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Murf vs ElevenLabs for YouTube Voiceovers
Showing the honest price picture for weekly YouTube voiceovers on a metered budget. Every figure below is copied verbatim from each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-22 — quoted, dated, and re-checked every 30 days.
◆ THE VERDICT
Murf wins on cost certainty: published per-character rates make a script's cost arithmetic. ElevenLabs wins on voice range and language breadth, but its credit meter makes a weekly upload budget harder to predict. Both publish first-party affiliate terms, so neither choice is a guess.
Published pricing at a glance
Bar length = price. Green numbers mark the cheapest tier on each side. Numeric tiers machine-transcribed from the vendor's own page.
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Aligned tier comparison
| Tier | Murf | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free Trial: $10 FREE every month, no credit card required | $0 per month, 10k credits/month |
| Entry paid | $0.01 / 1000 characters (Falcon model) | $6 per month (annual equivalent $5/mo), 30k credits |
| Mid tier | $0.03 / 1000 characters (gen-2 model) | $22 per month, first month 50% off at $11 (annual equivalent $18.33/mo), 121k credits |
| Advanced | $0.10 / minute | $99 per month (annual equivalent $82.50/mo), 600k credits |
| Scale | — | $299 per month (annual equivalent $249.17/mo), 1.8M credits, 3 seats |
| Enterprise | Contact Sales | — |
| Other | $0.02 / 1000 characters | — |
| Other | — | $990 per month (annual equivalent $825/mo), 6M credits, 10 seats |
⚡ WORKLOAD COST CALCULATOR
What will it actually cost at your volume?
Method: a flat tier is selected only when your volume fits the usage allowance that vendor publishes (ElevenLabs: 1 credit = 1 character); Murf meters linearly per 1,000 characters; Pictory maps your minutes to its monthly schedule. Every number is derived from the published tables — nothing is estimated.
The two tools, plan by plan
TOP PICK
Murf
Pricing model: per-character
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| free tier | Free Trial: $10 FREE every month, no credit card required |
| pay as you go tts | $0.01 / 1000 characters (Falcon model) |
| tts studio quality | $0.03 / 1000 characters (gen-2 model) |
| voice changer | $0.10 / minute |
| translation | $0.02 / 1000 characters |
| enterprise | Contact Sales |
AFFILIATE TERMS (DISCLOSED SEPARATELY)
Be a Murf affiliate and help your audience discover a new and simpler way of making voice overs, while you earn a recurring 20% commission for 24 months for every customer you send our way. — Network: PartnerStack · Cookie: 90 days. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Be a Murf affiliate and help your audience discover a new and simpler way of making voice overs, while you earn a recurring 20% commission for 24 months for every customer you send our way. — Network: PartnerStack · Cookie: 90 days. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
RUNNER-UP
ElevenLabs
Pricing model: $/mo-billed-annually
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| free | $0 per month, 10k credits/month |
| starter | $6 per month (annual equivalent $5/mo), 30k credits |
| creator | $22 per month, first month 50% off at $11 (annual equivalent $18.33/mo), 121k credits |
| pro | $99 per month (annual equivalent $82.50/mo), 600k credits |
| scale | $299 per month (annual equivalent $249.17/mo), 1.8M credits, 3 seats |
| business | $990 per month (annual equivalent $825/mo), 6M credits, 10 seats |
| enterprise | Custom pricing |
AFFILIATE TERMS (DISCLOSED SEPARATELY)
Simple payout structure where for every new paid subscriber plan, you'll earn 22% of all payments for the first 12 months with no limits. — Network: PartnerStack. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Simple payout structure where for every new paid subscriber plan, you'll earn 22% of all payments for the first 12 months with no limits. — Network: PartnerStack. Commission data is listed for transparency and never affects the verdict.
Why Murf wins here
- Murf's per-character rates make a script's cost computable before you render.
- ElevenLabs pays 22% of payments for the first 12 months.
- Both programs are first-party verified, so terms are quoted, not guessed.
Where ElevenLabs still makes sense
- ElevenLabs charges 1 credit per character, so long scripts drain a plan fast.
- Murf publishes no seat-based monthly tier; everything is metered.
- Commercial-licensing terms live in each vendor's separate licence documents, outside the pricing pages we verify.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Murf if…
cost-predictable script narration — every price is per-character, so any script's cost is arithmetic
Choose ElevenLabs if…
widest voice range and language coverage when voice quality variety matters most
How we verify prices
VERIFIED 2026-09-22 · NEXT CHECK ~2026-10-22
Every price and affiliate term on this page was copied verbatim from each vendor's own official page on 2026-09-22 — not from affiliate blogs, which we re-checked and found frequently outdated. Anything not on the vendor's own page is not asserted here. Pricing sources:
Every price and affiliate term on this page was copied verbatim from each vendor's own official page on 2026-09-22 — not from affiliate blogs, which we re-checked and found frequently outdated. Anything not on the vendor's own page is not asserted here. Pricing sources:
https://murf.ai/pricing · https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper for a 10-minute video?
Murf at its published gen-2 rate of $0.03 per 1000 characters; a 1,500-word script is about 9,000 characters. ElevenLabs charges 1 credit per character, so the plan you need depends on upload volume.
Which affiliate program pays longer?
Murf pays a recurring 20% commission for 24 months; ElevenLabs pays 22% of all payments for the first 12 months. Murf recurs twice as long, ElevenLabs at a higher rate.
Can I use these voices in monetised videos?
Licence terms are set in each vendor's own terms document rather than on the pricing pages we verify. For monetised channels, review Murf's and ElevenLabs' licence sections before publishing — that is where commercial-use rights are defined.