ElevenLabs Startup

elevenlabs.io · Compute · 2 records · JSON

ElevenLabs Computecaveatemailno cardDvolume-quota
ElevenLabs Startup Grants Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

ElevenLabs Compute

caveatemailno cardDvolume-quota

elevenlabs.io/pricing · inference API · compute/elevenlabs · JSON · compare

Free tier	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; recurring-monthly-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota 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 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 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 10000.0 credits

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/pricing	the plan table prints 'Free $0 per month ... 10k credits per month', quoted; and the FAQ confirms 'Free $0 (10,000 credits)'
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/pricing	'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?'
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/pricing	'Rollover does not apply to the Free plan', quoted from the FAQ 'When do my credits reset, and do unused credits roll over?'

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ElevenLabs Startup Grants Compute

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elevenlabs.io/startup-grants · inference API · compute/elevenlabs-startup-grants · JSON · compare

Free tier	'Scale for 12 months ... 33,000,000 characters ... That's over 680 hours of Agents usage. More than $5,500+ in value.' The gate is a company: 'The ElevenLabs Grants program is open to all startups or companies with less than 25 employees', 'Only applications with valid business emails will be considered', 'Agencies, consulting firms and SMBs are not eligible', 'One application per company', and the programme requires 'a business or monetization strategy' with 'No short-term or one-off projects'. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; term-credit-12-months
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story. source a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story.
Binding	write-gated a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	33M characters at 1 credit a character is 33,000 minutes of TTS, and the vendor prices that against its own Pro tier: 600,000 credits for USD 99, so 33M credits is about 55 months of Pro. What breaks: the award, not the quota. No chain makes an unapproved application usable.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	These are inference credits, not general compute. Recorded as a refutation: the largest per-person voice credit in this market is not reachable by a person. An applicant would need a registered company, a domain email and a product with a monetisation strategy, and even then the decision is discretionary. The value claim of 'USD 5,500+' is the vendor's own arithmetic, not measured.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/startup-grants	'Scale for 12 months ... 33,000,000 characters ... That's over 680 hours of Agents usage. More than $5,500+ in value', quoted
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/startup-grants	'Only applications with valid business emails will be considered' and 'The ElevenLabs Grants program is open to all startups or companies with less than 25 employees at the time of receiving the application', quoted from the eligibility FAQ
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/startup-grants	'After your grant period is over or once you have 10,000 credits left, your plan will automatically convert to a Free plan', quoted: the grant is a clock, not a budget
2026-10-22	elevenlabs.io/pricing	the pricing page repeats the offer as '12 Months free ... 33M Characters ... Valid for 12 months', corroborating the size

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