What is ElevenLabs?
Lifelike voiceovers, dubbing and music from text.
Who is ElevenLabs best for?
ElevenLabs is best for creators and developers who need natural AI voices for narration, dubbing or voice agents.
Narration and voiceovers
Its Studio editor turns scripts into audiobooks, podcasts and ad reads in 70+ languages, with more than 10,000 library voices or a clone of your own.
Dubbing video into other languages
Dubbing Studio translates speech while keeping the original speaker's tone, so one video can reach several markets.
Support teams building voice agents
ElevenAgents answers on phone, chat, email and WhatsApp, and every plan includes a set number of call minutes.
Developers adding speech to apps
The API covers text to speech, including a Flash model with about 75 ms latency, plus Scribe speech to text and music generation.
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
ElevenLabs has a free plan with 10,000 credits a month, and paid plans start at $6 a month for Starter, then $22 for Creator and $99 for Pro, with all tools drawing on one credit balance.
- 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of text to speech
- Speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music
- 3 Studio projects, no commercial license
- 30,000 credits a month, about 30 minutes of text to speech
- Commercial license and instant voice cloning
- Dubbing Studio, image and video, 20 Studio projects
- 121,000 credits a month, about 121 minutes of text to speech
- Professional voice cloning
- Buy extra credits when you run out
- 600,000 credits a month, about 600 minutes of text to speech
- 192 kbps audio
- 44.1 kHz PCM output through the API
Scale costs $299 a month for 1.8M credits and 3 seats, and Business $990 a month for 6M credits and 10 seats; Enterprise is priced on request. Paying yearly gives 2 months free: Starter works out to $5, Creator $18.33 and Pro $82.50 a month. Text to speech costs about 1 credit per character, speech to text 330 credits a minute and music 900 credits a minute. On paid plans, unused credits roll over for up to two months. Prices exclude tax. Full pricing on elevenlabs.io. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect ElevenLabs to my AI agent?
ElevenLabs MCP is ElevenLabs's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to turn text into natural speech and sound effects with ElevenLabs.
Gives your agent ElevenLabs' voice and audio tools, so you can turn a script into spoken audio or make sound effects for a video, game or podcast.
$ claude mcp add elevenlabs --env ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=<elevenlabs-api-key> -- uvx elevenlabs-mcp
It runs on your computer, so Claude Code starts it when it needs it.
Run /mcp and sign in to ElevenLabs in the browser.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On your computer
- Sign-in
- OAuth
- Maker
- ElevenLabs
What are the best ElevenLabs alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do ElevenLabs's job.
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Questions about ElevenLabs
What is ElevenLabs?
Lifelike voiceovers, dubbing and music from text.
Who is ElevenLabs for?
ElevenLabs is best for creators and developers who need natural AI voices for narration, dubbing or voice agents.
Is ElevenLabs free?
Yes. ElevenLabs has a free plan: 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of text to speech.
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
ElevenLabs's paid plans are Starter at $6 per month, Creator at $22 per month and Pro at $99 per month.
Does ElevenLabs have an MCP server?
Yes. ElevenLabs MCP is ElevenLabs's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can turn text into natural speech and sound effects with ElevenLabs. It runs on your computer and you sign in with your ElevenLabs account.
What are the best ElevenLabs alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Murf AI, WellSaid and Listnr AI.
Where can I try ElevenLabs?
On its official website, elevenlabs.io.
Do I need a paid ElevenLabs plan for commercial use?
Yes. The ElevenLabs commercial license starts with the Starter plan at $6 a month, which also adds instant voice cloning and Dubbing Studio. Audio made on the $0 plan is not covered by that license.
Do unused ElevenLabs credits roll over?
On paid plans, yes: unused ElevenLabs credits roll over for up to two months, so a balance can reach three times the monthly allowance. Downgrading or cancelling forfeits them, and the $0 plan has no rollover.
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