ElevenLabs pricing (Oct 2026): plans and free tier
ElevenLabs pricing as read on Oct 25, 2026: free tier: $0, 10,000 credits a month; commercial license starts on the Starter plan; paid: Starter $6, Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299 and Business $990 per month for 30,000, 121,000, 600,000, 1.8 million and 6 million credits; Enterprise custom; Annual billing is priced at 10 months. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page. Reported, not Tested.
Evidence: Reported. Plan names and prices were read from ElevenLabs's own pages on 2026-10-25 (America/Chicago). We did not buy or run any plan, so we say nothing about value or output quality. Plan details change often; confirm on the vendor's page before you pay.
ElevenLabs plans and prices
Voice, speech, music and voice-agent platform with a detailed API changelog. Pricing model as listed: Credit-based subscription.
| Entry | What the vendor lists |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Free: $0, 10,000 credits a month; commercial license starts on the Starter plan |
| Paid | Starter $6, Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299 and Business $990 per month for 30,000, 121,000, 600,000, 1.8 million and 6 million credits |
| Paid | Enterprise custom |
| Paid | Annual billing is priced at 10 months |
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Who ElevenLabs suits, and who should skip it
- Good for: Developers building voice agents or translation features.
- Good for: Creators who want an API that scores videos.
- Good for: Teams moving from OpenAI Realtime clients.
- Skip if: You want a simple consumer music app (see Suno).
- Skip if: You need Realtime Translation outside enterprise workspaces.
What the pricing page does not tell you
- Realtime Translation is enterprise-only.
- Eleven Realtime is rolling out gradually.
- Pricing not verified.
- Not captured: Audio quality (not tested).
- Not captured: Availability of Eleven Realtime in your workspace.
- Plans are not like-for-like across vendors (credits, seats, usage caps and models differ), so this page does not rank ElevenLabs against others on price.
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- Suno: AI music creation: text, audio, images or video in, finished songs out.
- ACE-Step: Open-source (Apache-2.0) music generation foundation model you can run yourself.
FAQ
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
Starter $6, Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299 and Business $990 per month for 30,000, 121,000, 600,000, 1.8 million and 6 million credits; Enterprise custom; Annual billing is priced at 10 months. Read from the vendor's page on Oct 25, 2026; prices change, so confirm before paying.
Is ElevenLabs free?
Free: $0, 10,000 credits a month; commercial license starts on the Starter plan. Paid plans listed above add more usage or features. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
Where does this pricing come from?
The sources listed below, fetched Oct 25, 2026. Anything we could not read is marked not captured rather than guessed.
Sources
- ElevenLabs pricing (fetched 2026-10-25)
- ElevenLabs changelog (Oct 19, 2026) (fetched 2026-10-25)
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Page history
- : First published from vendor pages read on 2026-10-25.
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