ElevenLabs vs Inworld AI

ElevenLabs — Application · Private · Late-stage · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Inworld AI — Application · Private · Undisclosed · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Scribe and Realtime STT both list speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Inworld AI's scale not recorded.

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

5 shared capabilitiesShared product type

5 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list image generation, speech to text, text to speech and 2 more.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship API service.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldElevenLabsInworld AI
StageLate-stageUndisclosed
Founded20222021 1 yr earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, ApplicationAPI service, Infrastructure service, Model API, Platform
HeadquartersNew York, USAMountain View, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Image generationSpeech to textText to speechVideo generationVoice agent

Not verified for Inworld AI · 7

Audio editingCustomer supportImage editingMusic generationTranslationVoice conversionWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for ElevenLabs · 2

Model inferenceText generation

Recorded for Inworld AI. ElevenLabs’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

ElevenLabs

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.

Speech EngineAPI service

A service that adds speech recognition and speech synthesis to chat agents while the developer supplies the LLM logic.

Inworld AI

API service

Realtime APIAPI service

Speech-to-speech voice-agent API in which one WebSocket session runs Inworld speech recognition with voice profiling, a chosen LLM from 100+ with tool calling and turn detection, and Realtime TTS-2 voice output.

Realtime STTAPI service

Speech-to-text API (Inworld STT-1) that transcribes streaming or complete audio in 30+ languages with turn detection, returning voice-profile signals for emotion, vocal style, accent, age and pitch alongside the transcript.

Realtime TTSAPI service

Text-to-speech API (Realtime TTS-2 and TTS-2 Flash) with voice cloning and voice design, billed per million characters.

No counterpart

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

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.

ElevenReaderApplication

Mobile and web app that reads any uploaded PDF, ePub, article or text aloud in more than 1,000 AI voices in 90+ languages, with a library of 200,000+ audiobooks and GenFM AI-hosted podcasts built from your own content.

Iconic MarketplaceApplication

Licensing marketplace where creators, developers and enterprises request AI voices of historical and cultural figures and officially licensed characters, with commercial rights on every approval.

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.

Agent platform

ElevenAgentsAgent 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.

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

Platform

Realtime RouterPlatform

OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that sends each request to one of 100+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others by rules on user attributes, context, A/B splits or cost, with failover and provider rates passed through at zero markup.

Infrastructure service

Inworld ComputeInfrastructure service

Dedicated NVIDIA B200 GPUs for high-volume realtime workloads such as LLM inference, dedicated TTS serving and custom model hosting, with Kubernetes access or Inworld-managed deployment, and deployed models routable through Inworld Router.

Model API

Inworld InferenceModel API

Inworld Inference provides API access to text, image, video and decision models.