PlayHT (Play.ht / PlayAI) is gone — acquired by Meta and wound down on December 31, 2025. Accounts, voice clones and API keys were deleted. If you're one of the 40,000+ users who need a new home, here's an honest comparison of the five realistic options, priced for real workloads.
Pricing verified August 2026 against official pricing pages.
No. Meta folded the team into internal AI work (assistant voices, wearables). There is no standalone product to return to, and cloned voices cannot be recovered — you'll need to re-clone from your original recordings on whichever platform you move to.
Ranked for the typical PlayHT refugee: a creator or small team that used studio voices, voice cloning, or the TTS API.
Don't guess from plan tables. Paste your script or set your monthly minutes — our free calculator picks the exact plan on each platform and ranks them by real monthly cost.
Run the Voice Over Cost Calculator →| You used PlayHT for… | Move to | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cloned your own voice for videos | ElevenLabs Starter/Creator | Best cloning quality; re-clone from your original recordings |
| Studio voiceovers on a budget | Speechify Studio yearly | Lowest cost per studio minute with commercial rights |
| Corporate / e-learning narration | Murf Creator | Team-friendly studio, official migration path |
| TTS API in your app | Cartesia or ElevenLabs API | Low-latency streaming, stable developer platforms |
| Occasional one-off audio | OpenAI TTS | No subscription, pennies per clip |
No. Data was deleted at shutdown and no export tool was offered. If you still have the original recordings you used for cloning, you can re-clone on ElevenLabs or Speechify in a few minutes.
Free tiers exist (ElevenLabs, Speechify, Cartesia) but none grant commercial rights. For a monetised channel, budget at least $6–8/month. See our free plans & trials comparison for what each one actually includes.
We verify pricing against official vendor pages and date-stamp every update in a public verification log (last check: August 2026). ElevenLabs' 2026 quotas (Creator 121k credits, Pro 600k) are current — many older articles still quote the outdated 100k/500k figures.
Yes. LOVO (Genny) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May 2026 and its site is now offline — it was on an earlier version of this page as an alternative, and we removed it the day we confirmed the shutdown. If you moved from PlayHT to Genny, our LOVO alternatives guide covers what to do about the subscription and the voice clones.