
ElevenLabs plans and credits
The free plan is for non-commercial use only. A commercial license starts with Starter at $6 a month and 30,000 credits. Creator costs $22 for 121,000 credits, Pro $99 for 600,000, Scale $299 and Business $990. Annual billing charges ten months for twelve. Payment is by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Every product draws on one credit pool, at very different rates: 1 credit per character of speech, 900 a minute of music, 1,000 a minute of voice changing, 3,000 a minute of automatic dubbing without watermark and 10,000 a minute in Dubbing Studio without watermark. Unused credits roll over for up to two months, but are lost on a downgrade or cancellation. Without a plan, the API bills speech per use: $0.08 per 1,000 characters on the new v4 and on v3, and $0.04 on v4 Turbo, Flash and Turbo.
Real voices and the license you grant ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs bans using another person’s voice without consent, and its policy names unauthorized sexualization of that voice. Passing off a generated voice as a human one is banned too. A site that wants a performer’s voice needs that person’s consent on file.
Users keep their output. In return, they grant ElevenLabs a perpetual, irrevocable license on what they upload, voice included, to improve the service and build new products, with a pledge not to sell that voice on its own without permission.
ElevenLabs strengths and limitations
Strengths
- 74 languages listed on every plan.
- A commercial license from $6 a month.
- Output owned by the user.
Limitations
- A perpetual license on your recorded voice.
- Credits forfeited on cancellation.
- No company address published.
- Promoting sexual services is banned, which rules out an escort directory.
ElevenLabs versus Featherless
Featherless hosts eight open audio models, including Kokoro, Chatterbox and Qwen3-TTS, in a mostly text catalog. ElevenLabs sells its own voice models, plus dubbing, music and sound effects.
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