The ElevenLabs Alternative for Video That Has to Look Right
ElevenLabs makes the best synthetic voice on the market and points all of it at voice agents. Their own documentation says lip sync is not part of dubbing. Dubly does nothing but dub video, in Germany.
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ElevenLabs makes the best synthetic voice on the market and points it at voice agents. Their own documentation says lip sync is not part of dubbing: the mouth keeps moving in the original language. Dubly dubs video and nothing else. 96.4 in an independent lip sync benchmark, servers in Germany, no training on your footage, and a named person who answers, not an AI reply. From €69 a month. The month below is 50 dubbed minutes: $110 there, €169 here — and lip sync is the part you cannot buy there at any price.
What ElevenLabs is built for now
A fair look at the other tool: what it does better than anyone, and what it has stopped being about.
Built on voice. Aimed at agents.
ElevenLabs makes the best synthetic voice on the market, and it is not close. Instant cloning from seconds of audio, the deepest voice library available, and an API much of the industry runs on. In February 2026 they raised $500m at an $11bn valuation. None of it was built on dubbing.
Dubbing sits inside ElevenCreative, beside music, images and sound effects, and you can see the attention it gets. Dubbing Studio, the editor around it, is in maintenance mode by their own documentation — “critical bug fixes only, and no new feature work is planned”. Dubbing v2 did ship in August 2026, into more than 90 languages, and it still does not touch the mouth. Their documentation is blunt: “At the moment, ElevenLabs does not offer lip syncing as part of Dubbing.” Managed dubbing exists there too, in the Enterprise column, as a service around the same pipeline: still no lip sync.
On compliance they document more than most: a public DPA, an EEA entity in Warsaw, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001. None of it changes the address. Their privacy policy sends all personal data to the United States, EU residency is Enterprise-only, and Dubbing is excluded. Dubly processes in Germany on every plan. What that means in practice.
- Built for
- Voice agents and voice generation
- Languages
- 90+ languages & dialects
- Plans
- Starter: $6/mo · Pro: $99/mo · 45 min included, then metered
- Free tier
- 10,000 credits a month — half a minute on their current model, five watermarked minutes on the legacy one, no commercial licence
- Data processing
- United States; EU residency is Enterprise-only
- Support
- Priority support from Enterprise up
Where a voice-agent platform and a video tool part company
Three rows go to ElevenLabs and they stay in. The rest is why companies with people on camera end up here.
Dubly.AI
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ElevenLabsWhat a real month costs on each
Dubly bills one credit per dubbed minute; with lip sync it is two, so 50 lip-synced minutes need 100 credits. ElevenLabs bills one credit pool for the whole account and publishes five different dubbing rates. This block uses their current model, Dubbing v2, at the price they publish for it themselves: $2.20 a dubbed minute. Their column is in dollars because dollars are the only currency they bill in — $1 was €0.86 at the ECB reference rate on 2 September 2026. Every euro below comes from our pricing page.
25 product videos of 2 minutes — 50 minutes of dubbing a month, into one language
- Monthly plan
- €169/mo€129/mo on the annual plan
- Pro
- $99/moincludes 45 minutes of dubbing a month
- Usage on this volume
- $11.00
- Total for the month
- $110.00/mo
Four other dubbing rates there are lower, and the cheapest really does fit this month inside the $99 plan with room to spare: the previous-generation model at 3,000 credits a minute, which is 200 minutes on Pro. It buys a different product — 29 target languages instead of 92 — and Dubbing Studio, the editor around it, is in maintenance mode by their own documentation. The 90+ languages this page credits them with belong to the $2.20 model.
What the smaller sticker price does not include
- A named contact on every plan — a person who answers, not an AI reply
- Video processed in Germany, by a German company, on every plan
- A written commitment in the contract that your footage never trains a model
- Lip sync at all: an ElevenLabs dub leaves the original mouth movements
- A credit that only ever means a minute of video
- Team access on the plan this page prices: ElevenLabs adds workspace seats only from Scale ($299) up
- Invoicing your finance department can process: purchase order, payment terms, vendor onboarding
- A price in euros: ElevenLabs bills in US dollars only
ElevenLabs is cheaper here, and we would rather say so than let you find out later. 50 dubbed minutes cost $110 there and €169 here — €329 with lip sync on all 50. Stretch the month to 150 minutes and it is $330 against €489. What the cheaper month does not contain is the mouth: their dubbing does not lip-sync on any plan, at any price. If nobody is on camera, buy the cheaper one. The moment a face is speaking, only one of the two finishes the job.
Four clips of the step ElevenLabs leaves out
Neither half of these clips is ElevenLabs: a dub there does not touch the mouth, so there is nothing to set beside ours. Full method on the lip sync page.
The translation comes back finished — and you can still change every line of it
Text, voice, timing and lip movement already work together when the video comes back. For the moments where that is not quite enough, the visual editor lays the translation out as a timeline: every spoken line is its own block, and you hear each change before it reaches the finished video.
The visual editor: the translated video as a timeline. Every spoken line is a block you can move, stretch, split or re-voice — with lip movement on its own track underneath.
Put a line exactly where it belongs
Drag a block until the sentence lands on the cut, or only starts once something appears on screen. Nothing snaps into place; only the neighbouring lines limit you.
Set the speaking pace
Pull a block by its edge, or set the pace with a slider. It only goes as far as the voice still sounds natural, and shows you how long the line runs as you drag.
Split, add, leave out
Divide a long block in two. Write a new line into a gap and have Dubly speak it in the same cloned voice. Or drop a passage the target market has no use for.
Lip movement per moment, not per video
A second track shows where lip movement applies. Switch it on where someone is speaking on camera, and leave it off over product shots and slides.
Rewrite one line and hear it back
Change the source text, the translation, the pace or the voice for a single line, regenerate it and listen right away — nothing else in the video moves.
Nothing ships until you approve it
Your finished video stays untouched while you work. Every step can be undone, and the bar at the bottom leaves two ways out: re-render, or discard.
When a single moment is off, the usual fix is to change the text and render the whole video again. Here you change the moment — its position, its pace, its voice, its lip movement — and the rest of the translation stays exactly as it was.
Four things ElevenLabs cannot give you
This is not a knock on their voice engine, which is the best there is. It is what you hit once the speaker is on camera.
The mouth never moves
Their sentence, not ours: “At the moment, ElevenLabs does not offer lip syncing as part of Dubbing.” Dubbing v2 shipped in August 2026, into more than 90 languages, and left that sentence standing. They do sell lip sync, as a separate product on a separate bill. Dubly rebuilds the mouth frame by frame: 96.4 in an independent benchmark.
Dubbing is not what the company is about any more
Their homepage sells an “AI Voice Generator & Voice Agents Platform” and closes with “Create an AI agent”. Their solutions menu runs to seven industries and four use cases — customer support, lead qualification, outbound, an AI receptionist — and dubbing is in none of them. They are very good at what they aim at. They aim somewhere else. Here, dubbing is the whole company.
Your footage goes to the United States
Their privacy policy: “Regardless of your location, all Personal Data will be transferred to the United States for storage.” EU residency is Enterprise-only and excludes Dubbing. They also train on customer data unless you switch it off. We process in Germany and put the promise in writing. What that means.
$99 buys 45 dubbed minutes
One credit balance pays for speech, music, agents and dubbing alike. Their own API price list puts 45 minutes of Dubbing v2 on Pro and $2.20 on every dubbed minute after that, so 50 minutes is $110 and 150 minutes is $330. The first plan whose allowance covers 150 minutes on its own is Business at $990. Dubly charges for credits and nothing else, in euros.
Four things you get here and nowhere else in this comparison
96.4 lip sync score
Measured across 1,000 test clips in an independent benchmark. ElevenLabs has no score: their dubbing does not touch the mouth.
Processed in Germany
A German company, German servers, no transfer to a third country, on every plan. Our infrastructure has passed a TÜV SÜD penetration test.
A person, not an AI reply
A named contact on every plan, from the first euro. Someone who knows your material and answers, usually the same day.
Never trains a model
Written into the contract on every plan, not a toggle in a settings menu. It covers everything you have ever uploaded.
Switching, without the part everyone dreads
There is no migration project here. There is a person who makes sure the first ten videos come out right.
A named person, not a ticket queue
Personal onboarding with one contact who stays with you through the changeover and knows your material.
A test run on your own footage
Upload a video you have already dubbed elsewhere and hold the two results side by side. That comparison decides it, not ours.
Support for larger volumes
Back catalogues, bulk processing and API access, plus help planning it if you are mid-contract somewhere else.
Procurement on your terms
Purchase orders, payment terms, vendor onboarding forms, security questionnaires and invoicing in euros. Tell us what finance and legal need.
There is nothing to migrate. Videos are processed fresh either way, so you upload the same source files you already have. Voices are the one thing to plan for: a cloned voice lives in the account that made it, so each speaker is cloned again here, in minutes.
So which one should you buy?
ElevenLabs is the better choice if you…
- Are building conversational voice agents, what the whole company is built around now
- Are producing audio: podcasts, audiobooks, narration, game dialogue
- Want the deepest voice library and the strongest cloning available
- Need the longest dubbing language list you can get — 90+ against our 40+
- Want a permanent free tier: ElevenLabs has one, ours is one test video
- Are building on an API where generating speech is the whole job
Dubly is the better choice if you…
- Have real footage of real people, and their mouths are in shot
- Need lip sync that holds on movement, occlusion and several speakers
- Have to answer where the video is processed: ours stays in Germany on every plan
- Want a person on the other end: a named contact on every plan, not an AI reply
- Need euros on the invoice, with your payment terms and purchase order
GameStar went international without giving up its presenters’ voices
“With Dubly.AI and YouTube Multi-Language Audio, we’re able to reach audiences beyond the DACH region for the first time — without compromising on tone, quality, or authenticity. It’s the perfect entry point into the international market.”
Michael GrafHead of Video, Webedia GmbH- More international views
- +42%
- More international views
- Original presenter voices
- 100%
- Original presenter voices
- Editorial control stays in the newsroom
- 100%
- Editorial control stays in the newsroom
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Questions people ask before switching
Twelve of them, including the ones where the answer is not in our favour.
ElevenLabs works on the audio track. Dubly works on the video. Both replace the speech and clone the voice. Only one also rebuilds the speaker's mouth. They are a voice-agent company now. Dubbing is our only product.
Nothing to compare, and that is the honest answer. Dubly scores 96.4 in an independent lip sync benchmark across 1,000 clips. ElevenLabs has no score because their dubbing does no lip sync. They sell it separately, on its own bill.
Yes, in both tools. Voice cloning carries timbre, pace and emphasis into the target language, so your CEO sounds like your CEO in Spanish. ElevenLabs is exceptional at it. The difference is not the voice. It is whether the face agrees with it.
Yes, and so does ElevenLabs: up to 32 speakers in one file, overlapping speech included, each with their own cloned voice. Anyone who says otherwise is quoting an old comparison. Dubly also syncs each speaker's mouth separately, in the same pass.
Got any questions left?
We’d be happy to give you a personal demo of Dubly.AI and discuss your specific use cases.
Last checked: 02 September 2026
The figures for ElevenLabs come from their own public pricing, product and policy pages. Ours come from the price list on our pricing page, and the lip sync score from an independent benchmark across 1,000 test clips.