What is ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform spanning text to speech, speech to text, voice design and cloning, dubbing, sound effects, music, conversational voice agents, and production APIs. Its self-serve plans share one monthly credit pool across products.

Core offerings

  • Text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools through both creative interfaces and APIs.
  • Voice design, instant and professional voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects, and music.
  • Workspace collaboration, higher-quality audio, and multiple professional voice clones on larger plans.
  • Enterprise controls including custom SSO, higher concurrency, DPA and SLA terms, and HIPAA BAAs.

Pricing

As of July 21, 2026, ElevenLabs lists Free at US$0 with 10,000 monthly credits; Starter at US$6 with 30,000 credits, commercial licensing, instant voice cloning, Dubbing Studio, and 20 Studio projects; Creator at US$22 with 121,000 credits, professional voice cloning, and additional-credit purchasing; and Pro at US$99 with 600,000 credits plus 44.1kHz PCM API output and 192kbps audio.

Scale is US$299 per month with 1.8 million credits, three workspace seats, team collaboration, and three professional voice clones. Business is US$990 per month with 6 million credits, ten seats, ten professional voice clones, and low-latency text to speech priced as low as US$0.05 per minute. Enterprise is custom priced and adds custom terms, SSO, more seats and voices, elevated concurrency, managed dubbing, scale discounts, and priority support. Annual billing charges the equivalent of ten monthly payments.

Product footprint

Credits are shared across ElevenLabs products, so output volume depends on the workload. The official API page lists Flash and Turbo text to speech at US$0.05 per 1,000 characters, Multilingual v2 and v3 at US$0.10 per 1,000 characters, Scribe v2 transcription at US$0.22 per hour, realtime Scribe v2 at US$0.39 per hour, and Speech Engine voice-agent audio at US$0.08 per minute.

Why select ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is worth shortlisting when one platform needs to cover high-quality voice generation, transcription, dubbing, agents, and API delivery with a clear path from experimentation to multi-seat production.

Official sources: ElevenLabs plans, ElevenLabs API pricing, ElevenLabs billing guide.