Is Avencera cheaper than ElevenLabs?

Yes. Avencera transcribes from $0.06 an hour, or $0.07 with speaker labels. At 100 hours a month with speaker labels, ElevenLabs Scribe v2 costs $22.00 against $7.00 at Avencera, 3.1× as much.

Is Avencera more accurate than ElevenLabs?

Avencera’s speaker labels make fewer errors than ElevenLabs Scribe v2 on all 10 recording types in pyannoteAI’s benchmark. Averaged across them, the diarization error rate is 23.5% for Avencera and 39.8% for Scribe v2. ElevenLabs transcribes words more accurately on all 4 published tests that cover both, by up to 4.32 points. Scribe v2 scores 5.24% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, English, against 6.02% for Parakeet v2. Scribe v2 scores 4.80% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, earnings calls, against 5.85% for Parakeet v3. Scribe v2 scores 9.05% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, long-form, against 13.37% for Parakeet v3. Scribe v2 scores 2.2% on the Artificial Analysis, against 4.5% for Parakeet v3.

Is ElevenLabs Scribe more accurate than Parakeet?

Yes. Scribe v2 scores a lower word error rate on every benchmark below. Avencera is the cheaper choice when that gap matters less than the bill.

How do I switch from ElevenLabs to Avencera?

Avencera uses OpenAI’s transcription API format, so any OpenAI SDK works. Send the same audio files you send ElevenLabs, and map its response fields to the OpenAI-style transcript.

ElevenLabs alternative: Avencera vs ElevenLabs

At 100 hours a month with speaker labels, ElevenLabs Scribe v2 costs 3.1× as much as Avencera. Avencera’s speaker labels make fewer errors on all 10 recording types in pyannoteAI’s benchmark. ElevenLabs transcribes words more accurately on all 4 published tests that cover both, by up to 4.32 points.

By Praveen Perera. Prices and features checked October 23, 2026.

At a glance

ElevenLabs is best known for voice generation, and its Scribe v2 model is one of the most accurate transcription models on public leaderboards. It labels up to 32 speakers and covers 90+ languages.

Feature	Avencera	ElevenLabs
Transcript, at 100 hours a month	$0.06 an hour	Scribe v2: $0.22 an hour (3.6×)
With speaker labels, at 100 hours a month	$0.07 an hour	Scribe v2: $0.22 an hour (3.1×)
Speaker labels	Included in the speaker transcript price	Scribe v2: included
Billing	Prepaid credit, no subscription	Scribe v2: pay as you go
Real-time streaming	No, recorded audio only	Yes
Languages	English with Parakeet v2, 25 European languages with v3	90+ languages
Longest file	2 hours or 100 MB per request, 24 hours as a job	10 hours per file
Self-hosting	Open models you can run yourself	Private deployment in AWS or Google Cloud, through sales
API	OpenAI-compatible	ElevenLabs’s own

Price with speaker labels

Audio a month	Avencera	ElevenLabs Scribe v2
10 hours	$0.70	$2.20 3.1×
100 hours	$7.00	$22.00 3.1×
1,000 hours	$70.00	$220.00 3.1×
10,000 hours	$700.00	$2,200.00 3.1×

See every provider at any volume on the pricing page.

Accuracy

Speaker labels

Avencera’s speaker labels make fewer errors than ElevenLabs Scribe v2 on all 10 recording types in pyannoteAI’s benchmark. Averaged across them, the diarization error rate is 23.5% for Avencera and 39.8% for Scribe v2.

Diarization error rate by recording type, lower is better

Radio interviews 12 recordings, 3 or 4 speakers

Avencera by 15.9 points

Avencera community-1: 10.4%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 26.3%.
Clinical interviews 51 recordings, 2 or 3 speakers

Avencera by 23.5 points

Avencera community-1: 23.5%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 47.0%.
Courtroom 12 recordings, 3 to 9 speakers

Avencera by 11.4 points

Avencera community-1: 11.6%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 23.0%.
Phone calls 61 recordings, 2 speakers

Avencera by 11.5 points

Avencera community-1: 12.2%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 23.7%.
Task dialogues 19 recordings, 2 speakers

Avencera by 34.1 points

Avencera community-1: 10.1%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 44.2%.
Meetings 11 recordings, 3 to 6 speakers

Avencera by 15.5 points

Avencera community-1: 36.4%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 51.9%.
Restaurant conversations 12 recordings, 4 to 8 speakers

Avencera by 9.7 points

Avencera community-1: 51.0%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 60.7%.
Field interviews 22 recordings, 2 or 3 speakers

Avencera by 11.2 points

Avencera community-1: 18.2%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 29.4%.
Lab interviews 12 recordings, 2 speakers

Avencera by 17.4 points

Avencera community-1: 14.1%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 31.5%.
Web video 35 recordings, 1 to 7 speakers

Avencera by 12.9 points

Avencera community-1: 47.8%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 60.7%.

Words

ElevenLabs transcribes words more accurately on all 4 published tests that cover both, by up to 4.32 points.

Word error rate by benchmark, lower is better

Open ASR Leaderboard, English Average word error rate over 11 English test sets

Scribe v2 by 0.78 points

Avencera Parakeet v2: 6.02%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 5.24%.
Open ASR Leaderboard, earnings calls Word error rate on the Earnings-22 set

Scribe v2 by 1.05 points

Avencera Parakeet v3: 5.85%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 4.80%.
Open ASR Leaderboard, long-form Average word error rate on long English recordings

Scribe v2 by 4.32 points

Avencera Parakeet v3: 13.37%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 9.05%.
Artificial Analysis Word error rate, measured on each provider’s own API

Scribe v2 by 2.3 points

Avencera Parakeet v3: 4.5%. ElevenLabs Scribe v2: 2.2%.

Choose ElevenLabs if

Word accuracy matters most. Scribe v2 scores 5.24% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, English, against 6.02% for Parakeet v2; Scribe v2 scores 4.80% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, earnings calls, against 5.85% for Parakeet v3; Scribe v2 scores 9.05% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, long-form, against 13.37% for Parakeet v3; Scribe v2 scores 2.2% on the Artificial Analysis, against 4.5% for Parakeet v3.
You need real-time streaming. ElevenLabs offers it; Avencera transcribes recorded audio only.
You need more languages. ElevenLabs lists 90+ languages.
You want to start free. ElevenLabs has a free plan with monthly credits shared across its products.
You need an API today. Avencera opens soon.

Choose Avencera if

You want the lower bill. ElevenLabs Scribe v2 costs 3.1× as much at 100 hours a month with speaker labels.
You want better speaker labels for less. In pyannoteAI’s benchmark, Avencera’s speaker labels make fewer errors than Scribe v2 on all 10 recording types, 23.5% against 39.8% on average.
You want prepaid credit with no subscription, no minimum and no expiry.
Your audio stays yours. Avencera deletes it once the transcript is ready and never trains on it.

Switching to Avencera

Avencera serves OpenAI’s transcription API, so the official OpenAI SDKs work with a new base URL and model name. Set speaker_labels to true for a speaker on every segment.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.avencera.com/v1", api_key="YOUR_AVENCERA_KEY")

with open("meeting.mp3", "rb") as audio:
    transcript = client.audio.transcriptions.create(
        model="avencera/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2",
        file=audio,
        extra_body={"speaker_labels": True},
    )

Questions

Is Avencera cheaper than ElevenLabs?: Yes. Avencera transcribes from $0.06 an hour, or $0.07 with speaker labels. At 100 hours a month with speaker labels, ElevenLabs Scribe v2 costs $22.00 against $7.00 at Avencera, 3.1× as much.
Is Avencera more accurate than ElevenLabs?: Avencera’s speaker labels make fewer errors than ElevenLabs Scribe v2 on all 10 recording types in pyannoteAI’s benchmark. Averaged across them, the diarization error rate is 23.5% for Avencera and 39.8% for Scribe v2. ElevenLabs transcribes words more accurately on all 4 published tests that cover both, by up to 4.32 points. Scribe v2 scores 5.24% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, English, against 6.02% for Parakeet v2. Scribe v2 scores 4.80% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, earnings calls, against 5.85% for Parakeet v3. Scribe v2 scores 9.05% on the Open ASR Leaderboard, long-form, against 13.37% for Parakeet v3. Scribe v2 scores 2.2% on the Artificial Analysis, against 4.5% for Parakeet v3.
Is ElevenLabs Scribe more accurate than Parakeet?: Yes. Scribe v2 scores a lower word error rate on every benchmark below. Avencera is the cheaper choice when that gap matters less than the bill.
How do I switch from ElevenLabs to Avencera?: Avencera uses OpenAI’s transcription API format, so any OpenAI SDK works. Send the same audio files you send ElevenLabs, and map its response fields to the OpenAI-style transcript.