11 Great ElevenLabs Alternatives: Vapi-Native TTS Models

Vapi now offers 11 built-in text-to-speech models as alternatives to ElevenLabs, including Neuphonic's Neu-hq and Neu-fast, Cartesia's Sonic lineup, Azure TTS, OpenAI TTS, Deepgram, Smallest AI's Lightning, LMNT, PlayHT, Hume's Octave and Rime AI's Mist v2. Developers can switch between them in minutes without re-coding, and Vapi says it handles over a million voice calls per day across these models.