ElevenLabs API pricing in 2026: cost per 1,000 characters

How much does each ElevenLabs API model cost?

ElevenLabs prices text to speech per 1,000 characters of input and speech to text per hour of audio. The rate is the same on every plan. Plans only change how many characters are included. Figures come from the ElevenAPI pricing page and exclude taxes. Prices checked November 10, 2026.

What do ElevenLabs API plans include?

API plans add a monthly allowance at the same per-character rates. The prices below are monthly figures when billed yearly, which gives 2 months free. The main ElevenLabs pricing page lists the same tiers at $6, $22, $99, $299 and $990 billed monthly, with a commercial license from Starter up.

Pay-as-you-go needs no commitment and gives access to every product. Startups can apply for a grant of 33 million characters over 12 months.

What does ElevenLabs cost for real projects?

Cost follows characters, so count the text you send. These figures use the per-character rates above with no plan allowance applied. The Creator plan, for example, would cover the first 275,000 v4 characters for $18.33 a month billed yearly.

What are the catches in ElevenLabs API pricing?

Check these limits before you pick a model or a plan.

• Per-request limits: v3 accepts up to 5,000 characters, Multilingual v2 up to 10,000 and Flash or Turbo up to 40,000. Longer text must be split.
• Realtime and Speech Engine calls above your concurrency limit pay burst pricing of $0.16 a minute. Concurrency runs from 4 calls on Free to 40 on Business.
• Scribe v2 add-ons cost extra: keyterm prompting $0.05 an hour and transcript editing $0.07 an hour.
• Dubbing v1 costs $0.33 a minute with a watermark and $0.50 without.
• Resellers can cost more. fal sells ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 at $0.10 per 1,000 characters and Turbo v2.5 at $0.05, above the direct rates.

• fal.ai pricing

How is ElevenLabs billed through Locus Pro?

Locus Pro offers ElevenLabs as the elevenlabs/tts endpoint, paid from one prepaid credit balance that also covers other providers, with no ElevenLabs account or plan. It accepts eleven_turbo_v2_5, eleven_flash_v2_5 and eleven_multilingual_v2, with MP3 or PCM output. Eleven v3 and v4 are not offered. Catalog checked November 10, 2026.

The price depends on the text you send, and your agent can cap each call. Voice IDs come from the voices available to the Locus account, so voices you cloned in your own ElevenLabs account are not available. Other text-to-speech endpoints sit on the same balance.

• Text to speech without a subscription
• AI speech APIs on Locus Pro

Which ElevenLabs option should you choose?

Open an ElevenLabs account if you need Eleven v4 or v3, cloned voices, a commercial license in your name, or steady monthly volume that fills a plan allowance. A fully used yearly plan works out to about $0.067 per 1,000 v4 characters, below the $0.08 pay-as-you-go rate.

Locus Pro fits an agent that speaks now and then, next to other paid tools, where a monthly plan would sit unused. You pay per call, compare ElevenLabs with OpenAI, Grok and Deepgram voices on one balance, and cap each call with max_credits. On Enterprise, you can bill your own customers for the audio their agents create.

• Voice agents and low latency: Flash, Turbo or v4 Turbo at $0.04 per 1,000 characters.
• Narration and expressive reads: Eleven v4 at $0.08.
• Long-form audio in 29 languages: Multilingual v2 at $0.08.
• Transcription: Scribe v2 at $0.22 an hour, or compare with Deepgram.

• Deepgram pricing