ElevenLabs pricing: cost per minute by plan

How ElevenLabs charges: credits, not minutes

Every plan gives you a monthly pool of credits, and every product draws from the same pool. ElevenLabs states that text to speech costs one credit per character on its V2 Multilingual models, which is why its own table converts each plan's credits into an approximate number of minutes. Those minute figures are in the table above, next to the vendor's figure for an extra minute on each plan.

The minutes are an estimate for text to speech only. The same credits are spent faster on other products. ElevenLabs lists speech to text, music, sound effects, voice changing and dubbing at their own per-minute or per-generation credit costs, with dubbing the most expensive.

What moves the per-minute cost

• Plan size. The vendor's extra-minute figure falls as plans get larger, then levels off from Pro upward.
• Annual billing. ElevenLabs says annual billing means paying for ten months instead of twelve.
• First-month prices. Starter and Creator show a lower first-month price. The table shows the regular monthly price with the introductory price noted beneath it.
• Model choice on the API. ElevenLabs says its Flash and Turbo models cost between half a credit and one credit per character for API use.

Rollover

Unused credits roll over for up to two months on paid plans, as long as the subscription stays active and is not downgraded. Rollover does not apply to the Free plan. Downgrading or cancelling forfeits unused credits at the end of the cycle.

What we have not done

We have not generated audio on each plan to measure real minutes per credit, so the minute figures here are the vendor's estimates, not our measurements.