ElevenLabs Grants for Startups
ElevenLabs · Voice AI
$6K33M characters (~680 hours of Agents usage, >$5,500 value) for 12 months
12 months of free ElevenLabs platform access (TTS, STT, Agents) worth 33M characters for small startups with a business model.
Key terms
- Fewer than 25 employees at application
- Agencies, consulting firms and SMBs not eligible; one-off projects/campaigns excluded
- Converts to Free plan after 12 months, when credits are used up, or at 10,000 credits remaining
- Characters cannot be resold or exchanged — doing so terminates the grant
- Existing enterprise customers ineligible (self-serve paying customers may apply); one application per company
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- Yes
- AI focus required
- No
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Not eligible
Also required
- Fewer than 25 employees
- Must have a business/monetization strategy
- Products for children (18 or under) not eligible
How to apply
Apply with a business email via the grants application form describing startup, team and growth plans.
- Benefit
- credits
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- Within 1 week
- Credit validity
- 12 months
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-22 · source