ElevenLabs vs Google Flow Music (formerly Riffusion)

ElevenLabs turns text into lifelike speech and runs voice agents through three product lines: ElevenCreative for content, ElevenAgents for customer experience, and ElevenAPI for developers. The platform lists 5,000 plus voices across 70 plus languages, plus speech-to-text, voice cloning, dubbing, music, sound effects, and a Speech Engine SDK that handles turn-taking over WebSocket while your server supplies the LLM.

Legacy TTS APIs sound robotic and bolt STT on as an afterthought. ElevenLabs bundles narration, ads, character voices, dubbing studio workflows, and low-latency business tiers in one credit wallet shared across products. Business plans advertise TTS as low as 5 cents per minute and Pro unlocks 44.1 kHz PCM plus 192 kbps output, which matters when you are shipping audiobooks or IVR at scale rather than prototyping a single clip.

Creators, game studios, and enterprise CX teams pick ElevenLabs when they need commercial licensing, professional voice clones, and API concurrency. Free users get 10,000 monthly credits to test, while Scale and Business add workspace seats, team collaboration, and millions of credits for production workloads.

Google Flow Music lets you create full-length songs, remix tracks, and publish music through a conversational studio built on Google's Lyria 3.5 model. riffusion.com now redirects to flowmusic.app, where you chat with Producer like you are in a session, iterate on vocals and arrangement, and export finished tracks.

Unlike one-shot music generators that spit out a clip and stop, Flow Music focuses on iterative editing. Replace and Extend let you swap specific sections or continue a song past its endpoint without regenerating the whole track. You can also direct Veo-powered music videos, split stems, apply audio effects, and vibe-code custom instruments or mini apps inside Spaces.

The free tier includes daily top-up credits and two concurrent generations with no credit card required. Paid plans raise monthly credits, concurrent generation limits, and add member perks. Google acquired the Riffusion team in 2026 and folded the product into Google Labs alongside Lyria and Veo.