ElevenLabs

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By AI Bookmarks Editorial Team, Directory editors Last reviewed 2026-10-23

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Speech synthesis and voice agent platform with 17,500+ voices in 90+ languages, sold on character credits.

Quick facts

Pricing	Premium
Free tier	Yes — monthly character allowance, without commercial rights
Platforms	Web, API
Developer	ElevenLabs
Website	https://elevenlabs.io/

What ElevenLabs is

ElevenLabs is a speech synthesis platform. Its core product turns text into narration that sounds close to a human recording, with a catalogue the company lists as more than 17,500 voices across 90-plus languages. Beyond reading text aloud it covers voice cloning from a short sample, dubbing existing video into other languages while keeping the original speaker's timbre, and conversational agents that answer calls or handle voice interfaces. Everything is reachable through a web studio or an API with SDKs, which is why it turns up inside products rather than only in studios. Pricing runs on character credits: free usage is capped monthly, and paid tiers raise the allowance and add commercial rights. Quality is high enough that the main risks are legal rather than technical — cloned voices need consent, and the terms restrict certain uses. Latency on the API is low enough for live conversation, which is why it is used for voice agents rather than only pre-recorded narration.

Best for

Narration for videos, courses and audiobooks
Localising existing video with dubbing
Adding a spoken interface to a product through the API

Not ideal for

Voice cloning without documented consent from the speaker
Use cases the licence restricts, such as impersonation

Pros

Voice quality is close to recorded narration
Large voice and language catalogue for dubbing
API and SDKs make it embeddable in products

Cons

Character credits are consumed quickly on long projects
Commercial rights depend on the plan
Cloned voices raise consent and compliance questions

Pricing in detail

The free tier provides a monthly character allowance for non-commercial use with attribution. Paid plans are billed monthly or annually and raise the character allowance, add commercial rights, higher-quality output and more concurrent jobs; business tiers add seat management and custom terms. Usage is metered by characters generated, so a long audiobook can exhaust a mid-tier plan quickly. Check the per-character cost and the commercial terms before budgeting a project.