Transcribe audio

ElevenLabs Scribe

Speech-to-text API that turns audio and video files or live streams into transcripts with timestamps and speaker labels.

Billing

Pricing model: Pay per hour of audio sent; monthly subscription plans include hours2
Free tier: Free plan with 10k credits a month13
Card required for free tier: Not published
Minimum spend: Not published
Billing period: Subscriptions billed monthly or yearly; API usage billed in US dollars1

Prices

Per hour of audio, as published; no conversion needed. Silence counts toward billed duration. Add-on rates are extra per hour.

Model	Per hour of audio	Keyterm prompting (per hour)	Transcript editing (per hour)
`scribe_v2` (batch)	$0.22	$0.05	$0.07
`scribe_v2_medical` (batch)	$0.22	$0.05	$0.07
`scribe_v2_realtime`	$0.39	$0.08	$0.12

Source1API pricing

Other charges

Silence: Billed like speech2
Multichannel audio: Each channel billed at full duration5
Speaker roles: 10% surcharge on base cost5
Keyterms in the API reference: 20% surcharge on base cost5

Read from ElevenLabs’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/elevenlabs-scribe.md