ElevenLabs vs Helicone
Best-in-class AI text-to-speech + voice cloning + Conversational AI
vs. Open-source LLM observability — 1-line integration via proxy
Pricing tiers
ElevenLabs
Free
10k credits/month. No voice cloning. Limited API.
Free
Starter
$6/mo. 30k credits. Instant voice cloning. Limited API.
$6/mo
Creator
$11/mo (first month 50% off). 121k credits. Professional cloning. Full API.
$11/mo
Pro
$99/mo. 600k credits. 44.1 kHz PCM API. Professional cloning.
$99/mo
Scale
$299/mo. 1.8M credits. 3 professional voice clones.
$299/mo
Business
$990/mo. 6M credits. 10 pro clones. Low-latency TTS API.
$990/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited pro clones + full access.
Custom
Helicone
Hobby (Free)
10,000 requests/month. 7-day retention. 1 seat. Basic monitoring.
Free
Startup Discount
<2 years, <$5M funding: 50% off first year.
$0 base (usage-based)
Self-Hosted (OSS)
MIT-licensed. Run Helicone yourself for free.
$0 base (usage-based)
Pro
$79/month. 10k free + usage-based. Unlimited seats. Alerts, reports, HQL query language. 1-month retention.
$79/mo
Team
$799/month. 5 orgs, SOC-2 + HIPAA compliance, dedicated Slack, 3-month retention.
$799/mo
Enterprise
Custom MSA, SAML SSO, on-prem deploy, bulk discounts, forever retention.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on ElevenLabs vs hobby on Helicone.
| Metric | ElevenLabs | Helicone |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
ElevenLabs · 13 features
- Conversational AI — Voice agents with LLM orchestration + tools.
- Dubbing Studio — Auto-dub video to target languages with lip-sync.
- Projects — Long-form narration workflow — books, podcasts.
- Realtime Streaming — Low-latency TTS streaming via WebSocket.
- Scribe (STT) — High-accuracy speech-to-text with speaker diarization.
- Sound Effects — AI-generated SFX from text prompts.
- Text to Sound — Generate music + sound from text.
- Text-to-Speech — Studio-quality TTS across 29 languages with emotion control.
- Voice Changer — Transform one voice into another preserving delivery.
- Voice Cloning — Instant (short sample) + Professional (30 min +) voice cloning.
- Voice Design — Design voices from text descriptions.
- Voice Library — 3,000+ community voices. License per-voice.
- Voiceover Studio — Multi-character voiceover timeline.
Helicone · 16 features
- Alerts — Thresholds on error rate, latency, cost, usage. Pro+.
- Async Logging — Log AFTER the LLM call via SDK — zero added latency.
- Cost Tracking — Automatic cost calculation per call by provider/model.
- Dashboard — Request tables, aggregate metrics, cost breakdowns.
- Evaluators — LLM-as-judge + custom evaluators on runs.
- Experiments — A/B test different models/prompts.
- HQL (SQL over traces) — Query your logged data with SQL. Pro+.
- PII Redaction — Automatically scrub emails, credit cards, etc. from logs.
- Prompt Caching — Cache identical requests → save money.
- Prompts & Versions — Store + version + A/B test prompts.
- Proxy Mode — 1-line integration via base URL swap. Captures all requests.
- Rate Limiting — Per-user + per-key rate limit policies.
- Reports — Scheduled email reports with KPIs.
- Self-Hosting — Docker + k8s deployment.
- Sessions — Group related calls (chat sessions, agent runs).
- User Metrics — Per-user cost + usage segmentation.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | ElevenLabs | Helicone |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Helicone CLI |
| SDK | elevenlabs (Node), elevenlabs (Python) | helicone (npm), helicone-python |
| REST | ElevenLabs REST API | Async Logging API, Helicone Proxy, Query API (HQL) |
| MCP | ElevenLabs MCP | — |
| OTHER | Webhooks, WebSocket Streaming | Helicone Dashboard, Webhooks |
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