DeepL vs ElevenLabs

DeepL — Application · Private · $2B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  ElevenLabs — Application · Private · $11B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

DeepL Voice for Meetings and Dubbing do comparable work on text to speech and translation; larger scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

4 of 5 capabilities — Shares speech to text, text to speech, translation and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — ElevenLabs: $11B valuation, against DeepL's $2B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDeepLElevenLabs
Valuation$2B$11B ElevenLabs has 5.5× more
Employees1,000450 ElevenLabs has 2.2× fewer
Founded20172022 5 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerApplication, Model APIAPI service, Agent platform, Application
HeadquartersCologne, GermanyNew York, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Speech to textText to speechTranslationWorkflow automation

Not verified for ElevenLabs · 1

Text generation

Recorded for DeepL. ElevenLabs’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for DeepL · 8

Audio editingCustomer supportImage editingImage generationMusic generationVideo generationVoice agentVoice conversion

Recorded for ElevenLabs. DeepL’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

DeepL

Application

DeepL Customization HubApplication

Control layer for on-brand AI translation: glossaries, style rules, translation memories and style profiles applied across DeepL's API and Translator products for B2B communication.

DeepL Translation FlowApplication

End-to-end multilingual project-workflow management, integrating with DeepL's Translator/Write/API and third-party systems (Google Drive, SharePoint, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful).

DeepL TranslatorApplication

Translates text and whole documents between its supported languages.

DeepL Voice for ConversationsApplication

Real-time speech translation for in-person, face-to-face conversation between multiple languages, with a comfortable dual-viewing mode; available on iOS, Android and web.

DeepL Voice for MeetingsApplication

Real-time voice-to-voice translation and multilingual subtitles for online meetings in Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, in 30 spoken and 40+ caption languages.

DeepL WriteApplication

Rewrites text for grammar, tone and phrasing in its supported languages.

ElevenLabs

Application

AI Voice ChangerApplication

Real-time and file-based voice conversion tool that changes a recorded voice while preserving its original performance.

Ads EngineApplication

Localizes and refreshes advertising creative across 50+ languages, with audio dubbing, image adaptation and text translation for Google Ads and Meta Ads.

DubbingApplication

Audio-to-audio dubbing across 90+ languages and accents that conditions on source performance (not a transcript) to preserve emotion and tone, with voice cloning.

ElevenCreativeApplication

AI-native creative workspace unifying voice, music, sound-effect, image and video generation with dubbing/localization, editable in a browser Studio.

ElevenCreative FlowsApplication

Chains image, video, voice and SFX generation into automated visual flows to create unlimited campaign variations from one template.

ElevenLabs Voice CloningApplication

Instant and Professional voice cloning (IVC/PVC) that creates a synthetic replica of a speaker's voice.

ElevenMusicApplication

Music generation, remixing and creation product ("Listen, remix, and create tracks"), built on the Music v2 engine, targeted at independent musicians.

Image to Video AI ConversionApplication

Creates videos from images and integrates AI voice, using a credit-based system.

StudioApplication

End-to-end workflow for producing audiobooks, podcasts and narrated videos, integrating Voice Library, Voice Design, Professional Voice Cloning and Eleven Music.

Text to Sound EffectsApplication

Generates sound effects from text prompts, with royalty-free commercial usage rights on paid plans.

Voice DesignApplication

Generates customized synthetic voices from text descriptions, powered by the Text to Speech v3 model.

Voice IsolatorApplication

Removes background noise, isolates vocals and removes music from audio or video recordings.

No counterpart

DeepL sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for ElevenLabs yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

DeepL APIModel API

Hosted translation API billed by the character.

ElevenLabs sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for DeepL yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

ElevenAPIAPI service

Unified programmatic API for ElevenLabs' audio AI models (speech, voice, music, sound effects, dubbing, transcription), billed per usage from the shared credit pool.

ElevenLabs Text to SpeechAPI service

Generates speech from text in a range of voices and languages, in the browser and through an API.

ScribeAPI service

Transcribes audio to text with speaker labels and word-level timings.

Agent platform

ElevenLabs AgentsAgent platform

Builds and runs voice AND chat agents that handle customer conversations over the phone, on the web and in chat, with enterprise integrations into CRM, payment and calendar systems.