ElevenLabs workspaces use a seat-based model. Every member in a workspace occupies one seat, and the seat type they hold determines what they can access and how credits are consumed.
There are two seat types available in ElevenLabs workspaces:
Workspace admins can assign, change, and manage seat types at any time from Settings → Members.
Admin is a role within your workspace, which gives enhanced permissions such as adding and removing members, setting permissions, and managing the workspace subscription. Admins always occupy a Full Seat.
Your workspace has two separate limits that work together:
Full Seat limit — the maximum number of Full Seats your plan allows. Once this is reached, you cannot add more Full Seat users. Enterprise customers can purchase additional seats, or you can free up Full Seats by moving Full Seat members to Basic Seats, or lock workspace members to free up their seats.
Basic Seat limit — the maximum number Basic Seats your workspace can hold. If you are using fewer Full Seats than your plan allows, those unused Full Seat slots can also be filled by Basic Seat users. This means that you can have more Basic Seats than your allocation, as long as you have Full Seats available.
Once the total limit is reached, no new members of any type can be added without purchasing more seats, or unless existing workspace members are locked by a workspace admin.
The number of Full Seats and Basic Seats included depends on your subscription:
Enterprise Basic Seat counts are defined in your contract and may vary — the 1,000 figure is a soft cap. Enterprise Basic Seats are effectively unlimited within your contract terms. Additional Full Seats for Enterprise customers cost $100 per month, scaling down with volume.
Full Seats provide unrestricted access to all ElevenLabs products and features within a workspace.
Full Seat users draw from the workspace’s shared credit pool with no individual monthly ceiling with the ability for admins to create billing groups with specific limits per group. Usage resets in line with the workspace’s billing cycle.
For Enterprise customers, purchasing additional Full Seats increases the available usage for your workspace — the cost of each additional seat is added to your monthly commitment and unlocks the equivalent amount in usage for the whole workspace.
For Enterprise customers, additional Full Seats cost $100 per month, scaling down with volume. Additional seats are not available for standard subscription plans.
Basic Seats are designed for team members who primarily work with ElevenAgents and ElevenAPI, or who only need limited access to ElevenCreative.
With Basic Seats, workspace admins can expand their team without giving everyone full access to ElevenCreative, keeping costs manageable and permissions organized.
Every user in a workspace draws from the same shared credit pool — Basic Seat users do not receive their own credit allocation. The 50,000 credit figure ($5 for Enterprise customers) is a per-user ceiling on how much of that shared pool each Basic Seat user can consume through ElevenCreative in a billing period. It is not additional capacity added on top of your plan.
For example, if your workspace plan includes 100,000 credits, that is the total available to all members. A Basic Seat user can use at most 50,000 of those credits in ElevenCreative — they do not receive an additional 50,000 credits. If the shared pool runs out before a Basic Seat user hits their ceiling, they will not be able to generate content.
50,000 credits can be consumed quickly with regular ElevenCreative use. If a team member needs more creative access, consider upgrading them to a Full Seat.
Workspace admins can assign and manage seat types from Settings → Members.
When inviting new users to your workspace, you can select their seat type during the invite flow.

Full Seats provide unrestricted access to all ElevenLabs products, including unlimited ElevenCreative usage (subject to the workspace credit pool), and the ability to create personal API keys.
Basic Seats are designed for users primarily working with ElevenAgents or ElevenAPI — ElevenCreative generation is capped at a 50,000 credit monthly ceiling ($5 for Enterprise customers) per user, drawn from the shared workspace pool. This is a ceiling on consumption, not a separate allocation.
No. The 50,000 credit ceiling applies to ElevenCreative usage only. ElevenAgents and ElevenAPI usage draws freely from the workspace’s shared credit pool with no individual ceiling.
They will not be able to generate new content in ElevenCreative for the remainder of the billing period. Their access to ElevenAgents and ElevenAPI is unaffected. Their workspace admin can upgrade them to a Full Seat if they need more creative access.
Yes. Admins can upgrade or downgrade any seat type at any time from the Members settings page.
Only workspace admins can assign and change seat types.
See the Seat Types & Included Allocations by Plan table above. All plans now include 20 Basic Seats. Full Seat allocations vary by plan tier.
Enterprise customers can purchase additional Full Seats. Additional Full Seats cost $100 per month, scaling down with volume. It’s not possible to purchase additional seats for standard subscription plans.