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ElevenLabs Free Tier: How Many Minutes Do You Actually Get?

Photo by Egor Komarov on Pexels The short answer, before anything else If you searched for "ElevenLabs free tier how many minutes," here's what you need to know up front: ElevenLabs doesn't sell its free plan in minutes. It sells it in characters (the platform calls them "credits," and for the standard voice models, one credit is roughly one character of input text). Historically, the free tier has included around 10,000 credits a month, though ElevenLabs has adjusted plan limits before and could again, so treat that specific number as something to verify on their current pricing page rather than a fixed fact. The reason this matters is that "10,000 characters" tells you almost nothing about how long your finished audio will be until you convert it. And that conversion is where most people guess wrong — usually too high. Why ElevenLabs bills in characters instead of minutes Text-to-speech generation is priced around the input you feed it, no...