Lokutor vs ElevenLabs.
ElevenLabs is a widely used synthetic-voice platform and covers far more languages than we do. Lokutor publishes a lower price per minute, with speech recognition and the voice inside it and the language model at a published price per token, and runs in your own infrastructure or on a device.
Published prices and features.
| Lokutor | ElevenLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per minute | about 5.2¢ a minute | 8¢ on every listed plan; 16¢ at burst |
| What the minute covers | Speech recognition and voice in the platform minute; the language model billed by the token | Check on its page whether the language model is billed on top |
| Languages | Nine, including Catalan, Galician and Basque | 32 on its Flash and Turbo models, 29 on Multilingual v2 |
| Text to speech API | $4.10 per million characters | Listed per 1,000 characters: $0.04 on Flash and Turbo, $0.08 on Multilingual v2 and v3, which is $40 to $80 per million. v4 is $0.08 and v4 Turbo $0.04 per 1,000 at their usual price; the page showed them at $0.022 and $0.011 (72% off) until 12 October. Plans include characters at lower effective rates (read 12 October 2026) |
| Speech to text API | $0.084 an hour | $0.22 an hour for Scribe v2, $0.39 for Scribe v2 Realtime (read 12 October 2026) |
| Free to try | $5 of credit, no card | See its pricing page |
| Where it runs | Cloud, on-premise or on-device | Cloud API; ask them about anything else |
ElevenLabs's figures are from its own pricing page, read 12 October 2026; prices change, so check it. Lokutor's are on our pricing page (4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second). This compares published prices and features only. We have not benchmarked ElevenLabs's audio quality or latency, and we are not claiming to beat it on either.
It depends what you need.
Choose ElevenLabs if
- You need more than nine languages: its Flash model lists 32.
- Your product is already built around its voices.
Choose Lokutor if
- You want recognition, the model and the voice on one bill, paid as you go.
- You want a lower published price per character or per hour of audio.
- Your users speak Spanish, Catalan, Galician or Basque.
- You need the stack inside your own infrastructure, or on a device.
Common questions.
How does Lokutor’s price compare with ElevenLabs Agents?
ElevenLabs’ pricing page lists agents at 8¢ a minute, with 16¢ burst pricing (read 12 October 2026). Lokutor works out at about 5.2¢ a minute at a typical prompt: 4.2¢ for the platform, with speech recognition and the voice inside it, plus the language model by the token. Check ElevenLabs’ page for how the language model is billed before comparing totals.
Does Lokutor cover as many languages as ElevenLabs?
No. Lokutor speaks nine languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Portuguese, English, French, Italian and German. ElevenLabs lists 32 on its Flash model. If you need a language outside our nine, ElevenLabs is the better fit.
Is Lokutor cheaper than ElevenLabs?
On published prices, yes. Agents: ElevenLabs lists 8¢ a minute (16¢ at burst) and Lokutor about 5.2¢ at a typical prompt with the language model included, though ElevenLabs may bill the model on top, so check its page. Text to speech API: $4.10 per million characters at Lokutor against $0.04 to $0.08 per 1,000 characters ($40 to $80 per million) on ElevenLabs, read 12 October 2026. Speech to text: $0.084 an hour against $0.22. That is price, not quality: we have not benchmarked ElevenLabs’ audio or latency, and it covers more languages.
What is an ElevenLabs alternative that can run on-premise or on a device?
Lokutor. Its speech models are small enough to run in real time on an ordinary CPU, so the whole voice agent can run on your own servers or inside a device, and it also runs in our EU cloud. ElevenLabs lists a cloud API on its pricing page; ask them about anything else.
What is an ElevenLabs alternative for Catalan, Galician or Basque?
Lokutor speaks Catalan, Galician and Basque with all ten of its voices, and with any voice you clone, next to Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian and German. Check ElevenLabs’ language list for the ones you need; we have not compared voice quality in these languages.
Can I try Lokutor before paying?
Yes. New accounts get $5 of credit when they confirm their email, about 95 minutes of conversation, with no card. You can build an agent, give it a voice and talk to it in the browser in a few minutes.
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