ElevenLabs Pricing (October 2026): Free vs Starter vs Creator vs Pro, and How Far the Credits Go

ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform: text to speech, voice cloning, speech to text, dubbing, sound effects, music and a long-form editor called Studio. Its pricing looks simple (six self-serve plans from free to US$990 a month), but what you actually get depends on credits, because every tool draws from one shared monthly credit pool. This guide lays out each plan, then converts the credits into minutes and generations so you can see which plan fits what you make.

ElevenLabs plans and prices

Monthly prices as listed on ElevenLabs’ pricing page. ElevenLabs says annual billing “works out to two months free” (you pay for 10 months), and gives the equivalent monthly price for each paid plan, shown in the annual column.

Enterprise has custom pricing: custom terms around DPA/SLAs, BAAs for HIPAA customers, custom SSO, more seats and voices, higher concurrency, fully managed dubbing, volume discounts and priority support.

First-month offers on the page today: Starter showed “First month 83% off” (US$1 for the first month, marked “Until Oct 18”), and Creator showed “First month 50% off” (US$11 for the first month). These promotions change, so check the price on the checkout page.

See current ElevenLabs plans

How far do the credits go?

ElevenLabs’ FAQ gives these approximate credit costs, and all of them come out of the same monthly pool, so minutes spent on dubbing are minutes you can’t spend on voiceovers. For Text to Speech, the V2 Multilingual models cost 1 credit per character; the Flash/Turbo models are discounted for API use, at 0.5 to 1 credit per character.

The figures below are our own arithmetic (monthly credits divided by ElevenLabs’ listed cost, rounded down), assuming you spend the whole pool on one tool (the Free plan’s 10k credits would be a third of Starter’s figures, where the tool is included):

A rough rule of thumb for voiceovers: spoken English runs at roughly 900-1,000 characters per minute, so 30,000 characters is in the region of half an hour of narration on the Multilingual model. That is an estimate, not an ElevenLabs figure; the exact minutes depend on your script and the voice speed.

Rollover, upgrades and cancelling

• Rollover: on a paid plan, unused credits roll over for up to two months, so your balance can reach at most 3× your monthly quota, as long as you keep the subscription and don’t downgrade or cancel. Rollover doesn’t apply to the Free plan.
• Top-ups: pay-as-you-go top-up credits are separate and not subject to the rollover cap.
• Upgrading: unused credits from your previous plan roll over into the next billing cycle.
• Downgrading or cancelling: the plan stays active until the end of the billing cycle, then the account drops to Free and unused paid credits expire.
• Regenerations: credits are charged per generation request, not per download. A limited number of free regenerations may be available if the content and certain settings don’t change; ElevenLabs shows whether a regeneration is free before you generate.
• Payment: credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, billed monthly or yearly from the day you subscribe. Prices exclude taxes, levies and duties.

Which ElevenLabs plan should you pick?

• Just trying the voices: Free. You get 10k credits a month and the core tools, but the commercial license is listed from Starter up, so don’t use Free output in client or monetised work.
• Occasional voiceovers, a podcast intro, short social videos: Starter (US$6 a month, or US$5 a month billed annually). It adds the commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning and Dubbing Studio, with 30k credits.
• Weekly YouTube videos, audiobooks or a voice that sounds exactly like you: Creator (US$22 a month). Four times Starter’s credits (121k) plus Professional Voice Cloning.
• Apps and products built on the API, or daily long-form production: Pro (US$99 a month). 600k credits and 44.1 kHz PCM output via the API.
• Teams: Scale (3 seats, 1.8M credits) or Business (10 seats, 6M credits). Beyond that, Enterprise.

Save money: if you know you’ll keep it for a year, annual billing costs the same as 10 months. If you’re unsure, start monthly; credits roll over for two months, so a quiet month isn’t wasted. Building a startup on voice agents? ElevenLabs runs a Startup Grants Program listed as “12 months free” with 33M characters, valid for 12 months.

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Making videos too? See our guides to Filmora plans and DemoCreator plans for the editing side.

FAQ

Is ElevenLabs free?
Yes, there is a Free plan at US$0 with 10,000 credits a month, the core tools and 3 Studio projects. The commercial license is listed from the Starter plan up.

How much is ElevenLabs per month?
US$6 (Starter), US$22 (Creator), US$99 (Pro), US$299 (Scale) or US$990 (Business), before taxes, on monthly billing. Annual billing equals 10 months of the monthly price: US$5, US$18.33, US$82.50, US$249.17 and US$825 a month respectively.

How many characters do I get on Starter?
30,000 credits a month. On the V2 Multilingual models, 1 character is 1 credit, so that is 30,000 characters of Text to Speech if you use the credits for nothing else.

Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?
On paid plans, yes, for up to two months (your balance can reach 3× your monthly quota) while the subscription stays active and you don’t downgrade or cancel. Not on the Free plan.

Which plan has voice cloning?
Instant Voice Cloning starts on Starter; Professional Voice Cloning starts on Creator. Scale includes 3 Professional Voice Clones and Business 10.

Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. The plan stays active until the end of the current billing cycle, then the account moves to the Free plan and unused paid credits expire.

Sources

Checked on October 17, 2026.

• ElevenLabs – Pricing (plan cards and FAQ): https://elevenlabs.io/pricing