Voice and text-to-speech ElevenLabs vs Typecast
Can you ship a game made with ElevenLabs or Typecast? By stored vendor quotes: ElevenLabs: "Paid plan only"; Typecast: "Paid, or free with credit".
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
A paid plan is the shipping path. Free-plan output is not cleared for commercial use.
Paid plans are the cleaner shipping path. Free-plan output needs the attribution the license requires.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | ElevenLabs | Typecast |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ElevenLabsverified The Free card lists 10k credits per month and includes Sound Effects and Music in the product list on that card. | Typecastverified Free is $0 with 3,000 lifetime download credits (about 5 minutes of audio). Generating and playing back voices is free on every plan; credits are spent when you download. |
| Commercial use | ElevenLabsverified Free users may only use the services for non-commercial purposes. Paid users may use them for commercial purposes. Both must follow the Prohibited Use Policy. | Typecastverified Anything downloaded on the Free plan must carry attribution. |
| Ownership of outputs | ElevenLabsverified As between the user and ElevenLabs, the user retains all rights in Input and, except as the terms set out, all rights in Output. Output does not include ElevenLabs' voice models or LLMs. | Typecastverified The Studio Terms of Use say that, subject to the terms and during a valid subscription period, you keep ownership of your content and own the output. |
| License caveat | ElevenLabsverified The fetched terms page says it applies outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, and points residents of those places to a different terms page. | Typecastverified Generated audio can be downloaded and used only during your subscription. After it expires, you can keep using audio you already downloaded, but you can't make new edits or downloads. |
| Steam disclosure | ElevenLabsverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | Typecastverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | ElevenLabsverified The Pro card adds 44.1kHz PCM audio output via the API and 192kbps quality audio on top of Creator. | Typecastverified There is no engine plugin. You export audio files and import them into Unity or Unreal as standard audio assets. |