
ElevenLabs
Realistic AI voices for narration, audio and accessibility. Free 12-month Impact licence.
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The ElevenLabs Impact Program gives verified nonprofits a free Impact License for 12 months, renewable at ElevenLabs' discretion, for projects such as accessibility, education and culture.
Submit an Impact Program application; you are verified through a third-party nonprofit verification provider. Do not use the licence for external clients or create multiple accounts.
Great for
- Nonprofits creating audio versions of documents or accessible content
- Teams producing multilingual narration for videos and training
- Very natural voices
- Free licence for verified nonprofits
- Useful for accessibility
Watch out for
- Organisations that cannot meet the consent requirements for voice cloning
- Anyone planning to use it to create content for outside clients
- Training default on lower plans reported (unconfirmed)
- Voice cloning raises consent and misuse issues
- Impact licence renewal is not guaranteed
Problems it solves
About ElevenLabs+
ElevenLabs turns text into natural-sounding speech and also offers speech-to-text, dubbing, sound effects and voice agents. Nonprofits can use it for audio versions of reports, accessible content, multilingual narration and training videos. Its Impact Program gives verified nonprofits a free licence for 12 months.
Pricing: Free: 10,000 credits a month. Starter US$6, Creator US$11 (first month 50% off), Pro US$99, Scale US$299 (3 seats), Business US$990 (10 seats); Enterprise custom. Commercial licensing starts at Starter. Annual billing is 17% cheaper. Text-to-speech uses about 1 credit per character.
Key features+
AI features+
The product is AI: speech synthesis, transcription, voice agents and audio generation.
Data & privacy+
ElevenLabs reports SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance, with European data residency and zero-retention modes mainly on Enterprise. Third-party reviews say non-Enterprise plans have training on by default, with opt-out applying only to future content; this was not confirmed on an official page. Cloning a real person's voice needs their explicit consent, and voice samples count as biometric data under UK and EU GDPR.
How sure are we?+
Partly confirmed on the vendor's pages; some details from reputable secondary sources. Prices and nonprofit programs change often, so check with ElevenLabs before you commit. Rankings on Nonprofit Tools are never for sale.
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