What is ElevenLabs?
ElevenLabs is a web-based AI audio and voice platform for creating speech, music, sound effects, dubbed content, and conversational agents. Its text-to-speech tools generate expressive audio in more than 90 languages, while its voice library contains over 17,500 options. Users can also clone a voice, design one from a written prompt, transcribe speech, and produce or localize audio for videos, podcasts, audiobooks, advertisements, games, and social content.
The platform includes a browser-based creative editor as well as APIs and SDKs for developers. ElevenAgents adds configurable voice and chat agents that can communicate through phone, chat, email, and WhatsApp.
Key Features
- AI speech generation: Converts text into controllable, expressive speech across more than 90 languages, with models suited to emotional delivery, consistency, or low-latency conversations.
- Voice creation and cloning: Provides a large voice library alongside prompt-based voice design, instant voice cloning, and professional voice cloning on eligible plans.
- Creative audio tools: Generates music, custom sound effects, ambient audio, podcasts, audiobook narration, and voiceovers from one creative platform.
- Dubbing and localization: Helps creators and organizations adapt spoken content for different languages and audiences through automatic dubbing and Dubbing Studio.
- Conversational agents: Supports voice and chat agents with workflows, testing, guardrails, analytics, business logic, and connections to external systems.
- Developer APIs: Offers APIs for text to speech, speech to text, music, sound effects, dubbing, and agents, with an official JavaScript SDK shown in the documentation example.
Use Cases
- Produce narration and character dialogue for audiobooks, podcasts, games, and animation.
- Create multilingual voiceovers, advertisements, campaigns, and short-form social content.
- Build customer support or service agents that speak, type, and complete configured actions.
- Add speech generation, transcription, music, or dubbing to software through APIs.
Pricing
ElevenLabs uses a freemium model. The Free plan costs $0 and includes 10,000 monthly credits. Paid monthly plans shown are Starter at $6, Creator at $22, Pro at $99, Scale at $299, and Business at $990; the page also displays introductory first-month discounts for Starter and Creator. Enterprise pricing is custom. Taxes, levies, and duties are excluded.
Who Is It For?
ElevenLabs is designed for content creators, developers, media teams, businesses, and enterprises that need generated speech, multilingual localization, audio production, transcription, or conversational customer experiences.
