ElevenLabs Dubbing Pricing: What a Minute Actually Costs (2026)
ElevenLabs runs three dubbing products at three different prices. This breaks down the v1, v2, and Dubbing Studio rates, converts credits to dollars on every plan, and covers lip sync, watermarks, and rollover.
How much ElevenLabs dubbing costs per minute
ElevenLabs publishes three dubbing products at three different rates. Most comparisons quote the cheapest one.
| Product | Price per minute of media | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dubbing v1, watermarked | $0.33 | Legacy model |
| Dubbing v1, no watermark | $0.50 | Legacy model, the widely quoted figure |
| Dubbing v2 | $2.20 | Current default for automatic dubbing |
| Dubbing Studio, watermarked | ~$0.83 | Credit-metered, runs the v1 model |
| Dubbing Studio, no watermark | ~$1.65 | Credit-metered, runs the v1 model |
The $0.50 figure that circulates in most roundups is the legacy v1 model. The current default automatic engine is v2 at $2.20, which is 4.4 times higher.
Prices are per minute of source media, per target language. A 10 minute video dubbed into three languages bills as 30 minutes.
The three products
Dubbing v1 is the original automatic model, still on the rate card at $0.33 watermarked and $0.50 without.
Dubbing v2 is the current default automatic engine at $2.20 per minute. There is no watermarked discount for v2.
Dubbing Studio is the interface with transcript editing, speaker reassignment, and per-clip regeneration. It runs the v1 model only. ElevenLabs states in its documentation that Dubbing Studio is in maintenance mode and receives critical bug fixes only. Uploads cap at 1 GB and 45 minutes.
Take the editor and you get the older model. Take the current model and you get no editor.
How dubbing credits work
The plans do not sell dubbing minutes. They sell credits, and dubbing draws from the same pool as text to speech, voice cloning, and everything else.
| Product | Credits per minute |
|---|---|
| Automatic, with watermark | 2,000 |
| Automatic, without watermark | 3,000 |
| Dubbing Studio, with watermark | 5,000 |
| Dubbing Studio, without watermark | 10,000 |
ElevenLabs does not publish a credit rate for v2. It lists v2 at $2.20 per minute and includes 450 minutes of v2 on Business, which carries 6,000,000 credits. That implies roughly 13,333 credits per minute.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Credits per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | n/a | 10,000 |
| Starter | $6 | $5 | 30,000 |
| Creator | $22 | $18.33 | 121,000 |
| Pro | $99 | $82.50 | 600,000 |
| Scale | $299 | $249.17 | 1,800,000 |
| Business | $990 | $825 | 6,000,000 |
Unused credits roll over for up to two months, capped at twice your monthly quota.
What a minute costs on your plan
Credits are priced differently on each plan, so the effective per-minute rate moves with your tier.
| Plan | Cost per credit | v1 watermarked | v1 no watermark | Studio watermarked | Studio no watermark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $0.000200 | $0.40 | $0.60 | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Creator | $0.000182 | $0.36 | $0.55 | $0.91 | $1.82 |
| Pro | $0.000165 | $0.33 | $0.50 | $0.83 | $1.65 |
| Scale | $0.000166 | $0.33 | $0.50 | $0.83 | $1.66 |
| Business | $0.000165 | $0.33 | $0.50 | $0.83 | $1.65 |
The published rate card matches Pro and above. On Creator you pay about 10 percent more per minute than the advertised number, and on Starter about 21 percent more. Annual billing moves it the other way: Pro annual works out to $0.0001375 per credit, putting v2 at roughly $1.83 per minute.
What a real job costs
A 10 minute video into three languages is 30 billed minutes. On v2 that is $66, or 400,000 credits. Creator’s entire monthly allowance is 121,000 credits, so this job needs Pro or higher.
A 45 minute podcast episode into one language on v2 is $99.
100 hours of course content into one language is 6,000 minutes, $13,200 at list, or 80,000,000 credits. Business allows 72,000,000 credits a year.
Credits are shared, so a minute spent dubbing is a minute not available for text to speech. Each target language is a separate dub, billed separately.
Does ElevenLabs dubbing include lip sync?
No. ElevenLabs dubbing replaces the audio track. The video passes through unchanged, so the speaker’s mouth still moves in the original language.
ElevenLabs offers lip sync elsewhere in the product through third-party models, but not as part of the dubbing pipeline. Any ElevenLabs dubbing price you see quoted is an audio-only price.
The mismatch shows on interviews, talking-head explainers, ads, and courses with an instructor on screen. It does not show on podcasts, voiceover, screen recordings, or narration.
Watermarks
Free tier dubs are watermarked automatically. Paid tier dubs are not.
On v1 you could accept a watermark for a lower credit rate. On v2 that option does not exist. Watermarks apply to video dubs only.
Which plan you need for dubbing
Free and Starter cover under three minutes of v2 per month.
Creator at $22 covers about nine minutes of v2, or 40 minutes of v1 without a watermark.
Pro at $99 covers 45 minutes of v2. Scale at $299 covers 135. Business at $990 covers 450, a figure ElevenLabs publishes directly.
Common questions
How much does ElevenLabs dubbing cost per minute? $2.20 for the current v2 model, $0.50 for legacy v1 without a watermark, $0.33 for v1 watermarked, and roughly $1.65 for Dubbing Studio without a watermark.
How many credits is a minute of dubbing? 2,000 automatic with watermark, 3,000 automatic without, 5,000 in Dubbing Studio with watermark, 10,000 in Dubbing Studio without. Around 13,333 for v2.
Is Dubbing Studio more expensive than automatic dubbing? Against v1, yes, by roughly 3.3 times. Against v2, no. Studio without a watermark is about $1.65 per minute versus $2.20 for v2.
Does ElevenLabs dub into multiple languages for one price? No. Each target language is a separate job and bills separately.
Do ElevenLabs credits expire? They roll over for up to two months, capped at twice your monthly quota.
How many languages does ElevenLabs dubbing support? The documentation lists 90 or more.
What are the upload limits? Dubbing Studio caps at 45 minutes and 1 GB.
When ElevenLabs makes sense
Audio-only content, an existing ElevenLabs subscription with credits going unused, or a preference for their voice models.
With a speaker on camera, the audio-only limitation is the constraint rather than the price. Lip sync means a second vendor and a second bill.
How this compares
Pinch dubs at $0.50 per minute, the same headline rate as legacy v1 and a quarter of v2, with no subscription and no watermarks. Lip sync, which ElevenLabs does not offer at any price, is $1.00 per minute. New accounts get $5 in credits.
For side by side numbers against ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and Rask.ai, including the lip sync multipliers that change the math, see the dubbing API pricing comparison. For an audio quality comparison with samples, see ElevenLabs vs Pinch.
Prices verified 1 September 2026 against ElevenLabs API pricing, ElevenLabs pricing, and the ElevenLabs dubbing documentation. Effective per-plan rates are calculated from published credit allowances. Vendor pricing changes often, so check the source before budgeting.
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