ElevenLabs Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-04-16
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 v3 expressive speech
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 extended its lead with Eleven v3 expressive speech plus the 11.ai MCP-based voice assistant (alpha). The February 2026 $500M raise at $11B and subsequent ~50% pricing cut made the consumer tiers meaningfully cheaper. The IBM watsonx partnership unlocks regulated-industry enterprise voice. If you produce any serious audio content, this is still the default. The only real competitive pressure is from Mistral's Voxtral TTS on the open-source side and from Google/Meta native voice models bundled into Gemini/Llama.
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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 |
| 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-1 | Yes | $22/per 1M characters | 8/10 | 7.3 |
| Murf AI | Yes | $0 | 6/10 | 7.0 |