Best Free Hume EVI Alternatives

25 alternatives to Hume EVI with a free plan or free tier, ranked by how closely they match. The percentage is a match score, not a popularity score.

Replacing: Hume EVI — Hume EVI, the Empathic Voice Interface, is a voice AI API for building agents that pick upInput: text, audio · Output: text, audio
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Alexa+ comes free with your Prime membership
Input: text, audio · Output: text, images, audio
Free plan
AI Voice Assistants
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ElevenLabs API is a developer interface to the company's audio models.
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $5/moAPITeams
AI API
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NPCs that actually think
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $25/moAPI
AI Text-to-Speech
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gpt-realtime-2
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $15.92/mo
AI Voice Assistants
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Developers building real-time communication features into apps get a complete solution that handles voice, video, chat, and live streaming through APIs and SDKs
Input: text, audio, video · Output: apps
Free planAPI
AI API

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At a glance: top Hume EVI alternatives

ToolMatchInputOutputPricingFree planRatingCategory
Alexa 67% text, audio text, images, audio Free Yes — AI Voice Assistants
ElevenLabs API 71% text, audio text, audio From $5/mo Yes — AI API
Inworld AI 62% text, audio text, audio From $25/mo Yes — AI Text-to-Speech
Gpt Realtime 2 68% text, audio text, audio From $15.92/mo Yes — AI Voice Assistants
ZEGOCLOUD 59% text, audio, video apps Freemium Yes — AI API
Deepgram 62% text, audio text, audio Freemium Yes — AI API

Frequently asked

What is the best free Hume EVI alternative?
Alexa (67% match) is the closest free alternative to Hume EVI: Alexa+ comes free with your Prime membership. ElevenLabs API (71% match) and Inworld AI (62% match) come next.
What is the best Hume EVI alternative for integrating AI via API?
ZEGOCLOUD ranks first for integrating AI via API at 84% match. See the full list of Hume EVI alternatives for API Integration.
What is the best Hume EVI alternative for turning text into speech?
Inworld AI ranks first for turning text into speech at 84% match. See the full list of Hume EVI alternatives for Text to Speech.
What is the best Hume EVI alternative for cloning a voice?
Resemble AI ranks first for cloning a voice at 82% match. See the full list of Hume EVI alternatives for Voice Cloning.
How is the match percentage calculated?
It measures how much of Hume EVI's job a tool can take over: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings never change the percentage; they only break ties in the order. Lists are recomputed nightly and reviewed by editors for the most-visited tools.

How this list is ranked

The match score measures how much of Hume EVI's job each tool can take over: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers, and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings do not change the score; they only break ties in the order.

Lists are recomputed nightly from the live catalog and reviewed by our editors for the most-visited tools. Sponsored placements are marked and sit outside the ranking.