ElevenLabs Pricing 2026: Plans, Free Plan, Commercial Use and Dubbing

ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform: it turns text into realistic speech, clones voices, dubs video into 90+ languages, composes music and runs voice agents. It’s built for video creators, audiobook narrators, localization teams and developers. The free plan covers about 10 minutes of speech a month for non-commercial use. Paid plans start at $6 a month plus tax, or $5 a month billed yearly, and Starter is the cheapest plan with a commercial license (pricing, checked Oct. 11, 2026).

This guide covers documented pricing, quotas and features. Prices, credits, dubbing minutes, voice models and commercial-use rules were rechecked on October 11, 2026. Other details retain their individual verification dates.

What Is ElevenLabs in 2026?

The company now groups its products into three areas (homepage, checked Sept. 25, 2026):

• ElevenCreative, for making content: text to speech, Studio for long-form projects, voice cloning and voice design, dubbing, music, sound effects, voice isolation, and an image and video module.
• ElevenAgents, for building voice agents (customer support, appointment booking, lead qualification) on a website, in an app or over the phone.
• ElevenAPI, for developers who build these features into their own products.

All three run on the same account and, for the most part, draw on the same monthly credit balance.

What’s Changed Since 2025

• Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo launched on September 28, 2026 across ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents and the API. v4 supports 90+ languages and both instant and professional voice clones; v4 Turbo targets real-time conversations (official announcement, checked Sept. 28, 2026).

• Eleven v3 came out of alpha on Feb. 2, 2026. ElevenLabs reports 68% fewer errors when reading numbers, formulas, URLs or phone numbers aloud, based on its own benchmark (announcement).

• Dubbing v2 (May 28, 2026) carries the speaker’s intonation and emotion across languages, in 90+ languages (announcement). The documentation still labels it alpha as of Oct. 11, 2026.

• Music v2 (May 26, 2026), followed by Music v2.5 (Sept. 11, 2026), now the default music model (Music v2.5 announcement).

• Image & Video (launched in beta on Nov. 17, 2025; no longer labeled beta in the documentation as of Oct. 11, 2026): generate images and video with third-party models such as Veo, Sora, Kling, Wan or Seedance, then add voiceover, music and sound effects (announcement).

• Plans are now measured in credits rather than characters, and both prices and quotas have changed.

What Can You Do With ElevenLabs?

Five common uses, with the tool to open, the plan you need and the credit cost (from the pricing page, detailed below).

Add a Voiceover to a Video

Tool: Text to Speech. Plan: Starter ($6 a month) as soon as the video is published or monetized. Cost: about 1,000 credits per minute of speech.

You pick the model in the right-hand panel. ElevenLabs describes Eleven v4 as its fastest and most emotive model (90+ languages), Eleven v3 as highly expressive but harder to direct, and Multilingual v2 as the most consistent, recommended for voiceovers and audiobooks.

The model picker in Text to Speech: each card shows the language count and the use ElevenLabs recommends (screenshot taken Oct. 13, 2026).

To direct the delivery, the documentation recommends audio tags in square brackets, such as [curious], [excited], [whispers], [laughs] or [sighs], ellipses for pauses and capital letters for emphasis. A video hook, for example:

[curious] Ever wondered why some videos hold your attention from the very first second? [excited] The answer comes down to three words… and you're about to hear them.

Narrate a Book or a Long Podcast

Tool: Studio, which imports a document (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, HTML or a web page), splits it into chapters and lets you assign a voice per character. Plan: Pro to export at 192 kbps from Studio. Cost, as a calculation: an 8-hour audiobook is roughly 480,000 characters, so about as many credits; Pro’s 600,000 monthly credits cover one such book. The full workflow, and which platforms accept AI narration, are in our AI audiobook narration guide.

Dub a Video Into Another Language

Tool: Dubbing. Drop in the video, pick one or more target languages, and Dubbing v2, the default model (still in alpha), keeps the speaker’s delivery; the interface lists 92 languages. Cost: 13,500 credits per minute per language on a paid plan, which is 2 minutes on Starter and 9 on Creator. To edit the script or voices, you need Dubbing Studio, which runs on the older version (details below).

Creating a dub: drop the file, choose the target languages, then run Dubbing v2; the total cost appears before you confirm (screenshot taken Oct. 13, 2026).

For preparing the video and budgeting, see our guide to translating a video in your own voice and our AI dubbing software comparison.

Design or Clone a Voice

Without recording anything, Voice Design builds a voice from a written description, even on the free plan. For your own voice, Instant Voice Cloning needs 1 to 2 minutes of clean audio and a Starter plan; Professional Voice Cloning needs 30 to 180 minutes of audio and a Creator plan. Consent from the person recorded is required (details).

Score a Video With Music and Sound Effects

Music v2.5 generates tracks from 3 seconds to 5 minutes, with or without lyrics, for 900 credits per minute; a sound effect costs 200 credits per generation. On the free plan, published music must credit “Eleven Music” (details).

Tips That Save Credits

• Write text meant to be heard: the documentation recommends careful punctuation, ellipses for pauses and clear emotional context rather than piling on settings.
• Match the model to the job: through the API, Flash v2.5 costs 50% less per character than the high-quality models, at some cost in quality (models documentation).
• Check a dub’s cost before running it: the total shows before you confirm, and Dubbing v2 uses nearly seven times more credits per minute than watermarked v1 dubbing (13,500 vs. 2,000).
• Count on credit rollover: unused credits on a paid plan roll over for up to two months while the subscription stays active.
• Top up instead of upgrading for a one-off spike: prepaid top-ups start at $5.

ElevenLabs Pricing by Plan (Checked Oct. 2026)

Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude sales tax; the French-language pricing page shows the same dollar amounts. Paying yearly works out to 12 months for the price of 10 (ElevenLabs pricing, plan cards, comparison table and FAQ checked Oct. 11, 2026). First-month discounts and temporary Eleven v4 credit bonuses shown on the page are left out: they expire and don’t reflect the ongoing price.

The minute estimates are ElevenLabs’ own: on its highest-quality models, 1 character costs 1 credit and a minute of audio takes about 1,000 characters. The table lists extra text-to-speech minutes at about $0.36 on Free, $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 from Pro up.

What each plan adds, according to the plan cards:

• Free: text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, Voice Design, music and image generation. Studio projects: 3 on the plan card, 5 in the comparison table.
• Starter: commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, 20 Studio projects, commercial music use, Dubbing Studio, Image & Video.
• Creator: Professional Voice Cloning (1 voice). Extra credits now come as prepaid top-ups on every plan, from $5, capped at $100 a month up to Creator and $200 on Pro without two-factor authentication; the older usage-based billing is closed to new subscriptions (checked Oct. 12, 2026).
• Pro: 44.1 kHz PCM output via the API, and 192 kbps MP3 or 44.1 kHz WAV export in Studio (Creator exports 128 kbps in Studio; its 192 kbps audio is API-only, checked Oct. 12, 2026).
• Scale: 3 seats, team collaboration, 3 professional voice clones.
• Business: 10 seats, 10 professional voice clones, low-latency text to speech from 5 cents a minute.
• Enterprise: custom terms, SSO, HIPAA BAAs, fully managed dubbing through Productions.

How Many Credits Does Each Feature Use?

The features below draw from your credit balance. Rates come from the pricing FAQ and the comparison table’s tooltips (checked Oct. 11, 2026).

Unused credits on a paid plan roll over for up to two months, capped at twice the monthly quota, as long as the subscription stays active; they’re lost if you cancel or downgrade.

How Much Does Dubbing Cost on Each Plan?

The comparison table on the pricing page (Automatic Dubbing and Dubbing Studio tabs, checked Oct. 11, 2026) gives the dubbed minutes each plan includes. One minute means one minute of source media dubbed into one language: each target language is billed separately (dubbing billing guide).

• Dubbing v2 is the default model, still in alpha, with no lip sync and no in-app editor (dubbing documentation, lip sync answer, checked Oct. 11, 2026). Free-plan dubs are watermarked; paid-plan v2 dubs are not, and v2 has no cheaper watermarked option.
• Through the API, Dubbing v2 costs $2.20 per minute, excluding taxes, and v1 $0.33 with a watermark or $0.50 without (API pricing, checked Oct. 11, 2026). In the app, the total is shown for confirmation before a dub starts.
• ElevenLabs contradicts itself on v1 without a watermark: its FAQ still quotes 3,000 credits a minute without restricting plans, while the comparison table crosses out that option on Starter. The Dubbing Studio guide also says watermarking “is not available on our paid subscriptions,” while the table lists watermarked v1 minutes on every paid plan.

For a 10-minute video in two languages priced against Murf Dub, HeyGen, Vozo and Synthesia, see the AI dubbing software comparison.

Which Plan Should You Pick?

• Trying out the voices: the free plan is enough.
• Publishing or monetizing videos, cloning your own voice: Starter, at $6 a month.
• Regular voiceover, a high-fidelity cloned voice, music on Spotify: Creator, with 121 minutes a month and Professional Voice Cloning. For a full audiobook, compare Pro: it is the first plan that exports 192 kbps from Studio (see our AI audiobook narration guide).
• API integration or voice agents in production: Pro and up, depending on volume.

Is ElevenLabs Free?

Yes, for trying it out: the free plan gives you 10,000 credits a month, about ten minutes of speech, with no rollover. You get Eleven v4 and v3, Voice Design, music, image generation and 15 minutes of voice agent calls, but no voice cloning (pricing, checked Oct. 11, 2026). To compare that allowance with other free plans (downloads, attribution, commercial use), see free AI voice generators.

Two rules to know before you publish anything (publishing rules, checked Oct. 11, 2026):

• No commercial use: a monetized video or an ad needs a paid plan.
• Attribution required: published content must include “elevenlabs.io” or “11.ai” in its title. For music made on the free plan, the credit is “Eleven Music.”

For a YouTube channel or client work, Starter at $6 a month is the real entry point.

Commercial Use by Plan

Starter, at $6 a month, is the cheapest plan with a commercial license; the free plan is limited to personal use. The rules differ by product, per the comparison table on the pricing page and the publishing rules (both checked Oct. 11, 2026):

• No retroactive license: anything generated outside a paid subscription, before or after it, stays non-commercial. Regenerate it once you’ve subscribed.
• Music for TV, film, radio or video games requires Enterprise on every self-serve plan, according to the table’s tooltip, which points to the music terms.
• Beta services are excluded from the commercial license. Dubbing v2 is still labeled “alpha,” and the Beta Services Addendum covers anything “designated as alpha.” Yet the ElevenCreative Terms (updated Oct. 9, 2026, Exhibit 1) only bar Dubbing v2 output from films, TV series, streaming or video-on-demand platforms, theatrical releases and other professional entertainment productions without a written agreement. Confirm with ElevenLabs before a commercial project on v2.
• Rights to your inputs: you need the rights to your script, and the usage policy bars cloning a voice without the person’s consent or a legal right.

Which Voice Models and Languages Are Available?

ElevenLabs offers several text-to-speech models, each suited to a different job (models documentation, checked Oct. 11, 2026):

The older Turbo v2 and v2.5 models were replaced by Flash; the new v4 Turbo is a separate model. Language coverage depends on the selected model.

90+ or 74 languages? ElevenLabs gives two figures. The models documentation lists 90+ languages for the Eleven v4 family, while the comparison table on the pricing page shows 74 languages for text to speech in the app, on every plan (both checked Oct. 11, 2026). Check that your language appears in the app before you budget a project.

For changes from v3, checks before migrating existing voices and a worked API budget, read the Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo launch report.

Directing Eleven v3 With Audio Tags

Eleven v3 takes audio tags in square brackets, placed right in the text, to make a voice whisper, laugh, sound sarcastic or curious (best practices guide). For example:

[whispers] I really shouldn't tell you this… [laughs] but the project is already done.

Eleven v3 doesn’t support SSML <break> tags. The docs recommend ellipses and punctuation to control pacing instead. For a step-by-step walkthrough, see our tutorial on creating realistic AI voices with ElevenLabs.

How Does ElevenLabs Voice Cloning Work?

ElevenLabs offers two levels of cloning (voice cloning docs, checked Sept. 25, 2026):

If you don’t want to clone anyone, Voice Design creates a voice from a written description, even on the free plan.

The usage policy prohibits replicating another person’s voice without their consent or a legal right. For a brand voice, get written consent from the person you record.

Dubbing, Audiobooks, Transcription: What Else Can It Do?

Automatic Dubbing v2 Alpha translates video or audio into 90+ languages while preserving speakers’ vocal characteristics and background audio. The app accepts up to 32 speakers and 180 minutes. There is no in-app editor; transcript editing and regeneration through the API require Enterprise. There is no lip sync either: ElevenLabs offers it in Image & Video and Studio, not in dubbing (dubbing documentation and help center, checked Oct. 11, 2026). Included minutes per plan are listed in the dubbing pricing table above. The AI dubbing software comparison prices Dubbing v2 against Murf Dub, HeyGen, Vozo and Synthesia for a 10-minute video in two languages.

Dubbing Studio is a separate workflow using v1. It supports transcript corrections, speaker reassignment and per-clip audio regeneration, with a 45-minute, 1 GB upload limit. The Studio guide now describes it as being in maintenance mode with critical fixes only. The pricing page, checked Oct. 11, 2026, includes access from Starter, with a watermark only; watermark-free Dubbing Studio starts with Creator. Do not choose v2 expecting to continue editing its output in Studio.

For source preparation, translation checks and budgeting, follow the guide to translating a video while keeping your voice.

Studio is built for long-form work: audiobooks, podcasts and video voiceovers, such as the narration for an educational video. It imports a document (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, HTML or a web page), detects its chapters and lets you assign multiple voices (Studio docs, checked Sept. 25, 2026). The free plan allows 3 Studio projects according to its plan card, 5 according to the comparison table; Starter allows 20 (checked Oct. 11, 2026). For a full book, including cost per hour and which stores accept AI narration, see the AI audiobook narration guide.

Other tools:

• Speech to Text (Scribe v2 model): transcription in 90+ languages, batch or real time.
• Voice Changer: re-voices your recording with a different voice while keeping your delivery.
• Voice Isolator: strips background noise from a recording.
• Sound Effects: generates sound effects from a text description.

Music

Music v2.5 generates tracks from 3 seconds to 5 minutes long, with or without lyrics, in several languages (music docs, checked Sept. 25, 2026). ElevenLabs positions it as cleared for commercial use, built with licensing deals (Believe for Music v2, then a multi-year agreement with Universal Music Group mentioned in the Music v2.5 announcement). Commercial use of music starts with the Starter plan, but without streaming platforms: release on Spotify and Apple Music starts with Creator, according to the comparison table on the pricing page (checked Oct. 11, 2026). On the free plan, any track you publish has to credit “Eleven Music” (publishing rules, checked Oct. 11, 2026). Music is also available in a separate app, ElevenMusic.

If you just need instrumental background music, Soundraw is a simpler option.

Image and Video

The Image & Video documentation no longer labels this module beta (checked Oct. 11, 2026). It gives you image models (Nano Banana, FLUX, GPT Image, Seedream, Recraft) and video models (Veo, Kling, Runway, Wan, Seedance), plus lip sync, upscaling and audio finishing. The pricing table marks it “Full commercial” from Starter; the free plan generates images only, for personal use with attribution, and video requires a paid plan. Sora is still listed on ElevenLabs’ video page but not in the documentation’s model list, and OpenAI shut down its API on Sept. 24, 2026 (checked Sept. 26, 2026), so that access is uncertain. To compare those video models, see the top 10 AI video tools.

Voice Agents and API: What Do They Cost?

ElevenAgents builds agents that listen and talk back, with a knowledge base, a workflow builder, an embeddable website widget and phone integration. Every plan includes call minutes (ElevenAgents pricing, checked Oct. 11, 2026):

Extra minutes cost $0.08 each. The language model (Gemini, Claude, GPT and others) is billed on top depending on which one you pick, and telephony is passed through at cost.

The API lets developers integrate features into an application; billing depends on the feature and model. Flash v2.5 costs half as many credits per character as the high-quality models, and 44.1 kHz PCM output is limited to Pro and above. The official documentation covers the API and agents.

What Are ElevenLabs’ Limitations?

• Dubbing eats credits fast: Dubbing v2 uses 13,500 credits per minute on paid plans, so Starter covers only 2 minutes and Creator 9. Each extra language is billed again.
• 5,000 characters per generation with Eleven v3: longer scripts have to be split, or run through Studio, which does it for you.
• Beta and alpha services aren’t covered by the commercial license: Dubbing v2’s alpha label raises that question (see Commercial Use by Plan).
• Cloning and deepfakes: the docs only describe voice verification for Professional Voice Cloning. Disclosing that a voice is synthetic is on you, especially for anything that could mislead.
• A sprawling lineup: ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents, ElevenAPI and ElevenMusic each have their own pricing page, so it takes time to figure out what to compare.

ElevenLabs vs. Murf

Murf Studio focuses on professional voiceover: e-learning, presentations and corporate video. Its studio integrates with Canva and, on the Business plan, with PowerPoint and Google Slides. Comparison based on the pricing pages of ElevenLabs (checked Oct. 11, 2026) and Murf (Studio tab, checked Sept. 30, 2026):

Murf Studio fits script-based voiceover production with an allowance measured in hours. Its custom voice cloning remains an Enterprise add-on, while ElevenLabs offers cloning on lower-cost plans. For an existing recording, Murf Dub is a separate product: its credits are not included in the Studio comparison above. To compare ElevenLabs with five more tools (Speechify Studio, WellSaid, Fish Audio, Async and Descript), with a calculated cost per minute of speech, see the ElevenLabs alternatives.

How to Get Started With ElevenLabs

1. Create a free account on ElevenLabs commission.
2. Try Text to Speech with Eleven v4 on a short script, then Voice Design. The tutorial’s v3 tag examples remain useful with v3 selected.
3. Upgrade to Starter as soon as your content will be published or monetized.

FAQ

How Many Free Minutes Does ElevenLabs Give You?

About 10 minutes of speech a month (10,000 credits), for non-commercial use only and with “elevenlabs.io” or “11.ai” in the title of anything you publish. The first paid plan, Starter, costs $6 a month plus tax, or $5 a month billed yearly (checked Oct. 11, 2026 on the pricing page).

Can I Use ElevenLabs Voices Commercially?

Yes, from Starter ($6 a month) up, as long as you’re not using a beta service and you hold the rights to what you upload (text, cloned voice). Music on Starter can’t go to streaming platforms; that starts with Creator.

Which Languages Does ElevenLabs Support?

Eleven v4 covers 90+ languages per the models documentation, Eleven v3 covers 70+, Flash v2.5 covers 32 and Multilingual v2 covers 29. The pricing page’s comparison table, however, lists 74 languages for text to speech in the app (checked Oct. 11, 2026). Dubbing and speech to text support 90+ languages.

How Long Does Voice Cloning Take?

Instant Voice Cloning needs only one to two minutes of audio. Professional Voice Cloning needs at least 30 minutes of audio and usually 3 to 6 hours of training.

What Happens to Unused Credits?

On a paid plan, they stay available for up to two more months, capped at twice your monthly quota. They’re lost if you cancel or downgrade. The free plan doesn’t roll anything over.