ElevenLabs Freemium
Text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects and licensed music in one studio
What ElevenLabs makes and what you get
- ✓ Model choice
- ✓ Commercial use
- – No watermark (free)
- ✓ API
- ✓ Official MCP server
- – MCP client
- – Agent Skills
- – Brand kit
- ✓ Teams
- – Content Credentials
- – Mobile app
- ✓ 20+ languages
Features and rights come from ElevenLabs's own pricing and terms pages; check them before you publish commercially. Compare commercial use and watermarks across apps.
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ElevenLabs' hosted MCP server for speech generation and voice-agent management
What is ElevenLabs?
What it is
ElevenLabs is a US/UK voice AI company whose creator suite (now branded ElevenCreative) turns text into speech, clones voices, dubs video into other languages, and generates sound effects and music. The same models are sold to developers through the ElevenLabs API, and the company also runs voice-agent products for businesses.
Key features
- Text to speech with thousands of library voices plus Voice Design from a text prompt
- Instant Voice Cloning (Starter and up) and Professional Voice Cloning (Creator and up)
- Studio for long-form projects such as audiobooks and podcasts, and Dubbing Studio for translated video
- Sound effects and Eleven Music, with stems on higher plans
- Image and video generation with third-party models, paid plans only
- Public API, SDKs and an official MCP server
Models inside
Speech runs on ElevenLabs' own models: Eleven v3 (the most expressive, 70+ languages) and Flash v2.5 for low latency. Music comes from Eleven Music (Music v2, with v2.5 in the API). The video page lists third-party models including Veo 3.1, Kling 3, Runway Gen-4 Aleph and LTX V2.
Pricing and rights
As of September 2026 the free plan gives 10,000 credits a month with no commercial licence (personal use only, including for music). Starter costs $6/month for 30,000 credits and adds the commercial licence and instant cloning. Creator is $22/month (121,000 credits, first month half price), Pro $99 (600,000), Scale $299 (1.8M, 3 seats) and Business $990 (6M, 10 seats). Unused credits roll over for up to two months, and annual billing gives two months free. Music on self-serve plans may be used commercially except in film, TV and studio games, which need an Enterprise licence. Cloning requires you to confirm consent, and a Professional Voice Clone must be your own voice: you pass a read-aloud voice captcha.
Who it is for
YouTubers, audiobook narrators, course creators, podcasters, game and app developers, and localisation teams who want one account for voice, dubbing and audio.
Verdict
ElevenLabs covers voice, dubbing, sound effects and music in one studio, and its speech quality and language coverage are hard to match. The catch is cost: credits are shared across every feature, so long projects or music use them up quickly, and serious volume pushes you onto the $99+ tiers.
Pros
- Very natural, expressive speech (Eleven v3) in 70+ languages
- Commercial licence from the $6 Starter plan
- Voice, dubbing, SFX and music under one credit balance
- Strong API, SDKs and official MCP server
- Consent checks on voice cloning (voice captcha for Professional clones)
Cons
- Credits are shared across features and burn fast on long audio or music
- Free plan is personal use only
- Music can't be used in film, TV or studio games without an Enterprise licence
- Professional cloning limited to your own voice
ElevenLabs pricing
Free plan, paid from $6/mo. Prices and credit allowances change often, so confirm on the official pricing page. See every AI content app's pricing side by side.
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Verdict
ElevenLabs scores 9.0/10 in our AI voice & text-to-speech ranking. Very natural, expressive speech (Eleven v3) in 70+ languages.