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ElevenLabs for Publishing

Summary

ElevenLabs for Publishing is an audio toolkit for turning books and other written content into narrated long-form audio. It combines AI Narrator, a voice library, multilingual dubbing, and the ElevenReader listening app for publishers and authors.

From
Freethen $6 monthly · $5 billed annually, 17% less
Open source
No
API
Yes
Best for
Publishers and authors turning books and long-form stories into narrated audio

What we checked

Pages last read
Price on its site
Free planFrom its pricing page

Changed since our last check

  • Languages: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
  • Audiobook files: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
  • Instant cloning: now Yes. It was Partly when we checked on .
  • Lip sync: now Yes. It was Partly when we checked on .
  • Contract and cancelling: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .

ElevenLabs for Publishing price and terms

Terms

Free plan
YesYes10k credits per month
The terms in full

3 Studio projects; personal use only.

Sign up without sales
YesYes

What needs a higher plan

Creator
Cost for 2 hours a month, Professional cloning
Pro
Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Audio you get
Starter, Creator, Pro, Scale and Business
Unused credits
Scale
Team seats
Enterprise
Support

For AI agents

API
Yes
ElevenLabs for Publishing's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

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What we checked on ElevenLabs for Publishing

YesPartlyNo

What an hour of speech costsPartly

Cost for 2 hours a month

$22 a month on Creator for 2 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Starter might cost less, but no overage price is published, so it could not be priced past its allowance.

Creator $22 (121,000 credits, $11 for the first month)

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What an hour of speech costsPartly

Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)

$99 a month on Pro for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Starter, Creator might cost less, but no overage price is published, so it could not be priced past its allowance.

Pro $99 (600,000 credits)

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Promotion and regular price

Promotion: Starter normally costs $6 monthly, while its first month is advertised at $1.

$6 per month, first month $1

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What an hour of speech costsYes

What the price counts

Plans include monthly credits, and their use varies by plan, product, generation surface, and model.

Credits can be used across our platform. The number of credits used depends on your plan, whether you're generating via the website or API, the…

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Voices that use more

Credit use varies by model: some API models consume half to one credit per character.

discounted pricing applies for API usage, costing between 0.5 and 1 credit per character

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Past your allowance

New subscriptions may buy Pay As You Go credits after monthly credits run out, without public unit pricing here.

New subscriptions have the option of purchasing Pay As You Go credits. These credits last for 12 months, and will be used if you run out of credits…

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Unused credits

Paid subscribers can carry credits forward up to twice their normal quota while keeping the same subscription.

Credit rollover allows you to carry over up to twice your usual subscription credit quota when you begin a new billing cycle, provided you remain on…

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What an hour of speech costsPartly

Commercial use

Commercial publishing starts on paid plans; the free plan is personal use only and requires attribution.

All paid plans include a commercial license, provided you're not using Beta Services.

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The voicesYes

Stock voices

Voice Library offers thousands of voices, while Voice Design can create a new voice for a story.

Browse thousands of voices in Voice Library or create new ones from scratch using Voice Design

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The voicesPartly

Languages

Multilingual narration and dubbing are presented for global audiences, but the publishing page gives no language count or accent list.Was Yes before our last check.

Prepare your content for global audiences with our Multilingual TTS and AI Dubbing models

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The voicesYes

Re-voice your recording

Dubbing transforms original audio into another language while preserving the source performance and timing.

Dubbing preserves the original performance across languages, maintaining emotion, tone, and timing.

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The voicesYes

Emotion, pace and emphasis

Story voices can have their tone, style, and delivery adjusted for character narration.

Adjust tone, style, delivery, and bring your characters to life

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The voicesYes

Pronunciation fixes

A Pronunciations editor stores name and acronym rules in a dictionary attached to the project, so the fix applies everywhere that word appears.

These rules will be saved to a Pronunciation Dictionary which will be connected to your project. Whenever one of these words is encountered in a…

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The voicesYes

Long scripts and chapters

The AI Narrator toolkit is positioned for structuring, editing, and generating long-form audio from books.

Use our AI Narrator toolkit to streamline structuring, editing, and generating long form audio

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The voicesPartly

Audiobook files

Publishers can launch AI audiobooks to the ElevenReader app, but retail-ready file formats and stores are not stated.Was Yes before our last check.

Launch your AI audiobooks to listeners globally on the ElevenReader app, and earn directly with industry-leading royalty rates.

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The voicesYes

Several speakers

The publishing toolkit supports choosing a distinct voice for each character in a story.

A unique voice for each character

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The voicesPartly

Audio you get

Studio offers MP3 exports on lower plans, while Pro adds 192 kbps audio and 44.1 kHz WAV.

128 kbps MP3, 44.1 kHz WAV

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Cloning a voiceYes

Instant cloning

Starter adds Instant Voice Cloning to the free features for subscribers who need custom voices.Was Partly before our last check.

Everything in free, plus Commercial License Instant Voice Cloning

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Cloning a voicePartly

Professional cloning

Professional Voice Cloning is available from Creator rather than the entry-level Starter subscription.

Everything in Starter, plus Professional Voice Cloning

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Cloning a voiceYes

Consent of the voice’s owner

Customers must hold required notices, consents, releases, and authorizations for an identifiable person's voice.

you represent and warrant that you have given all notices and obtained all consents, releases, and authorizations required under applicable law

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Cloning a voiceYes

Your voice trains their models

Terms permit service improvement from submitted content, while account holders may opt out of future training use.

you may opt out of our use of your Content for training at any time

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Dubbing and translationYes

Video dubbing

Dubbing translates an audio or video input and returns output in each detected speaker's voice.

Dubbing is the ElevenLabs Service that translates audio and video Input into other languages and returns dubbed Output in the voice of each detected…

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Dubbing and translationYes

Lip sync

Lip-sync is listed within the separate Image & Video offering, rather than specifically under the publishing page's dubbing copy.Was Partly before our last check.

Image & Video is the ElevenLabs offering that generates, edits, and transforms images and video, including text-to-image, text-to-video,…

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Dubbing and translationNo

Editing the translation

Dubbing v2 is described as a fully automatic workflow with no manual intervention, rather than a pre-generation editing stage.

The full pipeline — translation, cloning, dubbing, and sync — runs automatically with no manual intervention.

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Dubbing and translationPartly

How long a video you can dub

Dubbing v2 lists included monthly minutes by plan, but the public table does not specify a maximum individual video size.

Automatic Dubbing v2 Minutes included

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Dubbing and translationYes

Captions and subtitles

Studio generates captions in one click, supports multilingual subtitles, and synchronizes captions to audio or video.

Generate captions in one click for accessibility and engagement. Customize style, add multilingual subtitles, and sync captions to your audio or…

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Working with itYes

Voice to video

Studio adds generated voiceover to uploaded video and synchronizes it on one production timeline.

add voiceover to video and sync it on the timeline

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Team seats

Scale includes three workspace seats and team collaboration, so team access begins above the lower plans.

3 Workspace seats Team Collaboration

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Working with itYes

API

Agents are created, driven and monitored over REST and a WebSocket protocol, with first-party SDKs for web, Python, iOS, Android and React Native.

Yes, we have a WebSocket API and Javascript, React, Python and iOS SDKs.

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Working with itYes

API price

Public API pricing lists v4 speech generation at eight cents per thousand characters, with lower-priced alternatives shown.

$0.08 Price per 1K characters

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Working with itYes

Platforms

The publishing workflow is offered online, and the ElevenReader companion app is available on iOS and Android.

Download iOS App Download Android App

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Working with itYes

Works inside

Studio integrates with the vendor’s voice library, voice design, professional cloning, multilingual models, and music tools.

Studio integrates with Voice Library, Voice Design, Professional Voice Cloning, Multilingual models, and Eleven Music

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Labelling and rightsPartly

AI labelling

Free-plan published content requires ElevenLabs attribution, but reviewed pages do not describe audio watermarking or a file checker.

If you publish content generated using our Services on a free plan or without being signed-in to your account, you must attribute it to ElevenLabs

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Labelling and rightsYes

Who owns the audio

Customers retain output rights as against ElevenLabs, while paid-plan commercial use continues indefinitely under the terms.

as between you and ElevenLabs, you retain all rights in and to your Output.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Free plan or trial

A standing $0 Free plan on the Agents pricing page gives 15 call minutes a month and 4 concurrent calls, with the builder, knowledge base and widget included; no sales call, but commercial use starts at Starter.

Free $0per month ... 15 minutes of calls included 4 Concurrent Calls

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What the free plan leaves on your audio

The free plan is personal-use only and needs published attribution; audio watermarking is not stated on reviewed pages.

The free plan does not include a commercial license and cannot be used for any commercial purpose.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Still sold

ElevenLabs publicly offers a free plan and self-serve paid subscriptions for new users today.

Choose Starter

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Sign up without a sales call

The public price page offers a self-serve Starter selection alongside an Enterprise contact-sales route.

On the page: Starter plan card

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Contract and cancelling

Monthly and annual billing are offered, and annual plans automatically renew unless canceled; online cancellation is not stated here.Was Yes before our last check.

Annual plans are billed on an annual cycle and will renew automatically unless cancelled.

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Support

The publishing Enterprise offering includes dedicated support, but the public page does not state general support channels or hours.

Enterprise-level SLAs Dedicated support Priority access API access Unlimited seats Volume discounts

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ElevenLabs for Publishing alternatives

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