ElevenLabs on the BookBird Author Score
Author Score · audiobook production · #3 of 6
Best for: Authors wanting fast, low-cost AI narration with multi-voice casting
77.3 of 100 points = 7.7 out of 10. How this score is calculated
Author jobs, from ElevenLabs’s own pages
- Not stated: Human narrators (not stated)
- Yes: AI narration
- Yes: Distribution to stores
- Not stated: Royalty share or pay up front (not stated)
- Yes: Non-exclusive option
- Yes: Royalty rate stated
ElevenLabs pricing
Free plan + paid plans. There is a free plan. The plans as ElevenLabs’s own site listed them on October 7, 2026, in US dollars:
- Free (10k credits/month, 3 Studio projects)
- Starter: $6 a month (30k credits; commercial license; first month $1 promo until Oct 18)
- Creator: $22 a month (121k credits; professional voice cloning; first month $11 promo)
- Pro: $99 a month (600k credits)
- Scale: $299 a month (1.8M credits, 3 seats)
- Business: $990 a month (6M credits, 10 seats)
- Enterprise: price in USD not confirmed
Prices exclude taxes; yearly billing toggle not read. Publishing to ElevenReader with dynamic narration is free; ElevenReader pays 60% on direct sales and $0.20 per hour streamed.
What ElevenLabs offers
From ElevenLabs’s own pages, checked on October 7, 2026:
- Upload an EPUB for instant AI narration
- Character casting with a voice per character
- Pronunciation list pre-filled from the manuscript
- 10,000+ voices, voice cloning, 90+ languages
- Studio editor with direction, sound effects and music
- Download files or publish to ElevenReader, Spotify, InAudio
- Analytics on ElevenReader listening
- Author keeps full rights; no exclusivity
Runs on: web.
Who ElevenLabs suits, and what its pages do not say
Best for: Authors wanting fast, low-cost AI narration with multi-voice casting.
Not confirmed on ElevenLabs’s pages when we checked: human narrators and royalty share or pay up front. That is what the vendor states, not a test; a feature can exist without being described, and the score only credits what is.
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ElevenLabs alternatives
| Software | Score | Price from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACX | 8.9 | No upfront fee | Authors whose ebook is on Amazon and who want Audible distribution |
| Author's Republic | 8.0 | No upfront fee | Authors wanting a narrator marketplace and wide distribution beyond Audible |
| Voices by INaudio | 7.0 | No upfront fee | Authors with a finished audiobook who want wide, non-exclusive distribution |
| Google Play auto-narration | 6.7 | No upfront fee | Nonfiction authors already selling the ebook on Google Play |
| Kindle Virtual Voice | 6.7 | No upfront fee | KDP authors invited to the beta who sell in the US |
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ElevenLabs questions
How much does ElevenLabs cost?
Free plan; paid from $6 a month. ElevenLabs lists 7 plans; the full list is under Pricing above.
What does ElevenLabs run on?
web, according to its own site.
How the score is computed: the formula, step by step. Prices and features were read from ElevenLabs’s own site on October 7, 2026; nobody pays to be listed.