ElevenLabs Pricing: All Plans & Costs Explained (2026)

ElevenLabs costs between $0 and $990 per month. The Free plan is enough to try it, but only covers non-commercial use with attribution.

Commercial use and Instant Voice Cloning start on Starter at $6 per month. Professional Voice Cloning requires Creator at $22 per month.

That settles the short pricing answer. The harder questions are how credits are consumed, whether tax gets added, and which plan actually fits your workflow.

I've used ElevenLabs for years for voice-overs, audio samples, and small audio experiments. For this article I checked pricing inside my logged-in Creator account and temporarily upgraded it to Scale. I measured text-to-speech, Music v2, Voice Changer, and a short agent run against the credit balance before and after use. I did not measure Scribe or a completed dubbing run myself, so those rows are clearly marked as provider figures.

In this article I'll walk you through every ElevenLabs price in detail, explain the credit system, sort out the VAT question for EU buyers, and tell you clearly which plan makes sense for whom.

Curious how the voice quality, cloning, and audio tags actually hold up day to day? I cover all of that in my full ElevenLabs review.

1. ElevenLabs pricing at a glance

ElevenLabs has seven plans in total, from a free entry point to a custom enterprise tier. Here they all are at a glance:

All prices are per month and in US dollars. With annual billing you get two months free. The list price is not necessarily your final amount, as taxes, exchange rate, and payment method can change it. More on that below.

The screenshot shows my subscription page from that time. The table above gives you the current plan prices.

A quick word on where these numbers come from, so you know what you are relying on.

Creator and Scale I know from my own account. I paid for both plans myself and read the credit counter straight off the dashboard. Free, Starter, Pro, Business, and Enterprise come from the official ElevenLabs pricing page (elevenlabs.io/pricing), which I went through from top to bottom. Wherever I measured a number myself, I say so in the article. And wherever I only read it off a page, I say that too.

2. How much does ElevenLabs cost per month?

ElevenLabs has list prices from $0 to $990 per month, depending on the plan. For most content creators, Creator is listed at $22, and taxes can be added depending on your country, tax status, and billing. Commercial use of eligible generated files can begin earlier, at $6 on the Starter plan, subject to the applicable service terms and your rights to the inputs.

You often move up when you run out of credits. The plans are not identical, though. According to the documentation, Audio Native starts at Creator, Avatars are on all paid plans, and the still-alpha Ads Engine starts at Pro. Do not choose solely by speech minutes. Check the feature you actually need.

And if a fixed monthly price does not work for you at all, there is still the Enterprise plan. It has no list price and gets negotiated case by case.

3. The plans in detail

Numbers in a table are one thing. The real question is which plan fits you. Here I go through each one and tell you exactly when it pays off.

3.1 Is ElevenLabs free? (Free plan, $0)

Yes, permanently. The Free plan costs $0 and gives you 10,000 credits per month, enough for roughly 10 minutes of generated speech. That is plenty to test the voice quality and play with audio tags like [whispers] or [laughs].

Two limits come with it, though.

First, the Free plan only covers non-commercial use and you have to credit ElevenLabs as the source. Second, voice cloning is off the table entirely, neither Instant nor Professional. So it's not enough for serious projects. For testing and small personal experiments, though, the free plan is ideal.

Best for anyone who wants to get to know ElevenLabs before spending money.

3.2 Starter ($6)

The Starter plan costs $6 per month and is the cheapest way into eligible commercial use. You can use generated files in your projects where the applicable service terms and your rights to the inputs allow it. Attribution to ElevenLabs is not required on this paid plan.

The most important extra is Instant Voice Cloning, which Starter unlocks. It clones a voice in minutes from a short recording.

Best for beginners who need their first commercial voice-overs and want to start on a small budget.

3.3 Creator ($22, sometimes $11 for the first month)

The Creator plan costs $22 per month. ElevenLabs also runs a new-customer promotion that drops the first month to $11. That offer comes with conditions and can end anytime, so check the pricing page directly to see if it's still running. Either way, Creator is the sweet spot for most content creators.

You get a lot more credits than Starter and, most importantly, the Professional Voice Clone. It needs more training material than an Instant Clone. For Studio, ElevenLabs lists 128 kbps MP3 or WAV converted from a 128 kbps source on Creator. A WAV download does not automatically make the source lossless. Higher-quality Studio export starts at Pro, according to the Studio documentation.

Creator also unlocks Audio Native. It lets you embed an audio player on an approved website URL or publish a version produced in Studio. It is a separate product with its own publishing step, not automatic narration for every page.

Best for podcasters, YouTubers, and bloggers who produce audio regularly and want the most natural voice possible.

3.4 Pro ($99)

The Pro plan costs $99 per month and gives you a large credit allowance. This is no longer hobby territory.

Pro pays off when you use ElevenLabs intensively and productively, for many audiobook chapters, regular dubbing, or a whole batch of voice-overs each month. If you keep running out of credits on Creator, Pro is the next sensible step.

Best for heavy users and small studios with high but still manageable volume.

3.5 Scale ($299)

The Scale plan costs $299 per month and targets teams and agencies with high production volume. The credit allowance jumps well above what Pro gives you. I'm actually running this exact plan myself for the deeper testing in this article. ElevenAgents on Scale includes 3,738 call minutes. On top of that you get 3 Professional Voice Clone slots out of 30 voice slots in the library, both read straight off the "Create voice" dialog in my account.

Best for agencies and teams producing audio at scale across multiple clients or projects.

3.6 Business ($990)

The Business plan costs $990 per month and is built for companies using ElevenLabs at scale. This is about very high volume and the needs of larger organizations.

Best for companies with consistently high audio demand across many projects.

3.7 Enterprise (custom)

There's no fixed price for the Enterprise plan. It's negotiated individually and aimed at large clients with special requirements around volume, contracts, or specific features. If you operate at that scale, your best bet is to talk to the ElevenLabs sales team directly.

Best for large clients who need a custom solution rather than a standard plan.

4. What are credits and how far do they go?

ElevenLabs does not bill in minutes or words but in credits. Credits are the shared currency for everything you generate, whether that is text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, or music.

Every plan comes with a fixed credit allowance per month. The more expensive the plan, the more credits you get. Converted into speaking time, that looks like this:

• Free: about 10 minutes
• Starter: about 30 minutes
• Creator: about 121 minutes
• Pro: about 600 minutes
• Scale: about 1,800 minutes
• Business: about 6,000 minutes

That conversion only holds for plain narration. Each feature has its own rate, and some products have a different billing model altogether. The table records the account measurements and published prices I could verify. It is not a universal price card for every UI and API workflow. The third column tells you what I measured and what I only read off a page.

Everything marked green I checked myself with a balance before and a balance after. The rows marked amber are figures ElevenLabs publishes and I took over. For Scribe I have no measurement of my own, and my dubbing upload never validated during testing. I read the per-stem music prices from the download menu. I started the full stem split but did not separately verify the generated files.

Now to the individual features.

4.1 How much does text-to-speech cost?

But what is a credit actually worth? I didn't estimate this, I measured it directly in my account. Eleven v3, the current flagship text-to-speech model, costs almost exactly 1 credit per character, down to the credit and not just roughly.

And because one test alone isn't proof, I repeated the calculation three more times on the upgraded Scale account. Three separate generations of 184, 148, and 182 characters cost me exactly 184, 148, and 182 credits, down to the credit every time. In those runs, the editor returned two voice variants without doubling the measured character cost. That describes my test, not a fixed variation count across every interface and model.

One more detail helps when you do the math. I had the same German text read out once with Eleven v3 and once with the older Eleven Multilingual v2, both times using the German voice Otto. Both cost exactly 184 credits. For Eleven v3 that was the fourth confirmation of the 1-credit rule, for Multilingual v2 the first. So the older model saves you nothing at all, and it hands you one generation instead of two. The same rate applies in Studio, the long-form editor for audiobooks and long texts, where roughly 280 characters cost me exactly 281 credits.

4.2 How much does ElevenLabs Music v2 cost?

ElevenLabs Music v2 works completely differently. A generated song costs 900 credits per minute and per variant. Select three minutes and two variants, and you are looking at around 5,400 credits. The variation count is a choice, though, not a fixed default.

On my upgraded Scale account, one Auto generation with two selected variations of 2:00 and 2:30 minutes cost exactly 4,115 credits. My balance dropped from 1,840,607 to 1,836,492. That is one observed result. For other generations, use the price the interface shows before you start.

Two more things show up after that, and neither one appears in any plan table.

The first hides in the download menu. The complete song as a single file is free, but the moment you want the stems separated, you pay. On my 30-second track, the menu showed 225 credits for vocals and instrumental, or 450 credits for the full set of stems (vocals, bass, drums, guitar, piano, and other). The charge is duration-aware, so check the price shown for your own track. I read the options from the menu, started the full split, and did not separately verify the generated files.

If only part of the song bothers you, you do not have to rebuild the whole thing. In the song editor, I selected the outro of my lo-fi track and rewrote it into a synthwave finale with a plain-text instruction. That observed regeneration cost 1,350 credits, taking my balance from 1,835,263 to 1,833,913. A complete Auto track had cost 4,115 credits in my other test. Compare the price in the interface before each edit.

These three features are what justify the credit price:

• Mid-track genre switching: you can assign a single section a different genre without touching the rest. In my test, the intro and groove stayed at 68 BPM lo-fi at the tag level while the outro was rewritten to 140 BPM synthwave. What you actually hear, though, stayed noticeably closer to the original than those tags suggest. I go into the details in my Music guide.
• Inpainting per section: only the selected passage gets regenerated, and the transitions into the neighboring sections survive. That is exactly why the 1,350 credits above are possible at all.
• Commercial use from Starter: even on the $6 plan you can put the finished tracks into YouTube videos, podcasts, or client work, within the limits of your plan and the current Music Terms.

For the full workflow, genre switching, and inpainting, see my dedicated ElevenLabs Music v2 guide.

4.3 How much does the Voice Changer cost?

The Voice Changer, which turns an existing recording into a different voice, has its own credit price too. It actually runs on the older Eleven Multilingual v2 instead of v3. ElevenLabs lists 1,000 credits per minute on the pricing page, and my own measurement lands almost exactly there. I converted a 12-second test recording of my own TTS voice into a different voice, and that cost 197 credits, which works out to about 985 credits per minute.

4.4 How much does Scribe v2 (speech-to-text) cost?

I have to say up front that this rate is not one of my own measurements. On the official ElevenLabs pricing page (elevenlabs.io/pricing), speech-to-text is listed at 330 credits per audio minute. Ten minutes of audio therefore work out to 3,300 credits, which is about 2.7% of a Creator plan's monthly allowance. A one-hour interview would land just shy of 20,000 credits, twice what the Free plan gives you in an entire month and two thirds of the Starter allowance.

Two things I do know from my own test. Scribe v2 covers 92 languages and identified my German test audio correctly without me preselecting the language. And the batch upload is not the fast path, whatever the marketing says. It took over two minutes to process a 12-second clip. The speed lives in the realtime path, not in uploading finished files.

How accurately Scribe actually transcribes is something I tested elsewhere against five competitors, in my comparison of the best AI transcription software.

4.5 How much do ElevenAgents cost?

ElevenAgents is an exception. Phone and chat use can create usage-based fees alongside subscription credits. In my very short test conversation, the interface showed 18 conversation credits and an LLM rate of $0.0829 per minute. Applied to two seconds, that LLM rate gives about $0.00276, not necessarily the total conversation cost. It does not establish a per-minute price for other agents, models, or channels.

4.6 Rollover, regenerations, and exports

Unused subscription credits do not roll over forever. The billing documentation says an active paid plan can carry over up to two months of unused quota. Including the current allowance, the balance is capped at three times the monthly quota. An upgrade preserves existing credits. Unused subscription credits expire at the end of the billing period when you cancel or downgrade.

Studio offers up to two free regenerations of an unchanged text selection with the same voice and settings. Once you change text, voice, or settings, the interface shows Generate and uses credits again. You can export chapters and projects that already have generated audio. Exporting a chapter or project with still-ungenerated paragraphs triggers new generation and costs credits.

5. Voice cloning: which plan do you need?

The short version is that Instant Voice Cloning comes with Starter at $6, the Professional Voice Clone with Creator at $22, and the Free plan gets neither.

The slot counts do not live on the pricing page but in the ElevenLabs documentation (professional voice cloning guide). Creator and Pro get one slot each, Scale gets three, and Business gets ten. I can confirm the three on Scale, because that is exactly what the "Create voice" dialog shows in my own account, out of 30 voice slots in the library overall. You earn extra slots if a finished clone is rated "Studio Quality" in the manual review.

ElevenLabs offers voice cloning in two tiers that differ in quality, effort, and price. Neither one is available on the Free plan. Cloning only opens up once you pay for a plan.

Instant Voice Cloning (IVC) is included from the Starter plan ($6). You upload a short recording and have a clonable voice within minutes. The quality is already genuinely good for many purposes, but it does not quite match the original.

The Professional Voice Clone (PVC) is available from the Creator plan ($22). It needs more and longer training material but sounds noticeably closer to the original. If your own voice is the face of your brand, the step up to the Professional Voice Clone is worth it.

6. Taxes and annual billing: what you really pay

Here is a point many people miss:

ElevenLabs lists prices in US dollars. Whether tax is added, and how much, depends on your country, tax status, and specific billing. The pricing page shows taxes separately. You see the actual total before you subscribe.

What ends up on your statement in your local currency also depends on the current exchange rate and your bank's fees. So plan for a small buffer rather than converting the USD prices one to one.

If you use ElevenLabs regularly, you can save with annual billing. Paying yearly gives you two months free (you pay for ten months instead of twelve), which makes a real difference depending on your plan.

7. Which plan is right for you?

Enough theory. Here is my clear recommendation, depending on where you are right now:

Creator is my recommendation if you generate speech regularly and need the Professional Voice Clone. Its 121,000 credits allow roughly two hours of speech using the rough conversion in this guide. A higher tier can make sense because of usage or a feature it unlocks, such as Ads Engine on Pro. Check both before upgrading.

I deliberately left Enterprise out of the table. It has no list price and gets negotiated individually, so putting it side by side with the rest would be pure guesswork.

If you are still unsure whether ElevenLabs is the right tool for you, take a look at my comparison of the best AI voice generators, where I place ElevenLabs against the full field of competitors. And in my overview of the best text-to-speech tools you will find more alternatives for different use cases.

If price specifically is the dealbreaker, my comparison of ElevenLabs alternatives covers eight tools that are sometimes cheaper or built for a narrower use case.

Convinced and ready to get started? Then you can try ElevenLabs for free and work through the plans at your own pace.