---
title: "Free AI voice & audio tools, verified October 2026"
slug: "free-ai-audio-tools"
description: "Free TTS, speech-to-text, and AI music - ElevenLabs, Suno, and Deepgram credits, verified."
verifiedAt: "2026-10-19"
offers: 23
verifiedOffers: 19
canonical: "https://aifree.dev/free-ai-audio-tools"
---

# Free AI voice & audio tools, verified October 2026

> Free TTS, speech-to-text, and AI music - ElevenLabs, Suno, and Deepgram credits, verified.

Right now the catalog has 23 audio tools, sorted by how much you get for free. By type, the audio tools split into 11 credit grants, 11 free tiers and 1 startup program. 19 of the 23 audio tools were verified by a person, most recently on Oct 12, 2026; 4 are listed and waiting for a first check. None of the audio tools asks for a credit card, ElevenLabs Free Plan, Deepgram Free $200 Credit and Suno Free Plan included. In the 7 days to Oct 29, 2026, the audio tools had 9 with changed terms (Scaleway Generative APIs Free Tier, OpenRouter Free AI Models and 7 more). Leading the audio tools ranking: ElevenLabs Free Plan (10,000 credits/month), Deepgram Free $200 Credit ($200) and Suno Free Plan (50 credits/day). None of the audio tools has an end date in the next 90 days. Across these audio tools the catalog records 59 free models; the most listed are Eleven v3, Flash v2.5 and Multilingual v2.

## The short answer

The strongest free audio stack right now, split by job.

- **Voice and TTS:** ElevenLabs' permanent plan (10,000 credits a month), Cartesia (20,000 monthly credits for real-time voice), Amazon Polly (5M characters a month for the first year).
- **AI music:** Suno's free plan (50 credits daily).
- **Speech-to-text credits:** Deepgram $200, Speechmatics $100, AssemblyAI $50, Gladia €50 - one-time grants, no monthly clock.

The catch: free TTS plans usually restrict commercial use and cap monthly characters or credits, and one-time credit offers assume you will evaluate, not run production. Every row was claimed and tested; the limits below are the ones we hit.

## All audio tools, best free value first

23 offers, 19 verified. Each offer has a Markdown page at `https://aifree.dev/offer/<slug>.md`.

| Offer | What is free | Card | Status | The catch |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [ElevenLabs Free Plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/elevenlabs-free-plan) | 10,000 credits/month | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | No commercial license, no voice cloning, no credit rollover, and audio quality capped at 128 kbps on the Free plan. |
| [Deepgram Free $200 Credit](https://aifree.dev/offer/deepgram-free-credit) | $200 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Credit is tied to the Pay As You Go plan; billing switches to pay-as-you-go once the $200 credit is spent. |
| [Suno Free Plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/suno-free-plan) | 50 credits/day | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | No commercial rights, no monthly song downloads, generation limited to the v6-mini free model, and daily credits do not carry over. |
| [Speechmatics $100 Free Credit](https://aifree.dev/offer/speechmatics-free-credit) | $100 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | The $100 sign-up credit lasts 12 months and service pauses once it reaches zero; adding a card switches the account to pay-as-you-go. |
| [ElevenLabs Startup Grants](https://aifree.dev/offer/elevenlabs-startup-program) | $5,500 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Account auto-converts to the Free plan when the 33M characters run out or the 12-month grant ends. |
| [Amazon Polly Free Tier](https://aifree.dev/offer/amazon-polly-free-tier) | $200 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Neural, Long-Form and Generative allowances last only 12 months; since July 2025 new AWS accounts pick a free plan (6 months) or paid plan, with up to $200 in Free Tier credits. |
| [AssemblyAI Free Credits](https://aifree.dev/offer/assemblyai-free-credits) | $50 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Free tier caps streaming at 5 new streams per minute (vs 100/min paid), and LLM Gateway usage is not covered by the credits; the credits do not expire. |
| [Hume AI Free Tier](https://aifree.dev/offer/hume-ai-free-tier) | $20 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Monthly free usage is modest: 10,000 characters (~10 minutes of TTS) and 5 minutes of EVI, capped at 15 RPM with 1 concurrent connection; paid overage applies beyond that. |
| [YepAPI Free $5 Credit](https://aifree.dev/offer/yepapi-free-credit) | $5 | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | The $5 credit is one-time; the FAQ states there is no free tier with hard limits, so usage is pay-per-token once the credit runs out. |
| [Scaleway Generative APIs Free Tier](https://aifree.dev/offer/scaleway-generative-apis-free-tier) | 1,000,000 tokens | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Free Tier applies to your most expensive tokens first; once exceeded, per-token billing starts with a 1,000-token minimum billing unit. |
| [Cartesia Free Plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/cartesia-free-tier) | 20,000 credits/month | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Concurrency is low (2 concurrent TTS requests), there is no commercial use license, and voice cloning (instant or professional) requires a paid plan. |
| [OpenRouter Free AI Models](https://aifree.dev/offer/openrouter-free-models) | 50 requests/day | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Free models allow 20 requests/minute and 50/day until you have bought 10 credits (then 1,000/day). A negative balance blocks them, and the lineup rotates (24 variants listed, 17 of them chat models). |
| [Stability AI 25 Free API Credits](https://aifree.dev/offer/stability-ai-free-api-credits) | 25 credits | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | One-time 25 credits granted via Google signup for initial testing only; further API use requires purchasing credits. |
| [fal.ai MiniMax H3 Max Free Daily Generations](https://aifree.dev/offer/fal-minimax-h3-max-free) | 5 requests/day | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Requires a fal account; the free allowance is sandbox use only and paid API access is needed beyond 5 generations per day. |
| [1min.AI Free Plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/1min-ai-free-plan) | Free tier | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | The free plan is feature-limited: 3-day storage, limited prompt library and brand voice, and 1min.AI doesn't publish which models or credit costs apply to free users. |
| [Gladia Free Credits](https://aifree.dev/offer/gladia-free-credits) | Free credits | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | One-time credit that expires one year after signup, with no monthly reset; once used you must top up or upgrade to continue. |
| [Google Gemini Developer API Free Tier](https://aifree.dev/offer/google-gemini-developer-api-free-tier) | Free tier | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Pro previews, image generation (Nano Banana), Veo video, and Imagen are not available on the free tier; per-model rate limits apply. |
| [Replicate Try for Free](https://aifree.dev/offer/replicate-try-for-free) | Free tier | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Free runs are limited (exact cap not published); after hitting it you must add billing and buy credits to continue. |
| [Sarvam AI Free API Credits](https://aifree.dev/offer/sarvam-ai-free-api-credits) | Free credits | no card | verified 2026-10-12 | Rate limits are enforced per account across all keys (60 req/min for most APIs on Starter), and the credits are denominated in INR. |
| [BytePlus Free Trial](https://aifree.dev/offer/byteplus-free-trial) | 500,000 tokens | no card | listed | — |
| [ToText Free Plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/totext-free-plan) | 60 minutes/month | no card | listed | Apple devices only (iOS/iPadOS 18+), and the free plan caps follow-up AI questions at 2 per recording; unused minutes do not roll over. |
| [Vocal Separator Free Daily Jobs](https://aifree.dev/offer/vocal-separator-free-daily) | 5 requests/day | no card | listed | Free results must be downloaded within 55 minutes of completion, and jobs can pause when site capacity runs out. |
| [Neume Free Songs](https://aifree.dev/offer/neume-free-songs) | 1 credits | no card | listed | One free song attempt per account, once; every song after that costs a credit (top-ups from $4.99 for 10, or Neume Base at $3.99 a week). |

## Top picks

- [ElevenLabs](https://aifree.dev/offer/elevenlabs-free-plan) as the default free TTS - best voice quality at 10,000 monthly credits; its startup program extends it dramatically if you are incorporated.
- [Deepgram's $200 credit](https://aifree.dev/offer/deepgram-free-credit) for speech-to-text - the most generous grant we have verified, no card; [Speechmatics' $100](https://aifree.dev/offer/speechmatics-free-credit), [AssemblyAI's $50](https://aifree.dev/offer/assemblyai-free-credits), and [Gladia's €50](https://aifree.dev/offer/gladia-free-credits) as second opinions (Gladia is tuned for European languages).
- [Suno's free plan](https://aifree.dev/offer/suno-free-plan) for AI music - the only verified free route to full songs.
- [Cartesia](https://aifree.dev/offer/cartesia-free-tier) for real-time voice agents, and [Amazon Polly](https://aifree.dev/offer/amazon-polly-free-tier) for sheer volume - 5M characters a month free for a year.

## How we verify

Audio tools hide their real limits behind "credits", so we convert them: we claim each free tier or grant, then synthesize or transcribe real audio.

- **We record** what a credit buys, what a minute costs, and whether a card was requested.
- **We re-check monthly.** The verified date on each row is the day we last confirmed the numbers.
- **We pull** providers that shrink allowances or repoint credits to paid-only models once the free tier stops being useful.

## Frequently asked questions

### How many free AI voice & audio tools does aifree.dev list?

23 right now: 19 verified by a person and 4 listed, waiting for a first check. By type: 11 credit grants, 11 free tiers and 1 startup program. The newest verification is from Oct 12, 2026.

### Which audio tools need no credit card?

23 of 23, among them ElevenLabs Free Plan, Deepgram Free $200 Credit and Suno Free Plan. The "Card?" column of the table marks each row.

### What changed in free AI voice & audio tools this week?

In the 7 days to Oct 29, 2026: 9 with changed terms (Scaleway Generative APIs Free Tier, OpenRouter Free AI Models and 7 more). Every change is on the hub's changes page and its RSS feed.

### Are these voice and audio tools really free?

Yes - ElevenLabs, Suno, Cartesia, and Amazon Polly run permanent free tiers, and Deepgram, Speechmatics, AssemblyAI, and Gladia grant one-time credits. Each was claimed with a real account before it earned a row here.

### How long do free audio credits last?

Permanent tiers (ElevenLabs, Suno, Cartesia) reset monthly and do not expire. One-time grants like Deepgram's $200 or AssemblyAI's $50 stay until spent unless the provider states otherwise - durations are in the "Key limits" column.

### Can I use free TTS for commercial projects?

Usually not on free plans - most providers gate commercial rights and higher limits behind paid tiers. Amazon Polly's free tier is an exception many developers start with. Each offer page summarizes the usage terms the provider states.

### What is the best free text-to-speech option?

ElevenLabs for quality, Amazon Polly for volume (5M characters a month for a year), and Cartesia for real-time latency. All three are permanent tiers we verified - pick by whether quality, scale, or latency matters most.

HTML page: https://aifree.dev/free-ai-audio-tools