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Open-source alternatives to ElevenLabs

6 projects replace ElevenLabs, the AI voice generator. 5 shipped code in the last 30 days.

ElevenLabs Starter$6/molist price

ElevenLabs sells credits by the character, so audiobooks, dubbing and voice agents get expensive. Voices and voice clones live on its platform under its terms. Open speech models have improved quickly since 2024, and many creators now run them on their own GPU.

Chatterbox, from Resemble AI, clones a voice from a short clip and lets you turn emotion up or down. Kokoro is a small model that runs quickly even on a CPU, good for narration in bulk. Fish Speech and F5-TTS clone voices from a few seconds of reference audio. Most of these ship as model weights with a script or simple demo, not as a finished studio.

6 open-source alternatives

Most-starred first. Stars, growth and activity are live from GitHub.

GPT-SoVITSMost adopted

1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)

Stars: 63.3k
Growth: –
Launched: Jan 2024

MITupdated 1d ago

Fish Speech#2 by stars

SOTA Open Source TTS

Stars: 33.3k
Growth: –
Launched: Oct 2023

Custom licenseupdated 6d ago

ChatterboxNewest contender

SoTA open-source TTS

Stars: 27.1k
Growth: –
Launched: Apr 2025

MITupdated 3mo ago

IndexTTS#4 by stars

An Industrial-Level Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech System

Stars: 24.6k
Growth: –
Launched: Feb 2025

Custom licenseupdated 21d ago

F5-TTS#5 by stars

Official code for "F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching"

Stars: 15.4k
Growth: –
Launched: Oct 2024

MITupdated 6d ago

Piper#6 by stars

Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine

Stars: 5.9k
Growth: –
Launched: Mar 2025

GPL-3.0updated 3d ago

What you give up by leaving ElevenLabs

The honest part. Free and open usually costs something else.

Not a finished app Most projects ship weights and a demo, so you build the studio, API and storage yourself.
Language coverage Open models are strongest in English and Chinese and less reliable in many other languages.
GPU for cloning Most cloning and expressive models need a decent GPU to run faster than real time.
License limits Some model weights forbid commercial use, so read each license before you publish audio.

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