ElevenLabs Startup Grants

ElevenLabs Startup Grants give early-stage companies 12 months of free access to the full ElevenLabs platform with 33,000,000 characters, which the grants page equates to over 680 hours of Agents usage and 'more than $5,500+ in value'. The platform covers Agents, Text to Speech, Speech to Text, voice cloning, sound effects and more. The grant was expanded from an earlier 3-month version, so older pages describing 3-month terms are out of date.

Eligibility is defined by company size and intent: startups and companies with less than 25 employees at the time of application, with a business or monetization strategy and a long-term product (one-off projects and campaigns are not considered). Agencies, consulting firms and SMBs are not eligible, nor are existing enterprise customers (paying self-serve customers can qualify) or companies building projects for children aged 18 or under. Only applications with valid business emails are considered, and each company may submit one application (one per company if you run several).

Applications are considered on a rolling basis; ElevenLabs says it responds within one week, and once awarded, the grant plan and credits are applied to the account you applied with. After the grant period, or once you have 10,000 credits left, the plan automatically converts to a Free plan unless you selected otherwise; if you exhaust the 33M characters early the same conversion happens, with an email warning as you approach the cap. Characters cannot be resold or exchanged for cash (doing so terminates the grant), and ElevenLabs does not sign NDAs for applications.

VC firms can sign up as ElevenLabs VC partners to give portfolio companies fast-tracked access to credits, events and product updates.