ElevenLabs API pricing
The ElevenLabs API bills in US dollars per character, per hour, or per minute. Each subscription includes some usage, and pay-as-you-go covers the rest. Rates come from the ElevenLabs API pricing page on October 24, 2026. Live plan prices are on the ElevenLabs pricing page on SaaS Price Watch.
Text to Speech API rates
| Model | Price per 1,000 characters | Notes from the page |
|---|---|---|
| v4 | $0.08 | Most emotive model, 90+ languages |
| v4 Turbo | $0.04 | About 100ms latency, for agents |
| v3 | $0.08 | 70+ languages, 5,000 character limit |
| v3 Conversational | $0.04 | About 280ms latency |
| v2 Multilingual | $0.08 | 29 languages, 10,000 character limit |
| Flash / Turbo | $0.04 | About 75ms latency, 32 languages, 40,000 character limit |
The page shows about one minute of audio per 1,000 characters. A million characters costs $80 on v4 and $40 on Flash or Turbo, by our math.
Speech to Text API rates
| Model | Per hour | Keyterm prompting | Transcript editing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scribe v2 and v2 Medical | $0.22 | $0.05 per hour | $0.07 per hour |
| Scribe v2 Realtime | $0.39 | $0.08 per hour | $0.12 per hour |
One hundred hours of audio costs $22 on Scribe v2 and $39 on Realtime, before add-ons.
Realtime, agents, music, and audio tools
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Realtime v1 Mini | $0.08 per minute plus LLM tokens ($0.20 input, $6.00 output per 1M) |
| Realtime v1 Max | $0.08 per minute plus LLM tokens ($1.80 input, $9.00 output per 1M) |
| Speech Engine | $0.08 per minute |
| Burst over your concurrency limit | $0.16 per minute |
| Music | $0.15 per minute, $1.50 per finetune |
| Voice Isolator, Voice Changer, Sound Effects | $0.12 per minute |
| Dubbing v1 | $0.33 per minute with watermark, $0.50 without |
| Dubbing v2 | $2.20 per minute |
Usage included with each plan
| Plan | Price a month | v4 characters | Flash / Turbo characters | Scribe v2 hours | Concurrent agent calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 4.5 | 4 |
| Starter | $6 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 27 | 6 |
| Creator | $22 | 275,000 | 550,000 | 100 | 10 |
| Pro | $99 | 1,238,000 | 2,475,000 | 450 | 20 |
| Scale | $299 | 3,738,000 | 7,475,000 | 1,359 | 30 |
| Business | $990 | 12,375,000 | 24,750,000 | 4,500 | 40 |
The API page lists the included amount for each product on each plan. Starter costs $1 for the first month until Nov 1, and Creator costs $11 for the first month.
Startup grants
The API page lists a Startup Grants Program: 12 months free with 33,000,000 characters, for teams building voice agents.
How to estimate your bill
- Count characters a month and pick the model. Multiply by $0.08 or $0.04 per 1,000.
- Add transcription hours at $0.22 or $0.39.
- Pick the smallest plan whose included usage covers most of that. Pay-as-you-go covers the rest.
A 60-minute script on v4 costs about $4.80 on pay-as-you-go. Creator's 275,000 v4 characters cover about 275 minutes a month.
Compare and track
Read ElevenLabs pricing per minute, ElevenLabs credits explained, and ElevenLabs Starter vs Creator. For other voice APIs, see ElevenLabs alternatives. For per minute API rates elsewhere, see Deepgram pricing per minute, AssemblyAI pricing, and OpenAI Whisper and TTS pricing. For other text to speech APIs, see Cartesia pricing per minute, Amazon Polly pricing, and Google Text-to-Speech pricing.
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FAQ
How much does the ElevenLabs TTS API cost? $0.08 per 1,000 characters on v4, v3, and v2 Multilingual. $0.04 on v4 Turbo, v3 Conversational, and Flash / Turbo (October 24, 2026).
Is the ElevenLabs API billed in credits? No. The API page says API usage is billed in US dollars, not credits.
How much is ElevenLabs speech to text? Scribe v2 costs $0.22 per hour. Scribe v2 Realtime costs $0.39 per hour.
Does the free plan include API usage? Yes. Free includes 10,000 v4 characters (about 10 minutes) a month.
Checked 2026-10-24. Prices and policies change. Confirm on the source before you buy.
Sources
- https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api
- https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
- https://saaspricealerts.com/api/vendors/elevenlabs-io.json
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