ElevenLabs sells one monthly pool of credits that every product draws from. On 29 Sep 2026 the pricing page showed Free (10,000 credits, about 10 minutes of speech, no commercial licence), Starter at $6 a month (30,000 credits, about 30 minutes, commercial licence), Creator at $22 list ($11 for the first month) for 121,000 credits, Pro at $99, Scale at $299 and Business at $990. If you plan to publish the audio, you need Starter or above; the free plan is for trying voices.
Pick a plan
| You need | Plan | Page says |
|---|---|---|
| To try voices | Free | 10,000 credits, no commercial licence |
| Voiceover you can publish, a few hours a year | Starter, $6 | 30,000 credits, commercial licence, Instant Voice Cloning |
| Regular narration | Creator, $22 list | 121,000 credits, Professional Voice Cloning, extra minutes at about $0.18 |
| Higher volume, higher-quality audio | Pro, $99 | 600,000 credits, 44.1kHz PCM output through the API |
| Small team | Scale, $299 | 1.8 million credits, 3 seats |
| Heavy or low-latency API use | Business, $990 | 6 million credits, low-latency speech from about 5 cents a minute |
What a credit buys
For text to speech, the page says one character costs one credit on its highest-quality models and about half a credit on its Flash and Turbo models, and a minute of audio is about 1,000 characters. Other products draw on the same pool at different rates (approximate figures from the page’s FAQ):
| Product | Credits |
|---|---|
| Text to speech | 1 per character (about 1,000 a minute) |
| Speech to text | 330 per minute |
| Music | 900 per minute |
| Sound effects | 200 per generation |
| Voice changer and voice isolator | 1,000 per minute |
| Dubbing, automatic, with watermark | 2,000 per minute |
| Dubbing, automatic, no watermark | 3,000 per minute |
| Dubbing Studio, with watermark | 5,000 per minute |
| Dubbing Studio, no watermark | 10,000 per minute |
Applied to a Starter month (30,000 credits) that is about 30 minutes of speech, or 90 minutes of transcription, or 33 minutes of music, or 10 minutes of automatic dubbing without a watermark, or 3 minutes of Dubbing Studio without a watermark. The pool is shared, so using one product leaves less for the others. Unused credits roll over for up to two months per the FAQ.
Cost per minute
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing, per month | What the page states | Derived cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Free tier | $0 | Not stated | 10,000 credits/month (≈10 min audio, stated 'approximately') | Not derivable |
| Starter | $6 | $5 | 30,000 credits/month (≈30 min audio, stated 'approximately') | $0.20 per audio minute |
| Creator | $22 Promo, not the list price: $11, first month of a new subscription | $18.33 | 121,000 credits/month (≈121 min audio, stated 'approximately') | $0.18 per audio minute |
| Pro | $99 | $82.50 | 600,000 credits/month (≈600 min audio, stated 'approximately') | $0.17 per audio minute |
| Scale | $299 | $249.17 | 1,800,000 credits/month (≈1800 min audio, stated 'approximately') | $0.17 per audio minute |
| Business | $990 | $825 | 6,000,000 credits/month (≈6000 min audio, stated 'approximately') | $0.17 per audio minute |
USD, list prices as shown on the vendor's pricing page (source), checked 29 Sept 2026. Promotional prices are shown separately and are never mixed into list prices. See the pricing tracker for every tool side by side and its method.
On the pricing page, extra minutes are listed at about $0.36 on Free, $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 on Pro and Scale. Our division of price by stated minutes gives $0.20 (Starter), $0.18 (Creator at list), $0.165 (Pro) and $0.166 (Scale) on monthly billing, and the annual price (ten times the monthly price, per the page) lowers them to about $0.17, $0.15 and $0.14 for Starter, Creator and Pro. The $11 Creator price is a first-month offer and is not used.
The licence line
Free has no commercial licence; Starter and above are listed with one. The pricing page states the licence exists but not its terms, so read ElevenLabs’ terms for what counts as commercial use, and never clone a voice without the speaker’s permission.
Method
Researched from ElevenLabs’ pricing page and the credit and licence details embedded in it, read 29 Sep 2026. USD list prices; minute figures are the page’s own “about” numbers, and cost-per-minute figures are our division. Voice quality is not on a pricing page and is not assessed here; nothing comes from using the product.
Related
The transcription and voice hub puts ElevenLabs beside Otter and Descript; Murf and Speechify are alternatives whose pricing we did not compile; Otter covers transcription. All plans are in the pricing tracker.