The AI-first alternative to ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Agents leads on voice naturalness — it comes from the speech-synthesis company. Orbit gives you real-time AI voice agents plus every other channel your customers actually use, on the same account.
Orbit vs ElevenLabs, in one answer
Orbit is the AI-first alternative to ElevenLabs Agents that covers the whole conversation, not just how it sounds: build AI voice agents on a real-time streaming pipeline, then reach the same customers over SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, email, video, and a built-in contact center on one platform and one pay-as-you-go bill.
of B2B technology search queries now surface an AI-generated answer — up from 36% a year earlier.
BrightEdge, 2026
ElevenLabs Agents (ElevenAgents) is the conversational-AI platform from the speech-synthesis company — a voice-AI specialist whose public pitch leads on voice quality and multilingual coverage.
| Feature | Orbit | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| AI voice agents | ||
| Native AI voice agents | ||
| Real-time, low-latency streaming voice pipeline | ||
| Open choice of third-party LLM & voice-model providers | ||
| Real-time Voice AI Quality Index (per-call 0–100 score) | ||
| Automatic post-call summary, action items & sentiment | ||
| Cross-call memory (recalls a caller's prior calls automatically) | ||
| Published voice-agent latency budget & methodology | 1 | |
| Multilingual voice agents (follow a mid-call language switch) | ||
| Every other channel, same platform | ||
| Programmable SMS & MMS API | ||
| WhatsApp Business messaging | ||
| RCS Business Messaging | ||
| Apple Messages for Business | ||
| Email API | ||
| Instagram + Facebook Messenger (Meta social DMs) | ||
| OTT chat (Telegram, LINE, Viber) | ||
| Embeddable video / RTC | ||
| Human + AI contact center (ACD) | ||
| Native customer data platform (identity resolution, golden records, audiences) | ||
| Platform & commercial model | ||
| Published pricing on website | ||
| Self-serve signup (no sales call) | ||
| Pay-as-you-go usage billing | ||
| One platform & one bill for every channel | ||
| Owns its wholesale voice network | ||
| Single BAA covers the whole voice AI stack (LLM, STT, TTS, telephony) | 2 | |
- 1Per-stage latency budget & methodology published on Orbit's voice-agent latency page.
- 2Business Associate Agreement available on request for qualifying healthcare customers — see Orbit's compliance status.
Comparison data as of Q3 2026. Competitor pricing and feature details sourced from public vendor documentation, G2, and Gartner Peer Insights. Subject to change at the vendor's discretion. Yes Partial No
Orbit vs ElevenLabs — frequently asked
- Is Orbit a good ElevenLabs Agents alternative?
- Orbit is the AI-first alternative to ElevenLabs Agents. ElevenLabs Agents is a voice-AI specialist built around voice synthesis; Orbit pairs AI voice agents with SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, email, video, and a contact center on one platform. You get AI voice agents plus every other channel on one platform and one pay-as-you-go bill, with self-serve signup and no annual contract minimum.
- What does Orbit offer that ElevenLabs Agents doesn't?
- ElevenLabs Agents is a voice-AI specialist built around voice synthesis; Orbit pairs AI voice agents with SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, email, video, and a contact center on one platform. Orbit runs AI voice agents, SMS and MMS, WhatsApp, email, embeddable video, and a built-in contact center on a single platform with one unified bill, instead of separate products you integrate and reconcile yourself.
- How does Orbit's pricing compare to ElevenLabs Agents?
- Orbit is pay-as-you-go with pricing published on the website, self-serve signup, and no annual contract minimum. Every channel is billed on one account, so you get a single invoice across voice, messaging, email, and video instead of a separate bill per product — and the rate you see is the whole cost: no per-product fees, no carrier or compliance surcharges, and no paid support tier stacked on top of usage.
- Can I build AI voice agents on Orbit like I do on ElevenLabs Agents?
- Yes. Orbit is AI-first: you build and deploy AI voice agents on a real-time streaming pipeline, the same core ElevenLabs Agents is built around. The difference is that on Orbit those agents sit next to SMS, WhatsApp, email, video, and a human contact center on one platform, so a conversation can move across channels without leaving the account. Orbit also runs the LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and telephony legs of that pipeline itself, so a healthcare customer can cover the whole stack under one Business Associate Agreement with Devotel — whereas ElevenLabs Agents's bring-your-own-API-key model means you connect your own providers, so your organization is responsible for separately obtaining and managing a BAA with each one.
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