{"rid":"compute/elevenlabs","card":{"rid":"compute/elevenlabs","eid":"elevenlabs","topic":"compute","slug":"elevenlabs","provider":"ElevenLabs","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","domain":"elevenlabs.io","category":"inference API","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free plan at USD 0 with '10k credits per month'. One shared monthly pool across every product, with the vendor's own per-product rates: 'Text to Speech 1 cre...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"elevenlabs","provider":"ElevenLabs","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","category":"inference API","free_tier":{"stated":"Free plan at USD 0 with '10k credits per month'. One shared monthly pool across every product, with the vendor's own per-product rates: 'Text to Speech 1 credit per character; Speech to Text 330 credits per minute; Eleven Music 900 credits per minute; Sound Effects 200 credits per generation; Voice Changer and Voice Isolator 1,000 credits per minute'. 10,000 credits therefore buys either 10,000 characters of TTS (about 10 minutes of audio at the common 1,000 characters a minute), or 30 minutes of speech-to-text, or 50 sound effects, or 5 minutes of voice isolation, per month.","unit":"minutes","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"recurring-monthly-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"the 10,000 credits compose with a free transcription service by splitting the job: send speech-to-text to a vendor with a larger minute allowance and keep ElevenLabs for the TTS voice, because 330 credits a minute makes this pool the worst value as a transcriber. What breaks: any loop that synthesises more than 10,000 characters a month, which is roughly 10 minutes of speech.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"the monthly credit pool is small and does not roll over on the Free plan: 'Rollover does not apply to the Free plan', so the 10,000 credits are lost at the end of each billing cycle and a batch job larger than 10 minutes of audio cannot be finished across two months.","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing"}],"limits_note":"the monthly credit pool is small and does not roll over on the Free plan: 'Rollover does not apply to the Free plan', so the 10,000 credits are lost at the end of each billing cycle and a batch job larger than 10 minutes of audio cannot be finished across two months.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"the monthly credit pool is small and does not roll over on the Free plan: 'Rollover does not apply to the Free plan', so the 10,000 credits are lost at the end of each billing cycle and a batch job larger than 10 minutes of audio cannot be finished across two months.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the plan table prints 'Free $0 per month ... 10k credits per month', quoted; and the FAQ confirms 'Free $0 (10,000 credits)'"},{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Text to Speech 1 credit per character; Speech to Text 330 credits per minute; Eleven Music 900 credits per minute; Sound Effects 200 credits per generation; Voice Changer and Voice Isolator 1,000 credits per minute', quoted from the FAQ 'How many credits does each product use?'"},{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Rollover does not apply to the Free plan', quoted from the FAQ 'When do my credits reset, and do unused credits roll over?'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"These are inference credits, not general compute: no machine, no shell, no GPU is handed over, only metered calls to a hosted voice model. Per-month character cost of the cheapest paid lane for scale: Starter at USD 6 for 30,000 credits is USD 0.20 per 1,000 characters. Open question: whether one email address can hold more than one free workspace; the pricing page does not say and no probe was run against the signup endpoint.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"credit-too-small-for-a-workload","free_tier_kind":"recurring-monthly-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":10000,"unit":"credits","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}