ElevenLabs Startup Grants
12 months of free ElevenLabs access with 33M characters for startups
What you get from ElevenLabs Startup Grants for free
Overview
The ElevenLabs Grants program gives early-stage startups free access to ElevenLabs' voice AI platform so they can build conversational agents, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, sound effects and music into a product without upfront cost.
Program Credits & Benefits
- Value: more than $5,500 in platform value.
- Characters: 33,000,000 text characters, described as over 680 hours of Agents usage.
- Duration: 12 months of free access to the full ElevenLabs platform.
- Community: access to exclusive in-person and online founder events and startup support.
- Capabilities: ElevenAgents (conversational AI), text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, voice design, sound effects, music and dubbing.
How to Apply
- Submit the application form with details about your startup, team and growth expectations.
- Applications are reviewed within about one week.
- If accepted, the grant plan and credits are applied to the account you applied with.
- After 12 months (or when 10,000 credits remain), the plan automatically converts to the Free plan unless you have selected otherwise.
Before you claim
- Team size: Fewer than 25 employees
- Verification: Apply describing your startup, team, and growth expectations
- Verification: Decisions communicated within one week; rolling basis, no deadline
- Who can claim: Startups and small companies with fewer than 25 employees, a business email, and a monetization strategy
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- 33,000,000 characters (~680+ hours of Agents usage) over 12 months
- Startups and small companies with fewer than 25 employees
- Valid business email; one application per company
- No hobby projects, agencies, consultants, or child-targeted products
- Grants cannot be resold or exchanged for cash
- Converts to Free plan when credits are exhausted or the grant ends
Eligibility
- Monetized product use case and a business/monetization strategy; only valid business emails are considered.
- Companies with fewer than 25 employees at the time of application.
- Not open to agencies or consulting firms, one-off projects/campaigns, projects for minors, or existing ElevenLabs enterprise customers.
- One application per company; there is no deadline — applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
- NDAs are not signed for grant applications.
As the provider states it on the date shown above. The provider decides who qualifies.
Not eligible? 3 alternatives open to everyone
This offer is only for startups. These audio offers have no student, startup, nonprofit or country requirement.
- Hume AI Free Tier — $20 free credits for new accounts plus a monthly free API tierHume AI · Verified · No card
- Amazon Polly Free Tier — Millions of free text-to-speech characters a month across Polly voicesaws.amazon.com · Verified · No card
- Deepgram Free $200 Credit — $200 in free credits for Deepgram speech-to-text and TTS, no carddeepgram.com · Verified · No card
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Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
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| eleven_v312 months of full-platform access; 5,000-character request limit | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| eleven_multilingual_v210,000-character request limit | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| eleven_flash_v2_540,000-character request limit | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| scribe_v2Speech-to-text batch model | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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