# Alternatives to Murf AI

> Source: https://dubsheet.com/murf/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 28 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Murf AI at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf.md) | Individuals and freelancers creating voiceovers | From $29 a month | — | 29 October 2026 |
| [HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen.md) | Creators and teams localizing video into many languages without reshooting | Free, then $29 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Instant cloning | 26 October 2026 |
| [Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet.md) | Course makers and video teams creating multilingual narration from scripts or slides | Free, then $6 per 30 minutes | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Past your allowance | 29 October 2026 |
| [Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio.md) | Creators narrating videos, audiobooks and character voices from their own cloned voice | Free, then $15 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Voices that use more | 26 October 2026 |
| [Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker.md) | Content creators and e-learning teams making multilingual voice-overs on a small budget | Free, then $5 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Voices that use more | 26 October 2026 |
| [Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast.md) | Creators and teams making narrated video, courses and podcasts in their own voice | Free, then $5 a month | Consent of the voice’s owner, Free plan or trial | 26 October 2026 |
| [Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool.md) | Marketing teams localizing brand video into many languages from one workspace | Free, then $12 a seat a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Instant cloning | 27 October 2026 |
| [Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma.md) | Creators who need free multilingual voice-over within per-conversion limits | Free, then $9 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Instant cloning | 30 October 2026 |
| [TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai.md) | Creators making multilingual voice-overs, dubbing and music for social video | From $35.99 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Instant cloning | 27 October 2026 |
| [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly.md) | Developers adding spoken output to apps, e-learning and phone systems | Free, then $4 per 1m characters | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Voices that use more | 27 October 2026 |

The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches.

## Shortlist

### 1. HeyGen

AI avatar video, voice cloning and video translation into 175+ languages with lip sync.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours a month is sold and lands exactly at the Creator ceiling of ten hours; Pro at $49 raises it to sixteen hours or more of text to speech.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Instant cloning: yes — A short upload of up to 60 seconds produces an instant clone ready in minutes, and the Free plan already allows one voice clone before any payment.](https://www.heygen.com/models/heygen-voice-1)
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: yes — The vendor states it verifies that you own the voice before training, requires written consent for a third-party voice, and blocks cloning that lacks verified permission.](https://www.heygen.com/tool/ai-voice-cloning)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none. The price shown first is the plain month-to-month rate: each plan card opens with its Monthly control selected at $29, $49 and $149, and only switching the card's own control to Yearly drops Creator to $24 a month billed as $288 for the year, advertised as two months free rather than as an introductory discount.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Audio you get: partial — You can download just the audio or the captions SRT beside the video, and MP3 or MP4 from the podcast and cloning flows; audio-only export of a translation is Enterprise-only, and no bitrate is published for app exports.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/9834825-how-to-download-or-export-a-video)
- [Editing the translation: partial — Proofread, also called Review & Edit, lets you correct the translated script word by word before the final render, but it starts on Pro: the comparison table marks it off for Free and Creator.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/10029081-how-to-get-started-with-video-translation)

[View HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen)

### 2. Narakeet

Duration-priced browser voice-over and narrated-video maker with non-expiring capacity.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $120 a month on 30 minutes for 10 hours of 60 minutes (600 minutes of finished audio). Billed by the second. an hour of finished speech is 60 minutes of audio; generation you do not download or keep is not counted where the vendor meters downloads](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Past your allowance: yes — Additional capacity is sold as non-recurring top-up credit; the stated 30-minute pack costs twenty cents per minute.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The vendor limits itself to storing and processing your uploads on your instructions and claims no other rights, and source files are deleted after 30 days.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/data-security/)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Narakeet describes its public capacity purchase as a one-time payment, not a promotion or recurring subscription.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Voices that use more: no — Charging depends on output length alone, not on which of the 900 voices you pick, so newer or more expressive voices do not drain the allowance faster.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Video dubbing: partial — Narakeet makes synchronized dubbed tracks from translated subtitle files, but documents choosing a target voice rather than cloning the speaker.](https://www.narakeet.com/create/ai-dubbing.html)

[View Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet)

### 3. Fish Audio

Expressive text-to-speech, voice cloning and long-form studio with a credit-metered API.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours is 600 minutes, over the Plus allowance, so it needs Pro at $100 a month month-to-month, which includes up to 1,620 minutes of generation.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Voices that use more: yes — Newer and borrowed voices cost more: on the MCP surface another team's professional clone is charged double, and in the API the drama-3 model lists at more than triple s2.1-pro.](https://docs.fish.audio/overview/mcp)
- [Instant cloning: yes — A clone can be made from a very short sample with no training step, and the Free tier already carries three public voice slots, though it lacks the enhanced cloning paid plans get.](https://docs.fish.audio/features/text-to-speech)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Unused credits: no — Monthly allowances reset with the billing cycle and anything left is lost, which the vendor states plainly and pairs with advice to spend the allowance inside the period.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Commercial use: partial — Publishing commercially starts one plan above the free one: the Free Tier card lists commercial use among the features it does not include and the vendor restricts free output to personal projects, while Plus at $15 a month lists commercial use allowed, limited to voices you own and have verified.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Audiobook files: partial — The vendor advertises chapter-level audiobook narration meeting Audible's ACX specs, but it documents no retail-ready export package or store delivery step, only audio files.](https://fish.audio/)

[View Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio)

### 4. Voicemaker

Credit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours a month needs the $24 Pro plan, which the vendor rates at about eighteen hours from its one million monthly credits.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Voices that use more: yes — Yes - premium models drain the allowance faster: ProPlus Expressive, Expressive V2 and High-Res cost four credits a character, Turbo and ProV2 two.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: yes — The Terms require the speaker to be a Consenting Speaker who gave explicit consent, enforced as your warranty rather than an uploaded proof-of-identity check.](https://voicemaker.in/terms)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Starter is shown as a monthly subscription, while annual billing is displayed separately.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Unused credits: partial — Rollover is plan-dependent: Starter and Creator get none, Pro monthly carries credits one billing cycle, Teams and Business up to three months.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts work, but in chunks: per-conversion caps run from 250 characters free to 10,000 on Pro, with Studio Grade Stitching smoothing continuity past 1,000 characters.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)

[View Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker)

### 5. Typecast

Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: yes — Uploading a sample requires you to confirm the voice is yours or licensed, and the clone stays private rather than being published in the library.](https://typecast.ai/voice-cloning/)
- [Free plan or trial: yes — A standing free plan lets you write your own script with unlimited generation and playback, but only 3,000 lifetime credits of downloads and trial voices.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: yes — Free downloads must carry a spoken or written credit naming Typecast and the characters used, and the free API tier forbids commercial use outright.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Emotion, pace and emphasis: partial — Emotion, pitch, intonation and dynamics are Pro features and speed starts at Plus, so the two cheapest paid plans cannot shape delivery.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts are handled chapter by chapter through the command line tool, and single requests to the speech API cap at 2,000 characters.](https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation)
- [Audiobook files: partial — The docs describe an audiobook workflow producing one MP3 per chapter through the command line, but name no retail store or store-ready delivery spec.](https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation)

[View Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast)

### 6. Akool

AI video suite with video translation, lip sync, text to speech, voice cloning and a voice changer.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $249 a month on Business for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words](https://www.akool.com/pricing)
- [Instant cloning: yes — Voice cloning from one sample is sold on every paid plan with a cap on stored voices: 5 on Starter, 30 on Pro, 180 on Pro Max and 500 on Business, while the Free plan gets none.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The Terms of Service rule out training on customer material outright, so there is nothing to opt out of; the content policy repeats the guarantee for uploaded and generated content.](https://www.akool.com/terms-of-service)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Unused credits: partial — Subscription credits are issued per billing period and expire unused on every self-serve plan; only Enterprise is listed with credits that do not expire, so rollover is a higher-tier property.](https://www.akool.com/refund-policy)
- [Commercial use: partial — The comparison table grants a business license only on the $249 Business plan; Starter, Pro and Pro Max carry a personal license and the Free plan shows no license at all, so publishing commercially means buying up.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)
- [Pronunciation fixes: partial — A Voice Dictionary fixes how words are said across a translation project, but the comparison table withholds it from the Free plan, and brand-terminology Studio Voice only starts on Pro Max.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)

[View Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool)

### 7. Speechma

Free text to speech and creator audio tools with no account or credit card.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $9 a month on Starter for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Free Service ($0) includes 2000 credits; these hours need 520000, and past the allowance speech past it cannot be made.](https://speechma.com/faq)
- [Instant cloning: yes — Voice cloning accepts a short five-to-thirty-second recording and is available free without an account.](https://speechma.com/voice-cloning)
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: yes — The voice policy requires the speaker’s clear informed permission, or another stated authority, before cloning or transforming a human voice.](https://speechma.com/ai-voice-ethics)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Cost to dub 60 minutes a month: partial — Dubbing is free and publishable, but one job accepts only a 60 MB video, so a 60-minute film must be split into parts rather than dubbed in a single pass.](https://speechma.com/ai-dubbing)
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none: the free price is permanent rather than an introductory rate, and the vendor states there is no trial and no card involved at all.](https://speechma.com/)
- [Voices that use more: no — Premium HD voices do not consume more allowance: they are free on the site, and every API plan includes the full voice catalog at one character rate.](https://speechma.com/api/)

[View Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma)

### 8. TopMediai

AI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $9.62 a month on Lifetime Plan for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words](https://www.topmediai.com/app/pricing/)
- [Instant cloning: yes — Instant cloning works from a short upload or live recording, and paid plans state how many clones the credit allowance covers.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/ai-voice-cloning/)
- [Professional cloning: yes — A separate High-Precision mode trains on longer recordings and is described as capturing speaking style, emotion and rhythm rather than timbre alone.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/ai-voice-cloning/)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Cost to dub 60 minutes a month: partial — Dubbing is sold by credit allowance, not by the minute: the cheapest monthly plan covers only about 24 minutes of video translation, so 60 minutes needs a bigger or second purchase.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/pricing/)
- [Commercial use: partial — Commercial rights come with the paid plans only; the vendor's own license agreement grants non-commercial personal use unless a business license has been bought.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [Pronunciation fixes: partial — Only basic pronunciation fixes are offered in the web editor; the vendor points advanced phonetic control at the API instead of the studio.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)

[View TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai)

### 9. Amazon Polly

Pay-per-character cloud text to speech from AWS, with four voice engines and a browser console.

**Where it improves on Murf AI:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $0 a month on AWS Free Tier - Standard voices for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [Voices that use more: yes — The newer and higher-quality voices cost far more per character: Neural is four times the Standard rate, Generative seven and a half times, and Long-Form twenty-five times, so voice choice drives the bill.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [Past your allowance: yes — There is no plan to exhaust: once the free tier allowance for a voice type is used up, every further character is billed at that voice type's published per-million rate, and requesting timing data is billed again.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/)

**Trade-offs against Murf AI:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — the published rate is the standing pay-as-you-go price per million characters, billed monthly for what you used, with no introductory discount and no annual commitment shown on the pricing page.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [Re-voice your recording: no — It converts written text only; you send text and get audio back, so there is no way to record your own line and have it returned in another voice with your timing.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts go through the asynchronous task operation, capped at 100,000 billed characters per submission, while a single direct request takes 3,000 billed characters and ten minutes of audio; there are no chapters or per-line regeneration.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/limits.html)

[View Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly)