ElevenLabs Pricing in 2026 With Every Plan, Credits per Month, and Cost per Video

ElevenLabs pricing in 2026 runs from a free plan to Business at $990 a month: Starter is $6 (30,000 credits), Creator $22 (121,000 credits), Pro $99 (600,000), Scale $299 (1.8 million), and Business $990 (6 million). One credit buys one character of text with the standard multilingual model, so a minute of voiceover costs roughly 1,000 credits. Commercial use starts on Starter, and Professional Voice Cloning starts on Creator.

ElevenLabs sells voice, not video. If you are pricing it for a marketing video, the real cost is the voiceover plus the editing, captions, and footage you still have to add. The figures below come from the rendered ElevenLabs pricing page read on 2026-11-15, including the credit rules in its own FAQ. Promotions change, so confirm at checkout.

ElevenLabs pricing plans in 2026

Yearly billing works out to two months free, so you pay for 10 months. That makes Starter $5 a month, Creator $18.33, Pro $82.50, Scale $249.17, and Business $825. Starter adds the commercial license, instant voice cloning, and Dubbing Studio. Creator adds Professional Voice Cloning and the option to buy extra credits. Pro adds 44.1 kHz PCM output through the API, and Business lists low latency text to speech.

How do ElevenLabs credits work?

Every product draws from one shared monthly pool. With the V2 Multilingual models, one text character equals one credit. The faster V2 Flash and Turbo models cost between 0.5 and 1 credit per character through the API. Other products cost more: speech to text uses 330 credits a minute, music 900 credits a minute, voice changer and voice isolator 1,000 credits a minute, and automatic dubbing 2,000 to 3,000 credits a minute depending on the watermark.

Unused credits roll over for up to two months while the subscription stays active, so a balance can reach three times the monthly quota. Downgrading or cancelling forfeits the unused paid credits, and the Free plan does not roll over.

How much does an ElevenLabs voiceover cost per video?

A worked example with a typical short marketing video. A 60 second script is about 150 words, or roughly 900 characters. At one credit per character, that is about 900 credits per take.

• Starter, 30,000 credits. About 33 finished 60 second voiceovers a month if every take is right the first time. With two takes per video, about 16.
• Creator, 121,000 credits. About 134 first take voiceovers, or about 67 with two takes each.
• Cost per voiceover. $22 divided by 67 videos is about $0.33 on Creator with two takes each. The audio is cheap.

The expensive part is everything around it. Voiceover alone leaves you to find footage, cut it to the audio, add captions, resize for vertical and square, and add music. At 30 minutes of editing per video, 16 videos a month is eight hours of work, which dwarfs the $6 plan fee.

Is ElevenLabs free?

There is a free plan with 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech. It is good for testing voices. The commercial license starts on the Starter plan, so budget for a paid plan before the audio goes into an ad, a client video, or a monetized channel.

ElevenLabs vs VidUp for marketing videos

VidUp makes the finished video from text: paste a script, a blog post, or a product URL and get narration, captions, matched stock footage, and music, exported in 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9.

The two are not rivals for every buyer. If you need a cloned brand voice or localized dubbing, ElevenLabs is the specialist. If the job is to turn copy into a video people can post, the script to video workflow removes the stitching, and the explainer video maker and social media video maker show the finished formats. For the human versus synthetic question, see AI voiceover vs human voiceover.

Other AI video tool pricing worth comparing

Buyers who price a voice tool often compare avatar and video platforms next. See HeyGen pricing for avatar videos, D-ID pricing for talking heads, and Synthesia pricing for training video. ElevenLabs publishes its current tiers on its pricing page.

Which plan should you buy?

• Free to audition voices, not for published work.
• Starter at $6 a month for a handful of commercial voiceovers a week.
• Creator at $22 a month if you need Professional Voice Cloning or run a daily volume.
• Pro and above for studios, apps, and teams with measured credit use.
• VidUp at $24 a month billed yearly if the end product is a video, not an audio file.

Frequently asked questions about ElevenLabs pricing

How much does ElevenLabs cost?

ElevenLabs has a free plan and paid plans at $6 (Starter), $22 (Creator), $99 (Pro), $299 (Scale), and $990 (Business) a month, plus custom Enterprise. Yearly billing gives two months free.

Is ElevenLabs free?

Yes, with limits. The free plan includes 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech. The commercial license starts on the Starter plan, so free output is for testing, not for marketing work.

How many characters do you get with ElevenLabs?

With the multilingual models one character costs one credit, so Starter gives about 30,000 characters, Creator 121,000, and Pro 600,000 a month. Flash and Turbo models through the API cost 0.5 to 1 credit per character.

Do ElevenLabs credits roll over?

Yes, on paid plans. Unused credits roll over for up to two months while you stay subscribed, to a maximum balance of three times the monthly quota. Cancelling or downgrading forfeits the unused credits.

Is ElevenLabs enough to make a marketing video?

It makes the voice only. You still need footage, captions, music, and resizing. A script based tool such as VidUp returns the finished narrated, captioned video in every size for $24 a month billed yearly.

See VidUp pricing or paste a script and make your first video.