Is there a price difference between ElevenLabs and MiniMax Speech?
No — both start at 201 credits per run. The choice between them is made by the capabilities in the table above, not by price.
No such language.
MiniMax accepts a significantly longer text in one run — see the “Longest prompt” row in the table. ElevenLabs offers an explicit choice of language, Bulgarian included, and a named list of voices. For a long training material in one go — MiniMax. For ad copy where tone and language must be exact — ElevenLabs.
The price in credits is per run and appears on the “Generate” button before you press it.
| What | ElevenLabs | MiniMax Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Model variants on our platform | 1 | 1 |
| What it needs as input | text | text |
| Price in credits per run | 201 | 201 |
| Negative description (“without…”) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Longest description | 5000 characters | 10000 characters |
| Brand | Variant | Credits per run |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs v3 | 201 |
| MiniMax Speech | MiniMax 2.8 | 201 |
ElevenLabs lets you set the language explicitly, instead of relying on detection. With Bulgarian text that has foreign names in it, that is the difference between correct and random reading.
The voices are named and chosen by name. Once chosen, a voice is used for the whole series of materials — and a consistent voice is what a brand is recognized by ear.
ElevenLabs also takes part in a second mode — dubbing of finished video. That is, one brand covers both voiceover and translation of a finished clip.
MiniMax accepts a text many times longer at once. For training material, an audiobook or a long description, that means less splitting into parts and less stitching afterwards.
Its set of voices is arranged by character — calm, energetic, deep — which is more practical than a list of names when you're looking for a tone rather than a specific voice.
One model, one price, no variants to weigh up.
Where ElevenLabs falls short. It accepts shorter text in one run. Long material is split into parts and stitched together, and at the join you can hear a change in pace if the parts weren't read at once.
Where MiniMax falls short. It lacks the same explicit control over language. With Bulgarian text containing foreign names and abbreviations, this leads to wrong reading — the fix is to spell the word phonetically. MiniMax also doesn't take part in dubbing a finished video.
Long text in one go — MiniMax. Short text where every word has to sound exactly right — ElevenLabs.
One thing applies to both: record the voice AFTER the clip is ready, so the length matches. More on this on the text to speech page.
No — both start at 201 credits per run. The choice between them is made by the capabilities in the table above, not by price.
Both read Bulgarian. ElevenLabs lets you set the language explicitly, which helps with text containing foreign names. If a word is read wrong, the fix with both is to spell it out phonetically.
See the “Longest prompt” row in the table — the live values are there. MiniMax accepts noticeably more.
Not without their consent — that's in the content rules. The voices here are synthetic and don't reproduce a living person.
This page compares the two brands with each other. The full technical card for each — all variants, their strengths and weaknesses, typical tasks and real examples from the community — is on its own page.
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