The Short Answer: Video Dubbing Cost
Dubbing a video costs nothing with YouTube's own auto dubbing, about $0.50–$2.70 a minute with an AI dubbing tool like ElevenLabs, and $30–$100+ a minute from a professional dubbing studio, according to localization company Translated's 2026 price guide. Every price is per language: a 10-minute video dubbed into three languages is 30 minutes of dubbing.
Those are market prices, not ours. Mark Studios quotes localization per project. Every figure here links to the page that published it, checked October 14, 2026.
The range runs from zero to four figures because "dubbing" covers three different jobs. A free AI track in a stock voice is one. Your own voice cloned into Spanish and checked by a native speaker is another. A cast of voice actors timed to the speaker's lips in a studio is the third. Find out which job each quote prices before you compare them.
Video Dubbing Prices in 2026
| Route | Published price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube auto dubbing (YouTube) | Free | AI dubs in 27 languages inside YouTube; Expressive Speech carries your tone in 8 of them |
| AI tool: ElevenLabs | Plans start at $6 a month; extra minutes $0.50–$0.55 for automatic dubbing without a watermark, $2.23–$2.70 for the newer Dubbing v2 | The speaker's voice carried into the new language; you check the result |
| AI tool: Rask | $39 a month for 25 minutes, $99 for 100 with lip-sync, $249 for 250 | Translation, voice cloning and lip-sync in 135+ languages |
| AI tool: HeyGen | Creator $29 a month, Pro $49 and up, Business $149 plus $20 a seat | Lip-synced video translation in up to 175 languages and dialects, paid for in plan credits |
| Fiverr seller (video dubbing) | Starting prices $5–$250, median $15 | 280 services, from AI dubs to native voice actors |
| Translated subtitles (Rev) | $6.49 a minute for Spanish or Hindi, $10.49 for 11 others including French, German and Portuguese, $15.99 for Japanese or Korean | Subtitles translated by fluent speakers in 48 hours or less |
| Professional dubbing studio (Translated, BeMultilingual) | $30–$100+ a minute (Translated); $40–$300 a minute, over $500 for film and TV (BeMultilingual) | Human translators, voice actors, mixing and lip-sync |
Run the numbers per language. A 10-minute video into Spanish costs about $5 at ElevenLabs' cheapest automatic rate and $27 at its Dubbing v2 Starter rate, before the monthly plan. Rev's Spanish subtitles come to $64.90. Translated says traditional dubbing of a 10-minute clip often exceeds $1,000. Rask counts minutes the same way: a 5-minute video translated into two languages uses 10 minutes of the plan. Each added language adds the same amount again.
Fiverr's video dubbing category listed 280 services on October 14. On the first page of results, 38 of 48 sellers started at $20 or less, and the median starting price was $15. Several of the cheapest listings are AI dubs, the kind you could run yourself with a tool above, and a starting price buys the seller's smallest package, so check how many minutes and revisions it covers. Our guide on how to hire a video editor on Fiverr covers how to vet a seller before you order.
Subtitles, Voiceover or Lip-Sync Dubbing
Not every video needs a full dub. Translated prices the three ways to localize a video separately:
- Subtitles, $3–$25 a minute. Viewers hear your voice and read the translation. AI-drafted subtitles run $3–$10 a minute at Translated, and $10–$25 once a professional linguist edits them.
- Voiceover, $15–$50 a minute. A translated voice plays over the original, which stays audible at low volume. Translated recommends it for e-learning and documentaries. Traditional voice artists run $30–$100+ a minute.
- Lip-sync dubbing, $30–$100+ a minute. The original voice is replaced and timed to the speaker's mouth. AI-assisted dubbing with automated lip-sync runs $25–$50 a minute at enterprise grade; fully manual dubbing for cinema starts at $100.
YouTube's free auto dubbing changes the math for channels. Since February 2026 it has been available to everyone with an expanded library of 27 languages, and YouTube says it averaged more than 6 million daily viewers watching at least 10 minutes of auto-dubbed content in December. Its lip sync is still a pilot, and you can replace a track with your own dub or turn dubbing off. So the paid question gets narrower: pay where your own voice, accuracy or a market's revenue justifies it, and let the free track cover the rest of the catalogue. Our AI dubbing workflow covers which videos and languages to start with, and our guide to burned-in vs closed captions covers the subtitle side, with the audience numbers in our video captions statistics.
What Moves the Price
- Number of languages. Every price above is per language, so the language count multiplies the whole bill.
- Language pair. Rev charges $6.49 a minute for Spanish subtitles and $15.99 for Japanese. Translated says rare pairs cost more than common ones like English to Spanish.
- Whose voice. YouTube's free Expressive Speech carries your emotion and energy in 8 languages. Paid AI tools clone the speaker's voice into the new language. A human cast costs the most, and each extra speaker is another voice to cast.
- Lip-sync. Rask counts Enhanced Lip-sync as 3 minutes for every minute of video, on top of the translation minute.
- Human review. A linguist's edit raises Translated's AI subtitle price of $3–$10 a minute to $10–$25. Medical, legal and technical terms need a specialist.
- Clean audio. A dialogue track separate from music and sound effects lets the new voice sit in the original mix. Without one, the voice has to be pulled out of the mix first.
- Deadline. Rev delivers translated subtitles in 48 hours or less and ElevenLabs' human-edited Productions start from 24 hours. Translated charges rush fees for urgent projects.
How to Get an Accurate Quote
Send these with your first message and every quote you get back will price the same job:
- The total minutes: how many videos, and the length of each.
- Target languages, in priority order.
- The method: subtitles, voiceover or lip-sync dub, and whether it has to sound like you.
- The number of speakers on screen.
- The audio stems: dialogue separate from music and effects, plus the project file if on-screen text needs translating.
- A glossary of names, brand terms and anything that stays in English.
- Where it publishes: an extra audio track on the same YouTube video or a separate channel, and whether titles, descriptions and thumbnails need translating too.
- Your deadline and the revision rounds you expect.
Where Mark Studios Fits
Voiceover or narration came up in 66 of 698 first messages from buyers in our inbox. Our content localization service covers subtitles (SRT, VTT or burned in), AI-assisted dubbing, YouTube multi-audio track setup, and localized titles and thumbnails. English, Spanish and Portuguese are reviewed directly; other languages are AI-assisted, with external native review quoted when a market needs it. You send the video, work with Mark directly and get a fixed quote per project. Course creators can localize a lesson library the same way, and video editing for course creators covers the lessons themselves. We've delivered 10,000+ projects for 4,500+ clients at a 4.9★ average, with 100M+ views generated. Weighing a Fiverr seller instead? Our freelance marketplace comparison lays out the trade-offs.
The Bottom Line
Dubbing a video costs nothing with YouTube's auto dubbing, about $0.50–$2.70 a minute with an AI tool and $30–$100+ a minute from a studio in 2026, with subtitles at $3–$25 a minute in between, and every price is per language. Decide which videos earn a paid dub, name the method and the languages, and the quotes you collect will price the same job.
