Conversions are unlimited on Starter and Producer, so testing costs nothing extra
- Producer includes professional cloning and 60 download minutes
- Professional at $60 a month removes the download cap and includes unlimited cloning
Cons
- Starter is the costliest per minute on this list, about 67 cents a download minute
- Kits.ai's pricing card and FAQ disagree on which tier includes professional cloning, so confirm before you pay
Murf AI
The cloning page routes buyers to sales, so the cost is not published. Murf is the most direct of the vendors here about the consent risk.
- Pricing
- Professional voice cloning is quote-only; the cloning page shows no price
Best for: Companies that want a cloned voice inside a studio editor and can buy through a sales call
Pros
- Its cloning page warns that voice duplication without consent can be considered illegal
- Accepts pre-recorded audio or a recording made directly in the studio
- The cloning page describes Professional Voice Cloning as production-ready
Cons
- No price on the cloning page, so you cannot compare cost per minute before a sales call
- The page does not name the plan that includes cloning
Chatterbox
Zero-shot cloning from a short reference clip, with no per-minute bill. The trade-off is that you host it and every generated file carries a watermark.
- Pricing
- Free and MIT-licensed; you pay only for the compute to run it yourself
Best for: Developers who want a clone with no license fee and can host it themselves
Pros
- MIT-licensed, so the model has no license fee and the per-minute cost is your own compute
- Clones from a short reference clip; the usage example expects about 10 seconds
- Generated files carry a built-in watermark that the project says survives MP3 compression and editing
Cons
- You host and tune it yourself, with no support line or consent workflow
- The project page states no consent requirement, and its misuse disclaimer reads "Don't use this model to do bad things."
OpenVoice
Zero-shot cross-lingual cloning under MIT, so no license fee for commercial use. The project page sets no consent or responsible-use rule of its own.
- Pricing
- Free under the MIT license for commercial and research use; self-hosted
Best for: Developers building a commercial product who want a free zero-shot clone they can run
Pros
- V1 and V2 are both MIT-licensed and free for commercial and research use, per the project page
- Zero-shot cross-lingual cloning copies tone color from a reference clip
- No per-minute bill from the project; the cost is your own compute
Cons
- No hosted app or dashboard, so you need engineering time to run it
- No consent statement on the project page, so the consent check falls to you
What it is
A voice clone is a synthetic copy of one person's voice, built from recorded samples and then used to read new text. Cloning is usually a paid-plan feature, so the real cost is the cheapest plan that includes it, not the price of the cheapest tier.
If you only need a stock voice, our AI voice generator list covers text-to-speech without cloning. If the clone is for translated audio, our AI dubbing tools list compares the tools that do that.
Why it matters
In cloning, the pricing page and the consent rules both decide what you can publish. A free plan may give you minutes but no clone. A paid plan may give you a clone but a commercial license only at a higher tier. And some vendors limit whose voice you may clone at all.
Toolradar data: our AI voice ranking evaluated 125 AI voice tools and is updated for October 2026, and this page keeps the seven tools that sell or give away a clone you can actually make.
If your budget is tight, the cheaper ElevenLabs alternatives guide and the ElevenLabs pricing breakdown cover the cost side in more depth.
Key features to look for
Pricing
Methodology: we kept seven tools that sell or give away a voice clone and whose cloning terms we could read on the vendor's own page on 10 October 2026. Price per minute is the plan price divided by the minutes the vendor states for that plan, on monthly billing.
Typecast and Kits.ai bill downloads rather than generation, so we divided by download minutes. Murf publishes no clone price, so it has no per-minute figure.
Vendor pages show a dollar sign with no currency code, and we read them as US dollars.
Sources: ElevenLabs pricing, ElevenLabs instant voice cloning guide, ElevenLabs professional voice cloning guide, Cartesia pricing, Typecast pricing, Kits.ai pricing, Murf voice cloning, Resemble AI voice cloning, Chatterbox on GitHub and OpenVoice on GitHub.
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Free | Free | 10,000 credits (about 10 minutes), no voice cloning |
| ElevenLabs Starter | $6/mo | 30,000 credits (about 30 minutes), instant clone and commercial license, about 20 cents a minute |
| ElevenLabs Creator | $22/mo | 121,000 credits (about 121 minutes), one professional clone, about 18 cents a minute |
| ElevenLabs Pro | $99/mo | 600,000 credits (about 600 minutes), one professional clone, about 16.5 cents a minute |
| Cartesia Free | Free | 20,000 credits (about 27 minutes), no voice cloning |
| Cartesia Pro | $5/mo | 100,000 credits (about 133 minutes), instant cloning and commercial use, about 4 cents a minute |
| Cartesia Startup | $49/mo | 1.25 million credits (about 1,667 minutes), two professional clone slots, about 3 cents a minute |
| Cartesia Scale | $299/mo | 8 million credits (about 10,667 minutes), four professional clone slots, about 3 cents a minute |
| Typecast Free | Free | 3,000 lifetime credits (about 5 minutes), no cloning |
| Typecast Basic | $5/mo | 30,000 credits a month (about 35 minutes), one instant clone slot, about 14 cents per downloaded minute |
| Typecast Plus | $19/mo | 40,000 credits a month (about 50 minutes), one professional clone slot, about 38 cents per downloaded minute |
| Typecast Business | $69/mo | 200,000 credits a month (about 250 minutes), 10 clone slots, about 28 cents per downloaded minute |
| Kits.ai Free | Free | 15 conversion minutes, no download minutes, no cloning |
| Kits.ai Starter | $10/mo | Unlimited conversions, 15 download minutes, instant cloning, about 67 cents per download minute |
| Kits.ai Producer | $30/mo | Unlimited conversions, 60 download minutes, instant and professional cloning, 50 cents per download minute |
| Murf AI professional voice cloning | Contact sales | Clone built from pre-recorded audio or a studio recording, no list price published for cloning |
| Chatterbox (self-hosted) | Free | MIT license, zero-shot clone from a short reference clip, your own compute only |
| OpenVoice (self-hosted) | Free | MIT license, free for commercial and research use, your own compute only |
The bottom line
Start with ElevenLabs Creator if the clone has to pass as the real speaker: $22 a month, one professional clone and the consent step built in. Start with Cartesia Pro if cost per minute matters more than polish, since its entry plan includes instant cloning.
Startup at $49 a month adds two professional clone slots at the lowest per-minute rate on this list.
Developers who want no license fee should self-host Chatterbox or OpenVoice and accept the hosting work and the consent check that falls to them.
Toolradar profiles: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Typecast, Kits.ai and Murf.
For the free side of the market, read our best free AI voice generators and the ElevenLabs review before you pay.
For a studio editor rather than a clone, the Murf AI review covers the product in depth.
Cite this: AIpresso, "Best AI Voice Cloning Tools in 2026," October 2026.
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Sources
Prices and plan details come from each vendor's own pricing page, re-checked by the Toolradar pricing tracker.
- ElevenLabs pricingchecked Sep 2026
- Murf AI pricingchecked Sep 2026
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