ElevenLabs Pricing: Plans, Credits and Costs Explained

Quick answer: ElevenLabs has a Free plan at $0. Paid plans start at $6/month for Starter, while Creator is $22, Pro $99, Scale $299 and Business $990. Creator currently has an $11 first-month offer. Annual billing charges the equivalent of 10 months for 12 months of service.

ElevenLabs Pricing Plans Compared

Here is the current ElevenLabs subscription cost before applicable taxes.
Prices in this guide use ElevenLabs’ USD reference pricing. Checkout currency, taxes, payment options and final totals can vary by region.

Scale includes three workspace seats, while Business includes 10. Enterprise adds customized credits and seats, higher concurrency limits, SSO, priority support, custom DPA/SLA terms, and other enterprise controls.
One detail is easy to miss: the $11 Creator price is an introductory first-month offer, not the normal ongoing monthly price. The standard Creator price is $22 per month.

How Does ElevenLabs Pricing Actually Work?

ElevenLabs pricing can look inconsistent until you separate its different products.
You may see 121,000 credits on one page, 275 agent minutes on another, and $0.05 per 1,000 characters somewhere else. None of those figures necessarily conflicts with the others. They measure different types of usage.

This distinction matters when comparing plans. A Creator subscription might be plenty for one person’s narration workflow but behave very differently for someone running an API-based application or an AI voice agent.

ElevenCreative

ElevenCreative covers tools such as Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Voice Changer, Sound Effects, Voice Isolator, Music, dubbing, Studio, and voice creation.
These products draw from a shared monthly credit allowance. Using more credits for one product leaves fewer available for the others. ElevenLabs currently lists examples such as 330 credits per minute for Speech to Text, 900 per minute for Music, and 1,000 per minute for Voice Changer or Voice Isolator.

ElevenAgents

ElevenAgents is priced around AI-agent usage rather than simply showing the Creative credit figure.
For example, the current Creator tier includes 275 minutes of calls and 10 concurrent calls, while Pro includes 1,238 minutes and 20 concurrent calls. Scale increases that to 3,738 minutes and 30 concurrent calls.
LLM costs can also be passed through separately when using ElevenAgents, so the subscription price should not automatically be treated as the complete operating cost of a production voice agent.

ElevenAPI

API pricing is more granular. Text-to-Speech is commonly charged by characters, transcription by audio time, and other tools such as Music, Voice Changer, and dubbing have their own units.
That is why developers should look at the API pricing table rather than estimating their costs only from the Creative subscription credit count.

ElevenLabs Pricing on Primingo

The Primingo  also offers ElevenLabs Creator, Pro, and Scale options. Current listed durations include monthly and three-month choices, depending on plan availability.

These are Primingo prices, rather than the standard prices listed directly by ElevenLabs. Plan availability can depend on current Primingo stock. You can review the current ElevenLabs plans on Primingo before choosing a duration.

ElevenLabs Plans and Pricing Explained

Free Plan — $0

ElevenLabs has a genuine Free plan rather than a short trial that automatically converts into a paid subscription.
It includes 10,000 credits per month. For standard Text-to-Speech use through the Creative interface, ElevenLabs estimates this at roughly 10 minutes, although actual usage depends on the model and product.
The Free plan is useful for:

• testing different voices;
• experimenting with Text to Speech;
• checking how ElevenLabs fits into a workflow;
• making non-commercial prototypes;
• trying supported API functionality before committing to a subscription.

The important limitation is commercial use. ElevenLabs states that content generated on the Free plan is for non-commercial use and requires attribution. Paid plans provide commercial usage rights subject to the company’s terms.
That makes Free useful for evaluation, but it is usually not the right tier for someone creating monetized YouTube videos, client work, advertising, paid apps, or other commercial content.

ElevenLabs Starter Plan — $6 per Month

Starter is the first paid ElevenLabs plan and includes 30,000 monthly credits.
The bigger reason to move from Free to Starter is often not the extra credits. It is access to commercial use and Instant Voice Cloning.
ElevenLabs currently gives Starter 10 custom voice slots and Instant Voice Cloning access. Professional Voice Cloning is not included at this tier.
Starter makes sense for someone producing occasional commercial voiceovers, short videos, prototypes, or other small projects where 30,000 credits are enough.
If you regularly create long-form narration, the limits become noticeable quickly. At that point, Creator is usually the more relevant tier to compare.

ElevenLabs Creator Plan — $22 per Month

Creator is the first plan where ElevenLabs starts to feel practical for regular content production.
It includes 121,000 credits per month and currently costs $22 monthly, with a first-month promotional price of $11.
Creator also unlocks Professional Voice Cloning, with one Professional Voice Clone slot. This matters if your workflow depends on building a more accurate model of your own voice rather than creating a quick Instant Voice Clone.
For creators, the decision between Starter and Creator usually comes down to three things:

• monthly generation volume;
• whether Professional Voice Cloning matters;
• whether the additional quality and usage limits justify the jump from $6 to $22.

For a podcast, audiobook project, YouTube channel, or regular client workflow, Creator is much easier to work with than constantly trying to stay inside Starter’s smaller allowance.

ElevenLabs Pro Plan — $99 per Month

Pro increases the monthly allowance to 600,000 credits.
For Text-to-Speech through the Creative interface, ElevenLabs currently estimates that at roughly 600 minutes under the reference usage shown on its pricing page.
Pro is better suited to users who generate substantial volumes of audio or have API workflows where throughput matters.
It also increases concurrent requests compared with Creator. That detail is easy to overlook if you only compare credits. For automated production pipelines, the number of requests that can run at once may become a limitation before the monthly credit allowance does.
If you’re producing a handful of voiceovers each month, $99 is difficult to justify. If audio generation is part of a production system, however, Pro is a much more realistic tier.

ElevenLabs Scale Plan — $299 per Month

Scale includes 1.8 million monthly credits, three workspace seats, and three Professional Voice Clone slots.
This is where ElevenLabs moves more clearly from an individual subscription toward a team setup.
The extra seats matter for agencies, publishers, media teams, and startups where several people need to work from the same shared workspace. Credits are valuable, but team access can be the real reason to move from Pro to Scale.
That is also why comparing Pro and Scale purely on “cost per credit” misses part of the decision. Teams that also budget for AI video production can compare Kling AI pricing separately rather than mixing video costs into the ElevenLabs calculation.

ElevenLabs Business Plan — $990 per Month

Business is the highest standard self-serve tier.
It includes 6 million monthly credits, 10 workspace seats, 10 Professional Voice Clone slots, and higher concurrency. ElevenLabs also advertises low-latency Text-to-Speech on this tier at rates as low as five cents per minute for applicable usage.
At $990 per month, this is not simply a larger Creator account. It is intended for companies with sustained production volume, multiple users, multiple cloned voices, or voice technology embedded into business products.
Organizations needing customized contractual terms, security requirements, or larger limits should compare Business with Enterprise rather than automatically assuming Business is the ceiling.

ElevenLabs Enterprise Pricing

ElevenLabs does not publish a fixed Enterprise subscription price.
Enterprise pricing is negotiated around requirements such as:

• custom credit volume;
• additional seats and voices;
• elevated concurrency;
• SSO;
• DPA and SLA terms;
• priority support;
• HIPAA BAAs where applicable;
• volume discounts.

Because these contracts depend on usage and requirements, quoting an estimated “typical” Enterprise price would be misleading. Teams at this level need a direct quote.

How the ElevenLabs Credit System Works

Credits are the usage currency behind the Creative subscription plans.
Your plan gives you a monthly credit quota. Different ElevenLabs products then consume that shared quota at different rates.
This is why saying “Creator has 121,000 credits” is only the beginning of the answer. Those credits do not always convert into the same number of minutes across every model and product.
ElevenLabs currently lists approximate examples including:

• Text to Speech: around 1 credit per character for some models;
• Speech to Text: about 330 credits per minute;
• Eleven Music: about 900 credits per minute;
• Voice Changer: about 1,000 credits per minute;
• Voice Isolator: about 1,000 credits per minute;
• Sound Effects: about 200 credits per generation;
• dubbing: rates vary depending on the dubbing workflow.

A practical consequence is that two Creator subscribers can consume their 121,000 credits at very different speeds.
Someone generating only efficient TTS may stretch the allowance much further than someone mixing narration, dubbing, music, and audio-processing tools.

ElevenLabs Credits vs Characters

Older ElevenLabs discussions often use characters almost interchangeably with credits. That is no longer precise enough.
For Multilingual v2, ElevenLabs says one text character equals one credit. Some Flash and Turbo API usage receives discounted consumption, which can fall between 0.5 and 1 credit per character.
So:
credits are the broader account usage unit; characters are one way Text-to-Speech usage is measured.
That distinction becomes especially important for API users.

How Many Minutes Do You Get With ElevenLabs?

There is no universal ElevenLabs price-per-minute or credits-to-minutes conversion that works across every product.
For Text-to-Speech through the Creative interface, ElevenLabs currently provides these approximate figures:

Treat those numbers as planning estimates rather than guarantees.
Model choice changes the calculation. API pricing can also produce different character allowances from the Creative UI because API rates and credit consumption can differ.
This is one of the most common mistakes when estimating ElevenLabs cost: converting credits into minutes once and then assuming that figure applies to everything on the platform.
It doesn’t.

ElevenLabs Monthly vs Annual Pricing

ElevenLabs offers monthly and annual subscriptions.
Annual billing effectively gives two months free: you pay the equivalent of 10 monthly payments and receive 12 months of service.

Annual billing makes the most sense when you already know that ElevenLabs is part of your regular workflow.
For a first-time user who is still estimating monthly usage, starting monthly can be more practical. Saving roughly two months of subscription cost matters less if you discover after six weeks that you chose the wrong tier. If you are comparing annual billing with temporary promotions, the ElevenLabs coupon guide covers current discount options separately.

Do Annual Plans Give You All Credits Upfront?

No, not on normal self-serve plans.
Annual billing changes how you pay, but your subscription credits still reset monthly. ElevenLabs does not hand a standard self-serve customer the entire year’s credit allowance on day one.
Enterprise contracts can have different credit-reset arrangements.
ElevenLabs currently does not offer quarterly subscription plans.

ElevenLabs Pay As You Go Pricing

Pay As You Go, or PAYG, is now an important part of ElevenLabs pricing.
Instead of committing to a higher monthly subscription, you can preload funds and let ElevenLabs deduct usage from that balance.
PAYG is available across self-serve tiers, including Free. You can top up manually or enable Auto Top Up.
If you have both subscription credits and a PAYG balance, ElevenLabs uses them in this order:
subscription credits first → PAYG balance second.
That makes PAYG useful for irregular usage spikes.
Suppose you’re on Creator and usually stay within 121,000 credits, but one month you have a large client project. PAYG lets you cover additional usage without automatically committing to Pro every month.

Subscription vs Pay As You Go

A crucial limitation: adding PAYG funds does not turn a Free account into Creator or Pro.
Your subscription still determines limits such as voice slots and access to plan-specific features.

What Happens When You Run Out of ElevenLabs Credits?

For new self-serve customers, the answer is different from many older ElevenLabs pricing guides.
Traditional usage-based overage billing is now a legacy feature. New self-serve accounts use Pay As You Go instead. Enterprise accounts and eligible legacy subscriptions may still use older overage-based billing.
For a current self-serve account, the typical sequence is:

1. ElevenLabs uses your included subscription credits.
2. If you have a PAYG balance, usage continues from that balance.
3. If there are no usable credits or PAYG funds remaining, further paid usage cannot simply continue indefinitely.

This distinction matters because older guides sometimes imply that ElevenLabs will automatically keep generating content and bill every extra credit at the end of the month.
That is not the default model for new self-serve subscriptions in 2026.

Do ElevenLabs Credits Roll Over?

Yes, on paid plans, but there is a limit.
ElevenLabs allows unused subscription credits to roll forward up to two months’ worth of your normal quota. Once the new month’s allocation is added, your total balance can therefore reach as much as three times your regular monthly quota.
For example, Starter normally receives 30,000 credits per month. If you have accumulated 60,000 eligible unused credits, the next 30,000-credit allocation could bring the account to 90,000.
The Free plan does not receive the same rollover treatment.

What Happens When You Upgrade?

If you upgrade in the middle of a billing cycle, ElevenLabs starts a new billing cycle and carries your remaining unused subscription credits into the new quota.

What Happens When You Downgrade or Cancel?

A downgrade or cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the current subscription cycle.
When that happens, unused paid subscription credits are lost.
This is worth checking before downgrading an account with a large rollover balance.

How Long Do PAYG Credits Last?

PAYG funds follow different rules from monthly subscription credits.
ElevenLabs says PAYG credits expire 12 months after purchase. Changing subscription tiers can change the number of credits represented by the PAYG balance because ElevenLabs stores the underlying balance as a dollar value and converts it using the current plan’s rate.

ElevenLabs API Pricing

ElevenLabs API pricing deserves separate treatment because developers often care more about cost per character, hour, or minute than the monthly Creative credit allowance.
Current public Text-to-Speech PAYG rates include:

For 100,000 characters, that means the raw TTS rate would be about:

• $5 at $0.05 per 1,000 characters;
• $10 at $0.10 per 1,000 characters.

That does not mean every ElevenLabs project will cost exactly that amount. Additional products, Agents, transcription, and other services use their own pricing.

Speech-to-Text API Pricing

Current API list prices include:

• Scribe v2: $0.22 per hour
• Scribe v2 Realtime: $0.39 per hour

Other API Rates

ElevenLabs currently lists additional PAYG rates including:

• Speech Engine: $0.08 per minute;
• Music: $0.15 per minute;
• Voice Changer: $0.12 per minute;
• Voice Isolator: $0.12 per minute;
• Sound Effects: $0.12 per minute;
• automatic dubbing with watermark: $0.33 per minute;
• automatic dubbing without watermark: $0.50 per minute.

For an application generating large volumes of speech, model choice can make a significant difference. A low-latency Flash workflow can cost roughly half the per-character rate of v3 or Multilingual v2 before considering other parts of the stack.

ElevenAgents Pricing

If you’re using ElevenLabs to build conversational voice agents, look at the Agents pricing rather than assuming the Creative credit table tells the full story.
Current included call allowances are:

Calls can also include separate LLM costs.
This is why a $99 Pro subscription should not automatically be treated as “$99 all-in” for an AI calling deployment.
Your actual cost depends on call duration, model use, additional minutes, LLM usage, and any external telephony setup.

ElevenLabs Voice Cloning Pricing

ElevenLabs offers two main forms of voice cloning.

Instant Voice Cloning

Instant Voice Cloning is available from the Starter plan upward.
It creates a quick clone from shorter audio samples and is useful when you don’t need the deeper training involved in Professional Voice Cloning.

Professional Voice Cloning

Professional Voice Cloning starts with Creator, not Business.
Current base PVC allowances are:

Professional Voice Cloning requires verification and is designed for cloning your own voice.
For someone choosing between Starter and Creator specifically for voice cloning, this difference is often more important than the credit count:
Starter = Instant Voice Cloning
Creator = Professional Voice Cloning

Which ElevenLabs Plan Allows Commercial Use?

Paid ElevenLabs plans include commercial usage rights for qualifying generated content, while the Free plan is intended for non-commercial use with attribution.
That makes Starter the practical entry point for many users who want to monetize what they create.
Commercial use can include areas such as:

• monetized YouTube content;
• client voiceovers;
• advertisements;
• podcasts;
• audiobooks;
• films;
• games;
• applications.

The exact rights remain subject to ElevenLabs’ terms and prohibited-use rules. Creators who pair AI narration with video editing can also compare a CapCut Pro account as a separate production expense.
There is also a useful detail for anyone considering canceling later: ElevenLabs says content generated while you had an applicable paid subscription retains its commercial license after the subscription ends.

What Does ElevenLabs Actually Cost in Practice?

The best way to estimate your ElevenLabs cost is not to start with the plan name. Start with your workload.

Occasional Commercial Voiceovers

If you only make a few short voiceovers each month and need commercial rights, Starter at $6 may be enough.
Paying $22 for Creator just to receive more credits makes little sense if most of those credits sit unused every month.
Creator becomes more compelling when you need Professional Voice Cloning or regularly exceed Starter’s practical limits.

Regular YouTube or Podcast Production

A creator publishing long-form content every week can burn through 30,000 credits quickly.
At that point, Creator’s 121,000 monthly credits and Professional Voice Cloning may justify the $22 monthly fee.
For a channel producing occasional short clips, it may still be unnecessary. If video editing is another recurring expense in the same workflow, the CapCut Pro cost guide can help separate editing costs from voice-generation costs.

High-Volume API Application

For API users, calculate the number of characters you expect to generate and the model you plan to use.
If an app sends one million characters through a $0.05-per-1,000-character model, the base TTS usage is roughly $50. At the $0.10 rate, the same one million characters is roughly $100 before adding other products or services.
This kind of calculation is more useful than choosing a plan based only on labels such as “Creator” or “Pro.”

Which ElevenLabs Plan Should You Choose?

There is no universally best ElevenLabs plan. The right tier depends on what actually limits your workflow.

Use Free while you are still testing the platform, Starter for light commercial use and Instant Voice Cloning, Creator when Professional Voice Cloning or regular production matters, and Pro when generation becomes a production workload. Scale and Business are primarily about organizational capacity, seats, shared workspaces, and larger voice requirements. For occasional usage spikes, compare PAYG before moving to a higher recurring tier.

Is ElevenLabs Worth the Cost?

ElevenLabs pricing makes more sense when you know your expected usage. The entry point is relatively inexpensive: $6 gets commercial rights and Instant Voice Cloning, while Creator is a meaningful step up at $22.

The real value depends on whether your workload stays within the included usage and whether you need features such as Professional Voice Cloning, Agents, API capacity, or team access. Estimate monthly usage first, then choose the smallest tier that comfortably covers both volume and required features. If ElevenLabs is only one part of a broader AI content budget, compare Runway AI pricing separately so video-generation costs do not get mixed into the voice budget.

ElevenLabs Billing Details to Know

A few billing rules are worth understanding before subscribing.
Taxes: ElevenLabs’ listed prices exclude applicable taxes, levies, and duties. Your final charge may therefore vary by billing location.
Renewals: subscriptions renew automatically according to the billing cycle unless canceled.
Annual subscriptions: credits on standard self-serve annual plans still refresh monthly.
Cancellation: you can cancel, but the subscription remains active until the end of the current paid cycle. It then moves back to Free.
Pausing: ElevenLabs currently does not support pausing a paid subscription.
Payments: ElevenLabs currently lists credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay among supported payment methods, with UPI supported in India only. Apple Pay and Google Pay availability can vary by country and device.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does ElevenLabs cost per month?

ElevenLabs costs $0 for Free, $6 for Starter, $22 for Creator, $99 for Pro, $299 for Scale, and $990 for Business. Enterprise uses custom pricing. Creator currently has an $11 first-month promotional price. Listed prices exclude applicable taxes.

Is ElevenLabs free?

Yes. ElevenLabs has a Free plan with 10,000 monthly credits. It is useful for testing and non-commercial projects, but it does not provide the same commercial rights or voice-cloning features as paid subscriptions.

How many credits do you get with ElevenLabs?

The Free plan includes 10,000 credits, Starter 30,000, Creator 121,000, Pro 600,000, Scale 1.8 million, and Business 6 million per month. Enterprise credit allowances are customized.

Does ElevenLabs charge by minute, character, or credit?

It depends on the product. ElevenCreative uses account credits, Text-to-Speech can also be expressed in characters, ElevenAgents uses call minutes and concurrency, and API products use product-specific units. There is no single price-per-minute rule that applies across every ElevenLabs service.

Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?

Unused credits on active paid subscriptions can roll over for up to two months’ worth of the plan’s normal quota. The Free plan does not receive the same rollover benefit. Downgrading or canceling causes unused paid credits to expire when the current billing cycle ends.

Can I cancel ElevenLabs at any time?

Yes. You can cancel an ElevenLabs subscription at any time. The paid plan remains active until the end of the current billing cycle, after which the account returns to the Free plan and unused paid subscription credits expire.

Are taxes included in ElevenLabs pricing?

No. ElevenLabs lists subscription prices before applicable taxes, levies, and duties. The amount charged at checkout can therefore vary by billing location, currency, and local tax rules.

Does ElevenLabs offer quarterly billing?

No. ElevenLabs currently offers monthly and annual billing for its subscription tiers, but not quarterly plans. On normal self-serve annual plans, the subscription is billed annually while the included credits still reset each month.

How much does the ElevenLabs API cost?

Current Text-to-Speech API list prices include $0.05 per 1,000 characters for Flash/Turbo and v3 Conversational, and $0.10 per 1,000 characters for v3 and Multilingual v2. Other ElevenLabs products use separate per-minute, per-hour, or per-generation rates.

Is ElevenLabs cheaper if you pay annually?

Yes. Annual billing effectively charges for 10 months and provides 12 months of service. That makes the effective monthly price $5 for Starter, $18.33 for Creator, $82.50 for Pro, $249.17 for Scale, and $825 for Business.

Which ElevenLabs plan includes Professional Voice Cloning?

Professional Voice Cloning starts on the Creator plan. Creator and Pro include one base PVC slot, Scale includes three, Business includes 10, and Enterprise uses a custom allowance.