Voice tool profile
ElevenLabs
A voice generation platform with 5,000+ voices across 70+ languages, supporting text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, and voice agents.
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Pricing detailsCompare the shortlist- Best for
- Creators who need consistent narration, multilingual voiceover, or automated voice agent workflows.
- Starting point
- Free plan: $0 (10,000 credits/month).
- Free plan
- Yes — Free plan ($0): 10,000 credits per month (about 10 minutes of TTS at ~1 credit per character).
- Key limitation
- Voice rights, commercial usage, and plan limits must be checked for the intended channel.
Plan picker
Which ElevenLabs plan fits you?
Just testing voices
Free
- $010,000 credits/mo (about 10 min). No commercial license, no voice cloning, 3 Studio projects.
Enough to hear the voices and try a short script. It has no commercial license, which starts at Starter.
Monthly voiceovers for YouTube
Starter / Creator
- Starter $6/mo30,000 credits/mo (about 30 min). Commercial license and instant voice cloning, 128 kbps audio, about 3 concurrent requests.
- Creator $22/mo121,000 credits/mo (about 121 min). Adds professional voice cloning and 192 kbps audio, about 5 concurrent requests.
Starter covers about 30 minutes of narration a month with a commercial license. Move to Creator if you need about 2 hours or higher-quality 192 kbps audio.
Voice cloning
Starter
- $6/mo30,000 credits/mo (about 30 min). Commercial license and instant voice cloning, 128 kbps audio, about 3 concurrent requests.
Starter is the cheapest plan with instant voice cloning. Professional voice cloning needs Creator or above.
Commercial projects with long audio
Pro
- $99/mo600,000 credits/mo (about 600 min). 192 kbps audio and 44.1kHz PCM via API, about 10 concurrent requests.
Commercial rights are already included from Starter, so Pro is for volume: about 10 hours of speech a month, faster parallel generation and 44.1kHz PCM output through the API.
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Monthly list prices in USD, excluding taxes. 1 credit is about 1 character of text-to-speech, so 1,000 credits is about 1 minute. Annual billing is two months free. Intro discounts change often, so confirm the current price at checkout. Checked on the official pricing page.
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- AI voice cloning may require consent for certain use cases.
Free-plan suitability
Free plan ($0): 10,000 credits per month (about 10 minutes of TTS at ~1 credit per character), includes text-to-speech, speech-to-text, sound effects, voice design, music, productions, image, and 3 Studio projects; no commercial license (added at Starter), no instant voice cloning, and unused credits do not roll over.
Pricing
Free plan: $0 (10,000 credits/month). Starter $6/month (30,000 credits); Creator $22/month (121,000 credits, $11 first month); Pro $99/month (600,000 credits); Scale $299/month (1.8M credits, 3 seats); Business $990/month (6M credits, 10 seats); Enterprise custom. Credits are shared across TTS/STT/music/dubbing (TTS ~1 credit/char, STT ~330 credits/char-min). Annual billing is approximately monthly x10 per the official FAQ.
Verify the current plan, credits, output limits, and commercial terms before purchasing.
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ElevenLabs cost calculator
Estimate how many TTS credits your monthly voiceover needs and which plan covers it. One credit ≈ one character of TTS audio; roughly 1,000 credits per minute of narration. Pricing notes.
Approximate TTS estimate — dubbing, music, and sound effects burn credits much faster. Verify on the official pricing page before purchasing.
What ElevenLabs does
- AI voice platform with ultra-realistic text-to-speech in 70+ languages (Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo support 90+), including controllable expression, pacing, and emphasis (ElevenCreative)
- Voice cloning - instant cloning on Starter, professional cloning on Creator and up - or voice design from a text prompt; 10,000+ voices in the library
- Speech-to-text, voice changer, voice isolator, music generation in any genre (vocals or instrumental), and custom sound effects (SFX) with a searchable library
- Dubbing with automatic and Dubbing Studio workflows plus subtitles/translation; audio output up to 44.1kHz at 128-192kbps
- ElevenAgents: configure, deploy, and monitor conversational agents across phone, chat, email, and WhatsApp with analytics, simulated testing, and guardrails
- ElevenAPI for developers (text-to-speech, speech-to-text, agents, dubbing, music, sound effects) plus image and video generation via leading models like Veo, Wan, Kling, and Seedance
- Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo (published Sep 28, 2026, blog updated Oct 12): more than 90 languages, and Turbo has a median time to first speech of about 150 ms; free accounts can generate with both, and the blog lists no separate price for them (elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v4, checked Oct 13, 2026)
- Also on OpenRouter since Oct 7, 2026: 9 text-to-speech and 2 speech-to-text models including Eleven v4, with ElevenLabs pricing passed through without markup (OpenRouter blog, checked Oct 13, 2026)
Is it legit?
Who is behind ElevenLabs, where it is based, and what is publicly known about its funding. Company details change — verify on the official site before committing.
- Company
- ElevenLabs
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- New York, US
- Funding
- Co-founded by ex-Google/ex-Palantir engineers
Evaluation guide
Step-by-step evaluation guides for ElevenLabs — workflow fit, pricing, rights, and a same-input test before paying.
ElevenLabs for YouTube Voiceovers: Setup & PlansHow to use ElevenLabs for YouTube voiceovers: voice cloning, TTS character credits, multi-language narration, commercial rights, and plan pricing compared.
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