ElevenLabs vs Suno
Both make audio from text — but not the same audio.
Users rate Suno highest of the 2 we can score
Suno sits at 4.89★ from 325k reviews (#2 of 14 tools we can rank), against ElevenLabs at 4.84★ from 19k reviews (#5). That is a verdict on the app people use, not on the work it produces — we have not tested either on a task suite.
Ranked on app-store ratings, weighted by review count — the same ranking every tool page on this site uses
These are not alternatives. ElevenLabs turns written text into lifelike speech in thousands of voices, and can clone a voice from a sample. Suno creates complete original songs, with vocals and lyrics, from a text prompt. If you need a narrator you need the first; if you need a track you need the second. What follows is the verified pricing, free tiers and public ratings for each, because those are the parts people do compare.
What each one looks like
Side by side
Every cell is either a fact with the source and the date we read it, or a sentence saying we hold no verified answer. There is no third option: nothing here is filled in from memory, and a row only appears when at least one of these tools has something real in it.
Swipe the table sideways for Suno.
| Measure | ElevenLabs | Suno |
|---|---|---|
| What users rate itApp-store ratings, ranked by rating weighted by review count — so a 4.88 from three million reviews outranks a 4.9 from four thousand. | 4.84★19k reviews on App Store · #5 of 14 we can rankApple App Store (iTunes Lookup API) · 17 Aug 2026 | 4.89★325k reviews on App Store · #2 of 14 we can rankApple App Store (iTunes Lookup API) · 17 Aug 2026 |
| What people are sayingFrom our own 90-day sweep of Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News and the web. The count always travels with the word. | Too few opinions to call — 1 of 46 posts took a side | Negative11 of the 14 posts that took a side (107 scanned) |
| Cheapest plan we verifiedRead off the vendor's own pricing page and dated. Where a vendor lists plans it only renders in a browser, we hold no cheapest figure and say so rather than quote the top tier. | $6/mostarter plan · US priceelevenlabs.io/pricing · 17 Aug 2026 | $8/mopro plan · US pricesuno.com/pricing · 17 Aug 2026 |
| Free versionConfirmed on the vendor's own pricing page, with the date we read it. | Yesconfirmed 17 Aug 2026elevenlabs.io/pricing · 17 Aug 2026 | Yesconfirmed 17 Aug 2026suno.com/pricing · 17 Aug 2026 |
| Trains on what you typeThe vendor's own published answer. No line renders unless we found the sentence word-for-word in a document we fetched. | They use your text and audio to train their models, but you can turn this off in your account settings.elevenlabs.io ↗ | We could not verify it either way |
| How long they keep it | They keep your personal data for as long as they need it for their purposes, with no specific end date.elevenlabs.io ↗ | They keep your information for as long as they decide it is necessary for their business purposes.suno.com ↗ |
| They warn it can be wrong | No warning we could find in their own docs | The company warns that its service uses experimental technology and might generate inaccurate or offensive content.suno.com ↗ |
| Last app update we sawThe date on the vendor's own app-store listing when we last read it — a rough read on whether the product is still moving. | 14 Aug 2026Apple App Store (iTunes Lookup API) · 17 Aug 2026 | 13 Aug 2026Apple App Store (iTunes Lookup API) · 17 Aug 2026 |
Each one on its own
It turns written text into lifelike speech in thousands of voices, and can clone a voice from a sample.
In their words: “Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform.” — elevenlabs.io ↗ · read 10 Aug 2026
- creator$22/moverified 17 Aug 2026
- pro$99/moverified 17 Aug 2026
- starter$6/moverified 17 Aug 2026
every plan read on elevenlabs.io17 Aug 2026
“ElevenLabs Review (2026) — Why I rate it an 8.1/10 (and who should actually avoid paying for it)”
a quiet post from our 90-day sweep — read it ↗
Create complete, original songs with vocals and lyrics from a simple text prompt.
In their words: “Create stunning original music for free in seconds using our AI generator.” — suno.com ↗ · read 9 Aug 2026
- premier$24/moverified 17 Aug 2026
- pro$8/moverified 17 Aug 2026
every plan read on suno.com17 Aug 2026
“SUNO BETRAYED US FOR GREED”
a negative post from our 90-day sweep — read it ↗
What we could not compare
- No tested score for ElevenLabs and Suno — we score a tool only when it names the model it runs.
- We could not find a quotable sentence about training data for Suno.
These gaps close by themselves: the scanner re-reads every vendor pricing page and app-store listing on a schedule, and this page rebuilds from whatever it found. How the testing works →
Questions people ask
ElevenLabs or Suno — which should I choose?
Users rate Suno highest of the 2 we can score. That is based on app-store ratings, weighted by review count — the same ranking every tool page on this site uses. Suno sits at 4.89★ from 325k reviews (#2 of 14 tools we can rank), against ElevenLabs at 4.84★ from 19k reviews (#5). That is a verdict on the app people use, not on the work it produces — we have not tested either on a task suite.
Which of ElevenLabs, Suno is cheapest?
ElevenLabs starts at $6 a month on its starter plan; Suno starts at $8 a month on its pro plan. Every figure was read off the vendor's own pricing page and is dated on this page.
Do ElevenLabs, Suno train on what you type?
ElevenLabs: They use your text and audio to train their models, but you can turn this off in your account settings. Each of those answers is quoted word-for-word from the vendor's own published document, linked on this page with the date we read it. For Suno we could not find a sentence to quote, so we make no claim.
How do you test these?
We have not run a task suite on these. We score a tool only when it names the model it runs, because a coding assistant or notetaker is a wrapper around a model — so this page compares what we can verify instead: prices from vendor pricing pages, app-store ratings, our 90-day sweep of public opinion, and each company's own written data policy.
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