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ElevenLabs is an AI audio and voice-agent platform: text-to-speech, voice cloning, speech-to-text, dubbing, music and sound-effect generation on the "ElevenCreative" side, plus multilingual conversational voice agents for phone, chat, email, and WhatsApp on the "ElevenAgents" side, all accessible through a shared API/SDK layer.
Published by the vendor themselves — not community forks.
Official ElevenLabs MCP server exposing text-to-speech, voice cloning, transcription, voice design, and audio-isolation tools to MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and OpenAI Agents.
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| Plan | Price | Included | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 10,000 credits/mo | Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Sound Effects |
| Starter | $6/mo | 30,000 credits/mo | Commercial license, Instant Voice Cloning, 20 Projects in Studio |
| Creator | $22/mo ($11 first month) | 121,000 credits/mo | Professional Voice Cloning, Higher credit allotment than Starter |
| Pro | $99/mo | 600,000 credits/mo | 44.1kHz PCM audio output via API, 192kbps quality audio |
| Scale | $299/mo | 1.8M credits/mo 3 workspace seats | Team collaboration, 3 professional voice clones |
| Business | $990/mo | 6M credits/mo 10 workspace seats | Low-latency TTS at 5 cents/minute, 10 professional voice clones |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom credits | Custom SSO, DPA/SLA assurance, HIPAA BAAs |
Checked 2026-07-30 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.
ElevenLabs began as a text-to-speech/voice-cloning API and has expanded into a broader audio and conversational-AI platform. Its product line splits into ElevenCreative (voice, music, sound-effect, and video generation for content teams) and ElevenAgents (deployable voice agents for customer-facing conversation). Everything runs on a shared credit system and is exposed through REST APIs, official SDKs, and an official MCP server, which is why it shows up heavily in developer and agent-tooling contexts as well as content-production ones.
Developers and content teams building voice/audio features, plus enterprises deploying conversational voice agents; named customers on their site include Twilio, Disney, Epic Games, Nvidia, Salesforce, Revolut, and Meta.
The credit-metered pricing (10,000 free credits/month, scaling steeply through paid tiers) makes ElevenLabs expensive for high-volume, always-on narration or long-form audio compared to flat-rate or open-source TTS. Teams needing on-premise or fully self-hosted voice models for data-sovereignty reasons will need to evaluate the Enterprise data-residency options specifically rather than assume the standard API fits, since standard plans are cloud-only.
Platforms for building and running conversational voice agents that place or answer phone calls.
Category: Voice AI agents. Membership is decided by 2 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.
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It generates and processes audio with AI: text-to-speech, voice cloning, speech-to-text, dubbing, music/sound-effects, and deployable conversational voice agents, all behind a shared API and credit system.
Yes, a permanent Free plan with 10,000 credits per month covering text-to-speech, speech-to-text, sound effects, voice design, music, and up to 3 Studio projects.
Yes - the official elevenlabs-mcp GitHub repo (about 1,500 stars) exposes ElevenLabs' text-to-speech, voice cloning, transcription, and audio-isolation capabilities to MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf.
A single credit pool shared across all products (TTS, STT, music, video, etc.), metered per plan from Free (10,000 credits) up through Business (6M credits, 10 seats) and custom Enterprise; annual billing is discounted to 10 months' cost, and unused credits roll over up to two months.
The pricing ladder and named customers (Twilio, Disney, Epic Games, Nvidia, Salesforce, Meta) span solo developers on the free tier through large enterprises on custom SSO/HIPAA plans.
Yes - the ElevenAgents line supports multilingual conversational voice agents deployed over phone, chat, email, and WhatsApp, and agents can be wired to external MCP servers via the Conversational AI API.
The Enterprise plan lists custom SSO, DPA/SLA assurance, HIPAA BAAs, and data-residency options.
Signing up and generating a first text-to-speech clip via the web app or a single API call takes minutes; the official MCP server has a documented quickstart for Claude Desktop that also takes only a few minutes.
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