ElevenLabs pricing explained: tiers, credits and rollover

The unit the plan is sold in

ElevenLabs does not sell a different set of features at each price. It sells a quantity of credits, and the same credits then buy speech, transcription, dubbing or music. That one fact settles most of what a plan comparison usually turns into, because two tiers at different prices are the same tier holding different amounts of one currency.

Six paid plans are published, and one more is quoted by sales rather than printed on the page. The bottom of the range is a free tier and the top of it is priced for a workspace rather than a person, so most of the decisions here are made in the middle.

How we checked the ElevenLabs credit table

The rates and allowances below are read from the plan cards and the credit-cost table on ElevenLabs’ pricing page on 16 September 2026, with the limits that are not about volume taken from the feature list beneath them. No plan on this page was bought by this site, so where a figure would depend on hearing the output rather than reading the terms, none is given.

Two details change what a buyer ends up paying. Every rate on the page excludes taxes, levies and duties, so the amount charged depends on where the buyer is. And the yearly price is not a discount on the monthly one in the usual sense: it is ten months charged for twelve, which is why the yearly column below is written as a monthly equivalent.

What each allowance buys

Six plans, one of which is quoted by sales rather than priced on the page. Only the lowest is free, and only the free one withholds the commercial licence.

Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Rates as published on 16 September 2026, excluding taxes, levies and duties. Creator carried a first-month discount on the check date; it is left out above because a promotion is a moving figure rather than a rate.

Dividing each published rate by its published allowance gives the price of a credit, and that number falls from Starter to Pro before flattening out. Pro, Scale and Business all work out at roughly $0.00016 a credit, while Starter, the smallest paid plan, is the dearest at $0.0002. Moving above Pro therefore buys more credits rather than cheaper ones.

One pool, spent six ways

What a credit buys depends entirely on which action spends it. The table beneath the plan cards prices each one, and the spread between the cheapest line and the dearest is wide enough that one monthly allowance can be a long piece of work or a short one depending on the job in front of it.

Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Read against the plan table, the two columns explain why the same grant means different things to different buyers. Ten thousand credits is ten thousand characters of speech on the multilingual model, or a little over three minutes of dubbing without a watermark, or one minute of Dubbing Studio output. How long ten thousand characters lasts in finished audio depends on the script being read, so the honest comparison is between a character count and the minutes charged for everything else rather than between two running times.

Two ways an allowance is lost

An unspent balance behaves in two different ways depending on how it was earned, and both rules are printed on the pricing page rather than buried in a contract. The first is a ceiling on rollover. Unused credits carry for two months, and the balance is held at three times the monthly allowance, so a Pro subscriber can hold 1,800,000 credits at most, which is one monthly grant plus the two that carried into it. Top-up credits bought on top of a plan sit outside that ceiling and are not the part that gets rounded off.

The second is that the balance does not survive the plan. Downgrading or cancelling spends what is left at the end of the cycle in which it happens, and nothing carries past that point. The free grant never rolls at all, which is the same rule applied to a tier with no renewal to carry into.

What the price does not govern

Three limits move on their own schedule rather than with the allowance, so a buyer who needs one of them needs a particular tier rather than a larger balance.

Concurrency rises one step per plan

How many requests can be running at once is printed per tier, and it runs 2 on Free, 3 on Starter, 5 on Creator, 10 on Pro, 15 on Scale and 25 on Business. A batch job that has to work in parallel is buying that number when it buys the tier, and unused allowance does not raise it.

Audio quality changes at named plans rather than gradually

Free, Starter and Creator are listed at 128 kbps, and 192 kbps arrives with Pro, alongside a 44.1 kHz PCM output over the API. A project delivering to a specification that names a bitrate is choosing between those two groups rather than between neighbouring tiers.

Cloned voice slots are a separate count

Voice slots run 3, 10, 30, 160, 660 and 2,200 up the same order of plans. A studio holding a roster of voices is buying that allowance, which has nothing to do with how many credits arrive each month.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io), checked 16 September 2026: the pricing page for the plan rates, the monthly credit allowances and the credit-cost table, and the feature list beneath the plan cards for what each tier covers, along with the concurrency, audio-quality and seat allowances.