AI API price index · voice · read 16 Oct 2026
ElevenLabs API pricing
18 prices as ElevenLabs publishes them — 3 speech to text, 6 text to speech, 2 voice agents, 7 plans — read on its own pricing page on 16 Oct 2026.
Free tier Free plan: "$0 per month", "10k credits per month" ("Build for free"). On the API page the "Free / Pay as you go" column includes e.g. 10,000 v4 characters (~10 min), 20,000 Flash / Turbo characters, 4 hours 30 minutes of Scribe v2, 2 hours 30 minutes of Scribe v2 Realtime and 15 min of Speech Engine; pay-as-you-go is "Start for free". Separate Startup Grants Program: "12 months free", "33,000,000 characters" (apply).
What to know before you build on ElevenLabs
- API usage is billed in dollars at the same per-unit rate on every plan; plans differ only in how much is included.
- The 72%-off launch promotion on v4 and v4 Turbo ended on 12 October; they are $0.08 and $0.04 per thousand characters (re-read 16 October).
- Creator is $22 a month; $11 is its first-month price. Starter is $6, with a $1 first month until 18 October.
- Speech-to-text (Scribe v2) is $0.22 an audio hour; the realtime version $0.39.
- The Free plan includes 10,000 credits a month.
Against the other ten
Speech to text across the index runs from $0.04 to $0.552 per audio hour; ElevenLabs’s Scribe v2 is $0.22.
Text to speech across the index runs from $15.00 to $80.00 per million characters; ElevenLabs’s cheapest ranked voice, Flash / Turbo, is $40.00.
Speech to text
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Scribe v2pay-as-you-go | $0.22 per hour | batch; keyterm prompting +$0.050/hr, transcript editing +$0.070/hr |
| Scribe v2 Medicalpay-as-you-go | $0.22 per hour | clinical audio; HIPAA-eligible |
| Scribe v2 Realtimepay-as-you-go | $0.39 per hour | realtime/streaming; keyterm prompting +$0.080/hr, transcript editing +$0.120/hr |
Text to speech
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| v4pay-as-you-go | $0.08 per 1K characters | regular price — the only price on the page since the 72%-off promotion ended on 12 Oct (re-read 16 Oct) |
| v4 Turbopay-as-you-go | $0.04 per 1K characters | regular price — the only price on the page since the 72%-off promotion ended on 12 Oct (re-read 16 Oct) |
| v3pay-as-you-go | $0.08 per 1K characters | same rate printed for every plan; 5,000 character limit |
| v3 Conversationalpay-as-you-go | $0.04 per 1K characters | same rate printed for every plan |
| v2 Multilingualpay-as-you-go | $0.08 per 1K characters | same rate printed for every plan; 10,000 character limit |
| Flash / Turbopay-as-you-go | $0.04 per 1K characters | same rate printed for every plan; 40,000 character limit |
Voice agents
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Speech Enginepay-as-you-go | $0.08 per minute | additional minutes beyond plan inclusion |
| Speech Enginepay-as-you-go | $0.16 per minute | burst pricing |
Plans
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Freemonthly billing | $0.00 per month | 10k credits per month |
| Startermonthly billing | $6.00 per month | 30k credits per month; first month $1 (83% off) until Oct 18; annual equivalent $5/mo |
| Creatormonthly billing | $22.00 per month | 121k credits per month; first month $11 (50% off); annual equivalent $18.33/mo |
| Promonthly billing | $99.00 per month | 600k credits per month; annual equivalent $82.50/mo |
| Scalemonthly billing | $299.00 per month | 1.8M credits per month, 3 seats; annual equivalent $249.17/mo |
| Businessmonthly billing | $990.00 per month | 6M credits per month, 10 seats; annual equivalent $825/mo |
| Enterprisecustom | — | custom number of credits and seats |
9 of these 18 prices are ranked in the index; the rest say why in their note. Text and embeddings per 1M tokens unless the row says otherwise.
Discounts and surcharges, as published
- v4 and v4 Turbo: the "72% off until Oct 12" launch promotion ($0.022 and $0.011 per 1K characters) has ended — re-read 16 Oct, the page prints only the regular $0.08 and $0.04
- Banner on 10 Oct: "3x credits included on Creator+ until October 12" (that end date has passed)
- Starter: "$6 First month 83% off" — $1 first month, "Until Oct 18"
- Creator: "$22 First month 50% off" — $11 first month
- Annual billing: "two months free — you pay for 10 months"; monthly equivalents $5 Starter, $18.33 Creator, $82.50 Pro, $249.17 Scale, $825 Business (FAQ)
- "Try v4 with 2x credits for two weeks" on Creator plans and above, web and mobile apps only (not API)
- Enterprise: "Significant discounts at scale" (contact sales)
- Business plan: "Low-latency TTS as low as 5c/minute"
Where these numbers come from
Read on elevenlabs.io/pricing/api on 16 Oct 2026, checked against 1 more of ElevenLabs’s own pages. Macrostack measures nothing and is paid by no provider on this index. Prices change; the date is the claim.
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Questions
- How much does the ElevenLabs API cost?
- On 16 Oct 2026, ElevenLabs's speech-to-text started at $0.22 per audio hour (Scribe v2). Text to speech started at $40.00 per million characters (Flash / Turbo).
- Does ElevenLabs have a free tier?
- What ElevenLabs's own pages say: Free plan: "$0 per month", "10k credits per month" ("Build for free"). On the API page the "Free / Pay as you go" column includes e.g. 10,000 v4 characters (~10 min), 20,000 Flash / Turbo characters, 4 hours 30 minutes of Scribe v2, 2 hours 30 minutes of Scribe v2 Realtime and 15 min of Speech Engine; pay-as-you-go is "Start for free". Separate Startup Grants Program: "12 months free", "33,000,000 characters" (apply).
- Does ElevenLabs offer discounts?
- v4 and v4 Turbo: the "72% off until Oct 12" launch promotion ($0.022 and $0.011 per 1K characters) has ended — re-read 16 Oct, the page prints only the regular $0.08 and $0.04 Banner on 10 Oct: "3x credits included on Creator+ until October 12" (that end date has passed) Starter: "$6 First month 83% off" — $1 first month, "Until Oct 18" Creator: "$22 First month 50% off" — $11 first month Annual billing: "two months free — you pay for 10 months"; monthly equivalents $5 Starter, $18.33 Creator, $82.50 Pro, $249.17 Scale, $825 Business (FAQ) "Try v4 with 2x credits for two weeks" on Creator plans and above, web and mobile apps only (not API) Enterprise: "Significant discounts at scale" (contact sales) Business plan: "Low-latency TTS as low as 5c/minute"