Voice-agent product teams
Developers who need production-oriented conversation controls, status feedback, messages, and audio visualization.
Independent tool overview
ElevenLabs UI at a glance
ElevenLabs UI is a free, MIT-licensed collection of customizable React components for building voice, audio, transcription, and multimodal agent interfaces.
Visit the official ElevenLabs UI site ↗
- Product type
- React component library and registry
- Price
- Free and open source
- License
- MIT
- Built on
- shadcn/ui, React, and Tailwind CSS
- Primary framework
- Next.js
- Installation
- @elevenlabs/cli or shadcn CLI
Overview
What ElevenLabs UI is
ElevenLabs UI gives developers ready-made interface pieces for audio and AI-agent products. The official catalog includes conversation layouts, messages, speech input, transcript viewers, voice pickers, live waveforms, audio players, microphone controls, and an animated agent orb.
The project follows the shadcn/ui model: its command-line installer copies each component and its dependencies into your application rather than hiding the implementation inside a closed package. That makes the code easy to inspect, restyle, extend, and maintain alongside the rest of a product.
The component library itself is free and open source. Costs arise when an interface connects to paid ElevenLabs speech, transcription, or agent services, and developers still need to provide the application logic, credentials, data handling, and production safeguards around those services.
Use cases
Who ElevenLabs UI is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
ElevenLabs customers
Teams already using ElevenLabs Agents, text to speech, or transcription and wanting a faster frontend starting point.
Design-conscious prototypes
Builders who want polished voice and audio interactions without designing every low-level UI state from scratch.
Teams that own their UI code
Organizations that prefer copied, editable components over an opaque hosted widget or rigid component package.
Capabilities
Core ElevenLabs UI features
Voice conversation components
Conversation and Conversation Bar components combine microphone controls, text input, connection states, messages, and real-time audio feedback.
Audio visualization
Waveform, Live Waveform, Bar Visualizer, and Orb components provide visual states for listening, thinking, speaking, playback, and recording.
Speech and transcription interfaces
Speech Input, Voice Button, Transcript Viewer, and example transcriber flows cover common capture and transcript experiences.
Audio playback controls
Audio Player, Scrub Bar, and related primitives support transport controls, progress, timing, and generated-audio playback.
Editable source code
Installed components live inside the application's own component directory, so teams can directly change behavior, styles, accessibility, and dependencies.
CLI-based installation
Developers can add a single component or the complete registry through ElevenLabs' CLI, with a shadcn CLI route also available.
Process
How the ElevenLabs UI workflow works
Step 1
Prepare the application
Start with a Next.js project using Node.js 18 or later, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui. The ElevenLabs installer can initialize shadcn/ui when needed.
Step 2
Choose a component
Browse the live examples and select the smallest useful primitive, such as Voice Button, Conversation Bar, Transcript Viewer, or Orb.
Step 3
Install the source
Use the ElevenLabs CLI or shadcn CLI to copy the selected component and its dependencies into the project.
Step 4
Connect the service
Add the appropriate ElevenLabs SDK, agent ID, and securely managed server-side credentials for features that call ElevenLabs services.
Step 5
Customize the experience
Adapt colors, layout, states, copy, responsive behavior, and accessibility to the product's design system and user needs.
Step 6
Test real-world states
Verify permissions, muted microphones, reconnects, slow networks, long transcripts, keyboard use, mobile layouts, and service errors before launch.
Cost
ElevenLabs UI pricing and free plan
ElevenLabs UI is free under the MIT license. Installing components does not require a paid UI subscription. Connected ElevenLabs services are billed separately: the public API page lists speech generation from $0.05 per 1,000 characters, Scribe v2 transcription at $0.22 per hour, and the ElevenAgents speech engine at $0.08 per minute. Agent plans start free, with paid plans beginning at $6 per month.
ElevenLabs UI
Free
Use, modify, and ship the component source under the MIT license.
- No separate UI subscription
- Install individual components or the full registry
- Your team owns maintenance of copied component code
ElevenAgents Free
$0/month
Optional hosted agent service for testing a voice-agent interface.
- 15 included call minutes
- Up to 4 concurrent calls
- LLM and telephony charges may be separate
ElevenAgents Starter
$6/month
Entry paid agent plan with commercial use and a larger included allowance.
- 75 included call minutes
- Up to 6 concurrent calls
- Text messages and commercial license included
ElevenAPI usage
Usage based
Pay separately for speech, transcription, and other APIs connected to the components.
- Text to speech starts at $0.05 per 1,000 characters
- Scribe v2 starts at $0.22 per audio hour
- Agent speech engine listed at $0.08 per minute
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Assessment
ElevenLabs UI strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- Free MIT-licensed source code with no separate component-library subscription
- Purpose-built voice, transcription, audio, and agent interaction patterns
- Copied-code approach provides complete styling and behavior control
- Live demos and documentation make components easier to evaluate before installation
- Direct path into ElevenLabs' React SDK and hosted agent services
What to consider
- The official setup is centered on Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui rather than framework-neutral web components
- It is a frontend toolkit, not a complete voice-agent backend or no-code agent builder
- Using ElevenLabs speech and agent services creates separate usage costs
- Copied components become part of your codebase, so your team is responsible for upgrades, testing, and custom changes
- Voice experiences still require careful handling of microphone permissions, accessibility, network failures, and user privacy
- Some showcase examples are more complete than the individual primitives and require additional application code
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ElevenLabs UI FAQs
Is ElevenLabs UI free?
Yes. The component library is free and MIT licensed. ElevenLabs speech, transcription, and agent APIs used behind the components have separate pricing.
Is ElevenLabs UI a hosted app?
No. It is a component registry. The installer copies React component source into your application so your team can customize and maintain it.
Does ElevenLabs UI require ElevenLabs?
Purely visual components can be adapted independently, but components that create conversations, transcription, or generated audio need a service behind them. The official examples are designed around ElevenLabs SDKs and APIs.
What components are included?
The official catalog includes audio players, visualizers, conversations, messages, microphone selection, the animated Orb, response rendering, scrub controls, speech input, transcript viewing, voice buttons, voice picking, and waveforms.
What does ElevenLabs UI require?
The official setup guide calls for Node.js 18 or later, a Next.js project, shadcn/ui, and Tailwind CSS.
Can the components be customized?
Yes. Each component is added to your repository as editable source, allowing changes to styling, layout, state handling, accessibility, and behavior.
How is ElevenLabs UI installed?
Use the @elevenlabs/cli components command or the standard shadcn CLI registry URL. You can add one component at a time or install the full collection.
Bottom line
Our ElevenLabs UI verdict
ElevenLabs UI is one of the fastest ways for a React team to add polished voice and audio interactions while retaining full control of the frontend code. It is especially useful for ElevenLabs customers, but it should be evaluated as an editable UI foundation—not as a finished agent platform.
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