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Leap vs SpeechifyA Speechify alternative, compared

Leap makes voice-overs: paste a script and hear it read by Eleven v4, Eleven v3, MiniMax Speech, Gemini and more in one studio, beside the video models your voice-over goes on. It doesn't read your PDFs or web pages aloud. You pay per character in dollars, with no plan, and credit you pay for doesn't expire.

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Documentary: the high desert at nightMAI-Voice-2.1, voice Jasper
0 / 10 s

Script

In the high desert, the night drops forty degrees in an hour. The stones that baked all day begin to crack, and the whole valley ticks like a clock.

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How Leap and Speechify compare

What you pay, what happens to credit you don't use, and what you get for it, from each one's own pages.

What it's forLeap: Making voice-overs, dubs and sound for your videos, ads and podcasts. Leap doesn't read your documents or web pages aloud.Speechify: Its reader app reads PDFs, docs, web pages and books aloud. Speechify Studio, a separate subscription, makes voice-overs and dubs video.
How you payLeap: Per run, from a balance in dollars. No plan to pick.Speechify: The reader: Premium at $29 a month or $139 a year. Studio: Starter $100 or Creator $300 a year.
What a voice-over costsLeap: Each model's price per character, in dollars, the same in the studio and the API. The table below has them.Speechify: Studio credits, at 1 a second of voice-over and 3 a second of dubbing. Studio Starter's 86,400 credits a year make up to 24 hours of voice-over.
DownloadsLeap: Every run, as an audio file, from the free credit on.Speechify: Studio's free plan has no downloads. Paid Studio plans export the audio.
Commercial useLeap: Leap's Terms say you own what you make, as between you and Leap, from your first run on the free credit.Speechify: Paid Studio plans include commercial rights, and you own the audio. The free Studio plan has none.
VoicesLeap: Each model's own preset voices, such as 21 for Eleven v4. No voice cloning.Speechify: 1,000+ voices, with voice cloning on paid Studio plans.
LanguagesLeap: Eleven v4 reads over 70 languages and MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD over 30.Speechify: 60+ in the Premium reader, and 20 for Studio voice-overs.
API and agentsLeap: An API and an MCP server that spend the same balance, at the same prices as the studio.Speechify: A separate developer API from $6 per million characters, with 500,000 characters free each month.
Starting freeLeap: $2 of credit, no card needed.Speechify: The reader's free plan has 10 robotic voices at up to 1.5x speed. Studio's free plan has 600 credits and no downloads.
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Speechify's plans, prices and policies are as its own pricing and help pages gave them on October 6, 2026, before tax. They change, so check its pages before you buy.

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Where they differ

On Leap, not on Speechify

  • Pay as you go, with no yearly plan: top up from $5 and pay by the character.
  • Every voice-over downloads and is yours to use commercially from your first run, the free $2 included.
  • Voices from ElevenLabs, MiniMax, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft on one balance, so you can read one script with several.
  • Video in the same studio: a talking photo that says your script, captions burned into a clip, or a narrated faceless video.

On Speechify, not on Leap

  • A reader app for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Chrome that reads PDFs, docs, web pages and books aloud at up to 5x speed. Leap has nothing like it.
  • Voice typing, AI summaries and AI podcasts in the Premium reader.
  • 1,000+ voices, and voice cloning on paid Studio plans.
  • Lower prices for heavy use: a $100 year of Studio Starter covers up to 24 hours of voice-over, and the API starts at $6 per million characters.

Heard on Leap

Real runs, as they came back, each with the words it was given and the model that made it.

  • A deadpan museum audio guideGemini 3.8 Flash TTS, voice Kore
    0 / 12 s

    Script

    Room four. The artist completed this painting in a single night, and then spent eleven years telling everyone it took a single night.

    How to say it

    A deadpan museum audio guide: dry, precise, faintly unimpressed.

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  • Documentary: seven miles downEleven v4, voice Lily
    0 / 11 s

    Script

    Seven miles below the surface, the pressure would fold a car like paper. And yet, down here, in total darkness, something is glowing.

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  • A bedtime storyTTS-1, voice Fable
    0 / 9 s

    Script

    Once upon a time, a lighthouse keeper grew so lonely that he began leaving the light on for the fish. And, one by one, the fish began to visit.

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  • Thriller narration: the stuck elevatorKokoro (American English), voice Am michael
    0 / 13 s

    Script

    The elevator stopped between the ninth and tenth floors. Marcus counted. At forty seconds, the lights went out, and somewhere above him, someone began, very slowly, to whistle.

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  • A fragrance ad, no product namedMiniMax Speech 2.8 HD, voice Elegant man
    0 / 7 s

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    It smells like the last train home, rain on warm stone, and a decision you will not regret in the morning.

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  • A village at dawn, in SpanishEleven Multilingual v2, voice Matilda
    0 / 8 s

    Script

    En este pueblo, el panadero se levanta a las cuatro, el gallo a las cinco, y el alcalde, nunca antes del mediodía.

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  • Forty years in the boatyardEleven v3, voice Bill
    0 / 11 s

    Script

    [sighs] Forty years I've been fixing boats on this harbour. [pause] You know what the sea taught me? [chuckles] Absolutely nothing. Pass me the wrench.

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  • Cooking at 2 a.m.Seed Speech 2, voice Dacey en
    0 / 8 s

    Script

    Welcome back to Cooking at Two A.M. Tonight: instant noodles, but we are going to treat them with the respect they deserve.

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  • Nonna's rules, in ItalianChatterbox Multilingual, voice Italian
    0 / 9 s

    Script

    Nonna dice che la pasta va cotta al dente. Nonna dice anche che il telefono si usa solo per le emergenze. Nonna ha quattrocento follower.

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Switching

Moving from Speechify

Where the same job lives on Leap, from a one-photo recipe to the same model.

Voiceover Studio
Eleven v4ElevenLabs' newest and most expressive speech model, in over 70 languages.
Dubbing Studio
ElevenLabs DubbingDubs the speech in your video into another language. Name the language by its two-letter code, such as es or ja; without one it dubs into English. Billed per started minute.
Voice Changer
ElevenLabs Voice ChangerSays your recording again in one of ElevenLabs' preset voices, with the timing and delivery kept. Billed per started minute of the recording.
Studio Captions
CaptionsWord-timed captions burned into your video in a look made for short-form video, plus the transcript with SRT and VTT files. Up to 10 minutes.
Avatars
Talking photoYour photo says your words, with its lips in sync and a voice that fits: a hello, a shout-out or a short pitch.

What it costs

What speech costs on Leap

A new account comes with $2 of credit, and no card is needed. Speech is billed by the character, so the table shows each model's price per 1,000 characters and about how much speech $2 reads. A run that fails costs nothing.

ModelPriceWhat $2 makes
Eleven v4$0.088per 1,000 charactersAbout 26 minutes22,727 characters
Eleven v3$0.11per 1,000 charactersAbout 21 minutes18,181 characters
MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD$0.11per 1,000 charactersAbout 21 minutes18,181 characters
MAI-Voice-2.1$0.0242per 1,000 charactersAbout 95 minutes82,644 characters
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS$0.0495per 1,000 charactersAbout 46 minutes40,404 characters
TTS-1 HD$0.033per 1,000 charactersAbout 70 minutes60,606 characters
Inworld TTS$0.011per 1,000 charactersAbout 210 minutes181,818 characters

Prices are the live catalog's, per character as the models bill them. Minutes are at 14 characters a second, the pace of the voices on this page. How pricing works.

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The same models, on pages where you can type your own words and pick one.

AI voice generator
Type a script and hear it read by Eleven v3, MiniMax Speech, Gemini and more, side by side.
AI music generator
Songs and instrumentals from a prompt, with Eleven Music, Lyria and MiniMax.

Questions

Questions people ask

Can Leap read a PDF or a web page aloud?
No. Leap reads the script you paste into a voice model, up to 5,000 characters a run with Eleven v4 or 10,000 with MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD, and you download the recording. To listen to documents and books as you go, Speechify's reader app is built for that.
Can I use the voice-overs commercially?
Leap's Terms say that, as between you and Leap, you own the results the studio makes for you, to the extent the law allows, and they set no personal-use-only limit. On Speechify Studio, paid plans include commercial rights and the free plan doesn't.
Can I clone my voice on Leap?
No. Each model reads your words in its own preset voices. The ElevenLabs Voice Changer can say a recording of yours again in one of its voices. Leap's Acceptable Use Policy forbids making a voice that passes for a real person who hasn't agreed.
Does credit expire on Leap?
Credit you pay for doesn't expire while Leap is offered, and there is no yearly plan to renew.
Is Leap free to try?
Yes. A new account starts with $2 of credit and needs no card; the table on this page shows how much speech that reads with each model. After that you add credit from $5 and pay by the character.

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$2 of credit and no card to start. Every run shows its price before it starts.

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