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What should I use if ElevenLabs is down?

The top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives to ElevenLabs are Descript, Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs), Cohere Transcribe. Full list and tier rankings are on this page.

Is ElevenLabs Down?

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Last editorial review: 2026-04-16

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Known issues we've tracked

Platform continues to face deepfake-abuse pressure -- voice cloning requires verified identity for new accounts as of 2026

2026-01•The Verge

11.ai alpha has intermittent latency issues on longer agentic chains -- still maturing

2026-03•Product Hunt 11.ai threads

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if ElevenLabs is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

Descript

8.5

Edit audio and video by editing text -- the 'Google Docs of media editing' actually lives up to the hype

Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs)

8.1

xAI's standalone voice APIs -- launched 2026-04-17. Built on the stack that powers Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support. $0.10/hr STT batch, $4.20 per 1M characters TTS, 25+ languages, word-level timestamps + speaker diarization

Cohere Transcribe

8.0

Cohere's first audio model -- launched 2026-03-26 under Apache 2.0, 2B parameters, #1 on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (5.42 avg WER), 14 enterprise-critical languages. Free API with rate limits; Model Vault for production

Microsoft MAI-Voice-1

7.3

Microsoft's first in-house expressive TTS model -- launched 2026-04-02 on Azure Foundry. Generates 60s of audio in ~1s on a single GPU. Custom voice cloning from a few seconds of input. Powers Copilot, Bing, PowerPoint, and Azure Speech

Murf AI

7.0

Text-to-speech that actually sounds like a real person read your script -- not a robot trying its best

About ElevenLabs

Tier A (8.5/10). Best-in-class AI voice generation -- now includes 11.ai (MCP-based voice assistant), Eleven v3 expressive speech, and IBM watsonx partnership. $500M raise at $11B valuation (Feb 2026)

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