ElevenLabs Conversational AI

by ElevenLabs

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

ElevenLabs' end-to-end voice agent API with ASR, LLM, and premium TTS.

Cloud, API  ·  see vendor pricing

TL;DR

Best for builders who prioritize lifelike TTS voices in their agent. Pricing: see vendor pricing.

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
see vendor pricing
Platforms
Cloud, API

What it is

ElevenLabs Conversational AI bundles their best-in-class TTS with hosted ASR and LLM routing, exposing a streaming voice-agent API and an in-browser studio. It targets builders for whom voice identity is the brand — companion apps, IVR, character interactions — rather than pure transactional support.

Best for: Builders who prioritize lifelike TTS voices in their agent.
Watch out for: ASR is bundled but tends to lag Deepgram and AssemblyAI in independent benchmarks.

What people actually do with ElevenLabs Conversational AI-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Amazon S3n8nMake.comGoogle DriveZapierSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

ElevenLabs Conversational AI vs Whipscribe

FeatureElevenLabs Conversational AIWhipscribe
CategoryTranscription APIsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsCloud, APIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to ElevenLabs Conversational AI

Frequently asked about ElevenLabs Conversational AI

How much does ElevenLabs Conversational AI cost?

ElevenLabs Conversational AI does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does ElevenLabs Conversational AI work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

ElevenLabs Conversational AI runs on Cloud and API. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Cloud and API.

What are the limitations of ElevenLabs Conversational AI?

ASR is bundled but tends to lag Deepgram and AssemblyAI in independent benchmarks.

Who is ElevenLabs Conversational AI best for?

Builders who prioritize lifelike TTS voices in their agent.

Is ElevenLabs Conversational AI open source?

No. ElevenLabs Conversational AI is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Can I use ElevenLabs Conversational AI in the browser?

No — ElevenLabs Conversational AI is a Cloud and API application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.

What kind of tool is ElevenLabs Conversational AI?

In this directory ElevenLabs Conversational AI is filed under voice agent, voice middleware as a API.

What are the alternatives to ElevenLabs Conversational AI?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/elevenlabs-conversational-ai-alternatives comparing ElevenLabs Conversational AI with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate ElevenLabs Conversational AI-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from ElevenLabs Conversational AI?

ElevenLabs Conversational AI is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of ElevenLabs Conversational AI?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the ElevenLabs Conversational AI category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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