ElevenLabs Pricing 2026: Every Plan, What Credits Really Cost, and Which to Buy
ElevenLabs pricing in November 2026: Free ($0, 10,000 credits, about 10 minutes of speech), Starter ($6, about 30 minutes, commercial license), Creator ($22, about 121 minutes, professional voice cloning), Pro ($99, about 600 minutes), Scale ($299, 3 seats) and Business ($990, 10 seats). Extra minutes cost roughly $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 from Pro up. Unused credits roll over, up to twice your monthly quota.
That last rule in ElevenLabs pricing decides which plan you should buy, and plenty of guides still miss it. If your work arrives in bursts, a launch one month and nothing the next, rollover means a Creator subscriber can walk into a busy month holding 363,000 credits instead of 121,000. That’s most of the way to Pro, for $22.
Every figure below was checked on elevenlabs.io and the ElevenLabs help center on November 7, 2026. Our level of use is researched: published pricing and documentation, not a paid account we run, and where a number is our calculation we show the working.
ElevenLabs pricing: the short version
- Best plan for most solo creators: Creator, $22 a month ($11 first month while the promo runs).
- Cheapest commercial license: Starter, $6 a month ($1 first month shown today).
- Credits roll over: up to 2x your quota; maximum balance 3x. Not on Free.
- Per-minute cost stops falling at Pro. Above $99 you’re buying seats and concurrency, not cheaper audio.
- Usage-based billing is now legacy. New subscribers top up with Pay As You Go credits that last 12 months.
- Under 10 minutes a month, non-commercial: stay free.
See ElevenLabs’ current plans, then use the tables below to pick a tier.
We earn a commission if you subscribe to ElevenLabs, Murf or Descript through our links. Two recommendations on this page pay us nothing: staying on the free plan, and topping up instead of upgrading. ElevenLabs did not review this page.
ElevenLabs pricing: every plan side by side
| Plan | Per month | Credits | TTS minutes | Cost per included minute | Extra minute | Key unlock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10,000 | ~10 | n/a | n/a | No commercial license, no rollover |
| Starter | $6 | 30,000 | ~30 | $0.200 | ~$0.20 | Commercial license, instant cloning |
| Creator | $22 | 121,000 | ~121 | $0.182 | ~$0.18 | Professional voice clone |
| Pro | $99 | 600,000 | ~600 | $0.165 | ~$0.17 | 44.1 kHz PCM via API |
| Scale | $299 | 1,800,000 | ~1,800 | $0.166 | ~$0.17 | 3 seats, 3 professional clones |
| Business | $990 | 6,000,000 | ~6,000 | $0.165 | ~$0.17 | 10 seats, 10 clones, low-latency TTS from 5c/min |
From elevenlabs.io/pricing, November 7, 2026. Cost per included minute is our calculation (price divided by minutes). The page also showed first-month promotions of $1 on Starter and $11 on Creator; one banner said the offer ended September 30, so check whether it still applies. Enterprise is priced by sales.
The rollover rule that changes which plan to buy
ElevenLabs’ credit rollover article, re-read today, says unused credits automatically roll over, up to twice your usual monthly quota, on Starter, Creator, Pro, Scale and Business. Your maximum balance is three times the plan. ElevenLabs gives its own example: Starter can hold 90,000 credits.
Two conditions. You stay on the same plan, and the free tier is excluded. Downgrade or cancel and unused subscription credits are lost when the change takes effect.
Why it matters: the standard advice is to size your plan to your busiest month. That would be right if credits expired monthly. A freelancer producing 40 minutes of narration in March and nothing in April or May gets told to buy something bigger when Creator covers it with room to spare.
Look at your last four months, not your peak month. If your average sits under your quota and only one month went over, rollover probably absorbed it. Exactly when the reset happens is covered in our guide to do ElevenLabs credits reset.
ElevenLabs pricing for extra minutes: usage-based billing vs Pay As You Go
This is the part people search for most, and it changed this year.
New subscriptions use Pay As You Go. When your monthly quota runs out, you buy credits in advance. They’re used only after your plan credits are gone, they last 12 months from purchase, and they sit outside rollover. ElevenLabs’ billing docs add a detail most guides miss: Pay As You Go balances are stored as a dollar value, so changing plans converts them at your new plan’s rate.
Usage-based billing is legacy. According to ElevenLabs’ billing docs, it’s available on Enterprise and on legacy Creator, Pro, Scale and Business plans, and not on new self-serve subscriptions. It charges a fixed price per extra 1,000 credits, switched on with a toggle on the Subscription page, with a cap you set or “Unlimited”. Charges normally land at the end of the cycle; if they exceed twice your monthly fee, they’re billed immediately.
The price per extra minute. The pricing page lists extra text-to-speech minutes at roughly $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 on Pro, Scale and Business. That’s the number to compare against an upgrade.
| Situation | Cheaper move |
|---|---|
| Creator, need 30 extra minutes once | Top up: about $5.40 at ~$0.18, versus $77 more for Pro |
| Creator, need 200 extra minutes every month | Upgrade to Pro: $99 for ~600 minutes beats $22 plus ~$36 of top-ups only if you’ll use the rest |
| Solo user on Pro hitting the quota | Top up; Scale costs the same per minute and adds seats you won’t use |
Where the pricing ladder stops rewarding you
Look down the cost-per-minute column of the ElevenLabs pricing table. Starter is $0.200, Creator $0.182, Pro $0.165, Scale $0.166, Business $0.165. Between Pro at $99 and Business at $990 you pay ten times as much for audio that costs the same per minute.
So what does the extra $891 buy? Ten seats instead of one, ten professional voice clones instead of one, more concurrent requests, and low-latency text to speech listed from 5 cents a minute. A team of ten needs those. A solo creator producing more audio doesn’t.
Hitting your quota alone? Top up rather than climbing past Pro. Above Pro, the ladder is built for headcount and concurrency, so paying for it to get more audio means paying for seats you’ll never fill.
Credits are one wallet, and products drain it at different rates
The “minutes included” figure in ElevenLabs pricing measures text to speech only. Credits are a single currency spent across ElevenLabs’ products, and each one burns them at its own rate. When we read the pricing FAQ in September it listed, per minute: about 330 credits for speech to text, 900 for music, 1,000 for voice changer and voice isolator, and 2,000 to 10,000 for dubbing depending on watermark and Dubbing Studio. Today’s pricing page didn’t display those rates in our check, and the help center now says the dubbing rate “depends on the dubbing model”, with the exact cost shown before you confirm.
So treat these as approximate, and check the cost preview in the app. The shape is what matters:
| What you’re doing | Approximate rate (Sept 2026) | What Creator’s 121,000 credits buys |
|---|---|---|
| Speech to text | ~330 / min | ~6 hours |
| Music | ~900 / min | ~134 minutes |
| Text to speech, Multilingual v2 | ~1,000 / min | ~121 minutes |
| Automatic dubbing, watermarked | ~2,000 / min | ~60 minutes |
| Dubbing Studio, no watermark | ~10,000 / min | ~12 minutes |
Dubbing is billed per minute of source video for each language, per the help center. Dub a 10-minute client video into three languages on Creator and you can run dry before the second language finishes.
Model choice is a lever you control. On ElevenLabs’ API pricing page, Flash and Turbo cost $0.04 per 1,000 characters against $0.08 for Multilingual v2 and v3, so the faster models cost half as much for narration that doesn’t need the top model.
What a finished voiceover actually costs
Plan prices alone tell you very little, which is why we read ElevenLabs pricing per finished job. Here’s a 10-minute voiceover on Creator, with retakes counted.
Script: about 10,000 characters. First full pass on Multilingual v2: about 10,000 credits. Retakes on a third of the lines, twice over: about 6,700 credits. Total: about 16,700 credits per finished video.
121,000 ÷ 16,700 = about 7 videos a month. About $3.14 per finished video. On a faster model at roughly half the credits, about 14 videos and $1.57 each.
That’s the honest case for the tool. Our guide to the best AI voice for faceless YouTube runs the same maths across five tools, and our ElevenLabs vs Murf comparison shows where Murf’s annual plan comes out cheaper.
API pricing for developers
Developer ElevenLabs pricing works differently. If you call ElevenLabs from code, the API pricing page lists rates per 1,000 characters that are the same on every plan: $0.04 for Flash and Turbo, $0.08 for Multilingual v2 and v3. Speech to text (Scribe v2) is $0.22 per hour, and the agents platform is listed at $0.08 per minute with higher burst pricing above your concurrency limit. A startup grants program offers free characters for 12 months to accepted applicants.
Where the free plan stops being useful
Ten thousand credits a month, roughly 10 minutes of speech: enough to judge whether the voices suit your material. It isn’t licensed for commercial use, which ends the conversation for client work or a monetized channel. Rollover skips free accounts, so unused free credits really do vanish.
Why published ElevenLabs prices disagree
Pull up five guides on ElevenLabs pricing and you’ll get five price lists. Starter appears at $5 and $6. Creator at $11 and $22, because some pages quote the first-month promotion as the price. Scale at $299 and $330. Business at $990 and $1,320. Most were accurate once and never revisited. Any page quoting ElevenLabs pricing without a check date is worth very little, which is why every figure here carries one.
ElevenLabs pricing compared with the main alternatives
| Tool and plan | Price per month | Audio included | About per minute | Unused minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Creator | $22 | ~121 min | $0.18 | Roll over (3x cap) |
| Murf Creator, annual (reported) | $19 | 120 min | $0.16 | Reported to expire |
| Fish Audio Plus, annual | $11 | Up to 200 min | $0.055 | Not stated |
| Cartesia Pro | $5 | 100K credits | Depends on model | Not stated |
Checked on vendor pages November 7, 2026, except Murf’s studio plans, which require sign-up and are as reported by a third party in October 2026.
On raw cost per minute, ElevenLabs pricing isn’t the cheapest. What you pay the premium for is voice quality, professional cloning at a published price, and the most generous rollover rule in the group. If you don’t need any of those three, a cheaper tool is the rational choice.
Which tier fits which kind of work
- Testing voices: Free.
- Occasional commercial narration, no cloning: Starter at $6.
- Solo creator publishing weekly: Creator at $22, about 7 finished 10-minute videos a month.
- Heavy long-form or dubbing: Pro at $99, where per-minute cost bottoms out.
- Team of three to ten: Scale or Business, chosen on seats and clones.
- Video creators: check whether your video tool already bundles ElevenLabs voices; Pictory and InVideo both do, per our InVideo vs Pictory comparison.
If cloning isn’t part of your workflow, price Murf against Creator first. Podcast editors will usually get more from Descript. For the full field, see our ElevenLabs alternatives, and for quality and support, our ElevenLabs review.
When not to pay ElevenLabs at all
The cheapest ElevenLabs pricing tier is sometimes no tier. If you need under 10 minutes a month of non-commercial audio, the free plan covers you. If you narrate a few minutes a week of your own material, a USB microphone and Audacity cost less than three months of Creator. And if you’re solo and hitting your quota on Pro, top up instead of moving to Scale: the audio costs the same per minute and we make less. Ready to buy? Start on Creator and check your usage after four months before changing tier.
Questions about ElevenLabs pricing
How much does ElevenLabs cost per month?
Checked on November 7, 2026: Free is $0 for 10,000 credits (about 10 minutes), Starter $6 for about 30 minutes, Creator $22 for about 121 minutes, Pro $99 for about 600, Scale $299 for about 1,800 with 3 seats, and Business $990 for about 6,000 with 10 seats. Enterprise is priced by sales. First-month promotions of $1 on Starter and $11 on Creator were shown, so check whether they still apply when you sign up.
What is ElevenLabs usage-based billing and its price per minute?
Usage-based billing charges a fixed price for each extra 1,000 credits once your monthly quota runs out. It’s now available only on Enterprise and legacy Creator, Pro, Scale and Business plans, switched on in Subscription settings with a spending cap. New subscribers buy Pay As You Go credits instead. The pricing page lists extra text-to-speech minutes at about $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 on Pro and above.
Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?
Yes, on paid plans. Unused credits carry into the next billing cycle up to twice your monthly quota, so your balance can reach three times the plan’s headline credits; Starter can hold 90,000. You must stay on the same plan, and the free tier gets no rollover. Downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused subscription credits at the end of the cycle. Pay As You Go credits are separate and last 12 months.
Is the ElevenLabs Creator plan worth it?
For solo creators publishing regularly, yes. At $22 a month it includes about 121 minutes of text to speech, professional voice cloning and a commercial license, and its rollover ceiling of 363,000 credits absorbs uneven months. With retakes counted, that’s about seven finished 10-minute voiceovers a month, or roughly $3 each. If you don’t need a cloned voice and publish steadily, compare Murf’s annual Creator plan first.
Can I use ElevenLabs commercially on the free plan?
No. The free plan isn’t licensed for commercial use, which rules it out for client work, monetized YouTube channels and anything you sell. The commercial license starts on Starter at $6 a month, which also adds instant voice cloning and Dubbing Studio. Free accounts also get no credit rollover, so the 10,000 monthly credits are best used for testing voices before you buy a paid plan.
Does ElevenLabs have an unlimited plan?
No self-serve plan has unlimited credits. Every tier from Free to Business has a fixed monthly quota, and rollover caps your balance at three times that quota. On legacy plans, the usage-based billing toggle can be set to “Unlimited”, which only removes the spending cap; you still pay per extra 1,000 credits. Enterprise contracts negotiate their own volumes and can choose a yearly credit allocation.
Sources
- ElevenLabs pricing, checked November 7, 2026
- ElevenLabs Help Center: How does credit rollover work?, checked November 7, 2026
- ElevenLabs docs: Billing (Pay As You Go and usage-based billing), checked November 7, 2026
Written by Andreu. Level of use: researched. Plan prices, rollover and billing rules verified on ElevenLabs’ own pages on November 7, 2026; per-product credit rates are September figures, labeled as such. Prices move, so check before committing.