Speech synthesis, voice cloning and dubbing, with an API. Those are three related jobs and not one purchase: a tool you open, a capability you switch on inside something else, and a line in an infrastructure budget.
The unit is a credit, and the page prints it beside every price
A price for generated audio is meaningless without the allowance attached to it, because the same dollar buys wildly different amounts of work depending on what the vendor counts. ElevenLabs settles that on its own pricing page, in a question near the foot of it, and it settles both halves in one sentence: "Free $0 (10,000 credits); Starter $6 (30,000 credits)".
That is the rare case where the figure and its unit arrive together from the vendor, so the two values at the top of this profile need no reconstruction from a feature table. What a credit converts into is the next question, and the same page answers it per tier rather than globally: the minutes of speech a credit yields move with the audio quality you ask for.
What those free credits may be spent on is a separate question, and the pricing page does not answer it. ElevenLabs publishes a Prohibited Use Policy, and section 9 of it lists using the service for any commercial purpose among the things a free user may not do. So the free allowance printed above is an evaluation budget rather than a production one, and the figure beside it is where paid work starts. Our review works through what that leaves the free plan able to settle.
Why a yearly toggle did not cost this one its entry price
The page opens on monthly billing and offers a yearly discount, which is the shape that strips the starting figure off a profile on this site. A toggle can leave a document in which only the discounted number is legible, and then what somebody paying month to month actually hands over is not a thing we can quote.
It does not do that here. The vendor labels the discounted number for what it is, an equivalent monthly price on an annual plan, and prints it beside the plain monthly one rather than in place of it. Runway, Descript, n8n and Zapier all sit in the other position, each for its own version of that reason, and none of them carries a starting figure. Our methodology is where the rule is written down.
AI Audio is where this sits, and the directory lists every tool profiled so far.