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Crackle vs ElevenLabs Agents.
ElevenLabs Agents gives each plan a number of call minutes, charges $0.08 a minute beyond them, and bills the language model separately by the model you choose, with telephony included. Crackle charges one rate a minute with the model in it. Choose ElevenLabs for its voice library, phone calls and native mobile SDKs; choose Crackle for one all-in price and voices recorded in Indian languages.
ElevenLabs Agents’s facts are from its own pages, checked on 14 October 2026. Prices change; the sources are at the foot of the table.
Side by side.
| What | Crackle | ElevenLabs Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.07 a minute | $0.08 a minute beyond the minutes in your plan; the model is billed separately |
| What the price covers | Voice, transcription and model, whichever you choose | Voice, transcription and telephony; the language model is charged on top, by model |
| To start | Free plan with sign-up credit; plans from $29 a month include call credit | Free: 15 minutes a month; plans from $6 to $990 a month |
| Calls at once | 2 on the free plan; 5, 20, 75 on paid plans | 4 free, 6 to 40 by plan; bursts to three times at double the rate |
| Billed by | The second; a call nobody joins costs nothing | Not stated on their pricing page |
| Phone numbers | Not yet | Yes: telephony included, or your own Twilio or SIP |
| Web and mobile apps | Web, iOS, Android and React Native, through LiveKit | JavaScript, React, Swift, Kotlin, React Native and Python SDKs |
| Talk button for a website | Yes: one line of HTML | Yes, from the free plan |
| Languages | 44, with voices recorded in Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi | Multilingual; no count on their pricing page |
| Answers from documents | Yes: PDF, Word and text, up to 500 documents | Yes, with retrieval |
| Calls your APIs | Yes: your HTTP endpoints, during a call or before it | Yes: client, webhook and code tools |
| How an agent is built | A studio: write instructions, pick a voice, press Test agent; or the API | A workflow builder |
Sources: ElevenLabs Agents pricing, ElevenLabs docs index, read on 14 October 2026. Crackle’s figures are from its live price list.
When ElevenLabs Agents is the better choice.
- You want ElevenLabs’ own voice library.
- You need phone calls and batch calling today.
- You want native Swift and Kotlin SDKs from the vendor itself.
When Crackle is the better choice.
- You want one price per minute with the model in it, instead of plan minutes plus model fees.
- Your callers speak Hindi, Hinglish or another Indian language and you want Sarvam’s voices recorded in it.
- You want to pay only for the minutes you use, from a free start, with no monthly allowance to plan around.
Moving from ElevenLabs Agents.
Most of an agent carries straight across. Their names for things, and Crackle’s.
- Agent
- Agent
- System prompt
- Instructions: paste it in and keep it as it is
- First message
- Greeting: a fixed line, one written for each caller, or none
- Webhook tools
- Tools: the same HTTP endpoints, described in plain words
- Knowledge base files
- Knowledge: upload the same PDFs, Word and text files
- Widget
- The talk button: one line of HTML
- Call events to your server
- Webhooks, signed, for each call’s start, lines and end
Other comparisons.
Try Crackle on your own agent.
Paste in the instructions you already have, pick a voice and talk to it. Sign-up credit is there for your first test calls.