ElevenLabs credit price by plan: $0.18 per 1,000 characters on Creator

ElevenLabs states that standard V2 models cost 1 credit per character, so a plan's price per 1,000 characters is its price divided by its credits in thousands: $0.182 on Creator ($22 for 121,000 credits), $0.165 on Pro and $0.165 on Business. Annual billing pays for 10 months, so annual Creator is $220 a year, $18.33 a month, or $0.152 per 1,000 characters. Read 2026-10-03 from the ElevenLabs pricing page. Sume's TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters.

The discounted models the page mentions cost between 0.5 and 1 credit per character, so the figures below are the 1-credit ceiling.

Credits and price per plan

ElevenLabs lists Free at 10,000 credits, Starter at $6 for 30,000 (with a $1 first month promotion), Creator at $22 for 121,000 ($11 first month), Pro at $99 for 600,000, Scale at $299 for 1.8 million and Business at $990 for 6 million. The page says unused credits roll over for up to two months with a cap of 3 times the monthly quota on active paid subscriptions.

What the rollover cap means

A Creator subscriber who spends nothing for two months holds up to 363,000 credits, which is the cap. Spending at the cap is not free: you keep paying $22 a month whether or not you use credits. If you use 30,000 credits a month on Creator, the real price is $0.733 per 1,000 characters, not $0.182.

That is the most important number on the page for light users. A plan is a minimum commitment, and the headline credit price is the best case.

Against a per-character wallet

Sume's TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters, a flat rate that does not change with a plan. At Creator's 1-credit rate that is $0.182 versus $0.0475, a ratio of 3.8 times. Even Business at $0.165 is 3.5 times the Sume rate.

That does not make the two equivalent. Sume's voices come from one provider family, while ElevenLabs offers a far larger voice library, cloning and dubbing, and the cheaper discounted models bring its price down. Compare a real script before moving.

Limits

If your usage is under a quarter of a plan's credits, a pay-per-character wallet is the cheaper shape.

• Only the 1 credit per character models are priced here.
• Annual billing figures assume the page's statement that annual pays 10 months.
• Extra credits beyond the plan are priced separately, per minute, and cost more than the plan's own rate.