ElevenLabs voice cloning plans (2026): pricing & access
ElevenLabs Instant Voice Cloning starts on Starter at $6/month; Professional Voice Cloning starts on Creator at $22/month. Free includes Voice Design but neither cloning feature. Creator, Pro, Scale, Business and Enterprise include Professional Voice Cloning, with the number of PVC slots increasing on higher tiers. Creator's advertised $11 first month is a promotion rather than its recurring price.
Plan access was checked September 13, 2026 against ElevenLabs' voice workspace guide, Professional Voice Cloning documentation and voice-cloning plan comparison. Prices are USD before tax; API and usage-based products have separate rates.
For an existing video that needs another language, compare AI dubbing tools. For changing an existing voice performance, compare AI voice changers. These are different jobs from generating speech from text.
Current subscription prices
Plan | Monthly price | Listed monthly credits | Instant cloning | Professional cloning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Free | $0 | 10,000 | ||
Starter | $6 | 30,000 | ||
Creator | $22 regular; $11 first-month offer | 121,000 | 1 slot | |
Pro | $99 | 600,000 | 1 slot | |
Scale | $299 | 1,800,000 | 3 slots | |
Business | $990 | 6,000,000 | 10 slots | |
Enterprise | Quote | Contract-specific | Custom |
Check the selected product and billing period. API pricing and usage-based products can use different units and rates.
How do credits translate into audio?
There is no single accurate credits-to-minutes conversion for every ElevenLabs workflow. Consumption depends on the selected model, feature, and input. Text-to-speech, voice conversion, dubbing, and conversational agents are different operations.
Estimate your own monthly cost
Generate a representative passage containing your usual names, punctuation, and speaking style. Record the feature, model, charged usage, audio duration, and corrections. Scale that observed job cost by your planned workload, including alternate takes.
For example, if your own completed narration consumes 2,000 credits including revisions, ten comparable narrations would require about 20,000 credits. This is an illustrative calculation, not a fixed ElevenLabs rate or a promise that every script costs the same.
Which plan should you start with?
Use the free tier to assess pronunciation and the editor. Before commercial publication or cloning, confirm that the chosen plan includes the required rights and feature. Choose the lowest qualifying plan with enough capacity; upgrade for a documented need rather than a general label such as “professional.”
Once your permitted audio is ready, choose the video workflow by input: use Talking Photo for a still portrait, Lip Sync for an existing speaking clip, or Audio-to-Video for newly generated visuals. Animation is a separate job and may add cost.
Which ElevenLabs plans include voice cloning?
Instant Voice Cloning is available on Starter and above. Professional Voice Cloning is available on Creator and above. Current base PVC slots are one on Creator and Pro, three on Scale, ten on Business, and custom on Enterprise. Free and Starter have no PVC slot. Professional Voice Clones require verification and can only be created for your own voice; a verified owner can share a clone privately.
Confirm voice eligibility and the provider's verification requirements before cloning. Include the usage allowance, extra credits, and seats in your plan decision.
Compare with a browser voice-cloning workflow
Upload a voice sample you are authorized to use, generate a short passage, and compare pronunciation, expression, download access, and total revision cost.
Try AI Voice ClonerRunbo Li is the Co-founder and CEO of Magic Hour, where he builds AI video and image tools for content creation. He is a Y Combinator W24 founder and former Data Scientist at Meta, where he worked on 0-1 consumer social products in New Product Experimentation. He writes about AI video generation, AI image creation, creative workflows, and creator tools.
