ElevenLabs Pricing (2026): Every Plan Converted to Real Minutes
ElevenLabs prices in credits; you budget in minutes. Every plan below is converted with our measured ~835 credits per finished minute — plus the three billing rules (rollover, annual, PAYG) that change the real cost.
Direct answer
ElevenLabs' plans, verified on the live pricing page Jul 19, 2026: Free ($0 — 10,000 credits, non-commercial with attribution), Starter ($6 — 30,000 credits, first tier with the commercial license), Creator ($22 — 121,000 credits, $11 first month), Pro ($99 — 600,000), Scale ($299 — 1.8M, 3 seats) and Business ($990 — 6M, 10 seats). Converted with our measured ~835 credits per finished minute: Starter ≈ 36 minutes of narration a month, Creator ≈ 2.4 hours, Pro ≈ 12 hours. Annual billing gives two months free (Starter $5/mo equivalent, Creator $18.33), credits still arrive monthly, and unused paid credits roll over up to two months' worth.
- Last verified
- Jul 19, 2026
- Confidence
- High — read on vendor pages
- Evidence
- 4 checks
- Sources
- 4 source links
Evidence used
- All plan prices and credit quotas were read on elevenlabs.io/pricing on Jul 19, 2026 (Starter and Creator figures re-confirmed the same day).
- The finished-minutes conversions use our measured bench figure (~835 credits per finished minute at default narration pacing, published with raw audio).
- Rollover, annual and PAYG rules come from ElevenLabs' pricing FAQ, help center and docs, same-day verification.
- This is a third-party explainer; ElevenLabs' live page is the authority and can change.
How we checked this
- Vendor-stated numbers and our measured conversion are labeled separately throughout — the credits are theirs, the minutes are ours.
ElevenLabs plans in real minutes (verified Jul 19, 2026)
| Plan | Price (monthly) | Credits / month | ≈ Finished narration | ≈ $/finished minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10,000 | ≈ 12 min — attribution required, non-commercial | — |
| Starter | $6 ($5/mo annual) | 30,000 | ≈ 36 min | ≈ $0.17 |
| Creator | $22 ($11 first month) | 121,000 | ≈ 2.4 hours | ≈ $0.15 |
| Pro | $99 | 600,000 | ≈ 12 hours | ≈ $0.14 |
| Scale | $299 | 1,800,000 | ≈ 36 hours (3 seats) | ≈ $0.14 |
| Business | $990 | 6,000,000 | ≈ 120 hours (10 seats) | ≈ $0.14 |
Minutes use our measured ~835 credits per finished minute of narration, first takes only — retakes rebill the full text. Annual billing = 10 months' price for 12; credits still arrive monthly.
The ladder, decoded: what each tier actually buys
Starter ($6) is the commercial floor — license, instant voice cloning and Music commercial use all start there. Creator ($22) is the working tier for a weekly publishing schedule. Pro and above buy volume and seats, not better audio.
The jump that matters is Free → Starter: $6 turns evaluation audio into licensed audio (the free tier is [non-commercial with title attribution](/blog/elevenlabs-free-commercial-license), and upgrading never retro-licenses old takes). The second jump, Starter → Creator, is volume math: 36 minutes versus 2.4 hours a month, with professional voice cloning added. Past Pro, the per-minute rate flattens at ~$0.14 — Scale and Business are seat-and-throughput purchases.
Two conversions to keep handy: standard TTS burns roughly 1 credit per character (a 1,000-word script ≈ 6,000 credits), and the non-TTS features meter much faster — Eleven Music ~900 credits and Dubbing ~2,000 per minute. The [credits explainer](/blog/elevenlabs-credits-explained) has the full unit math, and the [calculator](/tools/elevenlabs-credits-calculator) converts any amount.
The three billing rules that change the real cost
Paid credits roll over (up to two months' quota, max 3× balance); annual billing is 10 months for 12 with credits still arriving monthly; and prepaid pay-as-you-go replaced overage billing — $5 minimum top-ups that expire in 12 months.
Rollover is the quiet discount: a bursty schedule can run a tier lower than its monthly average suggests, because [quiet months bank into loud ones](/blog/elevenlabs-credits-rollover) — but downgrading or cancelling forfeits the balance. Annual pricing knocks the equivalents to $5 (Starter), $18.33 (Creator) and $82.50 (Pro) a month; [the pool still drips monthly](/answers/does-elevenlabs-have-an-annual-plan), and annual → monthly isn't an offered path.
Running past the quota is now strictly prepaid: [PAYG top-ups](/answers/do-elevenlabs-payg-credits-expire) draw after subscription credits, have no monthly cap, and die 12 months after purchase — no surprise overage invoices, and no service past a $0 balance either.
Which tier fits which job
Free for auditioning voices; Starter for licensed low-volume work; Creator for a weekly narration schedule; Pro for audiobook/API-scale output. If your work is slide-synced e-learning, compare Murf's hour-metering before deciding.
Match the tier to finished output, not credit counts: a weekly 1,000-word video needs ~24,000–30,000 credits a month with retake headroom — Starter with rollover, comfortably Creator without. Daily publishing or [audiobook](/ai-voice/audiobooks) chapters push into Pro, where 12 hours a month runs ~$0.14 a minute — still far below human VO rates.
The cross-shop worth doing: [Murf prices in hours per year](/blog/murf-ai-pricing) ($8.25–9.50 per generated hour) and wins slide-synced corporate work on workflow; ElevenLabs wins expressiveness per dollar. The [head-to-head with raw audio](/compare/elevenlabs-vs-murf) and the full [ElevenLabs review](/reviews/elevenlabs) (12.5s measured, 4 raw samples) carry the evidence.
Sources checked
Official vendor pages used for pricing, rights and feature claims; checked Jul 19, 2026.
- ElevenLabs pricing - plan prices, credits, commercial-license floor
- ElevenLabs — how does credit rollover work - rollover up to 2x monthly quota; 3x max balance; free tier excluded
- ElevenLabs — pay-as-you-go docs - prepaid PAYG replaced postpaid overage for new self-serve; 12-month expiry, no monthly cap
- ElevenLabs — can I publish generated content - free plan: no commercial license; attribution 'elevenlabs.io' or '11.ai' in the title