What is ElevenLabs? Free plan, Turkish voiceover, pricing, voice cloning and commercial use

You paste text and pick a voice; ElevenLabs reads it like a person would. It's used for ads, promo and training videos, podcasts, audiobooks and YouTube voiceovers. In the same account you can clone your own voice, dub a video into another language, transcribe a recording, and generate sound effects or music.

Who it's for: content creators who need voiceover for videos, trainers, businesses making ads and promos, authors producing audiobooks or podcasts. There's also an API for people who code.

!On the free plan you can't use the audio you generate for commercial work (ads, a monetized channel). This limit and the attribution requirement are covered in the "Commercial use" section.

You can use ElevenLabs in your browser without installing anything. There are also iPhone and Android apps.

!Files circulating as "ElevenLabs APK", "pro apk" or "full download" are not official. Paid features are unlocked by a subscription tied to your account, not by a file. Only download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

1. 1Sign in at elevenlabs.io and open the Text to Speech screen.
2. 2Paste your text into the text box.
3. 3Pick a voice in Voices. Voice choice affects the result most, then the model, then the settings. For Turkish, pick a Turkish-speaking voice from the Voice Library.
4. 4Adjust settings if needed, press Generate, listen, and download if you like it. Fix a mispronounced word by spelling it differently.

!The model interprets every sentence; numbers, dates and abbreviations can be misread. Listen from start to finish before downloading.

1. 1Record one person speaking in a quiet room, in the same tone and at the same pace; no echo, music or background noise.
2. 2As a file, MP3 at 128 kbps or higher is enough; WAV doesn't improve quality and can cause upload problems.
3. 3If you want the clone in Turkish, record in Turkish; the model learns the accent from the recording.

!Only clone your own voice or voices you have explicit permission for. Cloning a living person's voice without explicit consent is prohibited under the Prohibited Use Policy; recordings of people under 18 cannot be uploaded for cloning. The clone stays in your account and isn't exported as a file. This is not legal advice.

1. 1Dubbing: On the Dubbing screen, upload audio or video or paste a link from YouTube, TikTok and the like; choose the target languages (each language is billed separately, and the amount is shown before you confirm). With Dubbing v2 on the web, files can be up to 2 GB and 180 minutes. On the free plan, dubbing is watermarked and the watermark can't be removed. Lip sync is not part of dubbing.
2. 2Speech to text (Scribe): You upload an audio or video file and turn it into text; it gives word timestamps and speaker separation. Via the API, files can be up to 3 GB and 10 hours.
3. 3Sound effects: You write what you want ("a door slamming in the rain"); the cost depends on the setting you choose, not on the text.
4. 4Music: Generates music from text. On the free plan, sharing the music requires "Eleven Music" attribution; commercial use starts at Starter.
5. 5Voice changer: Converts speech you recorded into a different voice. Whether it's on the free plan is unclear; check the plan table on the pricing page.

!Dubbing and transcription are AI-generated; before publishing, check names, numbers and industry terms in particular.

1. Sign in and open Developers › API Keys from the left menu.
2. Create a new key and give it a name. The full key is only shown at the moment you create it; after that only its name and last four characters are visible, so save it right away.
3. By default the key is restricted: choose which features are enabled and set a credit limit if you like.

The API is available on the free plan too, but on the free plan Voice Library voices cannot be used through the API. High-quality audio output (192 kbps, 44.1 kHz PCM) is on paid plans. API usage draws from the same credit pool; on Flash v2.5 the cost per character is halved.

!Don't share your API key with anyone or write it openly in your site's code; anyone who gets the key can use your account as if they had your password. Deleting a key cannot be undone.

ElevenLabs has several voiceover models. Reading the same text with different models gives different results. ElevenLabs recommends its newest model, Eleven v4 (September 28, 2026), as the better choice for most users, but still asks you to compare with your own voice and text.

The pricing page doesn't separately say which model is available on which plan; you use whatever appears in your account's model list. Section checked on October 14, 2026; model versions change often.

The "What it is for, per ElevenLabs" column comes from the descriptions on ElevenLabs' models page. Latency figures exclude network and application time.

Yes, there's a free plan: 10,000 credits a month. In text to speech, 1 character is about 1 credit, so roughly 10 minutes of voiceover. The free plan has no commercial use. Credits are a shared pool across all tools: voiceover, speech to text, sound effects, music and dubbing all draw from the same credits.

The pricing page shows a first-month discount for Starter and Creator valid until October 18, 2026; the promotion is temporary. With annual billing you pay for 10 months.

Official pricing page last checked on October 28, 2026.

The Voice Library has language-specific ("native") voices. If you'll be reading Turkish, type Turkish in the search and listen to the preview; the official sources don't say how many Turkish-speaking voices there are.

Reported by users On Ekşi Sözlük (a popular Turkish forum), when Turkish support arrived in 2023, some praised it for reading with every period, comma and stress in place; this is an old opinion, so listen with the current model yourself.

!Before uploading client names, personal information or a private meeting recording, turn off the training setting and make sure you have the right to upload the recording.

!The free plan is closed to commercial use: every free generation you share must have "elevenlabs.io" in the title ("Eleven Music" for music). For a monetized channel or an ad, switch to a paid plan first.

• Don't clone someone else's voice without permission; the policy and the law prohibit it.
• Don't hide that it's an AI voice; don't try to remove watermarks or traces.
• Credits are shared across all tools: dubbing and music can be much more expensive than voiceover.
• Unofficial APKs and "free credit" sites are not safe; they may ask for access to your account.

In short: the free plan has no commercial use and requires attribution when you share; all paid plans include a commercial license. Content you generate during a subscription can be used commercially even after the subscription ends; content generated outside a subscription (before or after it, or without signing in) can't be used commercially and always requires attribution.

• Some products such as music, sound effects and dubbing have extra conditions (Service-Specific Terms); check them before commercial use.
• You're responsible for making sure the output doesn't infringe anyone's rights; don't generate with copyrighted text or someone else's voice.
• If hiding that it is AI could be deceptive (ads, customer service), you need to tell the user.

Source: ElevenLabs help center "Can I publish the content I generate on the platform?" (updated August 11, 2026), Terms of Use, Prohibited Use Policy (October 9, 2026). This is not legal advice.

1. 1Sign in at elevenlabs.io, click the profile icon at the top right › Subscription › Billing.
2. 2In Modify Plan: Cancel Plan › Proceed › Cancel Subscription.
3. 3The cancellation takes effect at the end of the period; your account returns to the free plan and unused credits are lost. Before the period ends, you can undo it with "Resume subscription".
4. 4If you subscribed in the app, cancel from Apple's or Google's "manage subscriptions" screen; deleting the app doesn't cancel the subscription.

The official sources list no student-specific discount. Nonprofits and educational institutions can apply through ElevenLabs' Impact Program form. There's also a separate free subscription application for people with permanent speech loss from causes such as ALS. The pricing page also lists a Startup Grants program with 12 months free for startups. Conditions for applicants in Turkey aren't clear in the official sources; check the application page yourself.