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ElevenLabs — ElevenLabs Grants

33M characters (~$4,000+)
AI models & APIs Verified on official page
Published ceiling
33M characters (~$4,000+)
How you get in
Self-serve
Credit window
12 months
Stages
Bootstrapped, Pre-seed, Seed

Twelve months of the full ElevenLabs platform — Conversational AI, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, sound design and music — with 33 million characters included, roughly 680 hours of agent usage. Rolling applications, decisions within about a week. Note the branding condition: recipients display the ElevenLabs Grants logo on their site for at least 12 months.

What you need to qualify

  • Fewer than 25 employees
  • A monetized product with a real monetization strategy, not a one-off project
  • Valid business email
  • One application per company
  • Display the ElevenLabs Grants logo on your website for at least 12 months

Traps and exclusions

  • Agencies, consultancies and existing enterprise customers are not eligible
  • Products aimed at users under 18 are excluded
  • Characters cannot be exchanged or resold
  • Converts to the Free plan after 12 months or when 10,000 credits remain

Before you submit

  • Company domain email, not a personal address
  • Live public website that describes a product, not a coming-soon page
  • Company profile findable on LinkedIn, X or GitHub
  • Incorporation documents and funding evidence to hand
  • Confirm the company has not claimed credits from this program before, under any entity
For most programs, each company can apply only once. Read the exclusions above before you open the form.

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