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Vidsly

Comparison

An ElevenLabs alternative that also makes the video.

A voiceover is one asset. A video is a script, a voice, a scene for every beat, motion, a music mix and an encode. Vidsly does all seven from one paste — which is a different product from a voice platform, not a better one.

Hear the voicesNarration, in detail
01Scope

Two different jobs.

Pick by what you need to exist at the end, not by feature count.

A voice platform

ElevenLabs

Voice is the whole product: synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and an API built for developers putting speech inside their own software. Everything downstream of the audio file is your problem, which is exactly right if audio is what you are shipping.

  • You get an audio file
  • You bring the video
  • Voice research is the roadmap

A video studio

Vidsly

Narration is stage two of five. The same paste that generates the voice also generates a scene image per beat, motion from each image, a music bed ducked underneath, and a single MP4 cut to the narration. You get the finished upload, not the ingredient.

  • You get an MP4
  • Narration comes with it
  • Video is the roadmap
02The voice layer

Our numbers, not theirs.

We publish no benchmark against anyone else’s voices, because we have not run one and a vendor grading its own competitor is worth nothing. Here is what is on this side of the table, exactly.

Vidsly voice spec

This side only

Catalog

Voices in the main picker
51
Library behind it
34 more curated Azure neural voices (85 in all)
Languages
16
Script writer languages
16 (15 in the Studio)

Expression

Emotional styles
12
Voices with any style support
18
Most styles on a single voice
10, plus default
Pitch and pace
−50% to +50% on every Azure voice

Length & price

Longest single narration job
1,000,000 characters, paid plans
Price
1 credit per 10 characters
Premium HD voices
2 credits per 10 characters
Output
one MP3, or narration inside the MP4
03Buy the specialist

Three times you should not choose us.

We would rather lose the sale than the argument.

  1. You need a cloned voice

    Vidsly has no voice cloning. You choose from our catalog; you cannot upload thirty seconds of yourself and get it back as a narrator. If the voice has to be a specific person's, this is not the tool and no amount of feature comparison changes that.

  2. Voice fidelity is the deciding factor

    A dedicated voice lab spends its entire roadmap on how the speech sounds. We spend ours on the pipeline around it. If you are auditioning voices and the winner will be chosen on the audio alone, audition at the specialist.

  3. You are building voice into your own product

    We ship a TTS API and it is genuinely useful, but it exists to serve this studio. If speech synthesis is a core primitive of the software you are building, buy from a company whose whole business is that primitive.

What tips it the other way is volume with pictures. If you are publishing on a schedule and every video needs scenes as well as a voice, our unlimited lane renders the whole thing at zero credits per clip from $29 a month.

04Questions

Asked on the way out of a voice tool.

What is the actual difference between ElevenLabs and Vidsly?
Scope. ElevenLabs sells voice — synthesis, cloning, dubbing and an API for putting speech into your own software — and hands you an audio file. Vidsly sells the finished video, and narration is one of five stages inside it: script, voice, generated scene art, AI motion, and the mix down to a single MP4. If what you need is the audio, the specialist is the specialist. If what you need is the upload, the audio on its own is a third of the job.
How many voices and languages does Vidsly have?
51 voices in the main picker plus 34 more in the full library (85 in all), across 16 languages. Twelve emotional styles are available on 18 expressive voices — no single voice supports all twelve and the richest supports ten plus default — and pitch and pace run from −50% to +50% on every Azure voice. We do not publish a comparison of anyone else's voice library; check their site for what they currently offer.
Does Vidsly do voice cloning?
No. There is no voice cloning, no custom voice training and no way to upload a sample and get it back as a narrator. You choose from the catalog. If a cloned voice is a requirement rather than a preference, this is the wrong product and we would rather say so on this page.
How is narration priced?
1 credit per 10 characters, doubled on the six premium HD voices, drawn from the same monthly balance that pays for images and paid video clips. Creator's 40,000 credits a month is about 400,000 characters if you spend it all on audio; Studio's 200,000 is about two million. There are no standalone credit packs, but on a paid plan you can top up with another month of your plan's credits, at the plan price, from your dashboard. Unused credits roll over for up to 90 days.
Is there a length limit on a single narration?
On a paid plan, a single job takes up to 1,000,000 characters. Past 20,000 characters it runs as a background job — split at sentence boundaries, narrated with the same voice settings throughout, and stitched into one continuous MP3 — so nothing times out and nothing is truncated. Free accounts are capped at 20,000 characters per job.
Which languages will Vidsly refuse?
Hebrew and Thai, explicitly. There is no voice we will route them to, so the text is refused before any provider call with a message saying so, rather than being mis-narrated in the wrong voice. Russian works but only if you pick a Russian voice — we never switch a script's language automatically. Non-Latin scripts route to the dedicated voice for that script. The 13 OpenAI voices are the exception: they are multilingual, so they are never re-routed or refused — they read the script in the voice you picked.
Can I use the narration outside Vidsly?
Yes. Narration downloads as a plain MP3 you can take anywhere, and the TTS API returns audio directly for short texts or a pollable job for long ones. Nothing is locked to the video pipeline.
What does it cost to try?
Signing up is free and needs no card: 150 credits to start, then a non-stacking top-up to 10 a day for your first 30 days. That is enough to hear the voices, which is what most people come to this page to do. Paid plans start at $4 a month, and the unmetered video lane starts at $29.

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