Compare · Leelo vs WellSaid Labs
WellSaid sells minutes of downloaded audio, with unlimited regeneration and English voices on its self-serve plans. Leelo sells credits by the word, with 82 languages and cloning from the first paid plan.
WellSaid Labs's plans and features checked on their own site on 17 October 2026.
01The short answer
WellSaid is a careful choice for English corporate narration: licensed voice-actor voices, unlimited retakes and Adobe integrations. Leelo is the better fit for anything beyond English on a self-serve plan, for cloning your own voice without a sales call, and for longer projects, where a month of credits goes much further than 20 or 180 minutes.
02Side by side
| Feature | Leelo | WellSaid Labs |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Credits: a word in a standard voice is 1 credit, and every tool draws from the same month | Minutes of downloaded audio; generating and regenerating is unlimited |
| Free plan | 1,000 credits once, no card, for personal projects | Trial: 3 download minutes a month, no commercial rights |
| Cheapest paid plan | $19/mo or $190/yr (Starter: 80,000 credits, about 9 hours of narration in standard voices) | $19/mo, or $120/yr (Starter: 20 minutes a month, English only) |
| Commercial use | Every paid plan | Paid plans |
| Voices and languages | 762 voices in 82 languages | 280+ voices; languages other than English on Enterprise |
| Voice cloning | From Starter ($19/mo); voice design from a description too | Custom voices built for enterprise clients |
| 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 | No video dubbing; clip translation on Enterprise |
| Transcription | Yes, every plan, 40 credits a minute | Not listed |
| Noise removal | Yes, every plan | Not listed |
| Sound effects | Yes, generated from a description | Not listed |
| Voice changer | Yes, every plan | Not listed |
| API | REST API, webhooks and an MCP server on Pro and Business | Yes; price not published |
| Team seats | Pro 3, Business 10 | Business: 1 to 5 seats at $160 a seat a month, billed yearly |
| 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.
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