ElevenLabs
Voice & dialogue · Free tier + paid- Commercial use
- Commercial on paid plans only
- Free plan
- Free plan10,000 credits; non-commercial only
- Ship free-plan output?
- No: paid plan needed
- Engines
- Any (standard file export / engine-agnostic)
ElevenLabs vs Gridly
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Our ranking
In Voice & dialogue, ElevenLabs ranks #1 and Gridly ranks #5. Eleven v4 Turbo is #1 and Eleven v4 is #2 of 97 models on Artificial Analysis's blind-vote text-to-speech leaderboard. These are ElevenLabs' current models. AA text-to-speech leaderboard
Gridly
Localisation · Paid- Commercial use
- Not stated by vendor
- Free plan
- Free trial or credits only14-day Team trial
- Ship free-plan output?
- Not stated by vendor
- Engines
- Unity, Unreal
Bottom line for game devs
- Commercial use: ElevenLabs: commercial on paid plans only terms. Gridly: not stated by vendor terms.
- Free plan: ElevenLabs: free plan (10,000 credits; non-commercial only) pricing. Gridly: free trial or credits only (14-day Team trial) pricing.
- API and MCP: ElevenLabs: public API, official MCP server. Gridly: public API, community MCP server only.
- Engine integrations stated by the vendor: ElevenLabs: none stated (standard file export). Gridly: Unity, Unreal.
Best for
NPC voice lines and SFX on a paid plan
Managing game strings and translations in grids
What it does
Text-to-speech, voices, sound effects and music generation; usable for NPC voice lines and SFX.
Content and localisation platform with a game-localisation use case: spreadsheet-style grids for strings, AI translation with linguistic context, AI voiceover files and an API.
Verdict
For NPC voice lines and SFX; free-plan output is non-commercial, so a paid plan is required to ship.
For teams that want game strings, AI translation and voiceover files in one tool; there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.
Tasks●
Voice & dialogue, Music & SFX
Localisation, Voice & dialogue
Engines●
Any (standard file export / engine-agnostic)
Unity, Unreal
Free plan●
Free plan 10,000 credits; non-commercial only
Free trial or credits only 14-day Team trial
Pricing
Free US$0 (10,000 credits). Starter US$6, Creator US$22 (US$11 first month), Pro US$99, Scale US$299, Business US$990 per month. Enterprise custom. source
14-day trial of the Team tier. Basic starts at €99/month with 3 seats included (2,500 automated updates and 3,000 API requests per month). Team and Enterprise tiers cost more or are custom; see the pricing page. source
Commercial use●
Commercial on paid plans only
Terms: free-plan users may only use the Services for non-commercial purposes; paid-subscription users may use them commercially (subject to the Prohibited Use Policy). source
Terms: free-plan users may only use the Services for non-commercial purposes; paid-subscription users may use them commercially (subject to the Prohibited Use Policy). source
Commercial use: not stated by vendor
Gridly processes your own content. Ownership terms for AI translations and voiceover output were not checked: unverified. source
Gridly processes your own content. Ownership terms for AI translations and voiceover output were not checked: unverified. source
Revenue share / caps
Not stated by vendor
Not stated by vendor
MCP server●
Official MCP server. Hosted MCP server (OAuth) source
Community server only. A community-built MCP server exists; no official one found source
Last checked
Rows marked ● differ between the two tools. Licence badges: green = commercial use allowed (including any free plan or trial), amber = paid plans only, restricted, or allowed but with no free plan, red = not allowed, grey = not stated by vendor or not applicable. Read the vendor's current terms before you ship.