ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI voice and generative-audio platform. Its official documentation covers text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning and design, conversational voice agents, music, text-to-dialogue, image and video generation, voice changing and isolation, dubbing, sound effects, forced alignment, and API access. Products share a credit system, while organizations can also use private deployments and enterprise controls. Audio rights, consent, attribution, and commercial use depend on the voice, input material, plan, and current terms.

✨ Key Features

• Text to Speech — Convert text into expressive speech with model choices for quality, latency, and language coverage.
• Speech to Text — Transcribe spoken audio, including real-time and post-processing workflows.
• Voice library and design — Browse a large voice library, design a voice from a text description, or save custom voices.
• Voice cloning — Create instant or professional voice clones from recordings where the plan and consent requirements allow it.
• Dubbing — Translate and dub audio or video while preserving speaker context and timing.
• Music and sound effects — Generate music and cinematic sound effects from prompts.
• Dialogue generation — Create natural-sounding multi-speaker dialogue from text.
• Conversational agents — Build and deploy voice agents with knowledge, tools, and conversation workflows through ElevenAgents.
• Developer API — Call speech, transcription, voice, dubbing, music, sound-effects, and agent capabilities with API keys.
• Credits and usage controls — Share credits across products, review usage, use Pay As You Go top-ups, and configure API quotas or IP allowlists.

💳 Pricing

ElevenLabs currently offers monthly and annual subscription billing, plus Pay As You Go. The public self-serve plans are:

• Free — US$0/month with a monthly credit allowance and limited voice slots; free output is for non-commercial use with attribution under the current license.
• Starter — US$6/month, including 30,000 credits, instant voice cloning, commercial rights, and additional creator features.
• Creator — US$22/month, with a currently advertised first month at US$11 and 121,000 credits; adds professional voice cloning and higher limits.
• Pro — US$99/month with 600,000 credits and higher-quality API output options.
• Scale — US$299/month with 1.8 million credits and 3 workspace seats.
• Business — US$990/month with 6 million credits and 10 workspace seats.
• Enterprise — Custom pricing with dedicated support, SLAs, SSO, SOC 2, custom rate limits, more seats/voices, higher concurrency, and managed dubbing options.

Annual plans are available; quarterly plans are not currently offered. Pay As You Go has no monthly commitment, with UI/API rates differing. Eligible credits may roll over two months; PAYG funds expire after 12 months. Confirm credits, rates, limits, taxes, rights, and rollover rules before purchase.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Narration and audiobooks — Produce draft or final narration with controllable voices and pacing.
• Video localization — Dub video and audio into other languages while reviewing timing and speaker context.
• Podcasts and dialogue — Create multi-speaker dialogue, clean voices, transcribe episodes, and prepare clips.
• Games and interactive media — Generate character voices, sound effects, and responsive conversational agents.
• Accessibility — Convert written material into spoken audio and support voice-driven experiences.
• Marketing and education — Create explainers, training narration, product demos, and multilingual learning content.
• Customer-service agents — Deploy voice agents that use knowledge and tools to handle conversational tasks.
• Developer products — Add speech, transcription, dubbing, or custom voices to apps through the API.
• Voice transformation — Change or isolate a voice for production workflows where consent and rights are clear.