What is ElevenLabs?
ElevenLabs separates content creation from interactive voice into distinct product offerings. ElevenCreative is designed for tasks such as voice-over, podcasting, audiobooks, music, and sound effects, while ElevenAgents caters to voice-based AI agents that can engage in conversation with users, supporting configuration, deployment, and monitoring. When choosing a product, first determine whether you need a finished audio file or an ongoing interactive voice service.
Text-to-speech can convert scripts into voiceovers in the selected voice, while content localization involves voice and dubbing workflows across different languages. The platform also lists speech-to-text, voice cloning, and API development. Before production, you need to prepare text and audio for which you have usage rights; for voice cloning in particular, you should obtain authorization from the voice owner. After generation, be sure to audition proper nouns, pauses, and tone.
Billing is not based on a uniform per-minute rate. The official website’s Creator Plans share monthly credits, with different models and features consuming credits according to character count, duration, or task volume. Regular monthly fees, first-month discounts, and annual‑plan discounted rates should be compared separately, and the pricing for voice agents should also be verified within their respective plans.
Key features
Voice Generation: Convert scripts into voiceovers that can be previewed and edited.
Content Creation: Provides a creative gateway for audiobooks, podcasts, sound effects, music, and localization workflows.
Voice Agent: Configure, deploy, and monitor conversational voice services.
Development integration: Integrate relevant voice capabilities into your application via the official API.
Use cases and audience
Creators of videos, podcasts, and audiobooks, content localization teams, and teams developing voice-enabled applications and customer service chatbots.
- Audiobook production
- Video dubbing
- Podcast creation
- Content Localization
Text scripts, audio to be transcribed or processed, licensed sound samples, and agent settings.
Synthetic voiceovers, transcribed text, localized audio, music, or interactive voice services.
How to use
- 01
Select the Creative, Agents, or API entry point from the official website.
- 02
Prepare text, audio, or agent configurations according to the task, and select a voice and model.
- 03
First, generate short samples to check pronunciation, tone, latency, or recognition results.
- 04
Verify the plan’s quota and usage conditions before expanding to the full content or official service.
Benefits and limitations
Benefits
- It simultaneously covers both authoring tools and development APIs, making it easy to choose the right entry point for each task.
- Speech generation, transcription, and localization capabilities can serve the same content workflow.
Limitations
- Different features consume shared credits, and retries and longer content will affect the actual cost.
- The terms for voice cloning licensing, commercial use, and the various product plans must be confirmed separately.
Pricing and availability
Free entry available
10,000 credits.
30,000 credits.
121,000 credits; the official website offers a promotional price of $11 for the first month.
600,000 credits.
1,800,000 credits, 3 seats.
6,000,000 credits, 10 seats.
The above are the standard monthly subscription prices for the official website, excluding applicable taxes. Annual billing discounts and first-month promotions are not included in the regular monthly rates; separate pricing and usage-based fees for products such as Agents can be found on the official website.
- Pricing source
- https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- Pricing last updated
- 2026-10-22
Prices and limits may change. Check the official website for current terms.
Official website & sources
Updated on 2026-10-22
