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ElevenLabs cost: what you actually pay
Every tier bundles a monthly credit quota that different features (TTS, STT, dubbing, voice cloning) burn at different effective rates; once credits run out, usage effectively shifts to much higher per-unit API list pricing, and multi-seat workspaces don't start until the $299/mo Scale tier.
Public pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | monthly | 10,000 credits/mo, 3 projects, non-commercial use only |
| Starter | $6 / mo | monthly | 30,000 credits/mo, commercial license, voice cloning |
| Creator | $22 / mofirst month is 50% off at $11, then reverts to $22/mo | monthly | 121,000 credits/mo, professional voice cloning |
| Pro | $99 / mo | monthly | 600,000 credits/mo, 192kbps audio quality, PCM output |
| Scale | $299 / mo | monthly | 1.8M credits/mo, 3 workspace seats, 3 professional voice clones |
| Business | $990 / mo | monthly | 6M credits/mo, 10 workspace seats, 10 voice clones, low-latency TTS |
| Enterprise | Custom | custom | Custom credit volume, SSO, priority support |
| API pay-as-you-go: Text-to-Speech | $0.05 / 1K characters$0.05/1K chars (Flash/Turbo models) up to $0.10/1K chars (Multilingual v2/v3) | usage | — |
Credits meter unevenly by feature: standard TTS consumes roughly 1 credit per character-equivalent while premium models/voices multiply that rate. Separate published pay-as-you-go API list prices apply once subscription credits are exhausted or for pure API use: STT (Scribe) $0.22/hr, Scribe Realtime $0.39/hr, Dubbing $0.33/min (watermarked) or $0.50/min (clean), Music $0.30/min, Sound Effects $0.12/generation, Voice Isolator/Changer $0.12/min, Conversational AI agent minutes $0.08-0.16/min. An annual billing toggle exists on the pricing page but the discounted annual rate could not be confirmed from today's page render.
Last updated: 2026-07-22. Sourced from ElevenLabs Official Pricing Page ↗, ElevenLabs API Pricing Page ↗.
Where the real ElevenLabs cost hides
The sticker is the smallest part of the story. For ElevenLabs, these are the line items that quietly inflate the bill:
- Credits burn at different effective rates per feature (TTS vs STT vs dubbing vs voice cloning), so a plan's headline credit count doesn't map to one simple 'minutes' or 'words' figure
- Creator's advertised $11/mo is a first-month-only 50%-off promo; the real recurring price is $22/mo
- Multi-seat workspaces only begin at Scale ($299/mo, 3 seats); Free/Starter/Creator/Pro are single-seat, pushing small teams into an expensive jump
- Once monthly credits are exhausted, continued use effectively falls back to per-unit API list pricing priced above the blended per-credit rate inside a subscription
What an audit finds on ElevenLabs
Teams provision Scale or Business just to get multi-seat access for a handful of occasional users, then separately blow through the bundled credit quota on high-cost features (dubbing, multilingual voice cloning) and get billed API overage rates far more expensive per unit than the plan's included credits.
ElevenLabs pricing FAQ
Is the ElevenLabs Creator plan really $11/month?
No — $11 is a first-month-only 50%-off introductory price; the plan bills at its normal $22/month starting month two.
How many seats come with each plan?
Free, Starter, Creator, and Pro are single-seat. Only Scale (3 seats) and Business (10 seats) include multi-user workspaces.
What happens when I exceed my plan's credits?
ElevenLabs publishes standalone pay-as-you-go API rates (e.g., $0.05-$0.10 per 1,000 characters for TTS, $0.22-$0.39/hour for transcription) that apply for overage or API-only usage beyond subscription credits.
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