Bearworks vs. ElevenLabs: AI Voice Agent Pricing & Feature Comparison

Pricing

What each platform actually charges.

	ElevenLabs (Agents)	Bearworks
Free tier	15 min/month, 4 concurrent calls	Yes — free tier, no card required
Entry paid plan	Starter — $6/mo for 75 minCreator — $22/mo for 275 min is ElevenLabs' most popular tier	Usage-basedBook a demo for a quote based on your call volume
Cost per minute (paid usage)	$0.08/min overage across Starter–Business plans$0.16/min burst rate above your concurrency limit; LLM and telephony billed separately	Indexed at 15 vs. ElevenLabs' 100 on our published cost comparisonSee the full breakdown in Bearworks pricing
Top self-serve plan	Business — $990/mo, 12,375 min, 40 concurrent calls	Scales with usage — talk to sales for volume pricing
Enterprise	Custom pricing, elevated concurrency limits	Custom — talk to sales

ElevenLabs figures pulled from elevenlabs.io/pricing/agents as of September 2026

Platform & features

Where the two platforms differ.

Bearworks

Build an agent in plain English — four questions define who it is, what it should do, what it must never do, and how it should sound.
Every call is logged with its outcome, a one-line summary, and the full transcript.
New drafts are run against saved call scenarios and get a pass/fail verdict before they go live — testing is part of the core workflow, not an add-on.
25,000+ voice library, or clone a rep's voice with their written permission.
Free tier, with usage-based pricing beyond it.

ElevenLabs

Prompt- and workflow-based agent configuration, with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) built in against your own knowledge base.
Turn-taking and interruption handling tuned for natural conversation.
400+ pre-built integrations for connecting agents to other systems.
Professional voice cloning included starting on the $990/mo Business plan.
70+ languages supported.

Latency

Both platforms are built for real time.

Bearworks targets sub-500ms round-trip latency on live calls. ElevenLabs publishes similar first-turn latency figures — under 500ms — with faster response times claimed for parts of its pipeline on the Flash model. Actual latency on either platform depends on your telephony and LLM setup, so we'd suggest testing both against your own call flows rather than taking any vendor's number in isolation — which is exactly what Bearworks' scenario testing is built for.

Common questions

Switching from ElevenLabs.

Is Bearworks cheaper than ElevenLabs?

For voice-agent usage, our published cost-per-minute index runs at roughly 15% of ElevenLabs' rate — see the pricing table above. ElevenLabs' own published overage rate is $0.08/minute across its Starter–Business plans, plus separate LLM and telephony costs. Bearworks doesn't have fixed public plan pricing yet, so book a demo for a quote based on your call volume.

Does Bearworks support voice cloning?

Yes. Describe how a voice should sound and we'll build it, or clone an existing rep's voice with their written permission. ElevenLabs offers professional voice cloning too, included starting on its $990/month Business plan.

Can I test an agent before it goes live?

Yes — every Bearworks agent draft is run against saved call scenarios, and you get a pass/fail verdict before publishing. That's built into the core Create → Observe → Refine workflow, not a bolt-on feature.

Does Bearworks have a free tier?