texttovoice.site vs. ElevenLabs: Free Tier?
Last checked: July 31, 2026. Pricing pages change without notice; verify current figures on each provider's site before relying on them.
The short answer: HixCodeTTSv1's free tier has no expiry and no commercial-use restriction, and its paid tiers are one-time character packs starting at $5 for 1,000,000 characters that never expire. ElevenLabs prices in "credits" rather than characters, its free tier excludes commercial use, and every paid plan is a recurring monthly subscription starting at $6/month for 30,000 characters.
Pricing model
This is the core difference between the two products. HixCodeTTSv1 sells character packs: pay once, use the balance whenever, no expiry, no auto-renewal. ElevenLabs, like most TTS platforms, runs entirely on recurring monthly subscriptions; there's no one-time-purchase option at any tier.
Free tier, in characters
ElevenLabs' free plan includes 10,000 credits per month (about 10,000 characters at the standard 1:1 rate), but explicitly excludes commercial use: you can test the product, not ship a project with it. HixCodeTTSv1's free tier gives every account a 5,000-character daily budget, split across as many requests as you like, with no credit card required and no commercial-use restriction stated on the free tier.
All tiers, side by side in characters
| Plan | Price | Characters | Billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| HixCodeTTSv1 Free | $0 | 5,000/day, any split of requests | No expiry |
| ElevenLabs Free | $0 | ~10,000/month | Resets monthly |
| HixCodeTTSv1 1M Characters | $5 one-time | 1,000,000 | Never expires |
| HixCodeTTSv1 2M Characters | $9 one-time | 2,000,000 | Never expires |
| HixCodeTTSv1 3M Characters | $12 one-time | 3,000,000 | Never expires |
| ElevenLabs Starter | $6/month | ~30,000/month | Resets monthly |
| ElevenLabs Creator | $22/month (50% off first month) | ~121,000/month | Resets monthly |
| ElevenLabs Pro | $99/month | ~600,000/month | Resets monthly |
| ElevenLabs Scale | $299/month | ~1,800,000/month | Resets monthly |
| ElevenLabs Business | $990/month | ~6,000,000/month | Resets monthly |
"$22/month" is ElevenLabs' standard, ongoing Creator price. Their pricing page currently shows "$11" as a first-month-only 50%-off promotion, reverting to $22/month from the second month on.
What the same character volume costs
Comparing per-1,000-characters cost makes the pricing-model difference concrete. HixCodeTTSv1's $5 pack works out to roughly $0.005 per 1,000 characters, paid once. ElevenLabs' Starter plan works out to roughly $0.20 per 1,000 characters ($6 ÷ 30), but that rate is billed every single month, whether or not you use the full allowance, and the unused portion doesn't carry over to a one-time balance the way a character pack does.
Which one to pick
ElevenLabs' strength is language coverage, voice design, and its API ecosystem, a better fit if you need many languages or are building a product around its API at sustained monthly volume. If your use case is English (American or British) narration, used occasionally rather than constantly, a one-time character pack tends to cost less over a year than a monthly subscription, since there's nothing to cancel or forget about.