ElevenLabs Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-10-02
Free
- ✓10,000 characters/mo
- ✓3 custom voices
- ✓Eleven v4 / v4 Turbo access (2026-09-28; v3 remains as previous generation)
- ✓Personal use only
Starter
- ✓30,000 chars/mo
- ✓10 custom voices
- ✓Commercial license
- ✓Pricing cut ~50% in Feb 2026
Creator
- ✓100,000 chars/mo
- ✓30 custom voices
- ✓Professional Voice Cloning
- ✓Eleven v4 expressive speech (2026-09-28) -- v3 stays available as the previous generation
11.ai (Alpha)
- ✓MCP-based voice-first personal assistant
- ✓Persistent context across tasks
- ✓Launched June 2025 as alpha proof-of-concept; access still gated, ongoing maturation through 2026
Enterprise (IBM watsonx)
- ✓Agentic voice for enterprise via IBM partnership (March 25 2026)
- ✓Regulated-industry voice cloning
- ✓Volume pricing
Is ElevenLabs Worth the Price?
Value Score: 7/10
Overall Score: 8.5/10 · Content creators who need the highest-quality voiceovers, audiobook producers, developers building voice-enabled apps, and enterprises using IBM watsonx wanting premium agentic voice. 11.ai alpha users who want voice-first AI assistants.
ElevenLabs remained the clear voice-quality leader through 2026 and, with Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo (2026-09-28), re-founded that lead on a new architecture rather than another v3 tune: #1 on Artificial Analysis' Provider Voice Arena, ~75% blind preference over Cartesia Sonic 3.6, Inworld TTS-2 and Google's brand-new Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS, 90+ languages, and a ~100ms Turbo path co-designed with ElevenAgents. The February 2026 $500M raise at $11B, the ~50% price cut, the 8/24 CLI and the 9/10 Universal Music Group deal round out a company that now competes on catalog rights and agent latency as much as on raw voice quality. The pressure is real, though: Google's 3.8 TTS pair arrived five days earlier with voice design from a prompt, 30-second replication and a published $9-per-1M-audio-token rate card, and Mistral's Voxtral covers the open-source end. For content creators and agent builders ElevenLabs is still the default; the gap is now measured in points of preference, not generations.
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How ElevenLabs Pricing Compares
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Price | Value Score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 7/10 | 8.5 |
| GPT-Live (ChatGPT Voice) | Yes | $0 extra | 9/10 | 8.6 |
| Descript | Yes | $0 | 8/10 | 8.5 |
| Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs) | No | $0.10/per hour | 9/10 | 8.1 |
| Cohere Transcribe | Yes | $0 | 9/10 | 8.0 |
| Microsoft MAI-Voice-2 | Yes | $22/per 1M characters | 8/10 | 7.3 |