Dubbing a 10-minute video: ElevenLabs Dubbing cost versus STT plus TTS
ElevenLabs lists Dubbing at $0.33 or $0.50 per minute (v1) and $2.20 (v2), so ten minutes is $3.30 to $22. A DIY chain of STT and TTS is about $0.53.
Ten minutes of dubbing costs $3.30 on ElevenLabs Dubbing v1 at the watermarked rate, $5.00 at $0.50 per minute, and $22.00 on Dubbing v2 at $2.20 per minute. Chaining Sume's speech-to-text and TTS comes to about $0.53 for the same ten minutes, but you provide the translation and the lip match is not part of it.
Per-minute comparison
| Option | Rate | 10 minutes |
|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Dubbing v1, watermarked | $0.33 per minute | $3.30 |
| ElevenLabs Dubbing v1 | $0.50 per minute | $5.00 |
| ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 | $2.20 per minute | $22.00 |
| Sume STT + TTS (assumed 9,000 characters) | $0.01 per audio minute + $0.0475 per 1K characters | $0.5275 |
Working out the DIY chain
Transcription: 10 minutes x $0.01 = $0.10. Speech: assuming about 1,500 words at 6 characters each, 9,000 characters x $0.0475 / 1,000 = $0.4275. Total $0.5275.
Video inspect can transcribe a clip at $0.01 per audio minute, with a 600-second hint maximum, as the Video inspect docs describe.
What the chain does not do
- No translation step is priced here; bring your own translated script.
- No lip-sync or timing match to the original speaker.
- No voice cloning; Sume's TTS catalog has no cloning API.
- A 10-minute source is exactly the STT job maximum.
When the cheap route is enough
Voiceover over a screen recording or slides tolerates loose timing. A talking head does not.
Sources
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