--- title: ElevenLabs API Pricing 2026 — Cost per 1M Characters description: ElevenLabs API pricing checked Sep 23 2026: $0.10 per 1k characters (v2/v3), $0.05 (Flash), plans $6-$990/mo, rollover capped at 2 months. With the math. url: https://modelslab.com/elevenlabs-api-pricing canonical: https://modelslab.com/elevenlabs-api-pricing type: website component: Seo/ElevenLabsApiPricing generated_at: 2026-10-07T06:03:05.832294Z --- Imagen ElevenLabs API Pricing 2026 per Character, Minute and Month --- Last updated Sep 23, 2026 · By ModelsLab Engineering The ElevenLabs API costs $0.10 per 1,000 characters for Multilingual v2 and v3, and $0.05 for Flash and Turbo (checked September 23, 2026). That is $100 or $50 per million characters. Subscription plans run from $6 to $990 a month, and unused credits roll over for at most two months. [Get API Key](https://modelslab.com/register) [API Documentation](https://docs.modelslab.com) ElevenLabs API Price per 1,000 Characters --- From the ElevenLabs API pricing page, read September 23, 2026. | ElevenLabs model | Per 1,000 characters | Per 1M characters | ~Per minute of audio | |---|---|---|---| | Multilingual v2 | $0.10 | $100 | ~$0.09 | | Eleven v3 | $0.10 | $100 | ~$0.09 | | Flash / Turbo | $0.05 | $50 | ~$0.045 | | v3 Conversational | $0.05 | $50 | ~$0.045 | Per-minute figures assume about 900 characters per spoken minute (150 words), which is a typical narration pace. Your scripts may be faster or slower. ElevenLabs Plans and Credits --- Monthly subscription tiers, as listed on elevenlabs.io/pricing and elevenlabs.io/pricing/api on September 23, 2026. | Plan | Price / month | Credits / month (pricing page) | Characters (API page) | |---|---|---|---| | Entry (pay as you go) | $0 | 10k | 10,000 | | Starter | $6 | 30k | 60,000 | | Creator | $22 ($11 first month) | 121k | 220,000 | | Pro | $99 | 600k | 990,000 | | Scale | $299 | 1.8M | 2,990,000 | | Business | $990 | 6M | 9,900,000 | The two ElevenLabs pages list different amounts for the same plan: credits on the main pricing page, characters on the API pricing page. Confirm which model a count assumes before you size a plan. Do ElevenLabs Credits Roll Over? --- ### Yes, for two months, up to a cap The ElevenLabs pricing page says unused credits roll over for up to two months, up to 2x your monthly quota, so a balance can reach at most 3x the monthly quota. Credits older than that are gone. Rollover does not apply to the $0 entry plan. In practice this means a quiet month is only banked for two more. A team that saves credits for a quarterly batch job will lose part of them, so size the plan to your steady monthly use, not to your peak. ### Regenerations bill again Every generation spends characters, including the retakes you throw away. If a paragraph needs three takes to get the delivery right, it costs three times its length. Budget for your real retake rate, not for the length of the finished script. What ElevenLabs Customers Say About Credits --- Public reviews that mention credits or billing. Each quote links to its source; we have not verified the individual accounts. Read on 2026-09-23, when the ElevenLabs TrustScore was 3.0. > “It has bugs where simply regenerating the audio fixes the issue—forcing you to waste tokens and credits without making any changes.” [Trustpilot review of ElevenLabs](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/elevenlabs.io), September 3, 2026> “They only supplied 5000 characters on the plan, which was useless for a narrator book-to-MP3.” [Trustpilot review of ElevenLabs](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/elevenlabs.io), September 12, 2026 Cost per 1 Million Characters --- ElevenLabs direct against ModelsLab, open-weight voices and ElevenLabs voices resold on the same key. | Option | Unit price | 1M characters (~1,111 min) | |---|---|---| | ElevenLabs Flash / Turbo, direct | $0.05 / 1k characters | $50 | | ModelsLab open-weight TTS, metered | $0.001 / second of audio | ~$67 | | ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 / v3, direct | $0.10 / 1k characters | $100 | | ModelsLab Open Source Unlimited plan | $149 / month flat | $149 at any volume | | eleven\_multilingual\_v2 on ModelsLab | $0.004 / second of audio | ~$267 | | eleven\_v3 on ModelsLab | $0.02 / second of audio | ~$1,333 | ModelsLab prices from the live model catalogue and plans table, 2026-09-23. ModelsLab meters speech by the length of the generated audio, so the per-million figures use the same 900 characters per minute assumption (about 1,111 minutes of audio). ### When ElevenLabs direct is cheaper - You need ElevenLabs voices. ModelsLab resells eleven\_multilingual\_v2 and eleven\_v3, but at a higher price than ElevenLabs charges direct. - You use under about a million characters a month and Flash or Turbo is good enough: $50 per million is hard to beat. ### When open-weight voices on ModelsLab are cheaper - Above roughly 3 million characters a month on Flash, or 1.5 million on Multilingual v2: the $149/month Open Source Unlimited plan has no metered cap on self-hosted voices. - When retakes are frequent: on Open Source Unlimited a retake of an open-weight voice does not add to the bill. - When one key also has to cover transcription, image, video and LLM calls. Text to Speech on ModelsLab --- One POST with a voice\_id and model\_id. Swap model\_id to move between open-weight and ElevenLabs voices. ### curl curl ``` 1curl -X POST 'https://modelslab.com/api/v7/voice/text-to-speech' \ 2 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ 3 -d '{ 4 "key": "YOUR_API_KEY", 5 "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2", 6 "voice_id": "YOUR_VOICE_ID", 7 "prompt": "Welcome back. Here is what changed in this release." 8 }' ``` ### Python Python ``` 1import requests 2 3response = requests.post( 4 "https://modelslab.com/api/v7/voice/text-to-speech", 5 json={ 6 "key": "YOUR_API_KEY", 7 "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2", 8 "voice_id": "YOUR_VOICE_ID", 9 "prompt": "Welcome back. Here is what changed in this release.", 10 }, 11) 12print(response.json()) ``` Comparing providers rather than prices? Read the [ElevenLabs alternative](/elevenlabs-alternative) guide. For the lowest-cost speech APIs across vendors, see the [cheapest text to speech API](/cheapest-text-to-speech-api) comparison, and for cloning a voice from a short sample, see [voice cloning API](/voice-cloning) . Related speech guides --- [### ElevenLabs alternative Providers compared on voices, latency and cloning.](/elevenlabs-alternative) [### Cheapest text to speech API Speech API prices across vendors.](/cheapest-text-to-speech-api) [### Voice cloning API Clone a voice from a short sample and use it on any text.](/voice-cloning) [### Eleven v3 text to speech The ElevenLabs v3 model on a ModelsLab key.](/eleven-v3-text-to-speech) [### Whisper API The other direction: transcription billed per request.](/whisper-api) [### Best text to speech API 2026 TTS providers ranked by use case.](/best-text-to-speech-api-2026) Get Expert Support in Seconds We're Here to Help. --- Want to know more? You can email us anytime at Chat with support[View Docs](https://docs.modelslab.com) ElevenLabs' API pricing page, checked September 23, 2026, lists $0.10 per 1,000 characters for Multilingual v2 and v3, and $0.05 per 1,000 characters for Flash and Turbo. That is $100 or $50 per million characters. Subscription plans run from $6/month (Starter) to $990/month (Business). Partly. The ElevenLabs pricing page says unused credits roll over for up to two months, up to 2x your monthly quota, so a balance can reach at most 3x the monthly quota. Rollover does not apply to the $0 entry plan. Checked September 23, 2026. ElevenLabs bills characters, not minutes. At about 900 characters per spoken minute (150 words), Multilingual v2 costs about $0.09 per minute and Flash about $0.045 per minute at the API rates. Regenerating a clip bills the characters again. Open-weight voices on ModelsLab are metered by the length of the generated audio, $0.001 per second with a $0.0047 minimum per request, against your plan's monthly allowance: Basic $21, Standard $47. Open Source Unlimited ($149/month) has no metered cap on self-hosted voices. ElevenLabs voices are also available on the same key, at a higher per-second price. Direct. ModelsLab resells eleven_multilingual_v2 at $0.004 and eleven_v3 at $0.02 per second of audio, which is more than ElevenLabs charges per character. Use ModelsLab for open-weight voices at volume, and ElevenLabs direct when you need ElevenLabs voices. Sources --- Every competitor price and quote on this page, with the date we read it. - [ElevenLabs API pricing](https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api) — per-1k-character prices and API plan characters, read 2026-09-23 - [ElevenLabs pricing](https://elevenlabs.io/pricing) — plan prices, credits and rollover rule, read 2026-09-23 - [ElevenLabs on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/elevenlabs.io) — TrustScore 3.0, read 2026-09-23 ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How much does the ElevenLabs API cost? ElevenLabs' API pricing page, checked September 23, 2026, lists $0.10 per 1,000 characters for Multilingual v2 and v3, and $0.05 per 1,000 characters for Flash and Turbo. That is $100 or $50 per million characters. Subscription plans run from $6/month (Starter) to $990/month (Business). ### Do ElevenLabs credits roll over? Partly. The ElevenLabs pricing page says unused credits roll over for up to two months, up to 2x your monthly quota, so a balance can reach at most 3x the monthly quota. Rollover does not apply to the $0 entry plan. Checked September 23, 2026. ### How much does ElevenLabs cost per minute of audio? ElevenLabs bills characters, not minutes. At about 900 characters per spoken minute (150 words), Multilingual v2 costs about $0.09 per minute and Flash about $0.045 per minute at the API rates. Regenerating a clip bills the characters again. ### How does ModelsLab price text to speech? Open-weight voices on ModelsLab are metered by the length of the generated audio, $0.001 per second with a $0.0047 minimum per request, against your plan's monthly allowance: Basic $21, Standard $47. Open Source Unlimited ($149/month) has no metered cap on self-hosted voices. ElevenLabs voices are also available on the same key, at a higher per-second price. ### Is ElevenLabs cheaper direct or through ModelsLab? Direct. ModelsLab resells eleven_multilingual_v2 at $0.004 and eleven_v3 at $0.02 per second of audio, which is more than ElevenLabs charges per character. Use ModelsLab for open-weight voices at volume, and ElevenLabs direct when you need ElevenLabs voices. --- *This markdown version is optimized for AI agents and LLMs.* **Links:** - [Website](https://modelslab.com) - [API Documentation](https://docs.modelslab.com) - [Blog](https://modelslab.com/blog) --- *Generated by ModelsLab - 2026-10-07*