ElevenLabs Free vs Paid: Credits, Voice Cloning and Commercial Use by Plan

Credits, minutes and voice cloning on each ElevenLabs plan

The table lists what the ElevenLabs pricing page gives each plan in ElevenCreative. Minutes are the page's own text-to-speech estimate for the app, so they assume every credit goes to speech.

Two limits sit outside the credit pool. Concurrent requests rise from 2 on Free to 3, 5, 10, 15 and 25 on the paid plans, and WAV or 44.1 kHz PCM output starts at Pro. The voice cloning guide explains the difference between the two clone types: an instant clone can work from less than two minutes of audio, while a professional clone fine-tunes the model on about 30 minutes of high-quality audio and takes minutes to create. Both include a voice verification step. Prices for each plan, including yearly billing at ten times the monthly price, are on ElevenLabs pricing.

What one credit buys in each product

All products draw on the same monthly pool, so a minute of dubbing uses credits that could have gone to speech. ElevenLabs publishes these approximate costs:

Eleven v4, ElevenLabs' newest speech model, runs on every plan including Free, and ElevenLabs lists no separate credit rate for it; ElevenLabs v4 vs v3 covers what it changes.

Read the table as a conversion rate for your own mix. In ToolColumn's arithmetic, Starter's 30,000 credits cover about 90 minutes of transcription, 33 minutes of music or 10 minutes of watermark-free automatic dubbing, and spending half the pool on dubbing leaves about 15 minutes of speech. ElevenLabs' plan table includes Eleven v4, launched on September 28, 2026, on every plan, Free included, and gives it no separate credit rate: text to speech stays at 1 credit per character. For API calls, ElevenLabs lists 0.5 to 1 credit per character on the Flash and Turbo models; how the API is billed is covered in ElevenLabs API pricing vs app plans.

Commercial use and attribution on the free plan

According to the ElevenLabs help center, the free plan cannot be used for any commercial purpose. Free output you publish, or output made while signed out, must be attributed by putting "elevenlabs.io" or "11.ai" in the title; Eleven Music made on the free plan is credited as "Eleven Music" instead.

Every paid plan includes a commercial license, except for features ElevenLabs labels as beta, subject to its service-specific terms. Rights follow the moment of creation: audio made during a paid subscription can be used commercially indefinitely, and ElevenLabs says the license for it remains after the subscription ends, while audio made before you subscribed or after you left cannot. Content from beta features cannot be used commercially or in production at all.

When credits reset and roll over

The monthly allowance resets on the day of the month you subscribed. On a paid plan, unused credits roll over for up to two months, so a balance can reach three times the monthly quota. Downgrading or cancelling forfeits the unused credits at the end of the cycle, while upgrading carries them into the next one. Free credits never roll over, and pay-as-you-go top-up credits sit outside the rollover cap.

When a month's credits run out, extra text to speech in the app costs about $0.36 a minute on Free, about $0.20 on Starter, $0.18 on Creator and $0.17 on Pro and above, and pay-as-you-go top-ups sit outside the rollover cap. Credits are charged per generation request. ElevenLabs sometimes allows a limited number of free regenerations when the text and settings stay the same, and caps how many credits one request can use, but it publishes no number for that cap.