# ElevenLabs

> AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents

ElevenLabs is an AI audio platform for creators and developers. It turns text into speech with stock, designed or cloned voices, dubs video into other languages, transcribes audio and builds conversational voice agents through ElevenAgents and its API. Every product draws on one pool of monthly credits, and a free plan gives 10,000 credits a month without a commercial license.

- **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech
- **Made by:** Eleven Labs Inc.
- **Website:** https://elevenlabs.io
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

ElevenLabs has a free plan. Paid plans start at $5 per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 10,000 credits a month (about 10 minutes of text to speech) and 3 Studio projects. No commercial license and no voice cloning.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of text to speech, and 3 Studio projects. Not licensed for commercial use. |
| Starter | $5 per month for 30,000 credits, billed annually ($6 billed monthly) | About 30 minutes of speech a month, a commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, Dubbing Studio and 20 Studio projects. |
| Creator | $18.33 per month for 121,000 credits, billed annually ($22 monthly) | About 121 minutes of speech a month, 1 Professional Voice Clone and the option to buy more credits. The first month is $11 on monthly billing. |
| Pro | $82.50 per month for 600,000 credits, billed annually ($99 monthly) | About 600 minutes of speech a month, 192 kbps audio and 44.1 kHz PCM output through the API. |
| Scale | $249.17 per month for 1.8M credits, billed annually ($299 monthly) | About 1,800 minutes of speech a month, 3 workspace seats, team collaboration and 3 Professional Voice Clones. |
| Business | $825 per month for 6M credits, billed annually ($990 monthly) | About 6,000 minutes of speech a month, 10 seats and 10 Professional Voice Clones. Enterprise above it is custom-priced, with SSO and BAAs. |

Read from https://elevenlabs.io/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ElevenLabs before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): ElevenLabs prices a year at ten times the monthly price: Starter works out to $5 a month instead of $6, and Creator to $18.33 instead of $22. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- **First month of Creator for $11** (Other savings): The pricing page shows Creator at 50% off for the first month on monthly billing. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- **Startup Grants: 12 months free** (Startups): Startups building conversational AI agents can apply for a grant of 33 million characters, valid for 12 months. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- **Impact Program for nonprofits** (Nonprofit): The Impact Program gives free access to nonprofits in healthcare, education and culture, and to people with accessibility needs or permanent voice loss. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/impact-program
- **Impact Program for professors and students** (Education): Professors and their students can apply to the Impact Program for free access to ElevenLabs. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/impact-program

## Key features

- **Text to speech:** Generate speech from text in more than 70 languages with Eleven v3 and other models, using stock voices, the shared voice library or voices you design from a prompt.
- **Instant and Professional Voice Cloning:** Instant clones are made from a short sample and start on Starter. Professional clones are trained on longer recordings, start on Creator and must be of your own voice.
- **Dubbing:** Translate a video's speech into another language automatically, or edit the result line by line in Dubbing Studio, which starts on the Starter plan.
- **Studio editor:** A long-form editor for audiobooks, podcasts and voiceovers. The Free plan allows 3 Studio projects and Starter allows 20.
- **Speech to text, music and sound effects:** Transcribe audio, generate music and sound effects, isolate voices from noise and change one voice into another, all paid from the same credit pool.
- **ElevenAgents and API:** Build voice and chat agents for phone, chat and WhatsApp, or call the speech, transcription and dubbing models from your own app through the API and SDKs.

## Good for

- Creators voicing videos, podcasts and audiobooks
- Dubbing existing videos into other languages
- Developers adding speech or voice agents to their own product

## Worth knowing

- The Free plan has no commercial license or voice cloning; both start on Starter, and Professional Voice Cloning starts on Creator.
- One credit pool covers every product: text to speech costs about 1 credit per character, and dubbing 2,000 to 10,000 credits per minute.
- Professional Voice Clones are limited to your own voice and need a voice check; for instant clones you must confirm you have the right and consent.
- Unused credits roll over for up to two months on paid plans, but downgrading or cancelling forfeits them at the end of the cycle.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Need a voice that doesn't sound like a robot? ElevenLabs is the one the rest of this list gets measured against. It reads text in 70+ languages, clones voices, dubs video and runs voice agents, all from one pot of credits. The catch is that pot: every product drains it, and the free plan can't be used for anything you publish.

- **Value for money: C.** An hour of voiceover a month means Creator: $18.33 a month billed yearly ($22 monthly) for 121,000 credits, about 121 minutes of speech. Starter at $5 covers only about 30 minutes. That's the middle of what this category charges, and dubbing and music eat the same credits.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech, and 3 Studio projects. But there's no commercial license and no cloning, so nothing you make on it can go in a video you publish. Fine for hearing the voices, not for the job.
- **Features: A.** Text to speech in 70+ languages, instant and professional cloning, voices designed from a prompt, dubbing, a long-form Studio, transcription, music, sound effects and voice agents. Nothing else here covers as much, and nothing in the listing shows a gap.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.84 from 22,674 App Store ratings, the best in this category. Paste text, pick a voice, press play. Working out what each product costs in credits is the only fiddly part.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with an API and SDKs, and Zapier, Make, n8n, Salesforce and Zendesk connections. No desktop app, which an A needs.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ElevenLabs's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI voice generators

- ElevenLabs's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 9 of the 9 other AI voice generators we grade.
- It stands best on features (A, above 9 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $5 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 0 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace ElevenLabs you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 9 of the 9 other AI voice generators we grade. It costs $60 a year.

- You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make.
- You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings.
- You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make.
- You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier, Make and n8n among them, and has an API.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features A, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 22,674 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6743162587

## Works with

Zapier, Make, n8n, Salesforce, Zendesk, Pipedrive, Airtable, ServiceNow

**Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, Transcription, Public API, Video generation

## Alternatives

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://elevenlabs.io
- https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- https://elevenlabs.io/mobile
- https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning
- https://elevenlabs.io/about
- https://elevenlabs.io/agents/integrations
- https://elevenlabs.io/impact-program
- https://elevenlabs.io/terms-of-use
- https://elevenlabs.io/docs/product-guides/voices/voice-cloning/professional-voice-cloning
- https://elevenlabs.io/docs/product-guides/voices/voice-cloning/instant-voice-cloning

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/elevenlabs
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