Compare · Leelo vs Speechify
Speechify is best known for its reading app; Speechify Studio is its voiceover side. Both sell credits. Speechify's count seconds of audio; Leelo's count words, and cover cloning, transcription and clean-up too.
Speechify's plans and features checked on their own site on 17 October 2026.
01The short answer
Speechify Studio is good value if you pay yearly and want a very large voice catalogue with dubbing and a voice changer. Leelo is the better fit when you need to clone a voice inside the studio, write multi-speaker scripts line by line, transcribe or clean up recordings, generate sound effects, or pay month to month.
02Side by side
| Feature | Leelo | Speechify |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Credits: a word in a standard voice is 1 credit, and every tool draws from the same month | Credits: 1 a second of voiceover, 3 a second of dubbing |
| Free plan | 1,000 credits once, no card, for personal projects | 600 credits (about 10 minutes); no commercial rights, MP3 download on paid plans |
| Cheapest paid plan | $19/mo or $190/yr (Starter: 80,000 credits, about 9 hours of narration in standard voices) | $100/yr (Studio Starter: about 2 hours of voiceover a month) |
| Commercial use | Every paid plan | Paid plans |
| Voices and languages | 762 voices in 82 languages | 1,000+ voices; dubbing in 60+ languages |
| Voice cloning | From Starter ($19/mo); voice design from a description too | Not listed for Studio; in its separate API from $10/mo |
| Several speakers in one script | Yes: a voice per speaker, every line editable on its own | Not stated on its site |
| Dubbing | Yes, 5,000 credits a minute per language | Yes, every plan |
| Transcription | Yes, every plan, 40 credits a minute | Only as part of dubbing |
| Noise removal | Yes, every plan | Not stated on its site |
| Sound effects | Yes, generated from a description | A stock library; generation listed as coming soon |
| Voice changer | Yes, every plan | Yes, every plan |
| API | REST API, webhooks and an MCP server on Pro and Business | Separate API plans, from a free tier to $499/mo |
| Team seats | Pro 3, Business 10 | Not stated on its site |
| Embeddable player | Yes, every plan: one line of HTML | Not stated on its site |
03Prices
Leelo meters everything in credits: a credit is a word in a standard voice, and dubbing, transcription and the other tools come out of the same month.
04What Speechify does well
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06Other comparisons
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