How Much Does Dubbing Cost? Studio vs AI, per Minute
Studio dubbing with voice actors is usually quoted at $30 to $100 or more per finished minute for each language. AI dubbing costs about $0.50 to $1.60 a minute: ElevenLabs on its monthly credits, Rask AI on its plans, and BlaBlaScribe at $1.00–1.50 in packs with no subscription. A 10-minute video in three languages costs $39 with us.
Price = minutes of video × languages · translation included · free 15-second preview
Length × languages = minutes
3 min × 10 languages = 30 minutes
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Typical Dubbing Budgets
Ten minutes of video in Spanish is a $15 pack. If the Spanish track brings viewers, the next videos go into a bigger pack at a lower price per minute.
Five 20-minute lessons in one language use 100 minutes, $100 in total, against several thousand dollars for a studio cast and recording.
If you dub hundreds of minutes a month without reviewing each line, a subscription such as ElevenLabs costs less per minute than any of our packs.
Dubbing Prices per Minute, Compared
One finished minute in one language. For AI tools, the plan price divided by the dubbing minutes it includes.
| Per minute, one language | What the price covers | How you pay | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio with voice actors | $30–100+, higher for rare languages or lip sync | Translator, adapter, actors, director, recording and mixing | A quote per project |
| ElevenLabs automatic dubbing | About $0.50–0.60 | AI voices, 90+ languages, an API | Monthly plan; 3,000 credits per dubbed minute |
| Rask AI | About $1.00–1.56 | AI voices in 135+ languages; lip sync from Creator Pro | Monthly or yearly plan with minutes included |
| HeyGen | Not published per minute | Translation with lip sync; editing the script from Pro ($49) | Credits from $29 a month, shared with avatars and other features |
| BlaBlaScribe | $1.00–1.50 | A voice per speaker or a clone, line-by-line review, music kept | One-off packs of 10–100 minutes that never expire |
AI prices checked on 9–10 November 2026: ElevenLabs Starter $6 ≈ 10 minutes, Creator $22 ≈ 40, Pro $99 ≈ 200; Rask Creator $39 for 25 minutes, Creator Pro $99 for 100, Business $249 for 250. Studio figures are ranges published by localization companies, not quotes.
Sources: ElevenLabs pricing · Rask AI pricing · HeyGen pricing · Translated: video translation price guide
What Typical Jobs Cost at BlaBlaScribe
Minutes used = length of the video × number of languages. Packs: 10 minutes $15, 30 minutes $39, 60 minutes $72, 100 minutes $100.
- 10-minute YouTube video in Spanish
- 10 minutes · $15
- The same video in Spanish, Portuguese and German
- 30 minutes · $39; at studio rates of $30–100 a minute, $900–3,000
- 60-minute podcast episode in Spanish
- 60 minutes · $72
- Five 20-minute lessons in one language
- 100 minutes · $100
- 3-minute product demo in 10 languages
- 30 minutes · $39
- Included at no charge
- The translation, a 15-second preview per language (up to three), and re-voicing edited lines up to twice the length of the track
- Voices
- Any number of speakers and voice clones at the same price per minute
- Unused minutes
- Stay on your account, on any plan, including the free one
What Changes the Price of a Dub
The same video can cost ten times more or less depending on these choices.
Languages
Every language is billed on its own
Three languages cost three times one. Start with the market where you already have viewers and add languages when it pays off.
Voices
Actors are paid per role, AI voices are not
A studio books and pays each actor, so a five-person panel costs more than a single narrator. In AI dubbing the price per minute is the same for one voice or five.
Lip sync
Matching the lips costs extra everywhere
Studios charge more for lip-sync adaptation and AI tools put it on higher plans. Training videos, podcasts and screen recordings rarely need it; a voice timed to each line is enough.
Review
Budget time for a native speaker
Someone who speaks the language should listen before you publish. Here, changing a line re-voices only that line, at no charge until you have re-voiced twice the length of the track.
How to Price a Video Before You Pay
Find out exactly how many minutes you need, and hear the result first.
Add the file or paste a link. The length is shown as soon as it is transcribed, and that is the number of minutes per language.
Choose the languages and a voice for each speaker, then play a free 15-second preview of your own video in each one.
Multiply the length by the number of languages and pick the smallest pack that covers it; leftover minutes stay for the next video.
Dub the whole video, check the flagged lines, and download the MP4 or just the audio for each language.