ElevenLabs pricing: $6 to $990 a month, API $0.08 a minute

How much does each ElevenLabs plan cost?

ElevenLabs has a free plan and five paid tiers, from $6 to $990 a month. We read every row below from its pricing page on 8 November 2026. The minutes are ElevenLabs' own estimates for text to speech in the app, and the yearly price is its own rule of "monthly price × 10". US prices, before tax:

Starter is the cheapest plan you can sell audio from. ElevenLabs lists "Commercial License" and Instant Voice Cloning on the Starter card, and nothing like it on Free. Creator adds Professional Voice Cloning, and Scale is the first plan with extra seats. Every self-serve tier covers the same 74 languages, and Free's rate for an extra minute is about $0.36, nearly double Starter's.

What does a minute of ElevenLabs speech cost?

A minute of ElevenLabs speech costs $0.17 to $0.20 inside the app and $0.04 to $0.08 on the API, as of November 2026. The app bills text to speech at 1 credit per character, and ElevenLabs' own table equates about 1,000 credits with a minute. So we divided each plan's price by its minutes:

The bigger plans don't buy much cheaper speech. Starter's minute is $0.20 and Pro's is about $0.165, a cut of a sixth for 16 times the price. Extra minutes cost the same as included ones. ElevenLabs' "Extra minute" row shows about $0.20, $0.18 and $0.17, which is each plan's own rate again.

Per 1,000 characters, the app comes to $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.165 on Pro, Scale and Business. The API price list charges $0.08 per 1,000 characters on Eleven v4, v3 and v2 Multilingual, and $0.04 on v4 Turbo, v3 Conversational and Flash. It also counts the same plans two ways. Creator's card says 121,000 credits, while the API page lists "275k characters of TTS (v4) included" with Creator. That's $22 divided by $0.08. The Business card puts the floor in writing: "Low-latency TTS as low as 5c/minute."

How much is the ElevenLabs API?

The ElevenLabs API costs $0.08 per 1,000 characters for Eleven v4 and $0.04 for the Flash and Turbo models, billed in dollars. Its FAQ says plainly: "API usage is billed in US dollars, not credits." These are the pay-as-you-go rates on 8 November 2026, the same on every tier, before tax:

Eleven v4 is the new model. The API page opens with "Meet Eleven v4, our most emotive model yet," and prices it the same as v3. Its Turbo version costs half. So does Flash.

Voice agents run on a separate meter. ElevenLabs' agents pricing page includes 15 call minutes on Free, 75 on Starter, 275 on Creator, 1,238 on Pro, 3,738 on Scale and 12,375 on Business. Each of those is the plan's price divided by $0.08, so moving up a tier buys concurrency (4 to 40 calls) and seats, not cheaper minutes. LLM costs are "Based on usage and varies by model," and the FAQ says they're deducted from your credits. ElevenLabs adds no telephony fee, though Twilio or another carrier bills you for the line.

What does a typical month of ElevenLabs cost?

A YouTube creator voicing four 10-minute videos a month needs Creator at $22, and a small voice-agent line handling 2,700 call minutes costs about $216 on Pro. Here's the arithmetic, using ElevenLabs' prices read on 8 November 2026.

The creator first. Four videos of 10 minutes is 40 finished minutes, or about 40,000 characters. Re-rolling lines you don't like adds up fast. Say half the script gets generated twice, so 60,000 credits. Starter's 30,000 can't hold it, and Creator's 121,000 can with room to spare. That's $22, or $0.55 per finished minute. The same 60,000 characters at the API's v4 rate come to $4.80. You'd need your own tool to send them, though, and most creators want the Studio editor.

Now the agent. A clinic's booking line takes 30 calls a day of 3 minutes each, so 2,700 minutes a month. Pro includes 1,238 minutes for $99. The other 1,462 minutes cost $0.08 each, or $116.96. That's $215.96 before the LLM's tokens, against $299 for Scale. Scale only wins if you need its 30 concurrent calls.

Is the ElevenLabs yearly plan worth it?

Yes, if you'll keep the plan for at least 10 months, because yearly billing charges 10 months for 12. ElevenLabs' FAQ says annual billing "works out to two months free." On Creator that saves $44 a year ($220 instead of $264). On Pro it saves $198, and on Business $1,980.

Rollover softens the monthly plan, though. The FAQ says "Unused credits roll over for up to two months," capped at twice your monthly quota. So a quiet month isn't lost, as long as you keep a paid plan and don't downgrade. The balance tops out at three months' credits. Free gets no rollover. Pay-as-you-go top-ups are separate and don't count toward the cap.

The first month is cheap on both small plans. Starter costs $1 for its first month and Creator $11, half price. Test on Starter, then move up once you know how many minutes a month you burn.

What else do ElevenLabs credits buy?

ElevenLabs credits pay for every product in the app, not just text to speech, and the other products use them much faster. All of them draw from one pool. Here's what Creator's 121,000 credits buy if you spend them on one product, from the FAQ rates read 8 November 2026:

Dubbing is the credit sink. A 10-minute video dubbed in Dubbing Studio without a watermark takes 100,000 credits, most of a Creator month. If dubbing is the job, price the API's $0.50 a minute for Dubbing v1 first.

What does ElevenLabs cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

ElevenLabs Creator plus ChatGPT Plus plus Claude Pro costs $62 a month, as of November 2026. We read OpenAI's ChatGPT pricing ($20 for Plus) and Anthropic's Claude pricing ($20 for Pro, or $17 a month billed annually) on 8 November. Here's the stack, and where one Whizi plan changes it:

Whizi, which publishes this page, can cut the chat side and can't touch the voice side. Whizi Pro puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat for $29.99 a month, with 2,500 credits and 100 pictures. It has a voice mode for talking to the chat, 80 minutes a month on Pro, with one preset voice. It has no voice cloning, no voiceover export and no text-to-speech API. If you make audio for an audience, keep ElevenLabs. If you only pay for one chat app today, Whizi saves you nothing. The cheapest way to use Claude and GPT works through the chat side, and one subscription for all AI models covers what a combined plan includes and leaves out.

How can you pay less for ElevenLabs?

Pick the plan by minutes, use Flash for drafts, and go to the API once the app's rate stings. The API's $0.08 a minute is less than half Creator's $0.18. Its $0.04 Flash rate is less than a quarter of it.

Draft with Flash, then render the final take on v4. ElevenLabs' FAQ says Flash and Turbo cost "between 0.5 and 1 credit per character" on the API. Write the script in a chat app before you spend a single credit on it, since every re-roll costs the full line again. Buy yearly only after three months on monthly have shown your real usage. And on voice agents, don't upgrade for minutes: pay the $0.08 overage, and move up a tier only for more concurrent calls.