ElevenLabs vs Rime

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

Relationship

Rime's own comparison page positions its Mist and Coda voices against ElevenLabs text-to-speech.

1 shared capabilityShared product typeSourced competitorCreate synthetic voice and audio

1 shared capability — Across all their products, both list text to speech.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship API service.

Ludbee product records

Sourced competitor — “ElevenLabs is built primarily for content creation: think video narration, audiobooks, marketing voiceovers.”

rime.ai · checked 2026-10-13

Create synthetic voice and audio — Rivals on this job — Turn text into speech, clone or convert a voice, and generate or edit audio and music.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldElevenLabsRime
StageLate-stageUndisclosed
Founded20222022 match
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAPI service, Agent platform, ApplicationAPI service
HeadquartersNew York, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 1

Text to speech

Not verified for Rime · 11

Audio editingCustomer supportImage editingImage generationMusic generationSpeech to textTranslationVideo generationVoice agentVoice conversionWorkflow automation

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

Rime has no capability ElevenLabs lacks, among the 1 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

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.

Rime

API service

Mist / CodaAPI service

Text-to-speech voice models sold by API, or self-hosted, to teams building enterprise voice agents; priced per character.

No counterpart

ElevenLabs sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Rime 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.

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

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.