ElevenLabs Pricing: Every Plan and Credit Cost Explained

ElevenLabs pricing runs from a free plan with 10,000 credits a month up to Business at $990 a month, with Starter at $6, Creator at $22, Pro at $99 and Scale at $299 in between. Annual billing cuts every paid tier to the price of 10 months. This guide breaks down each plan, the real cost per credit and the tier that fits common creator workloads.

Last updated: October 2026. Plans and credit costs checked against ElevenLabs’ official pricing page.

ElevenLabs pricing at a glance

ElevenLabs pricing is a credit-based subscription: every plan buys a monthly pool of credits that all products draw from, plus a set of feature limits. Seven tiers exist, from Free to custom Enterprise, and each paid tier has a lower monthly rate when billed annually. The table below lists the core numbers side by side.

Source: ElevenLabs pricing page (elevenlabs.io/pricing), checked October 2026.

Credits grow faster than price at every step up, which is why the bigger plans cost less per unit of audio.

For the full product verdict beyond the price tag, read the complete ElevenLabs review. In short, the plan grid is simple once each tier is read as a credit bundle plus a feature unlock.

How much does ElevenLabs cost per month?

ElevenLabs costs between $0 and $990 a month on self-serve plans, and Enterprise is quoted on request. The monthly bill depends on two things: how many credits a project burns and which features it needs, such as commercial rights, voice cloning or extra seats. The six self-serve tiers break down as follows.

Six self-serve plans cover everyone from hobbyists to production teams:

• Free plan: $0 a month for 10,000 credits, about 10 minutes of speech, 3 custom voices and 3 Studio projects, limited to non-commercial use under the Terms.
• Starter plan: $6 a month for 30,000 credits, adding the commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, Dubbing Studio and commercial use of generated music.
• Creator plan: $22 a month for 121,000 credits, one Professional Voice Clone slot, 30 custom voices and higher 192kbps audio output quality.
• Pro plan: $99 a month for 600,000 credits, 160 custom voices and 44.1kHz PCM output through the API for developers building production audio pipelines.
• Scale plan: $299 a month for 1,800,000 credits, 3 seats, 660 custom voices and 3 Professional Voice Clone slots for small production teams.
• Business plan: $990 a month for 6,000,000 credits, 10 seats, 2,200 custom voices, 10 Professional Voice Clones and low-latency TTS listed as low as 5 cents per minute.

Enterprise sits above Business with custom pricing, SSO, a HIPAA BAA, DPA and SLA terms, and volume discounts. Most solo creators land on Starter or Creator.

What does one ElevenLabs credit actually cost?

An ElevenLabs credit is the unit every product consumes, and its effective price falls as plans get bigger. Dividing each plan’s monthly price by its credits gives the cost per 1,000 credits, which is roughly the cost of one minute of Multilingual v2 speech at about 1 credit per character.

The math is plain division: $6 for 30,000 credits is $0.20 per 1,000, while $99 for 600,000 credits is $0.165 per 1,000. With annual billing, Creator drops to about $0.15 and Pro to about $0.14 per 1,000 credits. Above Pro, the per-credit price stays nearly flat, so Scale and Business are paying for seats, voice slots and concurrency rather than cheaper audio.

How many credits each product uses matters as much as the price per credit. Speech to text runs about 330 credits per minute, music about 900 per minute and sound effects about 200 per generation. The guide to how ElevenLabs credits work covers every product rate and the rollover rules in depth.

The biggest per-credit drop happens between Starter and Creator; after Pro, more money mostly buys team features.

Is ElevenLabs annual billing worth it?

ElevenLabs annual billing is a prepaid yearly plan that works out to two months free, so a year costs the same as 10 months of monthly billing. It is worth it when usage is steady and the plan size is already right, because savings grow with the tier while the commitment grows too.

Source: calculated from monthly and billed-annually prices on elevenlabs.io/pricing, October 2026.

The saving is the same two months on every tier, so the dollar value only becomes meaningful from Creator upward.

Annual billing makes less sense for anyone still testing a workflow. Credit rollover only lasts up to two months and downgrading forfeits unused credits, so locking into a plan that is too large wastes money faster than the discount saves it. Other ways to pay less are collected in the ElevenLabs discount guide.

Pay annually only after two or three months of stable usage on the same tier.

What does the Starter plan unlock for $6?

The Starter plan is the cheapest paid ElevenLabs tier, and it is the first plan that permits commercial use. For $6 a month it triples the free credit pool to 30,000 and adds features that matter the moment a voiceover goes into a monetized video, a client project or a paid product.

Five upgrades separate Starter from the free tier:

• Commercial license: The pricing page lists a commercial license under Starter, while the Terms limit free-of-charge use of the services to non-commercial purposes only.
• Instant Voice Cloning: Starter adds Instant Voice Cloning, which builds a usable voice clone from a short sample of roughly one to two minutes of clean audio.
• Dubbing Studio access: The editor version of dubbing becomes available, allowing transcript and timing edits before exporting a translated soundtrack for a video.
• Music commercial use: Tracks generated with the music model can be used commercially from Starter upward, which matters for background beds in monetized content.
• Larger limits: Custom voices rise from 3 to 10, Studio projects from 3 to 20 and concurrent text to speech requests from about 2 to about 3.

Thirty thousand credits equals roughly 30 minutes of standard speech, enough for three 10-minute voiceovers a month. Anyone publishing commercially should read the ElevenLabs commercial use rules before choosing between Free and Starter.

Starter is the minimum plan for monetized work, and it suits light, regular output.

What does the Creator plan add for $22 a month?

The Creator plan is the mid-tier ElevenLabs subscription built for people who publish every week. At $22 a month it provides 121,000 credits, about four times Starter, plus one Professional Voice Clone slot and 192kbps audio, the two upgrades most creators notice in finished audio.

A Professional Voice Clone is trained on far more audio than an instant clone, with ElevenLabs recommending at least 30 minutes and ideally two to three hours, and it requires a verification step. Creator also lifts custom voices to 30 and concurrency to about 5 requests, which speeds up batch generation in Studio.

The Starter vs Creator comparison runs the decision in detail. The short version: if a channel needs more than about 30 minutes of audio a month or a high-fidelity clone of its own voice, Creator pays for itself.

Creator is the value sweet spot for weekly publishers who want their own cloned voice.

When do Pro, Scale or Business make sense?

Pro, Scale and Business are high-volume ElevenLabs plans for production work, teams and developers, and they differ more in seats, voice slots and concurrency than in price per credit. Each one fits a specific scale of operation rather than simply being a better version of Creator.

Five signals point to one of the upper tiers:

• Audiobook-scale volume: Pro’s 600,000 monthly credits cover roughly 600 minutes of speech, enough for long-form narration projects that would exhaust Creator within days.
• API audio quality: Pro adds 44.1kHz PCM output via the API, a format developers prefer when audio is processed further before publishing.
• Team seats: Scale includes 3 seats and Business includes 10, so agencies and studios can share one credit pool without sharing a single login.
• Several cloned voices: Scale offers 3 Professional Voice Clone slots and Business offers 10, useful for studios managing multiple narrators or client brands.
• Higher concurrency: Concurrent text to speech requests rise to about 10 on Pro, 15 on Scale and 25 on Business, which keeps apps responsive under load.

Enterprise adds SSO, a HIPAA BAA, DPA and SLA terms and volume discounts, so regulated companies usually start a sales conversation instead of a self-serve plan. Teams deciding between the two seat-based tiers can read the ElevenLabs Scale vs Business plan guide.

Move above Creator for volume, seats or concurrency, not for better voice quality.

How far does each plan go in real projects?

Real workload math converts a publishing schedule into credits and then into the smallest plan that covers it. The estimates below use the listed product rates and assume about 1,000 characters per minute of speech, an approximation that varies with script density and speaking pace.

Source: credit rates from elevenlabs.io/pricing; characters-per-minute is an approximation, October 2026.

Most weekly creators land between 40,000 and 80,000 credits a month, which is why Creator is the common fit.

Budget a buffer of 10 to 20 percent above the estimate, because regenerating a line to fix tone or pacing spends credits again.

Do agent minutes come with each ElevenLabs plan?

Agent minutes are a separate allowance for ElevenAgents, the platform for building conversational voice agents, and every plan includes some. The agents pricing page lists included call minutes per month by tier, with extra minutes billed at $0.08 each and burst traffic at $0.16 per minute.

“a developer platform for launching interactive voice agents”

Source: Wikipedia, ElevenLabs

Included agent call minutes per month scale with the plan:

• Free tier minutes: 15 included call minutes a month and 4 concurrent calls, enough to prototype an agent and hear how it handles a short conversation.
• Starter tier minutes: 75 included call minutes and 6 concurrent calls, suitable for a small website assistant or a personal booking line.
• Creator tier minutes: 275 included call minutes and 10 concurrent calls, which supports a modest support or lead qualification line.
• Pro tier minutes: 1,238 included call minutes and 20 concurrent calls for production agents handling steady daily traffic.
• Scale and Business minutes: 3,738 and 12,375 included call minutes, with 30 and 40 concurrent calls, aimed at contact-center volumes.

LLM usage is charged at cost and varies by model, and ElevenLabs does not publish per-model numbers on that page, so budget a margin. Details and setup are in the ElevenLabs agents guide, with the official list on the agents pricing page.

Agent minutes come bundled, so a subscription often covers a prototype agent at no extra cost.

How does ElevenLabs API pricing compare with the plans?

ElevenLabs API pricing is a separate usage price list quoted per 1,000 characters for speech and per minute or hour for other products. It targets developers who meter usage inside their own apps, and the figures sit on the API pricing page rather than the main plan grid.

Six text to speech rates are listed per 1,000 characters:

• Eleven v4: $0.08 per 1,000 characters for the most emotionally rich model, which supports 90+ languages according to the model documentation.
• Eleven v4 Turbo: $0.04 per 1,000 characters for the real-time variant of v4, listed at roughly 100ms model latency.
• Eleven v3: $0.08 per 1,000 characters for the expressive v3 model, which supports 70+ languages and a 5,000 character limit per request.
• Eleven v3 Conversational: $0.04 per 1,000 characters for the real-time conversational version of v3, listed at roughly 280ms model latency.
• Multilingual v2 and Flash: $0.08 per 1,000 characters for Multilingual v2 and $0.04 for Flash and Turbo, the low-latency option at about 75ms.

Other API rates include Scribe v2 speech to text at $0.22 per hour, music at $0.15 per minute and sound effects at $0.12 per minute. The ElevenLabs API getting-started guide walks through keys, SDKs and a first request.

Developers should price apps from the API list, while creators working in the web app should price from the plan grid.

What fine print affects the real price?

ElevenLabs fine print is the set of billing rules around rollover, downgrades, refunds and promotions that change what a plan really costs. None of it is hidden, but most of it lives in help-center articles and the Terms rather than on the plan cards.

“You can cancel your subscription at any time.”

Source: ElevenLabs pricing page

Five rules are worth knowing before paying:

• Credit rollover: Unused credits on an active paid plan roll over for up to two months, capped at twice the monthly quota, so the balance never exceeds three months of credits.
• Downgrade forfeiture: Downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused credits, and the account moves to the free plan when the current billing cycle ends.
• Refund window: The refund policy covers requests filed within 14 days of payment only when no credit quota was used in that billing period.
• First-month promotions: ElevenLabs sometimes runs first-month discounts on the pricing page, so checking the page before subscribing can lower the first invoice.
• Personal email rule: Non-commercial use requires a personal email address under the Terms, which matters for anyone mixing hobby and business accounts.

Cancellation steps and the refund conditions are covered in the guide to cancelling ElevenLabs.

Rollover softens a quiet month, but downgrading resets the balance, so plan changes are best timed after credits are spent.

Which ElevenLabs plan should you choose?

The right ElevenLabs plan is the smallest tier whose credits cover a normal month plus a buffer, and whose features match the use case. Commercial use, cloning and seats are the hard gates; credits are the soft gate, because rollover and upgrades absorb occasional spikes.

A quick rule of thumb works for most readers. Hobby experiments stay on the ElevenLabs free plan. Monetized channels producing under about 30 minutes of audio a month pick Starter. Weekly publishers and anyone wanting a Professional Voice Clone pick Creator. Narrators and developers shipping long-form or API audio pick Pro, and teams that need shared seats pick Scale or Business.

“Most creators overpay by sizing a plan to their best month instead of their average one.”

Source: GrowthStackKit, ElevenLabs Review

Anyone weighing other tools before committing can compare options in the roundup of ElevenLabs alternatives.

Start small, measure one month of credit usage and upgrade only when the numbers say so.

Bottom line on ElevenLabs pricing

ElevenLabs pricing is fair for what it delivers: a free tier for trying the voices, a $6 Starter plan that unlocks commercial rights and cloning, and a $22 Creator plan that gives regular publishers enough credits plus a professional clone. Costs per credit fall steadily up to Pro and then flatten.

The smartest path is to start free, calculate monthly credits from real scripts, move to Starter or Creator when publishing commercially, and switch to annual billing only once usage is stable.

Frequently asked questions

The 12 most-asked questions about ElevenLabs pricing.

How much does ElevenLabs cost per month?

ElevenLabs costs $0 on the Free plan, $6 on Starter, $22 on Creator, $99 on Pro, $299 on Scale and $990 on Business with monthly billing. Billed annually, the paid tiers drop to $5, $18.33, $82.50, $249.17 and $825 a month. Enterprise pricing is custom and quoted by the sales team.

How many credits does each ElevenLabs plan include?

The Free plan includes 10,000 credits a month, Starter 30,000, Creator 121,000, Pro 600,000, Scale 1,800,000 and Business 6,000,000. Credits are shared across every product, so text to speech, transcription, dubbing, music and sound effects all draw from the same monthly pool.

How much speech do ElevenLabs credits buy?

The pricing page equates the Free plan to about 10 minutes of text to speech, Starter to about 30 minutes, Creator to about 121 minutes and Pro to about 600 minutes. Multilingual v2 uses roughly 1 credit per character, while Flash and Turbo use 0.5 to 1 credit per character.

How much does annual billing save on ElevenLabs?

Annual billing works out to two months free, so a year costs the same as 10 months. That saves $12 a year on Starter, $44.04 on Creator, $198 on Pro, $597.96 on Scale and $1,980 on Business compared with paying monthly for twelve months.

Which ElevenLabs plan is the cheapest for commercial use?

Starter at $6 a month, or $5 billed annually, is the cheapest plan that lists a commercial license. The Terms limit free-of-charge use to non-commercial purposes, so monetized videos, client work and paid products should run on Starter or a higher paid plan.

Is the ElevenLabs Creator plan worth $22?

Creator is worth it for anyone producing more than about 30 minutes of audio a month or wanting a Professional Voice Clone. It provides 121,000 credits, one professional clone slot and 192kbps audio, and its cost per 1,000 credits is lower than Starter’s.

Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?

Yes, on an active paid plan unused credits roll over for up to two months. Rollover is capped at twice the monthly quota, so the maximum balance is three times the plan’s usual credits. Rollover does not apply to the Free plan, and downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused credits.

Does ElevenLabs charge extra for agent minutes?

Each plan includes agent call minutes: 15 on Free, 75 on Starter, 275 on Creator, 1,238 on Pro, 3,738 on Scale and 12,375 on Business. Additional minutes cost $0.08 each, burst traffic above the concurrency limit costs $0.16 per minute and LLM usage is charged at cost.

What does the ElevenLabs API cost per character?

The API pricing page lists text to speech at $0.08 per 1,000 characters for Eleven v4, Eleven v3 and Multilingual v2, and $0.04 per 1,000 characters for Eleven v4 Turbo, Eleven v3 Conversational and Flash. Scribe v2 transcription is listed at $0.22 per hour.

Can I get a refund on an ElevenLabs plan?

The refund policy allows a refund if the request is filed within 14 days of payment and no credit quota was used in that billing period. Otherwise the Terms state that all sales are final, although ElevenLabs may offer refunds at its sole discretion.

Does ElevenLabs offer discounts or promo codes?

Annual billing is the reliable discount, saving the equivalent of two months. ElevenLabs sometimes runs first-month discounts on the pricing page, and the API side lists a Startup Grants Program. Right-sizing the plan to actual monthly credits often saves more than any promotion.

What happens to my credits if I downgrade?

Downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused credits. A cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, after which the account moves to the free plan. Spending the remaining balance before the cycle ends avoids losing credits that were already paid for.