Murf AI
AI voiceover platform with studio-quality and low-latency text-to-speech, voice changer, translation and dubbing.
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- Best for
- Beginners: people new to video
- Free plan
- Yes
- Agent-ready (MCP / API)
- Partly
- Platforms
- Web, API
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Summary
Overview
Murf AI is a voiceover platform. Its Studio lets you type or paste a script, pick a voice and sync the audio to slides or video, while its API serves developers building voice agents and apps. Murf also lists a voice changer, translation, dubbing and voice cloning.
Who it fits
It suits marketing, learning and product teams who need narration for explainers, training modules and ads without booking a studio. The Canva and Google Slides add-ons let non-technical users add voiceover where they already work.
What the plans include
The API has a free trial with $10 of credit, then pay-as-you-go pricing: $0.01 per 1,000 characters for the low-latency Falcon model and $0.03 for studio-quality speech. Studio and Dub subscriptions have their own plan tabs on the pricing page.
Limits and alternatives
Murf is built for speech, so music and sound effects come from other tools. ElevenLabs offers voices, cloning, dubbing and music, Fish Audio focuses on expressive voices and cloning, and Adobe Podcast cleans up recorded speech.
Who it's for
A good fit if you are…
- Marketing, training and product teams who need voiceovers for videos, slides and explainers without recording
- Developers building voice agents who want a pay-as-you-go TTS API
Another tool may suit you better if you are…
- Anyone who needs a single flat price: Studio, Dub and API each have separate pricing
- People looking for AI music or sound effects
Pricing
API: free trial with $10 in credits; Falcon text-to-speech $0.01 per 1,000 characters, studio-quality speech $0.03 per 1,000 characters. Studio and Dub plans are priced separately. As of Oct 2026, verify.
- Murf's API pricing lists a free trial with $10 of API credit, 150+ voices in 35+ languages and styles, and pay as you go with purchased credit that does not expire.
- Rates shown: Falcon text-to-speech $0.01 per 1,000 characters (time to first audio under 100 ms), studio-quality speech $0.03 per 1,000 characters, voice changer $0.10 a minute and translation $0.02 per 1,000 characters.
- The pricing page has separate tabs for Studio and Dub plans; check those for per-seat prices.
Prices as of Oct 2026 (checked Oct 15, 2026), verify before buying. Source: vendor pricing page.
Key features
- Text-to-speech in many languages and accents
- Falcon low-latency model for real-time voice agents
- Voice changer and voice cloning
- AI translation and dubbing
- Voice-over for video and Google Slides, plus a Canva add-on
Integrations: Murf Studio on the web; Murf API; add-ons for Canva and Google Slides listed on its site; SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance listed.
Agent-ready? Partly. Murf publishes a documented API for text-to-speech, voice changing and translation. No MCP server was confirmed.
Pros and good to know
Drawn from the vendor's own documentation and public sources.
Pros
- Published per-character API rates
- Works inside Canva and Google Slides
- Compliance badges listed for business buyers
Good to know
- Studio, Dub and API are priced separately
- Studio plan prices are on a separate tab of the pricing page
- Focused on speech, not music
Alternatives
- ElevenLabs: AI voice generator with 5,000+ voices in 90+ languages, plus voice cloning, dubbing and music tools.
- Fish Audio: AI text-to-speech and voice cloning with a free tier, plan credits and developer extras.
- Adobe Podcast: Browser tool that cleans up spoken audio with Enhance Speech, plus a beta studio to record and edit podcasts.
Used in these workflows: Turn a screen recording into a how-to video with voiceover, Turn a script into a short explainer video, no filming
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