ElevenLabs pricing: per-minute API rates, plans and credits
Checked Nov 6, 2026 on ElevenLabs’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
ElevenLabs sells AI voice products (text to speech, speech to text, dubbing, music, sound effects and voice agents) on monthly plans. Every plan gives you a pool of credits, and every product draws from the same pool at its own rate.
Figures below are quoted from elevenlabs.io/pricing, its FAQ and elevenlabs.io/pricing/api. API usage rates and plan prices were re-checked Nov 6, 2026; the credits-per-product table was last read Nov 1, 2026.
API pricing: per minute and usage-based billing (USD)
- Text to speech
- Model / modev4, v3, v2 Multilingual
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.08 per 1,000 characters (about $0.08 per minute of audio)
- Text to speech
- Model / modev4 Turbo, v3 Conversational, Flash / Turbo
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.04 per 1,000 characters (about $0.04 per minute)
- Speech to text
- Model / modeScribe v2, Scribe v2 Medical
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.22 per hour
- Speech to text
- Model / modeScribe v2 Realtime
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.39 per hour
- Speech to text add-ons
- Model / modeKeyterm prompting / transcript editing
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.05 / $0.07 per hour (realtime $0.08 / $0.12)
- Realtime voice models
- Model / modev1 Mini, v1 Max
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.08 per minute of connected audio, plus LLM tokens (Mini $0.20 in / $6.00 out, Max $1.80 / $9.00 per 1M)
- Speech Engine
- Model / modeStandard / burst
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.08 / $0.16 per minute
- Music
- Model / modeEleven Music
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.15 per minute
- Voice isolator, voice changer, sound effects
- Model / mode-
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.12 per minute
- Dubbing
- Model / modev1 with / without watermark; v2
- Price on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api$0.33 / $0.50 per minute; $2.20 per minute
API usage is billed in US dollars, not plan credits. Prices exclude taxes. Checked Nov 6, 2026.
Plans (monthly billing)
- Starter
- Price per month$6
- Credits per month30,000
- Annual billing, per month$5
- Creator
- Price per month$22 ($11 for the first month)
- Credits per month121,000
- Annual billing, per month$18.33
- Pro
- Price per month$99
- Credits per month600,000
- Annual billing, per month$82.50
- Scale
- Price per month$299 (3 seats)
- Credits per month1,800,000
- Annual billing, per month$249.17
- Business
- Price per month$990 (10 seats)
- Credits per month6,000,000
- Annual billing, per month$825
- Enterprise
- Price per monthCustom
- Credits per monthCustom
- Annual billing, per monthCustom
Annual billing is the monthly price × 10. The pricing page also showed a limited-time first-month offer on Starter when we checked.
Credits used per product (approximate, per ElevenLabs)
- Text to speech
- Credits1 credit per character (0.5–1 on Flash/Turbo models via the API)
- Speech to text
- Credits330 per minute
- Eleven Music
- Credits900 per minute
- Sound effects
- Credits200 per generation
- Voice changer, voice isolator
- Credits1,000 per minute
- Dubbing
- Credits2,000–10,000 per minute, depending on mode and watermark
Per-minute vs credits: which billing applies to you
- Apps (Studio, the website): you pay a monthly plan and each product draws from your credit pool at the rates below.
- API: ElevenLabs’ API pricing page lists usage in US dollars: per 1,000 characters for text to speech, per hour for speech to text, and per minute for music, dubbing, sound effects and realtime voice.
- Example: 100 minutes of v3 text to speech is about 100,000 characters, or about $8.00 at $0.08 per 1,000 characters ($4.00 on Flash / Turbo). Transcribing 10 hours with Scribe v2 is $2.20.
Rollover and plan changes
- Credits reset at the start of each billing cycle. On paid plans, unused credits roll over for up to two months, so a balance can reach at most 3× the monthly quota while the subscription stays active.
- Downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused credits at the end of the cycle. Pay-as-you-go top-up credits are separate from the rollover cap.
- Voice agents (ElevenAgents) are priced on the Agents tab of the same page; see AI voice agent platforms compared.
ElevenLabs pricing FAQ
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
Per its pricing FAQ: Starter $6 a month (30,000 credits), Creator $22 (121,000), Pro $99 (600,000), Scale $299 (1.8M, 3 seats) and Business $990 (6M, 10 seats); Enterprise is custom (plan prices checked Nov 6, 2026).
How much does ElevenLabs cost per minute?
Through the API, text to speech is $0.08 per 1,000 characters on v4, v3 and v2 Multilingual and $0.04 on Turbo and Flash models, roughly $0.08 or $0.04 per minute of audio. Realtime voice is $0.08 per minute plus LLM tokens, music $0.15 per minute and dubbing $0.33 to $2.20 per minute (elevenlabs.io/pricing/api, checked Nov 6, 2026).
Is the ElevenLabs API billed in credits?
No. ElevenLabs’ API pricing page lists usage-based billing in US dollars, excluding taxes. Plan credits apply to its apps.
How many characters is one ElevenLabs credit?
For V2 Multilingual models, 1 character is 1 credit. Flash/Turbo models cost 0.5 to 1 credit per character through the API.
Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?
On paid plans, yes, for up to two months (up to 2× the monthly quota), as long as you keep an active subscription and do not downgrade or cancel.
Sources (official pages, read Nov 6, 2026)
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