ElevenLabs pricing
What ElevenLabs charges per million characters, what that costs at real volumes, and when a cheaper or pay-once option makes sense.
Prices are list prices from the official pricing page of ElevenLabs, read October 8, 2026. They change; confirm before you decide. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api
What ElevenLabs charges
| Item | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech, Flash / Turbo | $0.04 | per 1,000 characters | 32 languages, 40,000-character request limit |
| Text to speech, v2 Multilingual | $0.08 | per 1,000 characters | 29 languages |
| Text to speech, v3 | $0.08 | per 1,000 characters | 70+ languages, 5,000-character limit |
| Text to speech, v4 | $0.08 | per 1,000 characters | A launch promotion has ended; the list price is shown. Confirm the current price at the source. |
| Speech to text, Scribe v2 | $0.22 | per hour | Realtime variant $0.39 per hour |
| Agents | $0.08 | per minute | Burst calls billed at $0.16 per minute |
| Plans | Free, $6, $22, $99, $299, $990 a month; Enterprise custom | monthly | Each plan includes a character allowance; the page does not label every row |
Cost at real volumes
| Model | 1M characters | 10M characters | 100M characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flash / Turbo | $40 | $400 | $4,000 |
| v2 Multilingual | $80 | $800 | $8,000 |
| v3 | $80 | $800 | $8,000 |
| Speakvora catalog voices | $3 | $30 | $300 |
One million characters is very roughly 15 to 20 hours of speech. Cost only: these models sound different, and we do not claim ours match theirs. Listen to the free samples and decide.
What ElevenLabs offers
- General-purpose text to speech in many models and 70+ languages
- Speech to text (Scribe), including a realtime model
- Voice agents billed per minute
- Voice IDs for custom, cloned or designed voices usable through the API
What we did not find in ElevenLabs's official material
- Curated industry phrase packs with stable phrase identifiers
- A downloadable, ready-generated industry audio catalog
- Voice cloning plan restrictions (not stated on the pricing page reviewed)
How it compares with Speakvora
ElevenLabs is the broad, high-end voice platform: more models, more languages and a larger feature surface than Speakvora today. Speakvora is the smaller, cheaper option when your lines are repetitive operational prompts, because the checked lines already exist as audio.
Pay once instead
If most of your audio repeats (greetings, confirmations, prompts), a one-time bundle plays offline with no per-play fee. See pay-once text to speech and the speech API alternative page.
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Questions
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
For text to speech, ElevenLabs lists between $40 and $80 per million characters depending on the model, on its pricing page read October 8, 2026. Prices change, so confirm at the source: https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api.
Is there a cheaper alternative to ElevenLabs?
On list price per character, yes. Speakvora's catalog voices are $3 per million characters and your own voice is $6. That is a cost comparison only; the models, languages and voices differ, and we do not claim equal quality. ElevenLabs is the broad, high-end voice platform: more models, more languages and a larger feature surface than Speakvora today. Speakvora is the smaller, cheaper option when your lines are repetitive operational prompts, because the checke
What does ElevenLabs do that Speakvora does not?
ElevenLabs offers: General-purpose text to speech in many models and 70+ languages; Speech to text (Scribe), including a realtime model; Voice agents billed per minute. Speakvora is smaller, with fewer models and languages.
Can I pay once instead of per character?
For lines that repeat, yes. Speakvora sells ready-made voice bundles you buy once (audio from $14, or $214 to $399 with a local agent) and play offline with no per-play fee. If you generate a line once and keep the file, per-character pricing is already very cheap, and we say so on the comparison pages.